AFTERNOON UPDATE Catholic Ireland's Suicide Watch - Fidei Defensor, Custos Fidei Orthodoxy Fuels Vocations - Pope Benedict XVI, Prayer for Vocations Motu Proprio Rumor: May 5 Release - Damian Thompson, Telegr... Fighting Secular Tyranny - Fidei Defensor, Custos Fidei San Fransisco's 'Gay Mass' This Sunday - Jeff Miller, The Curt Jes... San Francisco Archdiocese Refutes 'Gay Mass' - Hilary White, LS Ban on 'Mom, Dad' Considered - Bob Unruh, WorldNetDaily Bias Against Latin Mass - Kathryn Westcott, BBC News Partial-Birth & VoTech Massacre - Matt Barber, Townhall.com Pro-Choice Extremists - Christine M. Flowers, Philly Daily News New Salvo Mag & Sex-Obsessed Society - Rebecca Hagelin, THF Tide Turning Toward Catholicism - Dave Hartline, Catholic Excha... An Atheist's Journey to God - Fr. John Powell, retired professor Anti-Catholic Bigotry (Audio) - Chuck Colson, Breakpoint St. Louis University's Catholic Issue - Michael Deem, EC Defending the Crusades - Fred Thompson, NRO Problems With Gay Marriage - Davide Blankenhorn, Mercatornet Off to Work She Should Go - Linda Hirshman, New York Times Evangelicals Dressing as Catholics - Fr. Dwight Longnecker, SOMH Gay Parenting Destroyed Dawn - Dawn Stefanowicz, Mercatornet Abp Burke Takes On Sheryl Crow (Video) - Rocco Palmo, WITL Atheism's Lack of Substance - Don Feder, USA Today MORNING EDITION Abortion & Infanticide, Same Thing - Domenico Bettinelli, Bettnet Legal Victory for TX Bible Monument - Allie Martin, One News Now 114 Year Old Convert - Agenzia Fides About Archbishop Nienstedt - Pamela Miller, StarTribune.com V2 Liturgical Changes Not So Good - Archbishop Ranjith, CDF-Sec. Study: Health Risks for Gay Sex (PDF) - Dr. John R. Diggs Jr., CRC Crushing Christian Dissent - JonJayRay, Stop the ACLU Brownback Drops Amnesty Bill - Stephen Dinan, Washington Times Gay Propaganda Works - JonJayRay, Stop the ACLU US Bishops Dereliction of Duties - New Oxford Review Shameless Blog Plug of the Day: A Catholic Mom in Hawaii. (Hat Tips: Catholic Report, New Liturgical Movement, The Curt Jester, Recta Ratio, Musings of a Pertinacious Papist, The Cafeteria is Closed, LifeSite, New Oxford Review, Renew America, & The WebElf Report.) This Weeks Catholic News: For April 26 click here. For April 25 click here. For April 24 click here. For April 23 click here. For April 22 click here.

Here's Mondays top news stories concerning Christianity in the world. Again, this will not be replacing my own posts; I'll still be posting regular commentary in addition to my Catholic News roundup. AFTERNOON NEWS ROUNDUP Bill Cork Moving On - Tito, Custos Fidei Criminalizing Christianity – Harry R. Jackson, Jr., TownHall.com Gingrich Blames Liberalism for Increasing Violence – ABC News Contraception-Breast Cancer Link Ignored – Melissa Scollard, NOR Pray For The Eldest Daughter - Fidei Defensor, Custos Fidei Why Notre Dame? – Rick Garnett, Mirror of Justice Baby Emilio Update – Wesley J. Smith, Second Hand Smoke Benedict's Global Agenda – Samuel Gregg, Acton Institute Europe’s Demographic Death – Mark Steyn, NRO via SteynOnline Boycott of Ford is Working - Tom Blumer, NewsBusters EARLY MORNING NEWS ROUNDUP Godlessness Caused VoTech Attack (Video) - Allahpundit, Hot Air AmP Comments on Papist Cartoon - Thomas Peters, Am'n Papist No Christ at VoTech Memorial Service - Paul McCain, Cyberbrethren LA Times Swoons For Anti-Catholic - Dave Pierre, NewsBusters SCOTUS Ruling Highlights Abortion Pain - Steven Ertelt, LifeNews British Lad's Rant on Limbo - Oliver McCarthy, McCarthyism UK ¡Viva Cristo Rey! (Video) - Fr. Tim Finigan, THOC A Response to Anti-Catholic Bigotry - Bill Donohue, Catholic League NFP Smackdown - Steve, The Evil Traditionalist Was Cho Seung-Hui a Liberal? - Unseen One, Unseen Blogger Atheism's and VoTech Shootings - Jason Rosenhouse, EvolutionBlog Catholic Youth Revival - Catholic Online Orthodox-Catholic Rapprochement - Pyotr Romanov, RIA Novosti Book Review God's Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe's Religious Crisis by Philip Jenkins - Richard John Neuhaus, First Things Odd News Item of the Day Mystery Cat Takes Daily Bus Ride Solo - the Daily Mail of London Shameless Blog Plug of the Day: The Curt Jester. Shameless Plug for my blog: Got mentioned by name at Dave Hartline's Catholic Report!

