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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...