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FLDS Members Continue To Resist DOL Subpoenas On Religious Grounds
The Religion Clause - Jan 22, 2015 at 6:00 am Since 2013, the U.S. Department of Labor has been investigating whether federal child labor and wage and hour laws were violated in the 2012 harvest at the Southern Utah Pecan...
Court rules Catholic Church cannot use “Allah” in newspaper
The Deacon's Bench - Jan 22, 2015 at 5:52 am View image | gettyimages.com From Bloomberg: Malaysia’s top court dismissed a final bid by the Catholic church to use the word “Allah” in its newspaper, highlighting a debate on...
After papal trip, Filipino bishops feel 'new wind' of the Holy Spirit
EWTN - World Catholic News - Jan 22, 2015 at 5:42 am Manila, Philippines, Jan 22, 2015 / 05:42 pm (EWTN News).- The secretary general of the Filipino Bishops' Conference said the
people of the country have a renewed enthusiasm after...
NY Times: “Prominent Native Americans see Father Serra as far from saintly”
The Deacon's Bench - Jan 22, 2015 at 5:39 am Who didn’t see this controversy coming? Details: For generations, fourth graders in California’s schools, often with a parent’s touch, built models of church missions out of...
Nuncio says Christians could return to northern Iraq this year
Catholic Herald - Jan 22, 2015 at 5:38 am Archbishop Giorgio Lingua, the Apostolic Nuncio to Iraq, has said that Christians may be able to return to their homes in northern Iraq later this year – but only if Islamic State...
Pope Francis: Catholics, Lutherans in shared Christian witness
News.va - Jan 22, 2015 at 5:35 am
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis told an ecumenical delegation from Finland Thursday that Catholics and Lutherans can do much together “to bear witness to God’s mercy.” The...
Daily Gospel Reflection for January 22, 2015
CatholicMom.com - Jan 22, 2015 at 5:00 am
Today’s Gospel: Mark 3:7-12
Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children
Surely we can all relate to the way Jesus felt that afternoon, wanting to withdraw to a...
Cardinal: No pro-life victory without reaching the marginalized
EWTN - US Latest News - Jan 22, 2015 at 5:00 am Washington D.C., Jan 22, 2015 / 05:01 am (EWTN News/CNA).- For the pro-life movement to truly succeed, it must fight not only
abortion, buy also the broader "throwaway culture"...
Maybe I'm Not the World's Worst Parent
Creative Minority Report - Jan 22, 2015 at 4:44 am So I'm getting ready to head down to D.C. for the March for Life. This annual Archbold pilgrimage will be one Archbold short this year. Normally I head down with the five kids but...
Pope Thanks Vatican Public Security Agents For Their Service
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 22, 2015 at 4:37 am Pope Francis received in audience a group of agents from the General Inspectorate for Public Security in the Vatican, accompanied by their families. The institution will...
Catholic parishes in Crimea re-register with Russian authorities
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 22, 2015 at 4:34 am Heeding Russian law, the Diocese of Odessa-Simferopol, whose territory includes Crimea, has reregistered its parishes with the Russian government.
"Today we sent the documents to...
Event: High Mass at Princeton University Chapel (February 3, 2015)
Rorate Coeli - Jan 22, 2015 at 4:07 am Event notice sent by a reader:
After leading an Ignatian retreat in Boston, Father Carlos Hamel FSJC will be coming to Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey and publicly...
Cardinal: No pro-life victory without reaching the marginalized
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 22, 2015 at 4:01 am Washington D.C., Jan 22, 2015 / 03:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- For the pro-life movement to truly succeed, it must fight not only abortion, buy also the broader “throwaway culture”...
Why Junipero Serra's canonization is important for the new evangelization
EWTN - US Latest News - Jan 22, 2015 at 4:01 am Los Angeles, Calif., Jan 22, 2015 / 04:01 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Although the colonial and missionary period of California's history is
often riddled with bitter memories,...
About-face: House will not vote on 20 week abortion bill during March for Life
LifeSiteNews - Jan 22, 2015 at 4:00 am The House leadership will instead vote on the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act during the annual pro-life event.
Saint of the Week: St Thomas Aquinas (January 28)
Catholic Herald - Jan 22, 2015 at 4:00 am One of the greatest theologians in history, Aquinas was the leading figure of the 13th-century “Renaissance”, in which Christian philosophy at the newly established universities...
No, the Jesuits didn’t start World War I
Catholic Herald - Jan 22, 2015 at 4:00 am This week I discovered that Jesuits sank the Titanic. I was shocked, naturally, and hope that the Holy Father – himself a Jesuit – won’t be too distressed when the evidence is...
Book review: Herod was horrible, but was he also heroic?
Catholic Herald - Jan 22, 2015 at 4:00 am The True Herod
by Géza Vermès, Bloomsbury, £20Buy here
A complete rehabilitation of Herod the Great’s reputation is impossible. Some sins cannot be scrubbed clean. Géza Vermès...
The best way to disarm terrorists
Catholic Herald - Jan 22, 2015 at 4:00 am The terror attacks at the offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris continue to reverberate across Europe. The atrocity, in which 12 people lost their lives, was accompanied...
