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December 31, 2012
Pope to parents: see children as a gift to be guarded
Catholic Culture - World News - 4 months 3 weeks ago At his midday audience on Sunday, December 30--the feast of the Holy Family--Pope Benedict XVI reminded parents that they are "neither the friends nor masters of their children's...
James Hitchcock introduces new history of Catholic Church
Catholic Culture - World News - 4 months 3 weeks ago Catholic World Report has posted the full introduction to the landmark new book by James Hitchcock: History of the Catholic Church: From the Apostolic Age to the Third ...
Just for fun
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - 4 months 3 weeks ago Just for fun:
Happy… young…
Any fun snowman pics out there?
Protesters occupy nuncio's office in Paris
Catholic Culture - World News - 4 months 3 weeks ago Protesters occupied the offices of the apostolic nuncio in Paris on December 31, to protest the decision by Church officials to evict squatters from a church in Lille....
Today’s Chance to Do a Work of Mercy
Catholic and Enjoying It! - 4 months 3 weeks ago Hi and God bless you all in these last days of 2012, and I pray you have a full and exciting 2013!
I wanted to send you one last reminder of what I am doing and ask for your help...
Are baby boomers headed back to church?
The Deacon's Bench - 4 months 3 weeks ago Maybe: Based on the premise that people become more religious as they age, Gallup editor-in-chief Frank Newport predicts that religion will have a more prominent place in...
Out my window…
dotCommonweal - 4 months 3 weeks ago ….smoking building! This morning at 7 AM, I saw the building across the street had “visible dense smoke” pouring from its chimney. This is a regular occurrence and I complain...
Spectacular Images of Fetal Development Now Available as iBook
LifeNews.com - 4 months 3 weeks ago Both NRLC Director of Education Dr. Randall K. O’Bannon (see below) and myself have written glowing reviews of a book that transformed the way we understand fetal development: “...
Eight Years Ago
Snoring Scholar - 4 months 3 weeks ago
A Mary Moment Monday post
I was pregnant to bursting and worried.
In fact, I was battling worry in a way I can’t really express without tears in my eyes.
The midwife wanted...
Interesting Conference Coming Up January 12 in Michigan
Catholic and Enjoying It! - 4 months 3 weeks agoAbortion Effect: U.S. Seeing Slowest Population Growth Since 1930
LifeNews.com - 4 months 3 weeks ago After almost 40 years of legalized abortions throughout the United States — and longer in states that okayed abortions pre-Roe — the U.S. population has been decimated to the...
European Editorial: The Crisis and the Future
News.va - 4 months 3 weeks ago (Vatican Radio) Europe faces the New Year with a series of problems that pose no easy solutions. Poverty, first and foremost – a problem that involves around 120 million people...
Is International Planned Parenthood Abetting Criminal Activity?
LifeNews.com - 4 months 3 weeks ago International Planned Parenthood Federation’s Carmen Barroso sent around an e-mail today soliciting year-end donations. She illustrates the role IPPF plays throughout the Western...
Hobby Lobby will defy mandate, risk fines; federal court blocks enforcement in separate case
Catholic Culture - World News - 4 months 3 weeks ago The Hobby Lobby stores will defy a federal mandate requiring coverage of the morning-after pill in employees' health-insurance policies, risking fines of over $1 million a day...
Surrogacy: Renting Wombs in India Exploits the Powerless
LifeNews.com - 4 months 3 weeks ago Colonialism used to be about the rich exploiting the resources of other lands. Now, biological colonialism (as I call it) finds well off (mostly) Westerners exploiting destitute...
Arrested “Plotting to Celebrate Christmas”
Creative Minority Report - 4 months 3 weeks ago Our Future?
Al-Bawaba reports: Saudi religious police stormed a house in the Saudi Arabian province of al-Jouf, detaining more than 41 guests for “plotting to celebrate...
New Year’s resolutions for the New Evangelization
The Deacon's Bench - 4 months 3 weeks ago Some great ideas from the blogging bishop, Christopher Coyne: As the new year begins, we often make resolutions and so, I offer the following possible new year’s resolutions to...
Animals Do It!!!
Creative Minority Report - 4 months 3 weeks ago I read recently someone arguing against Pope Benedict's recent comments about gay marriage. The writer took issue with it and argued that homosexuality was natural because...