Faith - Page 50

The President of the Austrian Catholic Bishops’ Conference has declared that priests may not refuse to bless gay couples, just two days after the Vatican permitted the practice for the first time.

Pro-LGBT Catholics like Jesuit Father James Martin have lauded the Vatican’s allowance of blessings for gay couples as “a huge step forward.”

A man featured in far-left director Rob Reiner’s upcoming documentary film about “Christian Nationalism” is not a Christian Nationalist.

The Vatican has reversed its position banning the blessing of homosexual couples, asserting that a blessing can now be “offered to all without requiring anything.”

Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, the former number three man in the Vatican, has been found guilty of three counts of embezzlement by a Vatican tribunal and sentenced to five and a half years of prison.

Rev. Catherine Bond and the Rev. Jane Pearce had their union blessed at St John the Baptist church, in Felixstowe, eastern England.

The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas fired rockets toward Jerusalem on Friday evening, as both Jews and Muslims were participating in prayers, endangering the Dome of the Rock, the Western Wall, and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The rockets were intercepted and disabled by Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, whose trails could be seen across the evening sky.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Thursday that it had suspended several soldiers who were seen in a widely-shared video singing Hanukkah songs through the loudspeaker of a minaret on a mosque during a counter-terror operation in Jenin.

A Georgia woman, who turned 108 years old on Tuesday, said the secret to a long life is to “treat people right.”

Vice President Kamala Harris has reportedly become the face of the pro-Palestinian “resistance” within the White House, and is pushing President Joe Biden and his administration to be tougher on Israel and more supportive of the Hamas-led Palestinians.

A menorah set up for Hanukkah at Oakland’s Lake Merritt, in the heart of the city, was vandalized early Wednesday, leading to condemnation by local officials — and a motor rally around the lake Wednesday night by Jews with menorahs on their cars.

An “After School Satan Club” is coming to a Memphis elementary school after the district allowed the Satanic Temple to use its facilities.

Emmanuel Macron is facing outrage over plans to replace historic stained glass windows with modern verisions in the Cathedral of Notre Dame.

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff has been the subject of glowing profiles about his Jewish faith, prior to a bizarre social media post Monday.

A Christian college in MN became a target over its Bible-based LGBTQ restrictions after its basketball team suffered an embarrassing loss

Harvard University president Claudine Gay is going to keep her position — for now — despite failing to tackle antisemitism on campus, and despite failing to state that calling for the genocide of Jews would violate Harvard’s code of conduct.

President Joe Biden told guests at the White House Hanukkah party on Monday evening that “I am a Zionist,” though he prefaced it by saying that residents of the South did not like that.

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, tried to explain the Hanukkah story on Monday — and failed spectacularly.

A Nebraska Catholic priest was found dead early Sunday morning after a man broke into his church and stabbed him, police said.

Beverly Hills police caught a 44-year-old man who shouted antisemitic abuse as he assaulted a 75-year-old religious Jewish man who was walking to synagogue with his wife on Saturday.

Dr. Anthony Fauci is under fire after telling the BBC that practicing the Catholic faith is a “thing that I don’t really need to do.”

The Vatican’s former doctrinal czar Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller warned that globalists are weaponizing mass migration to destroy the national identity of countries.

Christmas trees, and churches, symbolize a dominant culture radicals detest, and that they wish to overthrow, not to persuade.

South Africa has seen public Hanukkah celebrations canceled as the ruling African National Congress (ANC) has entertained leaders of the Hamas terrorist organization on a solidarity visit to the country.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has failed to comment on an antisemitic mob Friday that vandalized walls across from synagogues in Westwood with anti-Israel slogans.

LOS ANGELES, California — Pro-Palestinian protesters vandalized buildings near synagogues, as well as a nearby church, with anti-Israel graffiti on Friday night after demonstrating against President Joe Biden at a nearby fundraiser on Friday night.

The Satanic Temple set up a holiday homage to the occult “deity” Baphomet in the Iowa Statehouse, drawing concerns about the “evil” display.

A church in Simpsonville, South Carolina, is rejoicing after experiencing a massive wave of baptisms in one day.

A French juvenile court on Friday convicted six teenagers for their roles in the 2020 beheading teacher Samuel Paty by an Islamic extremist.

As radical Islamists spread havoc in major cities and college campuses, the left has come up with a new boogeyman to distract and scare its voter base into submission — “Christian nationalism.”

Harvard president Claudine Gay apologized Thursday for her weak stance against antisemitism during congressional testimony earlier this week, telling the Harvard Crimson that she had failed to live up to her own “guiding truth.”

Israeli troops observed the first night of Hanukkah on Thursday night by lighting candles on the battlefield — and, in one case, in the midst of “Palestine Square,” at the heart of Gaza City, where Hamas recently filmed propaganda videos with Israeli hostages.

We learned that some elite university administrators are moral cowards. But to understand the roots of antisemitism, we have to dig deeper.

The moshav, or agricultural community, of Ein HaBesor, Israel, survived the unprecedented Hamas terrorist attacks on October 7 without losing a resident, fending off an assault that devastated neighboring communities, leaving some with little to no population and no usable infrastructure.

The White House has denounced the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) after revelations Thursday that its executive director, Nihad Awad, praised Hamas and the October 7 terror attacks on Israel in a recent speech to a Muslim group.

University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill faces pressure to resign after she evaded questions about antisemitism on campus during a hearing on Capitol Hill, and after a donor threatened to pull $100 million from the university.