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February 6, 2013
What Are You Giving Up for Lent?
Catholicism Blog on About.com - 4 months 1 week ago What are you giving up for Lent? It's a question to which we're often tempted to answer, "None of your business!" And rightly so, because "What are you giving up for Lent?" can be...
Spirituality: Eli, Samuel and Evangelizing our Youth
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - 4 months 1 week ago In this Year of Faith, we've all been thinking about how to evangelize more effectively, and no group is more coveted in this mission than our youth. Word on Fire blog contributor...
February 5, 2013
Fun Vid: Toddler's Awesome Trick Shots
Creative Minority Report - 4 months 1 week ago Wow. Sign the kid up. This is adorable fun. *subhead*Wow.*subhead*
Los Angeles considering capital campaign to raise $200 million
The Deacon's Bench - 4 months 1 week ago From the Los Angeles Times: In the midst of renewed public outrage over its handling of clergy sex abuse, the Los Angeles Archdiocese is considering a $200-million fundraising...
Elsewhere
dotCommonweal - 4 months 1 week ago Michael Lewis on “The Trouble with Wall Street”
Helen Rittelmeyer on sex and ambition at Yale
John Banville on Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet
William Deresiewicz on why he’s not...
Adventure or Cautious Mediocrity?
Integrated Catholic Life - 4 months 1 week ago Peter… Paul… Isaiah… Frodo Baggins. They have more in common than meets the eye. Of course there are differences, too. Peter is a small business man, trying to wring a living for...
St. Paul Miki and Companions
A Catholic View - 4 months 1 week ago The Saints of the Day for February 6 are St. Paul Miki and Companions. Nagasaki, Japan, is familiar to Americans as the city on which the second atomic bomb was dropped, killing...
We’re pleased to announce the newest blogger at Patheos: Beyoncé
The Deacon's Bench - 4 months 1 week ago Well, certainly that’s the best explanation for why, like the Super Bowl, we found ourselves tonight suddenly in the dark. Okay:so the Super Bowl people aren’t blaming Beyoncé ...
The "Back to the Future" of the Catholic Church
Saint Louis Catholic - 4 months 1 week ago “To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law—a...
PHOTOS: at the Students for Life Conference
Rock for Life Blog - 4 months 1 week ago Here’s some photos of us at the Students for Life Conference. Enjoy! Thanks to Exel Management for the photos!
“Butterfly Kisses” and a father-daughter dance like no other
The Deacon's Bench - 4 months 1 week ago This is really something. (H/T to my classmate and diaconal brother, Mike Brainerd). From YouTube, where this was posted last summer: Andrea had a very special dance with some...
Sabotaging the Medjugorje Commission?
Socon or Bust - 4 months 1 week ago Socon or Bust continues to warn the Faithful about believing in Medjugorge.
Sorry About the Technical Difficulties
Catholic and Enjoying It! - 4 months 1 week ago During the blackout, there was no national purge in which all the Patheos writers were killed and replaced with soulless pod people indistinguishable from you humans or anything....
Krugman Advocates Death Panels... in a Synagogue
Creative Minority Report - 4 months 1 week ago I don't understand anything anymore. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman advocated death panels in a synagogue of all places. And all he got was some giggles. What the heck is...
LAPD investigates abuse disclosures
dotCommonweal - 4 months 1 week ago I don’t suppose detectives from the LAPD will put up for the redactions that obscure important passages in the documents the Archdiocese of Los Angeles released concerning its...
Cardinal Mahony’s Therapeutic Excuses
Socon or Bust - 4 months 1 week ago Great write up about Mahony here.
Here’s the real problem: when Catholic priests and bishops stopped being priests and bishops and stopped acting like Catholics should have acted...
Chinese Family Planning Officials Run Over 13-Month Old Baby
Socon or Bust - 4 months 1 week ago Chinese family planning officials ran over a 13-month old baby with a small bus after they feuded with a Chinese resident over fines related to the birth of the child, born...
Interfaith Groups Urge Policymakers to Extend Health Care Coverage to 1.3M Uninsured Texans
Texas Catholic Conference - 4 months 1 week ago AUSTIN - In a letter today to the legislative leadership, two of the state's largest religious organizations urged policymakers to extend Medicaid coverage to 1.3 million low-...
Gloria Steinem: Gov. Perry ‘a dictatorial, unacceptable American’ for defunding Planned Parenthood
LifeSiteNews - 4 months 1 week ago by Kirsten Andersen FORT WORTH, February 5, 2013 (LifeSiteNews) – Governor Rick Perry "will go down in history as an authoritarian, a dictatorial, unacceptable American," said...
Pro-life, pro-family leader Mike Schwartz dies at 63: co-founder of March for Life
LifeSiteNews - 4 months 1 week ago by Thaddeus Baklinski WASHINGTON, DC, February 5, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Michael Schwartz, longtime chief of staff to Oklahoma Republican Senator Tom Coburn and a man described...
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