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Mideast Christians are genocide victims, says leading Russian Orthodox official
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 19, 2014 at 7:12 am A leading Russian Orthodox official told reporters that Christians in the Middle East are undergoing what is "effectively genocide" and that "only Russia and the Russian Orthodox...
Malpractice suit brought by Spokane diocese against law firm will go to trial
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 19, 2014 at 7:08 am A federal bankruptcy judge has cleared for a trial in a legal-malpractice case brought by Diocese of Spokane against a law firm that handled diocesan bankruptcy proceedings.
The...
A sign of hope; Christmas tree illuminates St. Peter's Square
EWTN - Vatican News - Dec 19, 2014 at 7:05 am Vatican City, Dec 19, 2014 / 07:05 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
The 83-foot Italian tree in St. Peter's Square was lit for the first time this season at the unveiling of the Vatican's...
Meatless Friday: Greek Pasta
CatholicMom.com - Dec 19, 2014 at 7:00 am
This recipe came from one of my favorite cookbooks — a heart-healthy cookbook. It tastes great, is healthy, and my family thought it tasted like restaurant food. To me, that’s...
Pope thanks Verona and Catanzaro for crib and tree
News.va - Dec 19, 2014 at 6:55 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis met on Friday with religious and civil authorities from the Italian cities of Verona and Catanzaro to thank them for the Christmas tree and nativity...
Pope Francis: The Church is not an entrepreneur but a mother
News.va - Dec 19, 2014 at 6:55 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis said on Friday that there is much sterility within the Church and the people of God, a sterility that comes from power and egoism. The Church, he...
Root of Jesse
Dominicana - Dec 19, 2014 at 6:30 am O Radix Jesse, qui stas in signum populorum,
super quem continebunt reges os suum,
quem Gentes deprecabuntur:
veni ad liberandum nos, jam noli tardare.
O Root of Jesse, who stands...
Hawaii Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments On Challenge To Marriage Equality Law
The Religion Clause - Dec 19, 2014 at 6:30 am Yesterday the Hawaii Supreme Court heard oral arguments in McDermott v. Abercrombie, a case challenging the state legislature's authority to enact the Hawaii Marriage Equality Act...
The Catholic who stood up to Hitler
Catholic Herald - Dec 19, 2014 at 6:25 am It is impossible to read My Battle against Hitler by the German philosopher and theologian, Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889-1977), translated by John Henry Crosby, without being...
Lawsuit Against Hebrew National Dismissed In State Court With No Appeal Filed
The Religion Clause - Dec 19, 2014 at 6:25 am American Jewish World reported yesterday on the end of the long-running lawsuit against ConAgra Foods challenging the adequacy of its standards for kosher slaughter of the beef...
Pope’s favourite football team to meet Real Madrid in world final
Catholic Herald - Dec 19, 2014 at 6:23 am Pope Francis’s favourite football team San Lorenzo will meet Real Madrid in the FIFA Club World Cup final.
The Buenos Aires team beat New Zealand’s Auckland City 2-1 in the semi-...
Chicago Travel Agent Charged With Mail Fraud In Hajj Visa Misrepresentations
The Religion Clause - Dec 19, 2014 at 6:20 am The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois yesterday announced the arrest on mail fraud charges of Chicago travel agent Rashid Minhas. A criminal complaint...
Israel's High Court Approves Rabbinical Court's Retroactive Invalidation of Conversion
The Religion Clause - Dec 19, 2014 at 6:16 am On Wednesday, a 3-judge panel of Israel's High Court of Justice ruled that a rabbinical court had authority to retroactively cancel a conversion of a woman to Judaism where the...
Capuchins and Dominicans Sing Feliz Navidad in D.C.
Creative Minority Report - Dec 19, 2014 at 6:12 am Now with a drum solo. *subhead*Carols.*subhead*
The disappearing Midnight Mass
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 19, 2014 at 6:10 am It’s happening in the United States—I know of more and more places that are offering “Midnight Mass” a few hours earlier—and it’s a phenomenon that has taken hold in the UK, as...
FFRF Lacks Standing To Challenge Church Filing Exemptions
The Religion Clause - Dec 19, 2014 at 6:10 am In Freedom From Religion Foundation v. Koskinen, (WD WI, Dec. 17, 2014), a Wisconsin federal district court held that Freedom From Religion Foundation and its local affiliate lack...
Franciscan order embroiled in financial crisis
Catholic Herald - Dec 19, 2014 at 6:09 am The Franciscans is facing a “grave situation” following an internal investigation into the state of its financial affairs.
In a letter to the order, first reported by Rorate Caeli...
Kentucky Supreme Court Defines Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine
The Religion Clause - Dec 19, 2014 at 6:05 am In St. Joseph Catholic Orphan Society v. Edwards, (KY Sup. Ct., Dec. 18, 2014), the Kentucky Supreme Court redefined the operation of the "ecclesiastical abstention doctrine"...
Congress Gives USCIRF 9 More Months of Life
The Religion Clause - Dec 19, 2014 at 6:00 am Earlier this week, Congress passed and sent to the President H.R. 5816 (full text), extending the life of the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom until Sept. 30,...
NY Times: “Bolder vision” of Vatican diplomacy under Francis
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 19, 2014 at 5:45 am From Friday’s paper: Perhaps the timing was purely coincidental. But a day after he was credited with helping to broker thehistoric diplomatic breakthrough betweenCuba and the...
