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Should the Pope Keep Quiet?
Catholic Vote - Dec 16, 2014 at 12:53 pm Over at Aleteia, I run down the list of things the media got wrong about Pope Francis in “2014: The Year In Pope Francis Misunderstandings.”
The media got Francis wildly wrong...
Smart Martha’s Really Good Gift Giving Advice that Every Mom Needs
CatholicMom.com - Dec 16, 2014 at 12:30 pm
Is everyone familiar with Smart Martha? Let me introduce you. It’s my pen/speaker name. It’s also a concept that combines the idea of being the Mary who “chose the better part...
If You Want to Stand Against Racism, Stand Against Planned Parenthood
LifeNews.com - Dec 16, 2014 at 12:25 pm (LiveActionNews) — With the recent attention to race, discrimination, and violence in the news, there’s a major racist organization that’s been entirely ignored by the mainstream...
Vatican affirms vital role of U.S. sisters in evangelisation
News.va - Dec 16, 2014 at 12:18 pm (Vatican Radio) Six years after the Vatican’s Congregation for religious life ordered an investigation or ‘Apostolic Visitation’ of all female religious institutes in the United...
Vatican expresses “gratitude” to US Institutes of Women Religious following Apostolic Visitation
Vatican Insider - Dec 16, 2014 at 12:08 pmCard. Burke’s kindness
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 16, 2014 at 12:01 pm Do you recall that, last year, Card. Burke consoled a little boy who was crying because he couldn’t yet receive Communion? HERE
This is somewhat beyond the ken of most catholics...
Irish Media Used Miss Y and HSE Inquiry to Promote Abortion
LifeNews.com - Dec 16, 2014 at 11:56 am The case that has now become known as ‘Miss Y’ involved a migrant woman living in Ireland who allegedly sought an abortion on the grounds of being suicidal – the basis on which...
Pope Francis and the Spanish Episcopate: One Knot at a Time
Commonweal - Dec 16, 2014 at 11:46 am When Benedict was first elected pope, there was a lot of interest around the question of whether he might be able to turn the tide of rising secularization in Europe. Countries...
Pope Francis and the pets
The Busy Catholic - Dec 16, 2014 at 11:39 am All dogs go to Heaven?
What was the real story behind the latest Pope Francis media meme? One report ran this photo alongside their story about the 26 Nov 2014 general audience,...
Should the Pope Shut Up?
Catholic Vote - Dec 16, 2014 at 11:28 am Over at Aleteia, I run down the list of things the media got wrong about Pope Francis in “2014: The Year In Pope Francis Misunderstandings.”
The media got Francis wildly wrong...
The Keen Discernment and Priorities of the Thing That Used to Be Conservatism
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 16, 2014 at 11:23 am
Pop quiz on who said what here.
Here’s today’s lie from the Right Wing Lie Machine:
Now that torture defenders are copious documented as having defended torture as they lie that...
Shut Up and Be Grateful for Your Life
Creative Minority Report - Dec 16, 2014 at 11:16 am *subhead*Third party reproduction.*subhead*Last year, Bruce Feiler wrote a piece for The New York Times in which he began by regretting the bad behavior of his family at a reunion...
Poverty Is My Greatest Gift
CatholicMom.com - Dec 16, 2014 at 11:15 am Last Christmas Eve, on my 28th birthday, in a little chapel in New Orleans, Louisiana, I sat before Jesus in the Eucharist and wept. Having been on a journey with the Lord for so...
Sydney Siege: She Died Protecting Her Pregnant Friend and Her Unborn Baby
LifeNews.com - Dec 16, 2014 at 11:13 am Australia was rocked by a rare episode of terrorism on Tuesday, when a tense hostage siege in Sydney came to an end after police recused hostages from a tenuous situation. As the...
For first time, Boston will admit gay group to St. Patrick’s Day parade
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 16, 2014 at 11:12 am First New York. Now, Boston. From the AP: For the first time in its history, the sponsors of Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day parade will allow a group representing the gay community...
French president approves report promoting ‘covert euthanasia’
LifeSiteNews - Dec 16, 2014 at 11:04 am The Fondation Jérôme Lejeune warns that terminal sedation 'is an act of euthanasia' if it 'consists in administering an anesthetic painkiller in full knowledge that it will lead...
Final report: Vatican thanks women religious, stresses focus on Christ
EWTN - Vatican News - Dec 16, 2014 at 10:55 am Vatican City, Dec 16, 2014 / 11:04 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
The Vatican has published the results of its apostolic visitation examining the quality of religious communities across the...
Canadian football officials use Catholic school's equipment in Grey Cup, again
The Busy Catholic - Dec 16, 2014 at 10:55 am Notre Dame has now 'saved CFL's bacon twice': vice-principal
Notre Dame Juggler head coach George Oswald (right) in 2010. His
school's equipment saved the 2014 Grey Cup at B.C....
After the horrors in Sydney: How do journalists report the motives of a truly radical, fringe Muslim believer?
GetReligion - Dec 16, 2014 at 10:54 am The horrors that surround hostage dramas are confusing enough on their own. Throw in complex questions about religious faith and terrorism and journalists and this kind of story...
Prominent moral theologian dies
OSV Daily Take - Dec 16, 2014 at 10:48 am William E. May, who died December 13 at the age of 86, was one of the most prominent moral theologians of his day.
