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Poll: Americans Support Religious Exemption for HHS Mandate
LifeNews.com - 5 months 2 weeks ago A new Rasmussen Reports poll shows Americans narrowly support allowing businesses and religious organizations to opt out of the controversial HHS mandate that compels them to pay...
Vatican webcam feeds streamed live with new ‘Pope App’
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - 5 months 2 weeks ago The Vatican is offering a new app that provides live streaming of papal events and video feeds from the Vatican’s six webcams.
“The Pope App” also will send out alerts and links...
Tip #31: Bake Christmas goodies
OSV Daily Take - 5 months 2 weeks ago So, this isn't actually from the "30 ways" lists, but since it was National Cookie Day yesterday, I, of course, had to start my Christmas baking. Thus, impromptu tip #31: Bake...
New Stories Now on Our Homepage
dotCommonweal - 5 months 2 weeks ago New stories now featured on our homepage: The editors on President Obama’s troubling approach to the use of drones, and Charles R. Morris on high spending on health care.
From the...
Pope speaks on living Advent in the Year of Faith
Catholic Culture - World News - 5 months 2 weeks ago Pope Benedict XVI devoted his weekly public audience on December 5 to the opening of St. Paul's epistle to the Ephesians, saying that the Apostle's words serve as an appropriate...
Nine out of 10 unborn children found to have Down’s syndrome are aborted. The price of this tragedy is high
Catholic Herald - 5 months 2 weeks ago The latest news on the Liverpool Care Pathway, the controversial medical protocol designed to make the dying process more humane, is that it is being applied to very sick babies....
Vatican honors Our Lady of Guadalupe with congress on the future of the Church in the America
A Catholic View - 5 months 2 weeks ago On December 12, the Americas celebrates its patroness, Our Lady of Guadalupe. But Rome is also joining in on the celebration. This year's feast at the Vatican will be extra...
Is ACOG Trying to Put Pro-Life Doctors Out of Business?
LifeNews.com - 5 months 2 weeks ago “Irish Need Not Apply” read many storefront signs in the United States during the 19th century. Today, almost everyone disapproves of racial, ethnic, or religious discrimination...
Welcoming Santa with G. K. Chesterton
CatholicMom.com - 5 months 2 weeks ago St. Nicholas of Myra
Tomorrow’s the Feast of St. Nicholas. When our oldest was born, we were unsure what to do about Santa. Afraid he’d usurp the meaning of the season, we toyed...
Why is police victim’s religion such a secret?
GetReligion - 5 months 2 weeks ago A friend sent along a story to me about a religious row that ended in death. He wondered what religion was involved. Here’s the first story I read, from ABC News (Australia),...
Planned Parenthood: 330,000 Abortions, 841 Adoptions, 0 Births
A Catholic View - 5 months 2 weeks ago Oh Irony of Ironies....Their very name is an oxymoron... Planned "Parenthood" only PREVENTS Parenthood by killing babies. 0 births? Is that what they call PARENTHOOD?A tip...
Unborn Babies: Humans With Potential, Not Potential Humans
LifeNews.com - 5 months 2 weeks ago My first question to the pro-abortion folks is, “Just what is ‘it’ that is conceived?”
Is “it” an amphibian (since it lives in water) or perhaps a primate? I would argue that “it...
When it’s appropriate to clap at Mass: a handy list
The Deacon's Bench - 5 months 2 weeks ago Marcel over at Aggie Catholics has a helpful post about applause during liturgy. While it’s frowned upon—the pope is not a fan of it—there are a few instances when it might be...
El Día de los Reyes Magos
USCCB Media Blog - 5 months 2 weeks ago Por Ana Rodriguez
El Día de Reyes Magos se celebra el
6 de enero, o la Epifanía, que se
conmemora el día en que los
católicos creen que los Reyes
Magos entregan regalos de...
Irish bishops: Abortion is never morally justified
News.va - 5 months 2 weeks ago (Vatican Radio) The Irish Bishops have issued an initial response to a report by a government appointed expert group into the European Court for Human Rights judgement in A,B and...
El Dia de los Reyes Magos. It is magical
USCCB Media Blog - 5 months 2 weeks ago By Ana Rodriguez
Three Kings Day (or “El Día de los Reyes
Magos”) is celebrated on January 6, or the Epiphany, which marks the day when
Catholics believe The Three Wise Men...
135K Syrian refugees in Lebanon, AVSI reports
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Couple Convicted For Mistreatment of Lamb Purchased For Religious Sacrifice
The Religion Clause - 5 months 2 weeks ago The Colorado Springs Gazette reports that on Tuesday, an El Paso County, Colorado state court jury convicted Periz Jackson and Elijah Black on animal cruelty charges for the...
Pro-Abortion Blog Delighted Eric Holder is Attacking Pro-Lifers
LifeNews.com - 5 months 2 weeks ago A prominent pro-abortion blog is singing Attorney General Eric Holder’s praises, both inaccurately and inappropriately: Reproductive Health Reality Check (also known as RH Reality...
Today’s Catholic must-reads: 05/12/12
Catholic Herald - 5 months 2 weeks ago Jesus Christ is “the axis upon which everything turns“, Benedict XVI said at his general audience this morning (full text, video).
The Pope also urged the international community...