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The Life of Our Lady in Pictures: A Conversation with Fr. Donald Calloway
CatholicMom.com - Dec 16, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Pages from Mary of Nazareth: The Life of Our Lady in Pictures — click to enlarge
About a year ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Fr. Donald Calloway in person. I remember our...
German bishops ready to change policy, allow divorced/remarried and homosexual employees
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 16, 2014 at 4:54 pm The Catholic bishops of Germany will soon approve a change in policy allowing people in irregular marital arrangements to work for Church agencies, reports Edward Pentin in the...
Catholic relief agency in Jordan strains to help Iraqi Christian refugees
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 16, 2014 at 4:45 pm The Catholic relief agency Caritas Jordan has warned that it will soon run out of supplies to serve 7,000 Christian refugees from Iraq, the Fides news agency reports.
Wael...
Obamacare is Rationing Life-Saving Medical Care, Worst Situation Since 1960
LifeNews.com - Dec 16, 2014 at 4:43 pm The resources being devoted to life-saving and health-preserving health care in the United States are at a near-record low, according to a newly issued annual spending report from...
Texas Nativity in the News
Thomas More Society - Dec 16, 2014 at 4:42 pm Thomas More Society and American Nativity Scene Committee co-sponsor nativity scenes in State Capitols around the country, including Texas
Abbott backs Capitol nativity scene...
Olympic competition on Vatican grounds?
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 16, 2014 at 4:39 pm Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins has suggested some Olympic events could be held at the Vatican if Rome wins a bid to host the Olympic Games in 2024.
The Portuguese cardinal, who is...
Would-be assassin wants to visit tomb of St. John Paul II
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 16, 2014 at 4:33 pm Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who shot and wounded St. John Paul II in 1981, now says that he wants to visit the grave of the late Pontiff.
Agca, who spent 19 years in...
Critic protests renovations at Chartres cathedral
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 16, 2014 at 4:30 pm Writing in the New York Review of Books, Martin Filler laments a renovation project already underway in the cathedral of Chartres, in which the interior walls are being painted in...
Indian archbishop worried by rumors about Christmas school days, mass conversions
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 16, 2014 at 4:25 pm Archbishop Anil J. T. Couto of Delhi has voiced concern over reports that schools will be open on Christmas Day.
The archbishop decried reports that Hindu militants plan a...
Amazing Photos of Stillborn Babies Help Families Remember The Gift of Life
LifeNews.com - Dec 16, 2014 at 4:22 pm According to the National Institute of Health, each year in the United States about 25,000 babies, or 68 babies every day, are born still. A stillbirth is usually detected while...
The Vatican's Thank-You Note to U.S. Sisters
Commonweal - Dec 16, 2014 at 4:19 pm To read the "Final Report on the Apostolic Visitation of Institutes of Women Religious in the United States of America," which was released this morning by the Congregation for...
Greatest C-Span Moment Ever. Mom Calls in to Yell at Her Pundit Sons
Creative Minority Report - Dec 16, 2014 at 4:11 pm She just wants a nice Christmas darn it. Absolutely awesome.HT Deadspin *subhead*Listen to your mother.*subhead*
Fa la la la la, la la la la -- 'Tis the season (as always) for 'news' reports that debunk the Gospels
GetReligion - Dec 16, 2014 at 3:56 pm
“Hail the new, ye lads and lasses. Fa la la la la, la la la la,” says that old carol. The journalism angle in that?
During the Christmas and Easter seasons, journalists have come...
New Jersey Senate delays vote on assisted suicide bill
LifeSiteNews - Dec 16, 2014 at 3:35 pm The bill would force taxpayers to fund assisted suicide 'through Medicaid and, most likely, the state health exchange via Obamacare,' says New Jersey Right to Life.
Four Greatest Christmas Gifts Parents Can Give to their Children Year-round
CatholicMom.com - Dec 16, 2014 at 3:30 pm
James Littleton
What are the four greatest Christmas gifts parents can give to their children year-round?
Certainly we have the obvious one, love. But how do we love? How do we...
Final report on American women religious issued
Rorate Coeli - Dec 16, 2014 at 3:18 pm The "Final Report on the Apostolic Visitation of Institutes of Women Religious in the United States of America" has been issued by the Vatican's Congregation for Institutes of...
Use of abortifacient contraceptives doubled in U.S. since 2006
LifeSiteNews - Dec 16, 2014 at 3:09 pm The CDC reports that 7.2 percent of women aged 15 to 44 confirmed using so-called long-acting reversible contraceptives.
Cardinal Burke receives petition signed by 30,000 supporters: says, ‘do not give way to discouragement!’
LifeSiteNews - Dec 16, 2014 at 2:57 pm Burke said those who defend real marriage between a man and woman must be willing to lay down their life for the truth.
Christmas Novena to the Infant King
Saint Louis Catholic - Dec 16, 2014 at 2:51 pm I am happy to spread the word about the Christmas Novena to the Infant King at the institute's Shrine of Christ the King in Chicago. The novena begins tomorrow and concludes on...
Vatican report calls U.S. women religious to continued dialogue
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Dec 16, 2014 at 2:49 pm A massive, detailed Vatican-ordered investigation of U.S. communities of women religious ended with a call to the women themselves to continue discerning how best to live the...
