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Does Your Mind Wander When You Pray?
Integrated Catholic Life - Jan 20, 2015 at 11:01 pm Do you have trouble paying attention while praying? Does your mind wander? Do you sometimes fall asleep? Do you forget where you were and stop? Do you then feel ashamed and...
CBO Warns that Saving Babies from Abortion Would Raise the Deficit
Creative Minority Report - Jan 20, 2015 at 10:56 pm So here's the plan. Make government fund anything and everything and get everyone all nice and dependent. Make the government so intertwined with our lives that they can actually...
Obama Says “We Can Disagree on Abortion” as He Backs Killing Babies in Late-Term Abortions
LifeNews.com - Jan 20, 2015 at 9:54 pm On the same day President Barack Obama issued a veto threat against a pro-life bill that would ban late-term abortions after 20 weeks, he said in his State of the Union address...
NaPro Technology: A Quiet Revolution
CatholicMom.com - Jan 20, 2015 at 9:16 pm Move over IVF and Birth Control. NaPro is moral, effective and works with the natural cycles of a women’s body.
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Russian artists assault Lenin’s tomb with holy water
The Deacon's Bench - Jan 20, 2015 at 9:08 pm From The BBC: Two Russian artists have been arrested after throwing holy water and shouting “rise up and leave” at the mausoleum containing Vladimir Lenin’s tomb. A video of...
Gentrification is no myth
Commonweal - Jan 20, 2015 at 8:58 pm Slate's recent article “The Myth of Gentrification” is the latest journalistic attempt to argue that gentrification is not really displacing the urban poor from their homes. The...
Some Thoughts On Today's Supreme Court Decision In Holt v. Hobbs
The Religion Clause - Jan 20, 2015 at 6:44 pm Today's Supreme Court decision in Holt v. Hobbs (see prior posting) is likely to lead to a dramatic increase in resources that federal district courts must devote to the dozens--...
How one CEO sees unrealized potential in special needs kids
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 20, 2015 at 6:02 pm Washington D.C., Jan 20, 2015 / 05:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Special needs children can bring joy, grace and a potential to thrive in the workplace in a way that parents may never...
Pope Francis: 'Families with Many Children Are A Consolation and a Hope'
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 20, 2015 at 6:00 pm In his weekly General Audience today, Pope Francis reflected on his recent visit to Sri Lanka and the Philippines, saying that it was a “joyous meeting with the ecclesial...
Coptic Patriarch Reaffirms Church Will Not Interfere in Egypt's Elections
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 20, 2015 at 6:00 pm Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II has reaffirmed his stance that the Coptic Orthodox Church will refrain from any direct involvement in the parliamentary election campaign in...
Riot Police Tear-Gassing Schoolchildren in Kenya Causes Uproar
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 20, 2015 at 6:00 pm Kenyan police who tear-gassed schoolchildren protesting the closure of a playground has caused an international uproar. Children, teachers and activists were demonstrating...
'Priesthood Is a Way of Life, Not a Job'
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 20, 2015 at 6:00 pm Cardinal Fernando Filoni says priests must always remember priesthood is a way of life, which requires giving one's entire self for others, being always tied to prayer, and being...
Pope on Niger: 'War Cannot Be Made in the Name of God'
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 20, 2015 at 6:00 pm Pope Francis called on the faithful to pray for the victims of protests that have erupted in Niger. For several days, citizens of the Muslim-majority country protested following...
On the Apostolic Visit to Sri Lanka and the Philippines
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 20, 2015 at 6:00 pm Here is the translation of the Holy Father’s address during his weekly General Audience today at the Paul VI Audience Hall. --- --- ---
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Today I will...
Pope: Large families don't cause poverty (Video)
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 20, 2015 at 6:00 pm To view the video click here.
Nigerian Prelate Calls for Western Military Intervention to Defeat Boko Haram
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 20, 2015 at 6:00 pm This report is contributed by John Pontifex of Aid to the Church in Need. The bishop whose diocese in northeast Nigeria has been hardest hit by Boko Haram wants Western...
Mom Gives Birth to Daughter After Ex-Boyfriend Hired Hitmen to Kill Their Unborn Baby
LifeNews.com - Jan 20, 2015 at 5:53 pm A teenage mother in England has given birth to a little girl after her former boyfriend hired hitmen in an attempt to kill their unborn child. The 19-year-old has left her former...
UK internet company will automatically install anti-porn filter for 5.3 million customers
LifeSiteNews - Jan 20, 2015 at 5:45 pm One of the UK's largest internet providers is proving it is serious about it's commitment to online safety.
Panama's first cardinal: I'm astonished at my appointment
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 20, 2015 at 5:33 pm Panama City, Panama, Jan 20, 2015 / 04:33 pm (CNA).- Among the new cardinals Pope Francis will create in the February consistory is Bishop Jose Luis Lacunza Maestrojuan of the...
Catholic Loyola University Invites Speaker Who Thanked God for Abortion
LifeNews.com - Jan 20, 2015 at 5:15 pm In 2013, MSNBC host Touré Neblett, garnered criticism from pro-life advocates after thanking God for abortion in what he called an “abortion rant” on his show “The Cycle.” He said...
