Incoming AG to feds: Hands off my state

Below is the link to my interview with Virginia’s new attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli, who is deeply concerned about congressional bills designed to impose upon states’ rights. He said he’ll do everything in his power to protect Virginians from federal overreach. Here’s an excerpt on the ‘ healthcare’ proposals by Congress:
“I believe the individual mandate [...]

Dear Congressman Kennedy: Bishop calls for lifesaving integrity

Bishop Tobin of Providence openly speaks to Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), son of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), and urges him to become a faithful Catholic: http://www.thericatholic.com/opinion/detail.html?sub_id=2632.
On Oct. 22, the nominally Catholic Rep. Kennedy infamously told CNSNews.com “that the Catholic Church is doing nothing but fanning ‘the flames of dissent and discord’ by taking [...]

Ted Kennedy: The Catholic legacy and the letters

Were you confused by Ted Kennedy’s funeral? If so, here’s Raymond Arroyo’s critique. He’s news director for EWTN, the global Catholic TV network .

As U.S. troops withdraw, Iraqi Catholics targeted

From the Aug. 2 edition of  OSV Newsweekly

4 killed, 32 wounded as 6 Baghdad churches bombed

Given the Hurt Locker story, here’s a CNN article about July 12 bombings. Be sure to click on the video report, featuring Michael Ware in Bagdad, as well.
May God empower the good people of Iraq and the rest of the world.

Farrah Fawcett dies after receiving last rites

Good for her: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=16380

Greek-Catholics Ask U.S. Secretary of State Clinton and European Union to Help End Religious Cleansing in Romania

Greek-Catholics continue to suffer severe discrimination, and cultural and religious cleansing in Romania, despite the fall of communism 20 years ago. The Greek-Catholics are a religious minority in Romania, and the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church is one of the Eastern Rite Churches in communion with the Pope.
The story ran in USA Today and here’s the [...]

Gary Sinise and ‘Brothers at War’

Here’s the story published by National Catholic Register:
 
War, Family and Faith
Gary Sinise and Filmmakers Reveal Faith
BY ANITA CRANE, REGISTER CORRESPONDENT
March 15-21, 2009 Issue | Posted 3/6/09 at 7:04 AM
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Behind the new film Brothers at War, which was scheduled to open in theaters March 13, are two Catholic stories.
One is that of a [...]

Pro-lifers think BIG

Maybe the producers at ABC, CBS and NBC were so tuckered after televising President Barack Obama’s inauguration that they didn’t notice an estimated 250,000 Americans gathered in Washington just two days later. March for Life 2009 attendance indicates that something huge is afoot. Yet only the Catholic cable network EWTN covered it thoroughly.

Tim Graham [...]

The chief justice: Archbishop Raymond Burke

This interview was conducted shortly before Archbishop Burke left St. Louis for his new post in Rome as prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, the Vatican’s supreme court. A link to the article in The Catholic World Report (Nov. 2008) follows these excerpts.
Among your many scholarly articles on canon law was the 2007 treatise entitled “The Discipline Regarding the [...]