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Suit Against Jeweler Says Employee Was Fired For Saying That Jews Killed Jesus
The Religion Clause - May 17, 2016 at 6:10 am The New York Daily News last week reported on a lawsuit filed in federal district court in Manhattan by a former marketing executive at the upscale jeweler, Tiffany & Co. ...
US Supreme Court seeks compromise over contraception mandate
Catholic Herald - May 17, 2016 at 6:05 am America’s Supreme Court has avoided making a definitive decision over the Obama administration’s rules for cost-free access to birth control, but has kept alive a legal challenge...
Court Places Control of Historic Touro Synagogue In Hands of Newport, Rhode Island Congregation
The Religion Clause - May 17, 2016 at 6:05 am Yesterday, in a 106 page opinion in Congregation Jeshuat Israel v. Congregation Shearith Israel, (D RI, May 16, 2016), a Rhode Island federal district court held that Newport,...
Book Review: Imitating Mary, Ten Marian Virtues for the Modern Mom
CatholicMom.com - May 17, 2016 at 6:00 am
It’s the month of May, the month of Mary our mother, the month of celebrating motherhood. So it seems an appropriate time to write a review on a book that has greatly inspired me...
Religious Organizations Challenge NY Regulator's Required Abortion Coverage
The Religion Clause - May 17, 2016 at 6:00 am In a May 10 press release, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, New York announced that it, along with the Episcopal Diocese and several other religious groups has filed suit in...
U.S. Supreme Court sends Zubik case back to lower courts
Franciscan Media - May 17, 2016 at 6:00 am WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The U.S. Supreme Court May 16 sent the Zubik v. Burwell case, which challenges the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive requirement for employers, back to the...
Ryan: People of faith must advocate for religious liberty
Franciscan Media - May 17, 2016 at 6:00 am WASHINGTON (CNS) -- People of faith have the responsibility to "advocate for their faith," not only through good works, but on spiritual realms -- one being through prayer, U.S....
Get Out of My Bedroom Government! But Please Make Rules About Bathrooms
Creative Minority Report - May 17, 2016 at 5:58 am For years we've been hearing screaming from leftists that the government should stay out of the bedroom. But now it's ok for the government to make laws about bathrooms? Please...
Martyrs, Memory, and a Papal-Photo Mystery
Commonweal - May 17, 2016 at 5:39 am The church of La Sagrada Familia in the Colonia Roma section of Mexico City is the de facto headquarters in the cause for the canonization of Miguel Pro, the Mexican Jesuit priest...
Holding on to Easter
Dominicana - May 17, 2016 at 5:30 am With the passing of Pentecost, the Church returns, in a sense, to business as usual. The fifty-day celebration that is the Easter season has come to a close, and we are back to...
Vatican cardinal calls for improved access to HIV treatment for children
Catholic Culture - World News - May 17, 2016 at 5:29 am Addressing religious and health care leaders who had gathered in Rome on May 16 to discuss children with HIV, Cardinal Peter Turkson called for improved “access to HIV treatment...
Pope reflects on priestly renewal
Catholic Culture - World News - May 17, 2016 at 5:17 am Pope Francis opened the meeting of the Italian Episcopal Conference on May 16 and reflected on the renewal of the priesthood.
“I do not wish to offer you a systematic reflection...
Polish rallies seek stronger protections for unborn children
EWTN - World Catholic News - May 17, 2016 at 5:02 am Warsaw, Poland, May 17, 2016 / 05:02 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Thousands of Polish pro-lifers have called on parliament to pass a bill that would further restrict abortion in the...
Caritas leader: South Sudanese crisis among worst in the world
Catholic Culture - World News - May 17, 2016 at 4:47 am The secretary-general of Caritas Internationalis, the Church’s confederation of relief and development agencies, lamented the effects of the South Sudanese Civil War, which began...
A tiara for each Pope
Vatican Insider - May 17, 2016 at 4:43 am It is a headdress that has characterised the papacy for centuries. Sometimes it has been ogive shaped, others rounded and wider at the top, surmounted by three crowns. It is the...
A tiara for every Pope
Vatican Insider - May 17, 2016 at 4:43 am It is a headdress that has characterised the papacy for centuries. Sometimes it has been ogive shaped, others rounded and wider at the top, surmounted by three crowns. It is the...
How the Little Sisters find joy despite their ongoing court case
EWTN - US Latest News - May 17, 2016 at 4:38 am Washington D.C., May 17, 2016 / 04:38 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- If you are a Christian, your life should not be a perpetual Lent – this
was the message of the communications director...
Daily Gospel Reflection for May 17, 2016
CatholicMom.com - May 17, 2016 at 4:30 am
Today’s Gospel: Mark 9, 30-37
I surprised my kids one morning with the announcement that we were going to Disney World after breakfast (one of the perks of Central Florida living...
SCOTUS Ruling on HHS Mandate Impacts Catholic Colleges
Catholic Education Daily - May 17, 2016 at 4:30 am The legal battle will continue for Catholic colleges and other religious nonprofits and institutions challenging the Obama administration’s contraception mandate following a...
Pope weighs in on Islam, embattled French cardinal, SSPX
Catholic Culture - World News - May 17, 2016 at 4:25 am In a wide-ranging interview with La Croix, Pope Francis discussed various issues facing the Church in France, as well as Islam and migration.
“I do not think there is now a fear...
