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NLRB Announces New Test For Jurisdiction Over Religious Colleges
The Religion Clause - Dec 23, 2014 at 6:10 am In an important decision handed down last week, the National Labor Relations Board-- interpreting the U.S. Supreme Court's 1979 decision in NLRB v. Catholic Bishop of Chicago-- ...
Court Says Muslim Witness Cannot Take Oath On Quran
The Religion Clause - Dec 23, 2014 at 6:05 am Today's Legal Intelligencer reports on a decision by a Pennsylvania trial court judge holding that a Muslim woman could not take her oath as a witness using the Quran. In Musaitef...
Christmas Grief and Remembering Those Who Mourn
Snoring Scholar - Dec 23, 2014 at 6:00 am In the midst of the hustle and bustle, the chaos and clutter, the preparations and perpetual carols, it’s easy to forget/ignore/overlook the many who grieve at this time of year....
Tech Talk: Reading e-Devotionals
CatholicMom.com - Dec 23, 2014 at 6:00 am
The newly-published devotional from CatholicMom.com got me to use an app I’d long resisted: the free Amazon Kindle app.
That’s because As Morning Breaks: Daily Gospel...
British Tax Tribunal: Company Can Assert Religious Rights As Alter Ego of Owner
The Religion Clause - Dec 23, 2014 at 6:00 am In Exmoor Coast Boat Cruises Ltd. v. Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs, (UK FTT, Dec. 17, 2014), the United Kingdom First-Tier Tribunal Tax Chamber held that a...
Pope writes Christmas letter to persecuted Christians of the Middle East
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 23, 2014 at 5:56 am From Vatican Radio: Pope Francis has written a pre-Christmas letter to the Christians of the Middle East to express his closeness to them at a time of “afflictions and...
Pope writes Christmas letter to Middle East’s persecuted Christians
News.va - Dec 23, 2014 at 5:45 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has written a pre-Christmas letter to the Christians of the Middle East to express his closeness to them at a time of “afflictions and tribulations...
The 15 "Sicknesses" – To the Curia, Pope Lobs a Christmas Bomb
Whispers in the Loggia - Dec 23, 2014 at 5:43 am Keeping with the thread he began last year, the Pope again deployed today's Christmas "greeting" to the Curia not to recap his 2014, but to tear into 15 examples of spiritual "...
John Lennon’s Imagine is ‘heart-chilling’, says bishop in Christmas homily
Catholic Herald - Dec 23, 2014 at 5:16 am The Bishop of Shrewsbury has described the John Lennon song Imagine as “heart-chilling” in a Christmas homily.
Reflecting on this year’s Christmas adverts which focus on the First...
Australians celebrate episcopal consecration of two auxiliaries for Melbourne
EWTN - World Catholic News - Dec 23, 2014 at 5:07 am Melbourne, Australia, Dec 23, 2014 / 05:07 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Jubilation marked the episcopal concration of Terence Curtin and Mark
Edwards as auxiliary bishops of the...
Daily Gospel Reflection for December 23, 2014
CatholicMom.com - Dec 23, 2014 at 5:00 am
Today’s Gospel: Luke 1: 57 – 66
When we obey God, great things happen. We aren’t talking spectacular magical things, though that can happen too. God knows us, our hearts and what...
Guest Book Review: Magisterial Authority, by Fr. Chad Ripperger
Rorate Coeli - Dec 23, 2014 at 5:00 am Magisterial Authority
Fr. Chad Ripperger
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Guest Book Review, by Ryan Grant
For many years, the faithful have been confused, bewildered, scandalized and have...
Pope warns Vatican officials of spiritual ills
Franciscan Media - Dec 23, 2014 at 5:00 am VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope
Francis' Christmas greeting to the Vatican bureaucracy this year was an
extended warning against a host of spiritual ills to which he said
Vatican...
Fatal shooting of New York police officers called 'brutal, irrational'
Franciscan Media - Dec 23, 2014 at 5:00 am
NEW YORK (CNS) -- New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan joined in mourning
what he called the "brutal and irrational execution of two young,
promising and devoted police officers"...
Lajolo on the speech to the Curia: nothing like this has ever happened before
Vatican Insider - Dec 23, 2014 at 4:59 amThe day I shoulder-barged Christopher Hitchens
Catholic Herald - Dec 23, 2014 at 4:57 am Although an acknowledged sinner for most of my adult life – I chase women non-stop, drink to excess, smoke and gamble – I have never left the easy foothills of faith, a Catholic...
Cardinal Dolan condemns ‘brutal and irrational’ killing of police officers
Catholic Herald - Dec 23, 2014 at 4:11 am New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan joined in mourning for the two police officers who were murdered in New York on Saturday.
Cardinal Dolan condemned what he called the “brutal and...
First Catholic University in Bangladesh Will Teach ‘Truth and Wisdom,’ Says Bishop
Catholic Education Daily - Dec 23, 2014 at 3:47 am The first Catholic university in Bangladesh officially opened its doors to students in the city of Dhaka and began offering classes on December 8, Bishop Paulinus Costa reportedly...
Bishops witness steadfast faith of Middle East Christians
Catholic Herald - Dec 23, 2014 at 3:34 am Christ is being “reborn again in the lowly stable” this Christmas because of the remarkable faith of Iraqi Christians who were driven out of their homes, a group of Australian...
