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Cultivating Advent Hope: The Highway Through The Heart
CatholicMom.com - Dec 16, 2014 at 7:00 am
God cut a highway right through Bernie Klein’s heart, an artery that could give him life. Not surprisingly, that’s where Love seeped in.
“I died and I clearly remember it,”...
Vatican report calls for continued dialogue with US women religious
Catholic Herald - Dec 16, 2014 at 6:56 am A long, detailed Vatican-ordered investigation of US communities of women religious ended with a call to the women themselves to continue discerning how best to live the Gospel in...
Doctrine Saves
Dominicana - Dec 16, 2014 at 6:30 am It’s a bold claim. “Doctrine”—the word doesn’t exactly conjure images of heavenly harbors or paradisal sands. It hits the ears about as pleasantly as “doctor exam,” “doctoral...
Satanic Temple Temporary Display At Michigan Capitol OK'd As Nativity Scene Plans Falter
The Religion Clause - Dec 16, 2014 at 6:25 am Under rules of the Michigan State Capitol Commission (full text), temporary displays, which may not remain over night, may be scheduled on the Capitol grounds. The Detroit Free...
For Archbishop Chaput, Holy Family holds lesson on immigration
EWTN - US Latest News - Dec 16, 2014 at 6:20 am Philadelphia, Pa., Dec 16, 2014 / 06:39 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Faithful Catholics "need to remember that the Holy Family too was once a
family of immigrants and refugees,"...
Kerry Asks Vatican For Aid In Relocating Guantanamo Detainees
The Religion Clause - Dec 16, 2014 at 6:20 am Catholic News Service reported that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, in Rome yesterday, met with Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin. As part of their...
Christ offers healing and peace, Sydney archbishop says after siege
EWTN - World Catholic News - Dec 16, 2014 at 6:19 am Sydney, Australia, Dec 16, 2014 / 06:19 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- In the aftermath of a hostage situation at an Australian café, Sydney's Archbishop Anthony Fisher, O.P., stressed that...
Miracles of Kindness
Saints 365 - Dec 16, 2014 at 6:18 am I am delighted to announce that my story of a great and unexpected kindness which was done to me by a co-worker at my grandmother's funeral has been published in an anthology of...
Faithful College Grads Mentor Catholic Teachers in ‘Living Authentically Catholic Life’
Catholic Education Daily - Dec 16, 2014 at 6:17 am Two alumni from the Gulf Region Academy for Catholic Educators program at the University of St. Thomas in Houston recently returned to the program to mentor current students and...
9th Circuit En Banc Hears Arguments In "Innocence of Muslims" Case
The Religion Clause - Dec 16, 2014 at 6:15 am The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday, sitting en banc, heard arguments in Garcia v. Google Inc. Ten of the 11 judges on the en banc panel heard the oral arguments live...
Pastor Brings Unusual Anti-Gay Marriage Protest To Courthouse
The Religion Clause - Dec 16, 2014 at 6:10 am In Jackson, Mississippi on Friday, a Baptist pastor brought an unusual protest against the legalization of same-sex marriage to the federal courthouse. Christian Post reports that...
Report Released On Counseling of Sex Abuse Victims At Bob Jones University
The Religion Clause - Dec 16, 2014 at 6:05 am Last week, Bob Jones University released a 300-page Final Report (full text) growing out of an investigation by the non-profit organization GRACE of the University's inadequate...
Slaughter in Pakistan: there are no words for this kind of evil
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 16, 2014 at 6:04 am Breaking news this morning from Pakistan: At least 126 people, most of them children, were killed on Tuesday when Taliban gunmen stormed a school in the Pakistani city of...
Vatican report on US women religious calls for further self-assessment
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 16, 2014 at 6:03 am Expressing "profound gratitude" for the "dedicated and selfless service of women religious," the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life...
Face-to-Face with the Reality of Advent
Snoring Scholar - Dec 16, 2014 at 6:00 am
He stood there, transfixed, his head titled back, looking up. He was right in front of the altar, his trucks and tractors forgotten behind him.
“Mommy, what happened to him? Who...
My Secret Sauce of Apps
CatholicMom.com - Dec 16, 2014 at 6:00 am
Anyone who has a smartphone or smart-device of some kind has apps that they use on a nearly daily basis. Here is a listing of 6 apps which I use either daily or enough that I...
Indictment Charges Fraud In Export of Supposed Halal Meat
The Religion Clause - Dec 16, 2014 at 6:00 am On Dec. 5, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa announced the indictment of three related corporations and two corporate officials on charges of extensive fraud in...
Iraq: Kirkuk declares Dec. 25 holiday in solidarity with Christians
EWTN - World Catholic News - Dec 16, 2014 at 5:54 am Kirkuk, Iraq, Dec 16, 2014 / 05:54 pm (EWTN News).- The governor of the province of Kirkuk, Iraq, has declared December 25 a
holiday in order to publicly express solidarity with...
Pope Francis at Morning Mass: God Asks Us to Trust Him, Give Him Our Sin
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Dec 16, 2014 at 5:47 am "When we will be able to say to the Lord: 'Lord, these are my sins. They are not his or hers, they are mine… They are mine. Take them and I will be saved.' When we will be able to...
