All posts by Catholic Citizens of Illinois

On Whose Authority? – Conversion Story of Father Raymond Ryland

06/09/2014 at 4:18 PM By Catholic Citizens of Illinois
How can you go into that darkness, once you have known the light?” In deep anguish, my mother-in-law asked my wife and me this question when we told her we were going to enter the Catholic Church. There was a time when the thought of becoming Catholics would have caused us even greater distress... read more

IVORY TOWER: NEW DOCUMENTARY EXPOSES VAST WEALTH SQUANDERED ON CAMPUSES

06/09/2014 at 4:09 PM By Catholic Citizens of Illinois
by DOMINIC LYNCH - LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO on JUNE 9, 2014 Universities are throwing away tuition money on things like climbing walls and housing that rivals five-star hotels, while their administrators get wealthier at the expense of faculty and students, according to a documentary that... read more

Women are having fewer kids, and demographers don’t know why

06/09/2014 at 3:59 PM By Catholic Citizens of Illinois
BY: Joseph Lawler  U.S. fertility is not recovering from the financial crisis — and demographers aren’t sure why. The fertility rate fell to a record low 62.9 births per 1,000 women aged 15-44 in 2013, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. The total number of births, at... read more

The Final Confrontation

06/09/2014 at 3:52 PM By Catholic Citizens of Illinois
by Father John McCloskey We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide circles of American society or wide circles of the Christian community realize this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation between the... read more

Pope: Half-hearted Catholics aren’t really Catholics at all

06/09/2014 at 3:50 PM By Catholic Citizens of Illinois
By CINDY WOODEN  Jesus doesn't want the Church to be rigid, Pope Francis has said (CNS) Those who insist others pray and believe exactly like they do, those who have alternatives to every church teaching and benefactors who use the church as a cover for business connections may call... read more

Pope dismisses entire board of Vatican financial watchdog agency

06/09/2014 at 3:47 PM By Catholic Citizens of Illinois
Pope dismisses entire board of Vatican financial watchdog agency By CAROL GLATZ on Friday, 6 June 2014 Pope Francis has replaced the all-Italian board of the Vatican’s financial watchdog agency with new members from Italy, Switzerland, Singapore and the United States. Cardinal Pietro... read more

Roe and Gay Marriage

05/01/2014 at 2:51 PM By Catholic Citizens of Illinois
Behold a runaway judiciary. One that is forcing an unwanted socio-sexual innovation in violation of tradition, religious values, and simple logic on the country at large, with the support of media, academic, and political elites with no evident regard for the consequences. Gay marriage? Yes -... read more

Vatican to debate teachings on divorce, birth control, gay unions

05/01/2014 at 11:00 AM By Catholic Citizens of Illinois
Reporting from Vatican City- Contraception, cohabitation, divorce, remarriage and same-sex unions: They're issues that pain and puzzle Roman Catholics who want to be true to both their church and themselves. Now those issues are about to be put up for debate by their leader, a man who appears... read more

Fighting Fire … Fighting Evil

05/01/2014 at 10:58 AM By Catholic Citizens of Illinois
Everyone is familiar with the adage, "Where there's smoke, there's fire." When I was bishop in Baker, Oregon, there was a time during the summer of 2001 when one would been well advised to reverse the phrase, for it was obvious that, "Where there's fire, there's smoke." The frequent haziness... read more

Thomas More Society Prevails Once Again in Historic N.O.W. v. Scheidler Case

04/30/2014 at 3:52 PM By Catholic Citizens of Illinois
April 30th, 2014 by Thomas More Society U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Declares an End to nearly 28 Years of Litigation (April 30, 2014 - Chicago, IL Today, just over one month short of its 28th anniversary, the historic, marathon litigation, N.O.W. v. Scheidler, has culminated in... read more

Royal College of Ob/Gyn bars pro-life doctors from receiving its degrees and diplomas

04/29/2014 at 7:29 PM By Catholic Citizens of Illinois
Doctors and nurses who have a moral objection to prescribing 'contraceptives' which act by killing human embryos are to be barred from receiving diplomas in sexual and reproductive health even if they undertake the necessary training according to new guidelines. Under new rules issued by the... read more

Priest: We Must Change the Church’s Teaching on LGBT

04/29/2014 at 4:46 PM By Catholic Citizens of Illinois

Pope Francis’ comments at end of “40 DAYS FOR LIFE”

04/29/2014 at 4:35 PM By Catholic Citizens of Illinois

The homosexual movement’s push for adult-child sex

04/29/2014 at 9:29 AM By Catholic Citizens of Illinois

Popes John Paul II, John XXIII officially declared saints

04/29/2014 at 8:56 AM By Catholic Citizens of Illinois

EDITORIAL: Lesbian ‘throuple’ proves Scalia right on slippery slopes

04/29/2014 at 8:22 AM By Catholic Citizens of Illinois

The Protest of a Protestant Minister Against Birth Control

04/28/2014 at 4:50 PM By Catholic Citizens of Illinois

The Way Back (Fourth of a series of four articles)

04/27/2014 at 5:25 PM By Catholic Citizens of Illinois

Why Homosexuality Is Not Like Other Sins

04/27/2014 at 11:35 AM By Catholic Citizens of Illinois

Blessed John Paul II: Saint and pro-life hero

04/26/2014 at 9:27 PM By Catholic Citizens of Illinois