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Sex Club Evades Zoning Restrictions By Becoming A Church
The Religion Clause - Apr 24, 2015 at 6:00 am The Washington Post yesterday published a lengthy and fascinating account of a Nashville, Tennessee swingers sex club that has apparently gotten around a number of zoning hurdles...
'48 Hours,' 'NY Med' among 20 Christopher Award winners
Franciscan Media - Apr 24, 2015 at 6:00 am
NEW YORK (CNS) -- The newsmagazine "48 Hours" and the documentary series
"NY Med" are among 20 Christopher Awards winners announced April 21 by
the Christophers, which is rooted...
Archdiocese of New York seeks eyewitnesses to Dorothy Day’s life
Franciscan Media - Apr 24, 2015 at 6:00 am The Archdiocese of New York is looking for a few good eyewitnesses to the life of Catholic Worker co-founder and justice advocate Dorothy Day.
Its Dorothy Day Guild
is soliciting...
English churchgoers send clothes to 35,000 Iraqi refugees
Catholic Herald - Apr 24, 2015 at 5:51 am A churchgoer in Brighton has collected enough clothes to help 35,000 Iraqi refugees after seeing distressing footage of what had happened to the people displaced by the Islamic...
Report: Pope to criticize Argentine hierarchy's actions during dictatorship
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 24, 2015 at 5:46 am Pope Francis said recently that he has ordered the opening of the Vatican Archives to shed light on the Church's actions during the Argentine military dictatorship (1976-83),...
A century after Gallipoli, the Turks are now our friends
Catholic Herald - Apr 24, 2015 at 5:32 am Today is the day when the world remembers, or rather ought to remember, the Armenian Genocide. Various commemorations have been taking place in Yerevan, the capital of present-day...
Vatican cardinal visits Cuba
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 24, 2015 at 5:30 am Cardinal Beniamino Stella, the prefect for the Congregation for the Clergy, has begun a five-day visit to Cuba ahead, the Spanish news agency EFE reported.
The Holy See Press...
Pope Francis: our faith is an encounter with Jesus
News.va - Apr 24, 2015 at 5:25 am
(Vatican Radio) Jesus never forgets the day we encountered Him for the first time; we should ask God for the “grace of memory” so that we can always remember it. That was the...
Holy See participates in UN debate on youth radicalization
News.va - Apr 24, 2015 at 5:25 am (Vatican Radio) The Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the Holy See, Archbishop Bernardito Auza, has participated in a United Nations Security Council Open Debate on “The role of...
Armenian genocide beckons for a new start in Turkey, historian says
EWTN - World Catholic News - Apr 24, 2015 at 5:23 am Rome, Italy, Apr 24, 2015 / 05:23 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- On the day marking 100 years since the systematic killing of over a
million Armenians at the hands of Ottoman authorities, a...
Leader, son, friend: Cardinal George remembered through the eyes of his superior
Catholic News Agency - General - Apr 24, 2015 at 5:23 am Chicago, Ill., Apr 24, 2015 / 04:23 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A strong leader, yet humble. Approachable, yet not preoccupied with a desire to be liked. A high-ranking prelate and...
Leader, son, friend: Cardinal George remembered through the eyes of his superior
EWTN - US Latest News - Apr 24, 2015 at 5:23 am Chicago, Ill., Apr 24, 2015 / 05:23 am (EWTN News).-
A strong leader, yet humble. Approachable, yet not preoccupied with a desire to be liked. A high-ranking prelate and...
Italy: priest arrested for murder
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 24, 2015 at 5:22 am Father Gratien Alabi, a Congolese priest who ministers in Arezzo, Italy, has been arrested on charges of murdering and concealing the corpse of Guerrina Piscaglia in May ...
Al-Qaeda suspects plotted to attack Vatican, police say
Catholic Herald - Apr 24, 2015 at 5:18 am Italian terrorism investigators have said that a group of al-Qaeda suspects arrested this week may have been planning an attack on the Vatican.
Cagliari chief prosecutor Mauro...
On the Centenary of the Armenian Genocide, set in place by Turkish authorities
Rorate Coeli - Apr 24, 2015 at 5:18 am Armenians executed by Ottoman authorities in Aleppo, 1916(Aleppo, where Christians are being exterminated once again 100 years later)This is my commandment, that you love one...
Daily Gospel Reflection for April 24, 2015
CatholicMom.com - Apr 24, 2015 at 5:00 am
Today’s Gospel: John 6:52-59
Optional Memorial of Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Priest and Martyr
Drinking the blood of animals was strictly forbidden in the Old Testament (Lev....
Colombian bishops lament euthanasia protocol
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 24, 2015 at 4:59 am In response to an order from the nation's high court, the Colombian government has issued regulations permitting terminally ill adults to choose physician-assisted suicide....
President Obama welcomes Pope's �expression of views' on Armenian genocide
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 24, 2015 at 4:46 am A century after the beginning of the Armenian genocide, President Barack Obama issued a statement noting that "the Armenian people of the Ottoman Empire were deported, massacred,...
Archbishop Peter Sartain's Homily at Funeral of Cardinal Francis George
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Apr 24, 2015 at 4:44 am Here is the text of the homily delivered by Archbishop Peter Sartain of Seattle during the funeral of Cardinal Francis George, Archbishop Emeritus of Chicago. * * *
As a pastor...
Activists, congressmen prod Obama on religion envoy
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 24, 2015 at 4:24 am Following a vote of 402-22 in the House of Representatives and a voice vote in the Senate, President Barack Obama signed the Near East and South Central Asia Religious Freedom Act...
