Catholics Rally Against Illinois Gov. Pritzker Who Is Signing Assisted Suicide Bill Into Law on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

 

By Catholics for Catholics

“Pope Leo XIV’s message of hope, compassion, unity, and peace resonates with Illinoisans of all faiths and traditions,” Illinois Governor JB Pritzker wrote just a few weeks ago after meeting with the Chicago-born pope at the Vatican. Now Pritzker has selected December 12, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, to sign an assisted suicide bill into law.

Against the objections of disability rights groups and religious leaders, Governor Pritzker is signing SB 1950, or the “End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act,” into law. The bill legalizes assisted suicide and allows patients to self-administer life-ending medication with the review of two physicians and two witnesses. In the Senate, which voted 30-27 to pass the bill, every “yes” vote came from a Democrat and eight Democrats joined the remaining 19 Republicans to vote against the measure. 

More: https://cforc.com/2025/12/catholics-rally-against-illinois-gov-pritzker-who-is-signing-assisted-suicide-bill-into-law-today-feast-of-our-lady-of-guadalupe/

Indian Catholics end 414-day hunger strike after court restores rights to land stolen by Muslims

 

The state court temporarily restored land rights last month, dismissing the ownership claims of the Islamic Waqf Board 

Kerala state Law Minister P. Rajeeve and Revenue Minister K. Rajan offer lemon juice to protest leader Benny Joseph on Nov. 30 to formally end a relay hunger strike on its 414th day after a state court temporarily restored land rights that were stripped nearly five years ago after a Muslim charitable body laid claim to their coastal village. (Photo: supplied)

By UCA News reporter

Published: December 02, 2025 06:21 AM GMT

Predominantly Catholic protesters in southern India have ended a relay hunger strike on its 414th day after a state court temporarily restored land rights they say were stripped from them nearly five years ago after a Muslim charitable body laid claim to their coastal village.

More than 600 families in Munambam, a fishing village in Kerala’s Ernakulam district, have been protesting since 2023 against the Kerala State Waqf Board’s assertion that large portions of their land are waqf property — religious endowment land under Islamic law.

The villagers, including many Catholics and Hindus, say they legally purchased the plots between 1988 and 1993 and have lived there for decades.

Father Antony Xavier, parish priest of the Valankanny Matha Church located on the disputed land, said the strike was suspended on Nov. 30 following a Kerala High Court order directing authorities to resume accepting land tax from residents as an interim measure.

“We have called off our indefinite relay hunger strike in view of the High Court order that restored our revenue rights on a temporary basis,” Xavier told UCA News. “If there is any hurdle again, we will not hesitate to resume the protest.”

Kerala's Law Minister P. Rajeeve and Revenue Minister K. Rajan formally ended the fast by offering lemon juice to protest leaders, assuring them that the state government would support the villagers’ claim.

The dispute escalated after the Revenue Department, in January 2022, stopped accepting land tax payments, citing the Waqf Board’s claim.

The board claimed some 163 hectares (404 acres) of land in the village was waqf, property gifted for charity, which under Islamic Sharia law is a permanent dedication that cannot be further gifted, inherited, sold or otherwise alienated.

More: https://www.ucanews.com/news/indian-catholics-end-414-day-hunger-strike-after-court-restores-land-rights/111173

BREAKING: 100 prisoners released in Nigeria Catholic school kidnapping

“One hundred of the 265 students and staff members kidnapped on November 21, 2025, at St. Mary's School in Papiri, Nigeria, have been released after more than two weeks in the hands of their captors, reports @acs_italia. 165 remain prisoners.”

Source: @matteomatzuzzi on Twitter

Teen dies just 3 hours after being ‘sextorted’ as nefarious international groups like 764 target US kids: ‘It’s 100% murder’

By Chadwick Moore

Published Dec. 9, 2025, 6:00 a.m. 

The afternoon that 15-year-old Bryce Tate was sextorted started off as a perfectly normal Thursday.

The Cross Lanes, W. Va., sophomore came home from the gym on Nov. 6, scarfed down a plate of tacos prepared by his mom, then went outside to shoot hoops. At 4:37 p.m., he received a text message from a strange number.

Three hours later, Bryce was found in his dad’s man cave — dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.i

“They say it’s suicide, but in my book it is 100% murder,” Bryce’s father, Adam Tate, told The Post. “They’re godless demons, in my opinion. Just cowards, awful individuals, worse than criminals.”

According to his dad, Bryce was apparently the latest victim of a vicious sextortion scheme targeting teen boys — one that law enforcement says is surging.

A representative for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children told The Post the group tracked over 33,000 reports of child sextortion in 2024 alone — with nearly that number reported in the first six months of this year.

Online scammers scour public social media profiles to learn about a teen, then pose as a flirtatious peer.

“They acted like a local 17-year-old girl. They knew which gym he worked out at, they knew a couple of his best friends and name-dropped them. They knew he played basketball for Nitro High School,” Adam said. “They built his trust to where he believed that this was truly somebody in this area.”

The Post is told that the photos Bryce received were not AI-generated but most likely of a real girl who was another victim.

Scammers then ask for illicit photos in return and, once they have them, extort the victim for money by threatening to show the pics to family and friends.

More: https://x.com/marshablackburn/status/1998506793769529859?s=46&t=IydJ-X8H6c0NM044nYKQ0w

Why Are So Many Young Priests Leaving Ministry?

 Priestly fraternity and lay support are of vital importance. How can we do better?

