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The Amazing Moment When a Deaf 15-Year-Old Boy Learns to Speak
LifeNews.com - Dec 18, 2014 at 9:10 am Patrick Otema is a 15-year-old Ugandan boy who is profoundly deaf and withdrawn from society. There were no schools for the deaf near his rural village. Then Raymond Okkele, a...
Kentucky priest returns to ministry after unsubstantiated abuse claim
EWTN - US Latest News - Dec 18, 2014 at 9:09 am Louisville, Ky., Dec 18, 2014 / 09:09 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Father Ronald Domhoff, a priest of the Archdiocese of Louisville, has
returned to ministry after being cleared of sexual...
The Death Penalty as Assisted Suicide
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 18, 2014 at 9:00 am We are told that the death penalty (which we celebrate by conducting in total secrecy) is supposed to be a deterrent. We are also told that as prolife Christians, we are supposed...
Resurrection: Parish rebuilds church destroyed by tornado
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 18, 2014 at 8:56 am Some good news, just in time for Christmas, from The Joplin Globe in Missouri: It wasn’t wrapped in red and green paper, and it certainly wasn’t sitting underneath a tree, but the...
A Novena Proposal For a Consistent Ethic of Life
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 18, 2014 at 8:43 am Mark Gordon writes:
Most disappointing are those Catholics who pair their acceptance of torture – which in the case of the CIA’s operation resulted in the death of at least one...
Activist Says Switzerland Should Harvest Organs of People Killed in Euthanasia
LifeNews.com - Dec 18, 2014 at 8:42 am I warned this would happen back in my first anti-assisted suicide article–Newsweek, June 28, 1993–in which I wrote:
Of greater concern to me is the moral trickledown effect that...
US Bishops Welcome Step to Normalize Relations With Cuba
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Dec 18, 2014 at 8:35 am Bishop Oscar Cantú of Las Cruces, New Mexico, chairman of the Committee on International Justice and Peace of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops welcomed the announcement by...
“lingua latina bene calleant”
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 18, 2014 at 8:30 am Many are the times that I have lamented the nearly complete disobedience to the Code of Canon Law and the expressed will of modern Roman Pontiffs about the Latin language. For...
Advent Prayers of the Heart, For the Heart
CatholicMom.com - Dec 18, 2014 at 8:30 am In Greenbush, the snow is falling straight down in huge flakes, coating each branch and twig with a thick coating of snow. The snow literally absorbs sound waves and the effect is...
The CIA didn’t just torture…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 18, 2014 at 8:25 am …they experimented on human beings.
Torture Defenders: Why die on this hill? Why go on defending this? Repent. Receive the mercy of God, and move on.
Cuban Bishops Applaud New Stage in US Ties
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Dec 18, 2014 at 8:25 am On Wednesday, after the announcement that the United States and Cuba would be pursuing reconciliation, Cuba’s episcopal conference published a statement thanking God “on the eve...
Pope Gives 400 Sleeping Bags to Rome's Homeless
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Dec 18, 2014 at 8:19 am Most people celebrate their birthdays by receiving gifts, but Pope Francis did the opposite. To celebrate his 78th birthday on Wednesday, he gave 400 sleeping bags to Rome’s poor...
This blogger praised Satanists for ‘supporting reproductive rights’
LifeSiteNews - Dec 18, 2014 at 8:16 am 'If there’s one religious group I’m really impressed with at this point, it’s the Satanists.'
Cardinal Parolin: on Holy See’s role in US/Cuba agreement
News.va - Dec 18, 2014 at 8:01 am (Vatican Radio) Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the (Vatican) Secretary of State, said on Thursday that Pope Francis played a very significant role in facilitating the rapprochement...
O Antiphon 2 – O Lord of Israel, Redeem Us with Outstretched Arms!
CatholicMom.com - Dec 18, 2014 at 8:00 am
Today we take the second O Antiphon in preparation for Christmas:
O Adonai, Ruler of the House of Israel,
You appeared to Moses in the fire of the burning bush,
And on Mount...
To the AP, there are no 'liberal' Catholics — just 'rank-and-file' faithful
GetReligion - Dec 18, 2014 at 8:00 am
Readers of The Associated Press's coverage of the release of the Vatican's report on its probe of American religious sisters will note a curious juxtaposition, one that has, alas...
Pope to New Ambassadors: Task of Ambassador, through small steps, is to bring peace
News.va - Dec 18, 2014 at 7:54 am Vatican City, 18 December 2014 (VIS) -This morning in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace, the Holy Father received in audience the ambassadors of the following nations,...
How Pope Francis helped make history with Cuba
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 18, 2014 at 7:53 am From The Boston Globe: The restoration of full diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba, as well as a prisoner exchange that secured the release of American Alan...
The Truth About Al Sharpton by Andrew Klavan
Creative Minority Report - Dec 18, 2014 at 7:49 am It's a outrage. Hey, you know, for a reverend Al Sharpton doesn't mention Jesus all that often. *subhead*Punk.*subhead*
