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Activist Says Killing Babies After Birth is a Perfectly Moral Choice
LifeNews.com - Dec 18, 2014 at 1:44 pm (LiveActionNews) — In an article for the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, a well-known Canadian bioethicist, Udo Schuklenk, argues that aborting a child after birth...
Photopost Request: Gaudete Sunday and Rorate Masses
New Liturgical Movement - Dec 18, 2014 at 1:41 pm We will be doing a photopost for the Rorate Sunday, upcoming this December 21, for Masses in both forms as well as celebrations of the Office. Please send photos to photopost@...
Stephen Colbert’s Top Catholic Moments
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 18, 2014 at 1:33 pm As MCPF (My Close Personal Friend) Stephen bids farewell to his show at Comedy Central tonight, Busted Halo has a nifty roundup of top Colbert Catholic moments. This one below,...
Hear the heartbeat: federal appeals court to consider life-saving heartbeat laws in January
LifeSiteNews - Dec 18, 2014 at 1:28 pm Are we willing to contend in prayer for justice to be established in our nation? Or will we declare “The timing isn’t right” or “The Supreme Court isn’t stacked right”? These...
Vatican Cardinal: To resist evil we must ‘call it by its name’
LifeSiteNews - Dec 18, 2014 at 1:18 pm 'The first way to ‘resist evil’ is to recognize it,' says Cardinal Mauro Piacenza.
Top 12 studies showing risks to couples in same-sex unions
LifeSiteNews - Dec 18, 2014 at 1:12 pm Recommending an international expansion of the Courage apostolate should be considered by the Synod as a primary pastoral outreach to those with homosexual tendencies and their...
As Che and Fidel gaze on the scene….
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 18, 2014 at 1:06 pm So, the Holy See, indeed Pope Francis himself, gets involved with the freeing of an American citizen held in Cuba for several years. The citizen, Alan Gross, is released. He...
D.C. Council approves measure that could force employers to pay for employees’ abortions
LifeSiteNews - Dec 18, 2014 at 12:57 pm Should it become law, the bill would prevent Catholic and other religious employers from disciplining employees when they publicly disclose having an abortion, using abortion...
Cancer patient gets her wish granted, meets Pope Francis
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 18, 2014 at 12:54 pm From CBS News: Since birth, they’ve called her “one tough cookie.” Now, Gracie West is living up to that nickname as she fights cancer. She’s had nine rounds of chemotherapy, and...
The Holy Land in 2014: The best of times and the worst of times
Vatican Insider - Dec 18, 2014 at 12:47 pmAcross America, churches continue to struggle for their religious freedom
LifeSiteNews - Dec 18, 2014 at 12:42 pm In this Christmas season, I hope you and your family are especially grateful for this most precious gift of religious freedom to our nation.
Byz-y Mama: On Being Human
CatholicMom.com - Dec 18, 2014 at 12:30 pm One of the biggest surprises my all-too-naive self had upon getting married was discovering that sex was a lot less like that one scene from Somewhere in Time and a lot more like...
Watch This Councilwoman Storm Off in Protest When Asked Why She Funded Planned Parenthood
LifeNews.com - Dec 18, 2014 at 12:27 pm If Planned Parenthood is so popular, why did a news station in the heart of the West Coast’s abortion stronghold – Sacramento, California – spotlight it in an investigation of...
Attempts to smear pro-life work ignore real women
LifeSiteNews - Dec 18, 2014 at 12:22 pm 'Real women who have either been helped by this treatment or wish that they had been, are being silenced and gagged in the process. Pregnancy help organizations like Dr. Delgado's...
Terri Schiavo’s husband: Jeb Bush would give us a gvmt ‘that’s gonna intrude on your life’
LifeSiteNews - Dec 18, 2014 at 12:19 pm As Florida governor, Bush fought Michael Schiavo during the final years of his battle to end his wife’s life by removing her access to food and water.
Marco Rubio, champion of human rights. For Cubans.
Commonweal - Dec 18, 2014 at 12:17 pm This point has been made elsewhere, and no doubt it will be made again and again in the next few days, because it's an obvious point. But it's also an important one, so let me...
Not everyone was happy with the Vatican's thank-you note to U.S. sisters
Commonweal - Dec 18, 2014 at 12:13 pm The final report (.pdf here) on the "apostolic visitation" of U.S. sisters, after effusively praising them for their work and witness over the course of seven pages, concludes on...
Religious leaders condemn U.S. torture practices as report is released
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Dec 18, 2014 at 12:00 pm The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace said acts of torture outlined in a Senate Intelligence Committee report “violated the God-given...
Jesuit university bans prof from campus after he exposed pro-gay scandal
LifeSiteNews - Dec 18, 2014 at 11:55 am 'Marquette has again shown itself to be timid, overly bureaucratic and lacking any commitment to either its Catholic mission or free expression,' wrote Dr. John McAdams, who has...
911 Call Reveals Woman Bleeding Uncontrollably After Botched Abortion
LifeNews.com - Dec 18, 2014 at 11:50 am Two 911 recordings obtained by Operation Rescue show that two separate abortion patients were hospitalized within three hours on December 11, 2014, after suffering serious...
