Catholics for the Common Good Organization Laments CA Governor Latest Undermining of Marriage

Catholics for the Common Good Organization Laments CA Governor Latest Undermining of Marriage

CBJ Editors October 13, 2009

CA Governor Signs Bill Recognizing Out-of-State Same Sex “Marriages” by Bill May Late Sunday night, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger further undermined marriage and the family in California by signing SB 54, a bill to recognize same-sex “marriages” in California that were performed in other states or countries. With the Governor’s signature, out-of-state same-sex “marriages” performed prior…

Senate Committee Moves Forward Healthcare: Bishops Objections Steady

Senate Committee Moves Forward Healthcare: Bishops Objections Steady

CBJ Editors October 13, 2009

WASHINGTON DC, October 13, 2009, 3:25pm EST —  Minutes ago, the U.S. Senate Finance Committee approved the latest in a series of Congressional healthcare bills aimed at ultimately fulfilling Barak Obama’s fierce and public determination to institute a national health care plan by year’s end. Today’s bill passed on strict partisan lines with the exception…

Saints “Go Against the Flow”

Saints “Go Against the Flow”

CBJ Editors October 13, 2009

Have you ever wondered what it takes to be a saint?  Yes, following whatever Our Lord invites us to embrace, of course.  But doesn’t it often seem like the most reasonable course of action, especially in controversial situations, is the “middle road?”  But, who defines the “middle”—is it culture? peers? media? Pope Benedict XVI culls…

Five New Saints Canonized!

Five New Saints Canonized!

CBJ Editors October 13, 2009

From the Vatican: VATICAN CITY(VIS)—At 10 a.m. today the Holy Father celebrated the Eucharist in the Vatican Basilica. During the ceremony he canonised five blesseds: Zygmunt Szczesny Felinski, Polish former archbishop of Warsaw and founder of the Congregation of Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary; Francesc Coll y Guitart, Spanish professed priest of the…

Cardinal Warns Against Anti-Life Myopia

Cardinal Warns Against Anti-Life Myopia

CBJ Editors October 3, 2009

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Zenit.org)—The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ conference pro-life committee is inviting people to spend a day with a child and learn the lessons God teaches through him or her. Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, affirmed this in a statement released for Respect Life Sunday, which will take place this weekend.Sunday’s celebration will focus…

Confessions of a Basilica Confessor

Confessions of a Basilica Confessor

CBJ Editors October 3, 2009

Dominican Priest Shares View From Confession Box By Carmen Elena Villa ROME, OCT. 2, 2009 (Zenit.org).- They have a fixed schedule, a day of rest, and a couple of hours for lunch. Their office is not a desk with a computer, but a confessional. They are the basilica confessors, those priests assigned a special ministry…

Vicious, Venal and Violent: Reaction to Jim Pouillon’s Killing

Vicious, Venal and Violent: Reaction to Jim Pouillon’s Killing

CBJ Editors September 17, 2009

Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer (pictured above), president of Human Life International, recently posted a powerful letter regarding the early morning, September 11, cold-blooded murder of James Pouillon, an elderly Michigan-area pro-life supporter who was gunned down in front of Owosso High School while protesting abortion with a large sign depicting a baby and the word…

Vietnam: Church-Defending Blogger Disappears: Clarifies Pope’s Words Amid Government Distortion

Vietnam: Church-Defending Blogger Disappears: Clarifies Pope’s Words Amid Government Distortion

CBJ Editors September 2, 2009

In this age of globalization and a lack of regard (to put it mildly) for the dignity of the human person and lack of respect for the unborn and elderly, each person individually created in God’s own image and each one destined for fulfillment only in Him, it seems to us important for Catholic business…

Saintly Examples for the Laity

Saintly Examples for the Laity

CBJ Editors September 2, 2009

Short Address by Pope Benedict XVI Recently, Pope Benedict XVI gave a particularly poignant address regarding our obligations as Christian laity to the crowd who had joined to praythe midday Angelus at the papal summer residence, Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Here is a translation from ZENIT: “Intimately Connected and Mutually Illuminate Each Other” [At the end…

EEOC Violates Religious Liberty of Catholic College

EEOC Violates Religious Liberty of Catholic College

CBJ Editors August 17, 2009

By Forcing Catholic College to Provide Insurance for Contraceptives the EEOC violates the US Constitution MANASSAS, Va. (Cardinal Newman Society) – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has ruled that a small Catholic college must include coverage for artificial contraceptives in its employee health insurance plan, raising new concerns about the need for conscience…

Worldwide Rosary on Sunday, August 16

Worldwide Rosary on Sunday, August 16

CBJ Editors August 14, 2009

As part of the International Marian Festival that will take place in Paray le Monial, France, August 14-19, the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary will be prayed on five continents of the the world simultaneously beginning at 5 p.m. (Paris time) on Sunday, August 16.   Those in the United States who wish to join in…

Church will have no part in health care that destroys life, New York archbishop insists

Church will have no part in health care that destroys life, New York archbishop insists

CBJ Editors August 10, 2009

Phoenix, AZ (CNA)—“Health care reform is a good thing,” New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan told CNA on Wednesday during in interview in Phoenix, Arizona. However, if it “leads to the destruction of life, then we say it’s no longer health care at all – it’s unhealthy care and we can’t be part of that.” Responding…

Get Copy of Latest Healthcare Bill

Get Copy of Latest Healthcare Bill

CBJ Editors August 6, 2009

Pope Benedict, in his encyclical Caritas in veritate, asks that we measure the authenticity of any policy, organization or social entity that affects humans, by its commitment to first recognizing the dignity of the human person whose ultimate fulfilment is found only in God.  Does the proposed U.S. healthcare bill meet this requirement? Here is…

Catholic congressman: I’d rather save my soul than vote for the health care bill

Catholic congressman: I’d rather save my soul than vote for the health care bill

CBJ Editors August 5, 2009

New Orleans, La., August 3 (CNA) .- Rep. Anh “Joseph” Cao, (R-New Orleans-pictured above), the first Vietnamese-American congressman and a Catholic,  announced this past weekend that, because of the “stealth mandate” for abortion still present in the Health Care bill, he prefers to “save his soul” rather than  vote in favor of it. Cao, the…

A Sobering Look at the Muslim Expansion: Evangelization in Context

A Sobering Look at the Muslim Expansion: Evangelization in Context

CBJ Editors July 22, 2009

 October 7, 1571, the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. The Feast date was so named for the powerful role of the Rosary in winning the Battle of Lepanto; a victory that literally turned around the unrelenting tide of ongoing Islamic invasion and conquering of Christian Europe at the time. (Remember, today’s city of…

Simple, Powerful Reflections from St. John Vianney and St. Therese of Lisieux

Simple, Powerful Reflections from St. John Vianney and St. Therese of Lisieux

CBJ Editors June 19, 2009

As you know, today, Friday June 19, 2009, is the 150th Anniversary of the death of St. John Vianney, known by many as the beloved Cure d’Ars and the patron saint of parish priests.  Today is also the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.  In light of these converging monumental and historical truths, Pope…

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