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February 4, 2013
Mennonite Pastor Ordered Back To Jail For Refusing To Testify To Grand Jury
The Religion Clause - 3 months 2 weeks ago AP on Friday reported that Kenneth Miller, a Mennonite pastor from Stuarts Draft, Va., was sent back to jail by a Vermont federal district judge who has ordered him to testify...
Catholic Techie Ryan Eggenberger
CatholicMom.com - 3 months 2 weeks ago
You know what I love almost as much as a good story? Seeing people who aren’t wasting their youth. Thanks to this series of Catholic Techie interviews, I’ve had quite a few...
Off the Pedestal, into My Heart
Snoring Scholar - 3 months 2 weeks ago
A Mary Moment Monday post
So often, she’s there up there. Above me in so many ways: she seems to have it all together, her clothes look nice, and doggone it, she’s smiling ...
Recent Articles of Interest
The Religion Clause - 3 months 2 weeks ago From SSRN:
Mine Yildirim, Religion in the Public and Private Turkish Workplace: The Approach of the Turkish Judiciary, (in A Test of Faith? Religious Diversity and Accommodation...
Just as in St Agatha’s day, the persecutors of the Church want us to abandon our principles
Catholic Herald - 3 months 2 weeks ago Tomorrow is the feast of Saint Agatha, Virgin and Martyr, which is an obligatory memorial here in England.
In Sicily the feast will be kept with great solemnity, and the city of...
Pope convokes consistory for canonization of three Blessed
News.va - 3 months 2 weeks ago (Vatican Radio) Pope Benedict XVI has convoked a public ordinary consistory for a vote on the cause of canonisation of three Blessed for Monday, February 11 th next. They are:...
Vatican: A concert to mark anniversary of Lateran Pacts
News.va - 3 months 2 weeks ago (Vatican Radio) Pope Benedict XVI and Italian President Giorgio Napolitano are guests of honour Monday evening at a special concert in the Paul VI Hall, given by the Italian...
HHS Issues Rules on Exemptions from Contraceptive Coverage
American Catholic - Top News - 3 months 2 weeks ago WASHINGTON (CNS) — Exemptions from the requirement to provide contraceptive coverage under the Affordable Care Act will be simplified to include many more types of religious...
Does this Government belive that ‘mothers at home matter’
Catholic Herald - 3 months 2 weeks ago There was a letter to the editor of the Telegraph last Friday which I read with some interest. Written by MP Elizabeth Truss, Education and Child Care Minister, it had the heading...
Reclaiming America’s Religious—and Christian—Culture
Crisis Magazine - Church - 3 months 2 weeks ago Often today, we hear of Christians and other religious people engaged in struggles in the U.S. just to be able to project expressions of their faith into the public domain. Thus,...
The Importance of Stan Musial’s Funeral Mass
Crisis Magazine - Church - 3 months 2 weeks ago Stan Musial passed away on January 19, 2013 at 92 years of age. His wife of nearly 72 years died the previous year. Thousands of friends filed through the Cathedral Basilica in...
Victory’s Spoils: The Edict of Milan
Crisis Magazine - Church - 3 months 2 weeks ago G. K. Chesterton was a master at making plain the paradoxical character of Christianity. He knew that to stray too far to one side or another was to leave the path of orthodoxy...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 04/02/13
Catholic Herald - 3 months 2 weeks ago Jesus did not come to seek approval but to “give testimony to the truth”, Benedict XVI said in his Angelus address yesterday (video).
CDF prefect Archbishop Gerhard Müller gave...
Obama: Boy Scouts should permit homosexual scoutmasters
Catholic Culture - World News - 3 months 2 weeks ago In a pre-Super Bowl interview, President Barack Obama urged the Boy Scouts of America to permit homosexuals to serve as scoutmasters.
"My attitude is ... that gays and lesbians...
Putin: Church should have greater role in Russian life
Catholic Culture - World News - 3 months 2 weeks ago President Vladimir Putin has called for a greater role for Russian Orthodoxy "and other traditional religions" in Russian life.
"While preserving the secular nature of our state,...
USCCB, 4 Protestant communities agree to recognize one another's baptisms
Catholic Culture - World News - 3 months 2 weeks ago Representatives of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Presbyterian Church-USA, the Christian Reformed Church in North America, the Reformed Church in America,...
French legislature votes in favor of same-sex marriage
Catholic Culture - World News - 3 months 2 weeks ago In a 249-97 initial vote, France's National Assembly has voted to legalize same-sex marriage and adoption by homosexual couples. The vote follows a massive January 13 protest...
Cardinal Mahony: 'nothing in my own background' prepared me to deal with abuse of minors
Catholic Culture - World News - 3 months 2 weeks ago A day after Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles announced that he had relieved his predecessor, Cardinal Roger Mahony, of all administrative and public duties, Cardinal Mahony...
Vatican official thinks Philadelphia meeting will be key for families
EWTN - Vatican News - 3 months 2 weeks ago Vatican City, Feb 4, 2013 / 04:15 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
The head of the Vatican council for the family believes that the 2015 gathering in Philadelphia will be an important moment...
Culture and Theology: Ask Fr. Barron—Music and Piety
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - 3 months 2 weeks ago This week's "Ask Father Barron" question comes from Paige Rees of the musical group L'Angelus. Paige wondered about music and the impact it can have on our personal piety, and...