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Vatican Celebrating Pope's Name Day
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Apr 23, 2015 at 8:06 am Offices in the Vatican are marking today's feast of St. George (Jorge in Spanish) with celebration, as it is the feast day of Pope Francis' baptismal saint. Pope Francis was born...
'Reproductive Rights' Speech Fails at UN Commission on Population and Development
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Apr 23, 2015 at 7:56 am Push for SRHR Derailed at UN CPD Meeting The 48th Session of the Commission on Population and Development (CPD), ended last Friday and was viewed as one of the last ...
Jesuits overhaul leadership of the Pontifical Oriental Institute
Catholic Herald - Apr 23, 2015 at 7:52 am The superior general of the Jesuits has replaced the leadership of the Pontifical Oriental Institute, a graduate school in Rome for students specialising in the study of Eastern...
Parish cancels pig wrestling competition after backlash
The Deacon's Bench - Apr 23, 2015 at 7:50 am In Wisconsin: St. Patrick Parish in Stephensville has called off its decades-old annual pig wrestling event following animal cruelty accusations. It is instead planning a new...
Vocations Discernment Group: Year of Consecrated Life
Diocese of Westminster - Apr 23, 2015 at 7:39 am Pope Francis has declared 2015 a year dedicated to the celebration and promotion of consecrated life in the Church.
Here in Westminster Diocese, we are marking The Year for...
Muslim man killed by ISIS ‘gave his life in solidarity with a Christian friend’
Catholic Herald - Apr 23, 2015 at 7:35 am A Muslim man who was murdered by ISIS militants on the beach in Libya had given his life so as not to abandon a Christian friend, according to the Pontifical Institute for Foreign...
Small Success Thursday: A Screen-Free Day
CatholicMom.com - Apr 23, 2015 at 7:00 am
Today, I turned off the television, and the DS and the Xbox and the Kindles, the iPhone and the computer. (Not all day, let’s not get crazy). But I noticed these had become the...
Video Suggestion: "Archbishop Lefebvre - A Documentary" online
Rorate Coeli - Apr 23, 2015 at 6:51 am From a reader:
Many are aware of the role of French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre as the consecrator of bishops in the events that took place in Écône, Switzerland, on June 30, 1988...
Can the rosary defeat one of the world’s deadliest terror groups?
Catholic Herald - Apr 23, 2015 at 6:30 am Bishop Oliver Dashe Doeme is a Nigerian prelate who reports that Jesus appeared to him in a vision offering him a rosary and saying the words, “Boko Haram is gone.”
The bishop...
The Gift of Being
Dominicana - Apr 23, 2015 at 6:30 am If something is truly good, it’s better when it actually exists. I don’t think it’s controversial to say, then, that existence is good. Simple example: fried chicken, collard...
Galveston-Houston's vicar for clergy tapped to lead Victoria diocese
EWTN - Vatican News - Apr 23, 2015 at 6:23 am Vatican City, Apr 23, 2015 / 06:23 am (EWTN News).- The Vatican announced Thursday that Fr. Brendan Cahill, Vicar for Clergy
in the archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, has been...
Galveston-Houston's vicar for clergy tapped to lead Victoria diocese
Catholic News Agency - General - Apr 23, 2015 at 6:23 am Vatican City, Apr 23, 2015 / 05:23 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Vatican announced Thursday that Fr. Brendan Cahill, Vicar for Clergy in the archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, has been...
Employment Discrimination Suit Dismissed On Ministerial Exception Grounds
The Religion Clause - Apr 23, 2015 at 6:15 am In Preece v. The Covenant Presbyterian Church, (D NE, April 22, 2015), a Nebraska federal district court held that the ministerial exception doctrine requires dismissal of...
County Council Prayer Policy May Limit Invocations To Local Clergy
The Religion Clause - Apr 23, 2015 at 6:10 am In Coleman v. Hamilton County, Tennessee, (ED TN, April 22, 2015), a Tennessee federal district court upheld the prayer policy of the Hamilton County, Tennessee Commission. The...
Obama Urged To Appoint Near East Religious Freedom Envoy
The Religion Clause - Apr 23, 2015 at 6:05 am Last year Congress passed and the President signed the Near East and South Central Asia Religious Freedom Act which provides that the President may appoint a Special Envoy to...
Tech Talk: Making the Switch
CatholicMom.com - Apr 23, 2015 at 6:00 am
I’m looking ahead to December, when it’ll be time to “upgrade” the cell phones. Last time we upgraded, I traded in my iPhone 4 for an Android phone.
There was a learning curve:...
Plaintiffs Say LA County Continues To Use Seal With Cross In Violation of Agreement
The Religion Clause - Apr 23, 2015 at 6:00 am According to the Los Angeles Times,, yesterday a group of Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders in Los Angeles filed papers in federal court alleging that Los Angeles County is...
Academy joins anti-trafficking fight
Franciscan Media - Apr 23, 2015 at 6:00 am
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- For an international group of researchers and
scholars, serving at the pleasure of popes had meant producing lots of
papers on important topics. But with...
Bishop Braxton frames approach to talking about U.S. racial divide
Franciscan Media - Apr 23, 2015 at 6:00 am
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Building a public address around his pastoral letter
on the racial divide in the United States, Bishop Edward K. Braxton of
Belleville, Illinois, asked his...
Belgian primate plans to live with new religious community upon retirement
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 23, 2015 at 5:40 am Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard of Mechelen-Brussels, the primate of Belgium since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010, has announced that upon his retirement, if his...
