WASHINGTON (EWTN News)—The Federal Communications Commission has approved a proposal to require broadcasters to submit documents about their programming to an online file, available to the public. The proposal was supported by the U.S. Catholic bishops.

In a statement before the vote, Bishop Gabino Zavala, chair of the bishops’ Communications Committee, called the move “long overdue.”

“An online disclosure will supply the public and the commission with a useable database of information about actual programs aired by broadcasters,” he said.

The Church backed the disclosure because several Catholic diocese have had difficulties obtaining airtime on local TV stations. For this reason,...READ MORE

At a time when many Republicans contend that life issues should take a back seat to addressing the country’s economic woes, GOP presidential hopeful Rep. Michele Bachmann is having none of it.

“The life of the unborn is not a sidebar issue,” Bachmann said earlier this year. “This is it. It is the issue that impacts more than any other how you view other issues. ... It is the watershed issue of our time.”

That attitude is probably to be expected from a woman who began her pro-life career doing sidewalk counseling at abortion clinics three decades before she ran for the Minnesota state Senate in 2000.

“She is impeccably conservative and 100% pro-life,” said Scott Fischbach of Minnesota...READ MORE

New Translation of the Mass Restores Its Beauty & Splendor - Anthony Esolen, First Things

The Fighting Nun in Rome & the Pope Pius XII Museum - Dr. Robert Moynihan, Catholic Lane

Obedience to God through People (ouch!) - Julie Rodrigues, VirtuousPla.net

How Many People Can the Earth Support? Some Thoughts - Brett Salkeld, Vox Nova

Authentic Dialogue & Same-Sex Attraction - Melinda Selmys, New Oxford Review

“Religious Liberty is also Prior to the State Itself. . . “ - Carl Olson, Ignatius Insight Scoop

Evelyn Waugh’s Correspondence with Card. Heenan, Battling Modernity - Dylan Parry, A Reluctant Sinner

On Indecency in the Great Books - Mark Adderley, Cowboys-Philosophers-and-Poets

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There’s a lot of pain out there. Women and men. Regret and sorrow. But if you’ve participated in an abortion in one way or another, you can heal. There is mercy.

That’s the message of Christianity, and it’s for everyone, even the mom who went through with an abortion. Even a baby’s father who pressured a woman to get one because he didn’t know how to or want to acknowledge that he was, in fact, a father.

Theresa Bonopartis is director of Lumina/Hope & Healing After Abortion, a post-abortion ministry in New York, a project of Good Counsel Homes. At the end of Respect Life Month, she talks about her work, exposing the pain to daylight, so that others may seek God’s healing love.

How did...READ MORE

So much of the focus on the new Roman Missal and its English translation has been on the people’s parts of the Mass.

For many months now, we’ve been hearing that we now will say things like “And with your spirit” instead of “And also with you” and “I believe” rather than “We believe,” among many other changes. Churches will provide pew cards with the exact words the people must say. “Consubstantial” will become a new word in modern Catholics’ vocabulary.

This is a major change in the Catholic Church, and we expect that there will be media attention. In some places, Catholics emerging from Mass on the First Sunday of Advent may be greeted by local reporters, asking for their reaction to the...READ MORE

The secretary of the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization, Archbishop Octavio Ruiz Arenas, recently outlined the important elements of the New Evangelization called for by Blessed John Paul II and now Benedict XVI.

“The fundamental mission of the Church is evangelization, which has as its ultimate end the clear proclamation of Jesus Christ, the Son of God made man,” said the archbishop. He spoke to a group of young missionaries on Oct. 21 at the Catholic University of Santiago, Chile.

This proclamation, he continued, “should lead to a commitment in the heart, to the following of the Lord Jesus, so that by embracing that Word of life, the person becomes someone who gives...READ MORE

Today, Oct. 31, our planet becomes home to 7 billion human beings. Most Catholics I know will celebrate this event, but there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth in the headquarters of the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA).

You see, the UNFPA believes the world is already overpopulated. It even applauds China’s one-child policy, believing that the Chinese Communist Party got it exactly right by limiting most couples to one child. In fact, it actively seeks to encourage other countries to similarly limit their childbearing and turns a blind eye to the human-rights abuses that result.

What human-rights abuses?

Well, imagine that you are a young Chinese woman of, say, 21, who accidently...READ MORE

(EWTN NEWS)—Presidential candidate Rick Santorum just released a heartfelt video introducing one of his eight children: 3-year-old Isabella Maria, who has a condition similar to Down syndrome.

“At the last debate, I mentioned how I was looking forward to taking the red eye home to see my 3-year-old daughter, Bella, since she had surgery earlier that day,” Santorum said in an Oct. 27 statement.

Following the debate, Santorum said he and his wife Karen — both Catholic and married for 20 years — were “touched by the tremendous outpouring” of emails and calls from supporters voicing their prayers for Bella.

“She’s doing great and is back to her joyful, smiley self,” Santorum said. And since...READ MORE