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Bishop Schneider Makes an Attempt To Teach Francis Catholic ReligionIn Francis’ prayer to Abraham pronounced at his Iraq visit in March, there is "a lot of confusion," Bishop Athanasius Schneider told the Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima on April 16 (video below),“Christians, Jews and Muslims are not the same children of Abraham,” he stresses. Jews are according to Schneider "biological descendants" of Abraham, and also some Arabs, “But the Christians, the Church, are the true children of Abraham by Faith.”Schneider repeats the truism that according to the Gospel only those are true children of Abraham who believe in Christ.Therefore,...

 On the evening of Sunday, August 14, 2016, famed Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt won gold in a characteristically dynamic and seemingly effortless 100-meter performance at his third consecutive Olympics, this time in Rio de Janeiro, making him the first athlete to win three consecutive Olympic gold medals in the 100-meter dash.Bolt’s rocketry on this celebrated night follows equally impressive performances in Beijing in 2008 and London in 2012. There is little doubt as to why Bolt is easily regarded as the world’s fastest man.However, perhaps not as readily in the spotlight is notice of Bolt’s deep Catholic faith. In...

Reporters laughed. At her regularly scheduled Thursday-morning press conference as leader of the House Democrats, former speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was asked to explain the moral difference between killing “a baby born alive at 23 weeks,” as Dr. Kermit Gosnell did in his Philadelphia clinic, and “aborting her moments before her birth.” The question had come up because the House Judiciary Committee had just approved the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, sponsored by Arizona Republican Trent Franks, which would ban abortion after 20 weeks of gestation. It’s a perfectly reasonable question, but one that Pelosi answered with derision...

Francis Cardinal George diagnosed with bladder cancer Cardinal to undergo surgery Thursday July 26, 2006 (last updated 3:02 p.m.) - Cardinal Francis George has been diagnosed with bladder cancer and will undergo surgery Thursday, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago officials said Wednesday. George, 69, was diagnosed last week and the surgery will be at Loyola University Medical Center, said Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Paprocki. "He learned about it last week but he has been trying to let family and friends and priests in the archdiocese know about it before the public announcement," Paprocki said. link: http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=4402074