I'm trying something new here. I come a cross roughly a dozen news stories a day that I want to blog about but just don't have the time, so here are the news stories themselves without commentary. No, this will not be replacing my own posts, I'll still be doing that. This is part of the changes here at Custos Fidei, but not the main change - yet! Here's Sundays top news stories concerning Christianity in the world. Pray For The Eldest Daughter by Fidei Defensor, Custos Fidei (4-22) More Girls Aborted Worldwide Than Boys by Joseph Meaney, National Catholic Register (4-22) Forced Sexual Vaccination of Children by Carolyn Moynihan, Mercatornet (4-20) Judge Ginsburg Unhinged After Partial Birth Ruling Ban by Diogenes, Off the Record (4-20) Kathy Shaidle Quits Our Sunday Visitor (OSV) After OSV Bans Her Green Article by Kathy Shaidle, Relapsed Catholic (4-20) Responsible Parenthood by Peter Park (PJP), Recapturing Our Catholic Patrimony (4-18) California Group Advocates Population Control by Monisha Bansal, CNSNews (4-18) Rotten Fruit of Sexual Revolution by Emily Stimpson, Our Sunday Visitor (4-18) Gay Militants Threaten Genoa Archbishop by Gudrun Shultz, LifeSite (4-11) Catholic Bashers Spared Imus Treatment by Bill Donohue, Catholic League (4-11) Nazarene Converts to Catholicism by Shellie, Profound Gratitude (4-9) HBO's Soft-Porn Miniseries 'Rome'; Cable Drama Shows Rome Before Christianity by Gerard J. Russello, First Things (4-9) A Pope Who Gets It by Micah Halpern, FrontPageMag.com (4-9) Episcopal's Leaving En Masse Due to TEC Embrace of Homosexuality, Priestesses, etc. by Christopher S. Johnson, Midwest Conservative Journal (4-8) Catholic Church Shopping by Jennifer Graham, National Review Online (4-5) When the West Fails to Procreate; Contraceptions 'Fruits' by Ian Hunter, LifeSite (4-5) Non-Catholic Ontario Politician Wants Pope John Paul II Holiday by The Catholic Register via Catholic Online (3-29) China's One Child Policy Turning Chinese Into Christians by Samuel Gregg, Acton Institute (2-28) Virginia Tech Post Mortem Secular Media Fails to Recognize Evil in Virginia Tech Attack by Peggy Noonan, WSJ Opinion Journal (4-20) Where's Atheism After Virginia Tech Massacre by Dinesh D'Souza, AOL News Bloggers (4-18) No Surprise - VA Killer Was an anti-Catholic Bigot by Fidei Defensor, Custos Fidei (4-17) State Control of Your Lives Seen in Gun Control Advocates by Diogenes, Off the Record (4-17) The Emptiness In Secular Mourning by Kathy Shaidle, Relapsed Catholic (4-17) New Jersey Christian Terror Drill (sic) School Criticized for Christian Terror Drill by Lauren Green, Fox News (4-5) School Stages Practice Hostage Drill - Portrays Killers As Fundamentalist Christians by Vir Speluncae Catholicus, The Lair of the Catholic Cavemen (4-2) Shameless Blog Plug of the Day: Catholic Report.

Redemptive suffering. It's a term you hear from time to time, but you're not really sure what it means. Jesus expounded on it through his example on the Via Dolorosa as He was going through the Passion. In Christianity, specifically Catholicism, it is a term that has been poorly catechized to the laity of the 21st century.