Experts who work with U.S. priests told the Register they have increasingly seen, in recent years, the issues of burnout and loneliness drive men away from their vocation. (photo: FotoDax / Shutterstock)

Jonah McKeown NationDecember 3, 2025

When Toby — not his real name — approached the altar during his ordination Mass roughly a decade ago, he was understandably nervous — perhaps much more so than the average ordinand. 

Despite growing up Catholic, loving his faith, and enjoying constant encouragement throughout his seminary experience, Toby had nevertheless been harboring serious doubts about whether he could truly say “Yes” to priesthood. But he says expectations from family, supporters and the seminary itself created a situation where he felt it impossible to step back from ordination.

Though he immediately felt deeply insecure in the priesthood, Toby, on the advice of an older priest, decided to take his best swing at parish ministry.

“By Christmas, I was on the edge of a nervous breakdown,” Toby recalled.

“I was trying to do something wholeheartedly and properly and conscientiously, and my heart wasn’t there. Especially, saying Mass became very painful. It was this experience of this chasm between what I was doing and where I was [mentally].” 

Toby requested laicization just months after his ordination day. He told the Register he had always harbored a strong attraction to marriage; he’s happily married today.

To be sure, Toby spent significantly less time ministering as a priest than most ordained men. But the phenomenon of men leaving the priesthood in short order — for reasons that have nothing to do with misconduct or scandal — are more common than you might think. 

More: https://www.ncregister.com/news/why-are-priests-leaving-ministry-burnout-isolation

BREAKING: Virtual “life sentence” for Christian beliefs of Enoch Burke

BREAKING: High Court Judge blocks Enoch Burke’s family from courtroom.

Teacher Enoch Burke’s mother Martina and siblings Isaac and Ammi have stood by his side since May 2022 when the Principal of Wilson’s Hospital School demanded he use the “they” pronoun for a child in the school.  

Enoch Burke refused and was subsequently suspended in a flagrant breach of his constitutional rights to freedom of religion and freedom of conscience. 

Today he was forced to dial in by video link from Mountjoy Prison instead of attending in person a hearing before High Court Judge Brian Cregan. 

Before proceedings even began, and before anyone had spoken, Judge Cregan ordered Martina Burke, Isaac Burke and Ammi Burke to leave the room. 

The Burke family remained seated and reminded the Judge of their constitutional right to be present. Judge Cregan then rose, ordered the Gardaí to forcibly remove the Burkes, and left the courtroom.  Open justice is a fundamental aspect of any functioning democracy. These are dark days in Irish courts.

Judge Cregan then re-entered the courtroom and doubled down on his slander against Enoch Burke. The Judge restated that Enoch Burke was a “baleful and malign” presence in the school, “roaming” around the corridors of the school and “stalking the school, its teachers and pupils.” All of these statements are utterly false. 

Judge Cregan also reaffirmed that the pupils and teachers in the school had sworn affidavits against Enoch Burke. This is a blatant lie.

Judge Brian Cregan has shown himself to be devoid of credibility.

Three weeks ago Judge Cregan directed the Attorney General to bring criminal contempt proceedings against members of the Burke family. Judge Cregan had no right to do this, as the Judiciary and the Executive are separate powers.

Last week, lawyers for the Attorney General appeared before Judge Cregan requesting that this direction would be withdrawn. They stated that it was inappropriate and wrong in law for Judge Cregan to instruct the Attorney General as to what to do in this regard. 

The direction was then withdrawn by the judge and changed to a request to “consider” bringing proceedings.

Judge Cregan also continues to instruct Rosemary Mallon BL in these proceedings, despite the fact that her instructions should only be coming from her client, Wilson’s Hospital School. Rosemary Mallon willingly receives those instructions from the judge.

Corrupt judges can disregard the Constitution and seek to strip upright citizens of their rights, but they will never succeed in removing God’s truth from society. 

Scripture says: “He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh” (Psalm 2:4). Truth will prevail.

Source: @EnochBurke on Twitter

N.B. @CBNNews:

A teacher in Ireland is back in court fighting for his right to follow his religious beliefs, and a judge is now vowing to keep him in jail through Christmas.

Enoch Burke says he was fired from his position at Wilson's Hospital School in 2022 after Principal Niamh McShane demanded he use the "they/them" pronoun for a male student. Burke says he refused, was subsequently suspended, and later dismissed.

Burke has fought the decision not only in court, citing that it violated his constitutional rights and religious beliefs, but he has, on several occasions, attempted to return to the school grounds to teach.

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Vatican will display first-ever pro-life nativity scene this Christmas

The nativity scene, ‘Nacimiento Gaudium’ or ‘Joyful Birth,’ celebrates the more than 25,000 babies saved from abortion through 40 Days for Life and will be blessed by Pope Leo XIV.

 

Christ ChildFred de Noyelle/Getty Images

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Antonino Cambria

Tue Dec 9, 2025 - 2:23 pm EST

VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The Vatican will display an explicitly pro-life nativity scene for the first time in its history next week, which will also be blessed by Pope Leo XIV during a ceremony.

The nativity scene entitled, “Nacimiento Gaudium,” (Joyful Birth), which was designed by Costa Rican sacred artist Paula Senoto with the help of 40 Days for Life, will be placed in the Paul VI Audience Hall and blessed by Pope Leo during a December 15 ceremony, where it will remain on display through the Christmas season and for the closing of the Jubilee Year of Hope.

More: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/vatican-will-display-first-ever-pro-life-nativity-scene-this-christmas/