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Vatican Criticized for “Cowardly” Statement After Court Says Hospital Can Kill Charlie Gard
LifeNews.com - Jun 30, 2017 at 5:20 pm On Friday, the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life issued a rather curious statement on the sad case of British baby Charlie Gard. Gard has effectively been sentenced to die by...
Catholic Spirit nets 10 national awards for 2016 stories, photos
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Jun 30, 2017 at 5:09 pm The Catholic Spirit won 10 Catholic Press Association awards June 23, including first place for a special supplement on a bishop’s transition. Catholic Spirit staff photographer...
United Nations Human Rights Committee Pressures Ireland to Legalize Abortion
LifeNews.com - Jun 30, 2017 at 5:07 pm A recent decision handed down by the United Nations Human Rights Committee (CCPR) has once again condemned Ireland for maintaining laws that protect the right to life for the...
Is Virginia about to execute a man with a serious mental illness?
Catholic News Agency - General - Jun 30, 2017 at 5:01 pm Richmond, Va., Jun 30, 2017 / 04:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- William Morva is scheduled to be executed in Virginia on July 6.
He has been convicted of murdering an unarmed security...
The research is in: Fathers are not replaceable
Aleteia - Jun 30, 2017 at 5:00 pm The stable presence of dads in their children's lives greatly enhances their behavior, personality, and happiness.Science has begun to look more closely at the father figure,...
ASK FATHER: Why are “ad orientem” and Communion on the tongue preferable?
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jun 30, 2017 at 4:56 pm From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
I am a convert to the faith 27 years ago and was just recently ordained a permanent Deacon. I am curios as to why celebrating the mass ad orientum and...
Pathos, Bathos, and Euthanasia
Commonweal - Jun 30, 2017 at 4:30 pm Pathos, Bathos, and Euthanasia
By Gilbert MeilaenderJune 30, 2017
At its best Roman Catholic piety can be enormously powerful. It offers what we may call a way of affirmation—a...
Religious sisters seek to promote consecrated life in new project
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Jun 30, 2017 at 4:28 pm Sister Carolyn Puccio said her role will be promoting the life and work of local religious sisters year-round — especially to young women — and partnering with appropriate...
‘A servant’s heart’ | State of Missouri recognizes and honors Cadet Thomas Surdyke’s final act of heroism
Saint Louis Review - St. Louis News - Jun 30, 2017 at 4:04 pm Dave Luecking | daveluecking@archstl.org
"No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends."
— John 15:13
State representative Elaine Gannon...
Sharing the Word for July 1, 2017
Franciscan Media - Jun 30, 2017 at 4:00 pm Saturday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time
July 01, 2017
Daily Reading from the USCCB: Genesis 8:1-15
https://www.franciscanmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/SW_062511_I.mp3...
A Catholic Wife and Mother on Living Chastely in Marriage and in the Single Life
Big C Catholics - Jun 30, 2017 at 3:40 pm Detail, The Marriage of the Virgin, Raphael, 1504, Pinacoteca di Brera. In the words of Saint John Paul II “Chastity is a difficult, long term matter; one must wait patiently for...
Twitter blocked pro-life ads: ultrasounds, investigations of Planned Parenthood are too offensive
LifeSiteNews - Jun 30, 2017 at 3:40 pm Live Action reached out to the social media company to find a solution but was rebuffed.
Delegates to Kitui say cultural exchange, faith sharing are partnership’s benefits
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Jun 30, 2017 at 3:19 pm “The people of the Diocese of Kitui that we meet have tremendous faith [and] have tremendous capacity to build their own future,” said Mike Haasl, the Center for Mission’s global...
Scare quotes aside, latest takedown -- er, takeout -- on Texas adoption law could be worse
GetReligion - Jun 30, 2017 at 3:00 pm Here.
We.
Go.
Again.
Texas' new adoption law, set to take effect Sept. 1, is back in the news — this time via the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Gay rights vs. religious liberty is, of...
Enthronement of the New Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Eparch of Chicago
New Liturgical Movement - Jun 30, 2017 at 3:00 pm Yesterday, on the feast of Ss Peter and Paul, the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Eparchy of Chicago celebrated the enthronement of its new Eparch, Bishop Venedykt Aleksiychuk, who has...
New UN Database Pressures Countries on Abortion
LifeSiteNews - Jun 30, 2017 at 2:30 pm WHO’s description of the project makes clear it is meant as a political advocacy tool to eliminate legal restrictions intended to protect children in the womb.
Daily Readings for Saturday, July 01, 2017
Catholic Online - Featured News - Jun 30, 2017 at 2:25 pm Reading 1: Genesis 18:1-15, Responsorial Psalm: Luke 1:46-50, Responsorial Psalm: Luke 1:53-55, Gospel: Matthew 8:5-17
Prayer of the Chalice: Prayer of the Day for Saturday, July 01, 2017
Catholic Online - Featured News - Jun 30, 2017 at 2:25 pm Father, to Thee I raise my whole being,
a vessel emptied of self.
Accept Lord, this my emptiness,
and so fill me with Thyself,
Thy Light, ...
Woman with Down syndrome tells Irish politicians: ‘Say yes to our lives’
LifeSiteNews - Jun 30, 2017 at 2:25 pm Karen Gaffney gave a powerful witness that everyone, whether perfect or flawed, has a right to be born.
Independence Day
Catholic Hot Dish - Jun 30, 2017 at 2:24 pm
July 4th is our greatest civic holiday. It commemorates the unanimous Declaration of Independence of the thirteen colonies that comprised the United States of America in General...
