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Parents of Identical Twins With Down Syndrome: It’s “Heartbreaking” So Many Babies With Down Syndrome are Aborted
LifeNews.com - Mar 30, 2017 at 5:40 pm There’s just something special about twins.
But no one can blame Jodi and Matt Parry for thinking that their twin daughters are extra special – and not just for the usual reasons...
Planned Parenthood Can Break the Law, But Undercover Journalists Can’t Expose It
LifeNews.com - Mar 30, 2017 at 5:34 pm One of the quickest moral tests for a person or a society is what’s tolerated and what’s considered taboo. In California, the state’s attorney general is failing that test with...
Dutch Doctors Won’t Euthanize Healthy Patients Who Just Think They’re “At the End of Life”
LifeNews.com - Mar 30, 2017 at 5:25 pm Last October we reported that the Dutch government were planning to expand their euthanasia law to include people who are not physically or psychologically suffering but who...
Saint John Climacus, Abbot
Regina Magazine - Mar 30, 2017 at 5:18 pm March 30 Today is the feast day of Saint John Climacus. Ora pro nobis. Saint John Climacus was also surnamed SCHOLASTICUS, and THE SINAITA. He was born doubtlessly in Syria...
These nuns make high-end quilts (PHOTOS)
Aleteia - Mar 30, 2017 at 5:00 pm The amount of prayer involved in creating this beautiful bedding practically guarantees a serene and peaceful sleep.In Verdun, where one of the longest battles of World War I took...
Good Friday collection could help new partner, Damascus archdiocese
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Mar 30, 2017 at 4:51 pm Archbishop Nassar of Damascus has also shared stories of the Church’s suffering members. He said that one man told him, “I have no home and I have lost all my family. I do not...
12 Years After They Starved My Sister to Death, We Must Never Forget Terri Schiavo
LifeNews.com - Mar 30, 2017 at 4:42 pm Every year, I write to honor my sister, Terri Schiavo, on March 31st, the anniversary of her death, and reflect on the state of our nation when it comes to the treatment of our...
Raising the Dead in Lent
New Liturgical Movement - Mar 30, 2017 at 4:42 pm Before the early eighth century, the church of Rome kept the Thursdays of Lent (with the obvious exception of Holy Thursday) and the Saturdays after Ash Wednesday and Passion...
Pence casts tiebreaking vote as Senate advances pro-life measure
Catholic News Agency - General - Mar 30, 2017 at 4:27 pm Washington D.C., Mar 30, 2017 / 03:27 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Vice President Mike Pence cast the deciding vote in the Senate Thursday to advance a measure allowing states to once...
Archbishop Hebda: Goal is ‘fair compensation as soon possible’ for victims
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Mar 30, 2017 at 4:26 pm In a March 26 letter and video statement to local Catholics, Archbishop Bernard Hebda said that the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis is hoping to soon resolve its Chapter...
Obsessed with Youth and Beauty?
Journey of a Catholic Nerd Writer - Mar 30, 2017 at 4:23 pm Although my birthday is still (exactly) 2 months away, I've been thinking about what I want to do to celebrate... and, apparently, it's weird to see because I shouldn't be excited...
Prayer for the Home: Prayer of the Day for Friday, March 31, 2017
Catholic Online - Featured News - Mar 30, 2017 at 4:02 pm Visit, we beseech Thee, O Lord, this dwelling, and drive far from it all snares of the enemy; let Thy holy Angels dwell herein, to preserve us in ...
Daily Readings for Friday, March 31, 2017
Catholic Online - Featured News - Mar 30, 2017 at 4:02 pm Reading 1: Wisdom 2:12-22, Reading 1: Wisdom 2:1, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 34:17-21, Gospel: John 7:1-2, Gospel: John 7:10, Gospel: John 7:25-30
Don't believe in hell? You haven't seen Syria lately, cardinal says
Catholic News Agency - General - Mar 30, 2017 at 4:02 pm Rome, Italy, Mar 30, 2017 / 03:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Six years after the start of the Civil War, Syria's apostolic nuncio said that the country is in a “bloodbath” – a situation...
Sharing the Word for March 31, 2017
Franciscan Media - Mar 30, 2017 at 4:00 pm Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent
March 31, 2017
Daily Reading from the USCCB: Wisdom 2:1a, 12-22
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Madonna King’s book Being 14 discusses challenges for teenage girls
The Catholic Leader - Mar 30, 2017 at 4:00 pm THE world of 14-year-old girls has been detailed by a well-known Brisbane journalist who says “expectation inflation” is placing serious pressure on young women. Madonna King, who...
Alberta education minister clashes with opposing party leader over gay-straight clubs
LifeSiteNews - Mar 30, 2017 at 3:57 pm David Eggen bashed Progressive Conservative Jason Kenney an 'extremist' for defending parental rights.
Recent Prisoner Free Exercise Cases
The Religion Clause - Mar 30, 2017 at 3:47 pm In Crawley v. Parsons, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 36572 (WD VA, March 14, 2017), a Virginia federal district court allowed an inmate who was a member of the House of Yahweh faith to...
Satanic ritual abuse back in the news, only now these claims are being met with skepticism
GetReligion - Mar 30, 2017 at 3:33 pm Satanic ritual abuse is back in the news, but this time around the press is doing a much better job in reporting on allegations that secret covens of satanists are abusing and...
