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WaPo: Mom Who Smacked Rioting Son Is In League with White Supremacists
Creative Minority Report - May 1, 2015 at 8:26 am Stacey Patton, a professor of American History at American University, wrote the stupidest thing I've read in the Washington Post in quite a long time. How could they publish this...
Pope Francis Address to the Community of Christian Life
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - May 1, 2015 at 8:23 am Yesterday, Pope Francis received, in the Paul VI Hall, the Community of Christian Life (CVX) and the Students’ Missionary League, on the occasion of the opening of the Italian...
Pope Expresses Condolences on Death of Cardinal Giovanni Canestri
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - May 1, 2015 at 8:16 am Pope Francis expressed his condolences following the death of Cardinal Giovanni Canestri, Archbishop Emeritus of Genova. He passed away several months before his 97thbirthday....
Rural hospitals struggle to stay open, adapt to changes - KPLC 7 News, Lake Charles, Louisiana
Catholic Morality - May 1, 2015 at 8:07 am According to the AP story: "A total of 50 hospitals in the rural U.S. have closed since 2010, and the pace has been accelerating, with more closures in the past two years than in...
Church on the street: New York Times shows ministers trying to calm Baltimore
GetReligion - May 1, 2015 at 8:00 am Church leaders have popped in and out of coverage of the current riots in Baltimore. The New York Times, however, spotlights their brave -- though inconclusive as yet -- efforts...
I Need Some Terms Defined
Creative Minority Report - May 1, 2015 at 7:56 am I honestly have a quick question about the whole Bruce Jenner thing. One, it was hilarious that the interviewer was more shocked that Jenner said he was a right-leaning Christian...
Trollope's Perspicacity
Commonweal - May 1, 2015 at 7:47 am I have a good friend who religiously reads or re-reads a Trollope novel every summer. Sluggard that I am, I have not read one since pre-pre-Kindle college days. That may now...
St. Joseph the Worker Feast Day
Virtual St. Joseph Altar - May 1, 2015 at 7:32 am Happy Saint Joseph the Worker Feast Day.St. Joseph rates two special days in the Church year: The Feast of St. Joseph, Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary -- March 19, Solemnity,...
House Passes Bill to Stop Forcing Pro-Life Groups to Hire Abortion Activists
LifeNews.com - May 1, 2015 at 7:15 am Late Thursday night, the House of House of Representatives passed a bill to stop a measure the District of Columbia approved that would force pro-life groups to hire abortion...
“Beauty and Tradition in the ‘Church of the Poor’ ” - An Interesting Article on Catholic World Report
New Liturgical Movement - May 1, 2015 at 7:05 am Abbot Nicholas Zachariadis and Benjamin Mann, who are both members of an Eastern Catholic monastery, Holy Resurrection in Saint Nazianz, Wisconsin, have recently published an...
Meatless Friday: Garlic Shrimp with Peppers and Onions
CatholicMom.com - May 1, 2015 at 7:00 am
One of the best things you can keep in your freezer is a bag of frozen, deveined shrimp. I buy them when they go on sale. It’s easy to take out as many as are needed for a...
ASK FATHER: Sanation of Protestant marriage without dispensation
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - May 1, 2015 at 6:44 am From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
Thank you Father for your great blog! Are there situations where it would be appropriate to get a marriage regularised as a natural marriage even though...
Joseph/Jesus the Worker
Dominicana - May 1, 2015 at 6:30 am Hanging on the wall in my childhood home was a simple image of Joseph the carpenter, working with a plane on a piece of wood. My dad for most of his life was also a carpenter,...
Six years after Notre Dame speech, Obama's 'common ground' claim questioned
EWTN - US Latest News - May 1, 2015 at 6:23 am South Bend, Ind., May 1, 2015 / 06:23 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Knights of Columbus head Carl Anderson questioned the Obama
Administration's policies in a speech at Notre Dame...
San Fran archdiocese praises Catholic school teachers, rejects 'inflammatory' reports
EWTN - US Latest News - May 1, 2015 at 6:22 am San Francisco, Calif., May 1, 2015 / 06:22 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- The Archdiocese of San Francisco has stressed its "greatest admiration
and respect" for those working in Catholic...
9th Cirucit Upholds Ban on Christmas Display In Palisades Park
The Religion Clause - May 1, 2015 at 6:18 am In Santa Monica Nativity Scenes Committee v. City of Santa Monica, (9th Cir., April 30, 2015), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected free speech and Establishment Clause...
Pope Francis addresses Milan Expo inauguration
News.va - May 1, 2015 at 6:10 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Friday participated in the opening ceremony of the 2015 edition of the Milan Expo – the Universal Exhibition that the northern Italian city of...
Satanic Temple Member Claims State RFRA Exemption To Missouri's Abortion Waiting Period
The Religion Clause - May 1, 2015 at 6:10 am Friendly Atheist reports this week on plans by a member of the Satanic Temple to challenge Missouri's requirement for a 72-hour waiting period for abortions by asserting a...
USCIRF Issues 2015 Annual Report
The Religion Clause - May 1, 2015 at 6:05 am The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom yesterday released its 2015 Annual Report (full text) (press release). The Report, mandated by the International Religious...
Where Does the Time Go?
CatholicMom.com - May 1, 2015 at 6:00 am
Yesterday, I sat down at my computer to work on a writing project. First, I closed all my social media windows then I put my smartphone and iPad well out of reach. I opened my...
