Important news from around the Catholic world

Friends, here are some of the the lesser known stories that we should be aware of today:

• A public letter from Mary Wagner, jailed in Milton, Ontario, Canada for her "interrupting a business", the business of the butchering of babies. The letter is exclusive to Barona at Toronto's Catholic Witness for Church and Pope.

• Barona also reports on Polish Archbishop Jozef Michalik of Przemysl being sued (good heavens, what's up with that? Oh well, she probably never intended it) by a militant feminist for preaching against the evils of of abortion and sexual immorality. Wait a minute, he is a Catholic and this is Poland, right? Or am I confusing it with San Francisco?

• Meanwhile, in San Francisco, it seems that the City Council thinks that the First Amendment does not apply in this case. The secular media is ganging up but LifeSiteNews has a report and petition you might consider signing and Michael Voris does a full report on this Vortex. Email the Archbishop at info@sfarchdiocese.org or call (415) 614-5500 to express your support. Please offer an Ave, right now for Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone and beseech St. Michael the Archangel to protect him. The lionhearted saviour is doing the work of the Saviour of the World in that cesspool of iniquity and betrayal of its namesake given by soon to be declared Saint, Junipero Serra. He is in need of your prayers and support. Now, what's that old joke about apologising to Sodom and Gomorrah? 

• A Federal Court will hear oral arguments in the Habeas Corpus appeal of wrongly imprisoned priest, Fr. Gordon MacRae. Even the Wall Street Journal has considered called into question his 1994 trial in what has been called a perversion of justice. Three Stone Walls is the place to go for more information on this miscarriage of justice and there is a GoFundMe to help keep it going.  

• A retired Catholic teacher and friend, Lou Iacobelli reports at Everyday for Life Canada on the latest battle in our schools and that "There are many reasons why public schools and in particular Catholic education should reject the new sex education curriculum. Given the fact that the government is not listening to parents, alternative strategies to protect children must be considered. Parents can begin by putting the government on notice that they expect schools to teach only the Health and Physical part of the course." Ontario's schools are under assault from an aggressive government policy to force sexually explicit education upon children. 

• Finally, Aged-Parent the blogger at The Eye-Witness and I have been following each others' blogs for a while now. I was very appreciative of his prayers and kind words of support and encouragement recently. We had a discussion the other day and he writes about at his blog. I hope you'll add The Eye-Witness to your daily reads.