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Tomorrowland Get Awesomer
Creative Minority Report - Apr 22, 2015 at 9:54 am Every succesive trailer for this movie makes me want to see it more!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNzukD8pS_s*subhead*Cray Cray.*subhead*
Bay Area Mass Mob: Make a Miracle Happen
CatholicMom.com - Apr 22, 2015 at 9:50 am What’s a Mass Mob? Quite simply, it’s a huge group of Catholics coming together at one Mass to pray with a very special intention in mind. Today we’re sharing information about a...
Pope to visit Cuba in September
News.va - Apr 22, 2015 at 9:25 am (Vatican Radio) The Director of the Holy See Press Office, Father Federico Lombardi, SJ, has confirmed that Pope Francis will visit Cuba ahead of his visit to the United States in...
Doctor Told Them to Starve Their Baby Starve to Death Because He’d Die Shortly After Birth
LifeNews.com - Apr 22, 2015 at 9:24 am The Hippocratic Oath is perhaps the most widely known of Greek medical texts. It requires a new physician to swear that he will uphold a number of professional ethical standards....
Priest found murdered in outskirts of Rome
Catholic Herald - Apr 22, 2015 at 9:00 am Italian military police are investigating the murder of a 60-year-old priest and theologian, who taught at two pontifical universities in Rome.
According to media reports, Fr...
Lay minister wearing a deacon stole?
The Deacon's Bench - Apr 22, 2015 at 8:59 am A deacon reader passed this along (h/t to Clayton Nickel!) This question popped up at Zenit and is answered by Fr. Edward McNamara: Q: In Vietnam, the Eucharistic minister wears a...
New Study Confirms Free Morning After Pill Increases STDs, Fails to Cut Pregnancy Rate
LifeNews.com - Apr 22, 2015 at 8:44 am Half of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended. One might therefore assume that making the morning-after pill (MAP) more widely accessible would cut the unplanned...
MAGNIFICAT: The week ahead
Catholic Herald - Apr 22, 2015 at 8:38 am “The world is redeemed by the patience of God. It is destroyed by the impatience of man.” These words of Benedict XVI are quoted in MAGNIFICAT’s Lectio Divina this week,...
The Pope on Earth Day
Commonweal - Apr 22, 2015 at 8:33 am Zenit reports on the pope’s earth day message:
“I exhort everyone to see the world through the eyes of God the Creator," the Pope said, namely that "the earth is an environment to...
Scandalous Commencement Honors Announced at Eight Catholic Colleges
Catholic Education Daily - Apr 22, 2015 at 8:33 am At least eight Catholic colleges have announced scandalous speakers or honorees at their 2015 commencement ceremonies, according to The Cardinal Newman Society’s annual review of...
Vatican Council: More Than Ever, There's Space for Dialogue With Muslims
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Apr 22, 2015 at 8:21 am A statement released today by the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue affirms that there is still space for dialogue with Muslims and that religions should never become...
Confirmed: Pope to visit Cuba on way to U.S.
The Deacon's Bench - Apr 22, 2015 at 8:20 am From AP: Pope Francis will visit Cuba before arriving in the United States in the last week of September, the Vatican said Wednesday. The Vatican spokesman, Rev. Federico...
Two interesting women
Feminine Genius - Apr 22, 2015 at 8:15 am Sashimani Devi was the last of the ritual temple dancers, whose vocation stems back to the 12th century. At the age of three. she was left at the temple by her parents, and the...
Priest Encourages Parishioners to Pack Heat, Badly Mixes Metaphor
Creative Minority Report - Apr 22, 2015 at 8:06 am "We're not in Mayberry Anymore, Toto." A priest in Ann Arbor Michigan handed out a pro-gun ownership letter to parishioners entitled, "We're Not in Mayberry Anymore, Toto" which...
'Sordid' quotes by Charles Stanley? RNS doesn't get it sordid out
GetReligion - Apr 22, 2015 at 8:00 am
No award for Charles Stanley from the Jewish National Fund tomorrow. Not because he doesn't want it, or because they changed their minds. But because a gay Jewish group pressured...
All about the camera
Feminine Genius - Apr 22, 2015 at 7:55 am Patti McGuire Armstrong has written a thoughtful piece comparing the apparent narcissism of Kim Kardashian with a selfless Catholic priest. Before we write off the selfie-queen...
The shiny sewer for girls
Feminine Genius - Apr 22, 2015 at 7:39 am There is an excellent piece by Dawn Hawkins on the harms of Cosmo, which is [surprise] geared to very young girls, not women (the 18-24 claim is shown to be false by the...
Vatican spokesman confirms papal visit to Cuba ahead of US visit
EWTN - Vatican News - Apr 22, 2015 at 7:34 am Vatican City, Apr 22, 2015 / 07:34 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
Fr. Federico Lombardi S.J. confirmed to journalists today that Pope Francis will make a pastoral stop in Cuba ahead of his...
