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January 8, 2013
Stop Funding Planned Parenthood, Does 1 Abortion Every 94 Seconds
LifeNews.com - 4 months 2 weeks ago A leading pro-life members of Congress who is behind legislation to revoke taxpayer funding for the Planned Parenthood abortion business is not happy about the new annual report...
Pope completes ‘ad limina’ visits with world’s bishops — almost
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - 4 months 2 weeks ago The Vatican announced that after more than seven years in office, Pope Benedict XVI had hosted the formal visits of bishops from every country in the world and would begin the...
Dorothy Day: former atheist, social advocate & journalist, moves toward sainthood
Communio - 4 months 2 weeks ago Rome Reports, a work of a group of laity covering news items concerning the Catholic Church particularly in Rome (the bulk of their reporting) but the reporters also cover other...
Bishop: US Catholics' relief efforts help Syrian refugees in Turkey
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - 4 months 2 weeks ago Half a million have fled Syria
ISTANBUL — The relief efforts of U.S. Catholics are helping Syrian refugees in Turkey face their ordeal in a dignified manner that respects their...
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Can forgiveness play a role in criminal justice?
GetReligion - 4 months 2 weeks ago That’s the provocative headline that accompanies a story I’ve been pondering ever since Amy Welborn brought it to our attention. The New York Times Sunday magazine piece runs...
Euthanasia Movement Promotes “Kill Me” Living Will in Australia
LifeNews.com - 4 months 2 weeks ago The euthanasia movement rarely tells the full truth about its objectives. Activists pretend that their goal is only to legalize “voluntary” terminations, or in the USA, to...
Sometimes poverty smiles
USCCB Media Blog - 4 months 2 weeks ago January is Poverty Awareness Month. To help
raise awareness among Catholics of poverty and its underlying issues, USCCB has
updated its website, www.PovertyUSA.org,
and launched a...
Salvation History On A Rubic's Cube
The Ironic Catholic - 4 months 2 weeks ago Greeaaat. I NEVER get past the first panel. My spiritual life is permanently twisted (apparently, literally).
OK, it's not a Rubics cube; its the most complicated picture book...
My Broken Heart Now Restored After My Devastating Abortion
LifeNews.com - 4 months 2 weeks ago I had an abortion. I was 20 years old and pregnant. Scared. Angry. Confused. I was completely alone.
This is my story.
I was working at a local bar. I was going to college. Living...
Update: Calling Jews 'enemies' is 'unacceptable,' Vatican spokesman says
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - 4 months 2 weeks ago U.S. district tries to clarify response
VATICAN CITY — The Catholic Church remains committed to deepening its relations with Jews and finds it "absolutely unacceptable" to...
Nun speaks out in support of same-sex marriage in Illinois
The Deacon's Bench - 4 months 2 weeks ago Really? Yes. Read on: Sister Donna Quinn, a Chicago native who has been a Catholic nun for over 50 years, said it’s about time for Illinois to approve legislation that would...
Richard Ben Cramer, RIP
dotCommonweal - 4 months 2 weeks ago One of the writers I followed as I tried to imagine myself as a writer was Richard Ben Cramer, who died yesterday at 62. He had struggled with cancer, and he also struggled with...
Migration Week brings revived interest in letter, push for legislation
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - 4 months 2 weeks ago WASHINGTON — The Catholic Church's observance of National Migration Week Jan. 6-12 this year comes at a time when the outlook seems promising for improving migrants' legal...
Catholics still largest denomination in new Congress
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - 4 months 2 weeks ago 10 percent of members are Jesuit grads
WASHINGTON — The 113th Congress includes some slight shifts in religious makeup over the previous session, with a few more Catholics, the...
Judge: L.A. archdiocese must reveal names in personnel file release
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - 4 months 2 weeks ago LOS ANGELES — The Archdiocese of Los Angeles must reveal the names of church officials included in 30,000 pages of personnel files that will be released with information related...
A mordant look at the wrong notion of “active participation”
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - 4 months 2 weeks ago From the amusing Eye of the Tiber:
Culver City, CA––Parishioners of St. Raymond Catholic Church in Culver City, California were forced to jump into action during Mass early Monday...
Religion as code words in the French press
GetReligion - 4 months 2 weeks ago Don’t you see the rest of the country looks upon New York like we’re left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers? I think of us that way sometimes and I live here. Alvy...
Apollinaris the Apologist
CatholicMom.com - 4 months 2 weeks ago The Epiphany marks the end of the Christmas season for most Christians, and we start to fall into Ordinary Time and ordinary routines. The joy and wonder of the holiday season is...
Five Things to Remember on Jan. 8
USCCB Media Blog - 4 months 2 weeks ago
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For National Migration Week, January 6-12, USCCB’s
Migration and Refugee Services has launched a postcard campaign that calls on
Congress to pass just and compassionate...
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