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Life support ends for pregnant Irish woman declared clinically dead…
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 26, 2014 at 12:52 pm The case has polarized Ireland, where abortion is still illegal. Details, from the Associated Press: A clinically dead pregnant Irishwoman was removed from life support Friday...
Thoughts on New York protests and the NYPD
Commonweal - Dec 26, 2014 at 12:36 pm Since the decision by a Staten Island grand jury not to indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo for killing Eric Garner in a chokehold, and even now after the tragic murder of two...
“Hate crime”: Baby Jesus stolen from church nativity scene, replaced with pig’s head
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 26, 2014 at 12:31 pm From Boston.com: A baby Jesus statue at a Haverhill church’s nativity scene was taken and replaced with a “freshly decapitated” pig’s head on Christmas morning, police said. John...
Woman Wakes From Coma After She Was Hit by a Car and Delivers Miracle Christmas Baby
LifeNews.com - Dec 26, 2014 at 12:22 pm Christmas holds additional meaning for one family who is rejoicing after the birth of a miracle baby. A family in Florida is celebrating a miracle after a woman in a coma suddenly...
Can a Man be Both Mother and Father of Child?
LifeNews.com - Dec 26, 2014 at 11:54 am We are speeding toward a time when human skin cells or embryonic stem cells can be morphed into sperm and eggs. The precursor of these gametes have been made in the lab.
From the...
Watch as These Police Officers Help Deliver a Christmas Baby on a Train
LifeNews.com - Dec 26, 2014 at 11:39 am In an amazing story from Philadelphia, a pair of police officers helped deliver a Christmas baby on a train.
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority Sgt. Daniel Caban...
KC, MO: anti-Catholic atrocity scheduled before Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 26, 2014 at 11:37 am When anti-Catholic atrocities take place, Catholic bishops should act.
I read in the Kansas City Star (a McClatchy paper), that some “Lutherans” are going to host a sacrilegious,...
Twelve Days!
Making Things Visible - Dec 26, 2014 at 11:37 am The Twelve Days of Christmas did not begin with the secular push for spending money on material things prior to Thanksgiving! Keep wishing everyone a Merry Christmas! Do not be...
Saint's martyrdom strips Christmas of false 'saccharine-sweetness'
EWTN - Vatican News - Dec 26, 2014 at 11:36 am Vatican City, Dec 26, 2014 / 12:21 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Pope Francis marked the feast day of Saint Stephen on Dec. 26, noting
that the martyrdom of the early Church saint helps...
Saint's martyrdom strips Christmas of false 'saccharine-sweetness'
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 26, 2014 at 11:21 am Vatican City, Dec 26, 2014 / 10:21 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis marked the feast day of Saint Stephen on Dec. 26, noting that the martyrdom of the early Church saint helps...
Attorney General Will Appeal Ruling Saying Women Can’t See Ultrasound of Baby Before Abortion
LifeNews.com - Dec 26, 2014 at 11:06 am The North Carolina Attorney General will appeal a federal appeals court’s ruling striking down a North Carolina law allowing women a chance to see an ultrasound of their unborn...
Topless Pro-Abortion Feminist Steals Baby Jesus From Nativity Scene in St. Peter’s Square
LifeNews.com - Dec 26, 2014 at 10:47 am The pro-abortion radicals in Femen are at it again — using crazy antics and their topless bodies in an attempt to push abortion on an international scale and embarrass the pro-...
WDTPRS: Holy Family – children first learn who God is by knowing their parents
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 26, 2014 at 10:43 am This coming Sunday in the post-Conciliar, Novus Ordo, Ordinary Form calendar, is the Feast of the Holy Family. In the traditional Roman calendar, Holy Family will be on 11...
Pious Fantasy and the Liberty of the Believer
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 26, 2014 at 10:40 am …are under discussion over at the Register.
Sesame Tahini Cookies #Recipe
The Catholic Foodie - Dec 26, 2014 at 10:39 am
These Sesame Tahini Cookies are not white and fluffy. They are not delicate like the Lebanese Butter Cookies. And they might not look too Christmas-y. But I can assure you that...
A reader has a brilliant idea
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 26, 2014 at 10:36 am He writes:
I am grateful that you mentioned that a book of yours was on Kindle.
He means This is My Body. Though I also have By What Authority?, The Heart of Catholic Prayer,...
Pope Francis Remembers Aborted Babies in His Message Celebrating Christmas
LifeNews.com - Dec 26, 2014 at 10:13 am Pope Francis has been heralded as a pro-life champion — having consistently spoken out on pro-life issues and condemning abortion since his installation as the head of the...
Christmas is Not Supposed to Be Like This
CatholicMom.com - Dec 26, 2014 at 10:00 am Christmas is not supposed to be like this. The floors never got mopped. The cookies never got baked. There’s some kind of green crust on the wall in the downstairs bathroom that...
Abortionist Calls Abortion a “Sacrament” and a “Blessing”
LifeNews.com - Dec 26, 2014 at 9:55 am (LiveActionNews) — In an article in Florida Today, abortionist Patricia Baird-Windle (below right) had some things to say about her work:
I now consider abortion to be a major...
ASK FATHER: Who can be elected Pope?
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 26, 2014 at 9:45 am From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
Can a male catholic who has not been ordained to the priesthood become Pope?
Yes.
The prerequisites are that he be
1) male, because he must become...
