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A Blogging Change; Back to 1.0
Journey of a Catholic Nerd Writer - Jan 19, 2015 at 4:33 pm Sorry for not writing for over a week but I've been busy and/or sick (stress-induced physical symptoms like extreme fatigue). But I'm here to tell you why I'm changing my blogging...
Chaldean Patriarch reported to dispute Vatican ruling overturning his order
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 19, 2015 at 4:29 pm Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako has challenged a Vatican decision overruling his order for Chaldean priests to return to Iraq, according to a report in the Los...
Doctors Refused to Help Their Quintuplets Unless They Aborted, Now Their Girls Are Seven
LifeNews.com - Jan 19, 2015 at 4:20 pm In 2007, Dimitri and Varvara Artamkin found they were expecting quintuplet girls after a course of fertility treatments. They were very excited, but their excitement was short...
Full text of Pope's in-flight interview from Manila to Rome
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 19, 2015 at 4:20 pm Aboard the papal plane, Jan 19, 2015 / 03:20 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Speaking to journalists aboard the Jan. 19 flight from Manila to Rome concluding his Asian pilgrimage, Pope...
Missouri bishop objects to Catholic hospitals' choice to extend emplyee benefits to same-sex partners
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 19, 2015 at 4:19 pm A Missouri bishop has said that he is "deeply concerned" about the announcement that a Catholic health-care system has decided to extend employee benefits to same-sex couples....
Where will various religions stand in the same-sex marriage church-state showdown?
GetReligion - Jan 19, 2015 at 4:04 pm
The U.S. Supreme Court’s April hearing and June ruling on same-sex marriage will be historic for the nation’s religions as well as for partisan politics, law, and society. There’...
Quick Poll
Saint Louis Catholic - Jan 19, 2015 at 4:01 pm Is the Pope merely pandering to women, or is he taking one more opportunity to stick it to Cardinal Burke? Both? Neither? Poll at the sidebar; comment in the combox if you wish...
Abortionist Loses Medical License, Botched Abortion Left Baby Stuggling to Survive in Toilet Trying to Live
LifeNews.com - Jan 19, 2015 at 3:49 pm New information has surfaced today of a Florida-based abortion practitioner who recently lost his medical license. He is responsible for killing babies in abortions and injuring...
This is the Logical Conclusion of Everything Catholic Schools Have Tried to Do for Too Long
Saint Louis Catholic - Jan 19, 2015 at 3:45 pm I missed this report from the local NBC affiliate; my excuse is that I can't stand local broadcast news. But this really is a shocker.Or it ought to be, anyway.[St. John Baptist...
"See I am doing something new!"
Saints 365 - Jan 19, 2015 at 3:32 pm January. Just the mere mention of it brings forth images of dark mornings, cold days, ice and snow (at least for those if us living in the Northeast.) Regardless of your climate...
Mother Talks About Twins’ “Miracle Birth” After Ignoring Advice to Abort One to Save The Other
LifeNews.com - Jan 19, 2015 at 3:12 pm Here at LifeNews, we report almost each and every week on cases of parents who make a courageous decision not to have an abortion when doctors suggest aborting one or more babies...
A sister's witness to history
Commonweal - Jan 19, 2015 at 2:50 pm To mark Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the Journal News of the Lower Hudson Valley (my local paper) has a front-page story about Maryknoll sister Madeline Dorsey, who was in Selma...
We must be the voice, Mother Teresa told me
LifeSiteNews - Jan 19, 2015 at 2:48 pm As a pastor I call upon other pastors and those who recognize the Bible to be an authoritative word of God, to be the voice of those who have none. It is time to boldly and...
Birth control, 'ideological colonization' are topics as Pope speaks with reporters
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 19, 2015 at 2:47 pm Pope Francis spoke about birth control, responsible parenthood, and "ideological colonization" during an exchange with reporters as he flew from the Philippines to Rome on January...
I guess those 2,000 dead in Nigeria were the wrong kind of martyrs…
LifeSiteNews - Jan 19, 2015 at 2:37 pm Who’s Charlie? I’m Baga.
Pope says he will canonize Blessed Junipero Serra in Washington
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Jan 19, 2015 at 2:35 pm ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM MANILA, Philippines — Pope Francis said his September trip to the U.S. will take him to Philadelphia, New York and Washington — where he intends to...
42 Years After Roe, We Must Reaffirm Our Commitment to Protecting Human Life
LifeNews.com - Jan 19, 2015 at 2:33 pm In 1984, President Ronald Reagan designated Sunday, January 22nd as Sanctity of Human Life Day.
In his proclamation, Reagan called on Americans “to gather on that day in homes and...
All God’s Children
Catholic Vote - Jan 19, 2015 at 2:29 pm Today we honor the memory of one of the great figures in the struggle for civil rights, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We have seen so much progress in that struggle, but that...
What would Martin Luther King, Jr. think of #BlackLivesMatter protests?
LifeSiteNews - Jan 19, 2015 at 2:26 pm If the black community seeks to value lives, the best place to start is with the unborn. How can we love any, if we can’t love the least?
Pope says Catholics must practise ‘responsible parenthood’
Catholic Herald - Jan 19, 2015 at 2:24 pm Catholics fail to practise “responsible parenthood” when they have too many children, Pope Francis has said during an in-flight press conference on the way home from Manila.
He...
