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February 3, 2013
WDTPRS POLL: 3 February St. Blaise Day Blessing of Throats
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - 3 months 2 weeks ago Our liturgical calendar is packed with wonderful opportunties for spiritual benefits.
Today there is a special blessing for candles (not just yesterday!) in honor of St. Blaise...
Shop pulls “Virgin Mary crisps” after complaints
The Deacon's Bench - 3 months 2 weeks ago From London: Coffee and sandwich chain Pret A Manger has withdrawn its ‘Virgin Mary’ brand of crisps after a flurry of religious complaints. The coffee-shop made the costly...
Nebraska Pro-Life Group Boycotts GOP Dinner Over Komen Ties
LifeNews.com - 3 months 2 weeks ago The statewide pro-life group in Nebraska is boycotting a Republican dinner because of the dinner’s ties to the Komen for the Cure breast cancer foundation, which provides funding...
Obama Admin Has Lost 10 of 14 HHS Abortion Mandate Decisionscis
LifeNews.com - 3 months 2 weeks ago Leave it to the federal government to issue an 80-page document that could have been summed up in two words: nothing’s changed. Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human...
Pro-life groups care for mothers in crisis pregnancies
Catholic News Agency - General - 3 months 2 weeks ago Washington D.C., Feb 3, 2013 / 04:03 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Organizations that offer pro-life aid for women facing difficult pregnancies stressed that there are both resources and...
Bishop John D'Arcy, 1923-2013
OSV Daily Take - 3 months 2 weeks ago by Gregory Erlandson, Our Sunday Visitor Publisher
Bishop John D’Arcy, chairman of the Board of Directors of Our Sunday Visitor and bishop of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend...
IRS Admits Obamacare’s Cost is $20,000 Per Family
LifeNews.com - 3 months 2 weeks ago Participating in ObamaCare will cost the average American family at least $20,000 per year!
The IRS (which is charged with enforcing the onerous penalties and fines of the...
Conservatives Will Not be Quiet When it Comes to Abortion
LifeNews.com - 3 months 2 weeks ago After Mitt Romney and the Republican party lost the presidential election last November, numerous voices from the right side of the aisle have come forward to urge the party to...
New Invention Could Help Reduce Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
LifeNews.com - 3 months 2 weeks ago Sudden infant death syndrome, also known as crib death, is responsible for the deaths of 7000 infants a year. Now a new invention has been made that might drastically reduce this...
Pod people: Making progress on abortion coverage
GetReligion - 3 months 2 weeks ago In this week’s Crossroads podcast, host Todd Wilken and I discussed the good and bad of March for Life coverage. You can listen to it here. We revisited some of the themes we...
Reproductive Justice? Not for Men Hurt By Abortion
LifeNews.com - 3 months 2 weeks ago In recent years, there’s been a lot of buzz about “reproductive justice” in the media and in political discourse. For those not familiar with the phrase, here is a definition...
No Truer Statement
Socon or Bust - 3 months 2 weeks ago “Human histoory is the long terrible story of a man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.”
C.S. Lewis
NFL Publishes Copyright Guidelines For Church Super Bowl Viewing Parties
The Religion Clause - 3 months 2 weeks ago With the Super Bowl about to begin, it should be noted that again this year the NFL has issued Guidelines to prevent copyright infringement by churches that are hosting viewing...
Families re-evangelized through Catholic schools
Catholic News Agency - General - 3 months 2 weeks ago Anchorage, Alaska, Feb 3, 2013 / 01:12 pm (CNA).- In societies that have largely forgotten or abandoned Christianity, Catholic schools are often seen as vital tools for...
The Brown Scapular: To Wear or Not to Wear
CatholicMom.com - 3 months 2 weeks ago The Brown Scapular
Since becoming Catholic I’ve collected just about every sacramental there is, but one that I’ve been holding out on is the scapular.
There are so many scapulars...
British Court For First Time Refers Marital Dispute For Arbitration By Jewish Religious Court
The Religion Clause - 3 months 2 weeks ago As reported by the Hodge Jones & Allen law firm, the English and Wales High Court (Family Division) last week handed down a judgment that for the first time in Britain...
Bells of Notre Dame
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Super Bowl: Ray Lewis is Ray Lewis — deal with it
GetReligion - 3 months 2 weeks ago I have said it before and I will say it again. I know that, as a rule, GetReligion readers care very little about what happens in the world of sports. Nevertheless, some of you...
How will this play in 2016?
dotCommonweal - 3 months 2 weeks ago Whatever Hillary Clinton’s long-term plans, some journalists are hyped for her presidential run. As she leaves the State Department, there will be leaks of instances when her...
Why I Trashed the Scale
CatholicMom.com - 3 months 2 weeks ago Why I Trashed the Scale
About six weeks ago I threw away my bathroom scale. I needed to for my mental health and emotional well-being. Like many people who are trying to lose...
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