Terrorism

A Christian Duty in the Face of Terror

08/11/2016 at 2:03 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
As priest is slaughtered by ISIS at the altar, the West must wake up By Fr. George Rutler | Updated 26 Jul 2016 After another devastating ISIS attack in France, this time against a priest in his 80s while he was saying Mass, the answer isn’t just, “Do nothing.” As racism distorts race... read more

West turns blind eye toward Islam’s attack on Middle East Christians: patriarch

08/10/2016 at 10:03 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Steve Weatherbe TORONTO, August 5, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) — Developed countries motivated by a need for oil and desire for profits are abandoning their principles to allow Islamic Jihadists to destroy Middle Eastern Christianity, the “cradle” of the faith. So said the patriarch of the... read more

Tolerating Terror

08/04/2016 at 2:03 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
BY FR. GEORGE W. RUTLER The slaying of Father Jacques Hamel at the altar of the church of Saint Etienne-de Rouvray in Normandy should be the envy of every priest: to die at Mass, the holiest hour of the world. The president of France was heartfelt in his mourning, but Monsieur Hollande was also... read more

Catholic Priest: Christians Have A Moral Duty To Defeat Terror

07/29/2016 at 3:06 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
BY DONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS, 28 Jul 2016 A Catholic priest has called for Christians to take a stand against Islamic terror, arguing that pacifism in the face of mortal danger is immoral and un-Christian. On Monday, Europe, already reeling from a wave of Islamic terrorist attacks in France and... read more

Priest Martyrdom a Warning to the West

07/29/2016 at 2:51 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
BY SEAN FITZPATRICK, JULY 27, 2016 On Tuesday July 26, the day after the feast day of St. James and less than two weeks after a rampaging Islamic terrorist killed 84 civilians with a truck in the south of France, Fr. Jacques Hamel was celebrating Mass in a quiet Normandy church in... read more

Murder of French priest opens a new frontier for Catholic church

07/27/2016 at 10:11 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
Killing of Jacques Hamel by men claiming to be Isis militants is a particular challenge to Pope Francis and other church leaders By Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Rome, Tuesday 26 July 2016 Every year, the Vatican’s Agenzia Fides, which tracks the work of Catholic missionaries around the world,... read more

France church attack: Priest killed by two ‘IS soldiers’

07/26/2016 at 2:10 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
July 26, 2016 A priest has been killed in an attack by two armed men on his church in a suburb of Rouen in northern France. The attackers entered the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray during Mass, taking the priest, Fr Jacques Hamel, 84, and four other people hostage. Police later... read more

Police shootings: ‘A bad movie on an endless loop’

07/20/2016 at 9:25 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
As a trauma surgeon describes the triage and treatment of officers hit by a gunman in Dallas. By Sheila Liaugminas | Jul 20 2016 And Dallas was the first of three nearly back to back police targeted assassinations in the past week. It describes yet another national nightmare. Adding to... read more

Blind Violence and Blind Guides

07/18/2016 at 8:41 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
BY WILLIAM KILPATRICK, JULY 18, 2016 France Truck Attack “Pope Francis condemns more ‘blind violence’ after Nice attack,” reads a headline from a Catholic news agency. On behalf of the Holy Father, Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, sent a telegram to the Bishop of Nice... read more

France Is at War, Officials Say After Terrorist Attack in Nice Kills at Least 84

07/17/2016 at 9:52 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Nolan Peterson, July 15, 2016 KYIV, Ukraine—At 3:45 a.m. Friday, just hours after a man drove a large truck through a crowd in the French seaside town of Nice, killing at least 84, French President François Hollande made a televised address to the nation. He began by making it clear the... read more

Eight suicide bombers target Lebanese Christian village

06/30/2016 at 2:09 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
Deadly suicide blasts in Lebanon By Reuters news service Eight suicide bombers attacked a Lebanese Christian village on Monday, killing five people and wounding dozens more, in the latest violent spillover of the five-year-old Syrian war into Lebanon. Security sources said they believed... read more

ORLANDO WAS NOT A TRAGEDY

06/27/2016 at 7:45 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

‘A really tough day for America’

06/24/2016 at 8:08 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

PC in Orlando and in Our Future

06/21/2016 at 1:42 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

A River in Egypt: Denying the Undeniable

06/19/2016 at 9:36 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Islam, homophobia and guns all played a role in the tragedy in Orlando. But what about family dysfunction?

06/18/2016 at 1:31 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

ISIS Strikes Again in Europe

06/15/2016 at 10:11 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

WHY ISLAM IS VIOLENT

06/14/2016 at 6:32 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

ISIS Burns 19 Girls Alive After They Refuse to Have Sex With Their Terrorist Captors

06/07/2016 at 2:04 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Good Islam vs. Bad Islam

05/10/2016 at 5:41 PM By Mary Anne Hackett