The Columbine killers had some downright Satanic influences in their life, an extreme hatred of Christianity permeated in their dark souls, not that one would have learned it from the MSM. Anyway the VA killer was, no surprise, an anti-Catholic bigot. A play by this English major has come to light via the Smoking Gun news website, the whole thing is pretty crude, obscene, violent, frightening, and not worth your time, take my word for it. I am reproducing here though one portion of interest in which the monster, I refuse to even use his name, reveals his intense hatred for priests. "(Richard gently rests him {sic} hand on John's lap.) John: What the hell are you doing! (John slaps Richard's hand.) John (Cond't) What are you, a Catholic priest! I will not be molested by an aging balding overweight pedophilic {sic} step dad named Dick! Get your hands off me you sicko! Damn you, you Catholic priest." Of course you and I read this sort of thing, this pure hate for Christ's Church, and the red flags go up that this is a sick and sinister mind at work, sadly no matter how cliche it is, attacks on the Church will always be considered bold/hip/edgy in some circles. Though I must point out that to the great credit of the professor involved, the authorities were warned in the wake of these sort of writings. Secondly, is anyone else finding it insulting that the South Korean government's condolences include remarks worrying that this tragedy will "stir up racial prejudice or confrontation," against Koreans? All too often, the rest of the world is more than happy to judge Americans harshly based on a bad experience with a tourist, or depictions in the media. I am reminded of being told that Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" would lead to anti-Semitic attacks. Just as seeing a film depiction of the Passion did not lead to a single such act, I am bothered by the fact that the Korean government thinks Americans will interpret the actions of one monster, who happens to be from Korea, and parlay that into attacks on all Koreans. Do the South Koreans really think we Americans are so ignorant and violent that we grieve in such a way? This is so absurd there aren't words for it. Third, cruising the liberal blogsphere, I saw a lot of rage regarding the fact that George W. Bush visited the campus today, even going so far as to urge the students to protest him, walk out on his speech, etc. Will these people ever put such compulsive hatred for Bush aside? If he didn't show up, certainly they'd be saying how he didn't care, and sunbed everyone, being so close by in DC and refusing to come. Of course there were no anti-Bush protests, even if the ultra-liberal hate-bloggers don't realize it, politics and life are not synonymous. President Bush was on campus there today as the representative of ALL OF US, of every single American and our mourning. I don't think very highly of Bill Clinton, no surprise there, but if he were president, and such a tragedy happened at my college, and he showed up to comfort a community in mourning, you can bet I would be giving the man a standing ovation. I sometimes wonder how much damage this obsessive hatred of Bush has done the presidency and the republic. Fourth, I am reiterating what I said in my previous post, we must not allow any excuses to be made here, no mater how troubled a childhood, or how lonely, or depressed, or medicated, or whatever, a person is, there is NO EXCUSE for acting in violence towards the innocent, much less on this horrific scale. Lastly, and most important of all, continue to pray for the victims.

Let me preface by saying that I have only caught a few snippets of news regarding the campus tragedy in VA. First and foremost we must pray for the dead, and the students and families dealing with this unspeakable tragedy. Secondly, and don't quote me on this, so little information is out there, but I am eerily reminded of two other shooting incidents, one in a mall in Utah a few months ago, and the DC sniper reign of terror a few years back. I am also, of course, reminded of the Columbine attacks carried out by Satanical monsters several years ago. It is impossible to know how each of us as individuals would react in the face of such violence and evil, anyone who has not experienced it is hardly qualified to comment. However I'll go out on a limb here and say this, in the face of events such as this one, the September 11 attacks, and scores of smaller incidents of evil and violence that occur all too often in our time, and throughout history, when people are presented with such evil manifested in a sick, twisted, individual, one must do all they can to resist. If one leads, many will follow. As we learned on 9-11, malicious evil-doers can NEVER be given the benefit of the doubt. The three hijacked planes that went into buildings were full of people who, until those last terrifying seconds, thought they were being held hostage, and of greater value to the hijackers alive than dead. Only technology (cell phones) and time allowed the good people of Flight 93 to fight back and in the process save countless others. In the post 9-11 world I would bet that no person alive, man or woman, age 9 or 90 would hesitate to charge an airline hijacker. When one is being mugged, obviously, your wallet is not worth your life, but when a sinister person, with no visible motive other than evil, brandishes a weapon, I pray that every good person in proximity will have the courage to fight them tooth-and-nail. Lastly, while I know as a Catholic we should not pass judgment upon the souls of others, I suspect that the monster who killed these young people in VA is just beginning his eternity in the fires of Hell. I don't know anything about him, but I simply do not care to hear a word in the coming days along the lines of "a troubled childhood," or "society failed him," or "childhood bullying." Moral relativism and psychobabble must not be allowed to cover up for the fact that such evil exists in our world. Let no one waste one moment of time on sympathy for him and instead focus on the killed, the wounded, and the grieving. May they all know the love and comfort of Our Savior Jesus Chirst. In the words of the Holy Father, "Despite all the darkness in the world, evil does not have the last word."