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A long vacancy: Controversial religious freedom diplomat takes helm
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 15, 2014 at 8:19 pm Washington D.C., Dec 15, 2014 / 07:19 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The U.S. Senate voted 61-36 on Friday to confirm Rabbi David Saperstein as the next U.S. Ambassador at-large for...
Dominican president using abortion for re-election: priest resigning as Church’s presidential liaison
LifeSiteNews - Dec 15, 2014 at 7:12 pm Father Manuel Ruiz de la Rosa charges that the president is using abortion to open debate on the Constitution, in the hope of changing a provision barring him from running again.
Book Review – Practical Theology
The Curt Jester - Dec 15, 2014 at 6:08 pm For some book reviews I am almost tempted just to mention that some author has a new book out and that should be sufficient to pique your interest.
Case in point is Peter Kreeft’s...
Your non-weekend think piece: Australian scribe Scott Stephens yearns for serious religion news
GetReligion - Dec 15, 2014 at 6:00 pm
Care to read some provocative thoughts on the state of religion-news coverage, care of pastor and theology teacher Scott Stephens, who is now the Religion and Ethics editor at...
Final Report on Apostolic Visitation of Institutes of Women Religious in US
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Dec 15, 2014 at 6:00 pm Here below is the Vatican-released Final Report on the Apostolic Visitation of Institutes of Women Religious in the United States of America: ***
Introduction
At the...
Beware the Anti-Advent of the Anti-Christ
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Dec 15, 2014 at 6:00 pm The season of Advent is filled with emotions of expectation, longing and anticipation, however these emotions are not only present for four weeks in December, they are a basic...
Vatican Officials Say US Sisters 'Experiencing Challenging Times' Prompted Visit
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Dec 15, 2014 at 6:00 pm The prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life has said the pastoral visit to nuns in the United States was prompted because...
Discourses of US Sisters at Vatican Press Conference
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Dec 15, 2014 at 6:00 pm Here below are some of the discourses from today's press conference for the presentation of the Final Report on the Apostolic Visitation of Institutes of Women Religious in the...
Can a mother forgive her daughter's killer? A documentary says Yes (Video)
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Dec 15, 2014 at 6:00 pm A documentary, titled 'The Heart of a Murderer' tells the story. To view the video click here URL: http://www.romereports.com/pg159547-can-a-mother-forgive-her-daughter-s-...
US Sister Charged With Being Visitor of Nation's Nuns Thanks Holy See
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Dec 15, 2014 at 6:00 pm In the wake of a Vatican-prompted visit and report of US nuns sometimes portrayed as a contentious battle between the sisters and the Vatican, women religious involved are saying...
Pope Says Disabled People Create Communities, Remind Us That No One Is Free of Limitations
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Dec 15, 2014 at 6:00 pm Pope Francis says that disabled people create communities and teach us to "welcome one another with one’s limitations, because we all have capacities, but we all have limitations...
Top Campaigner Against Sex-Selection Abortion in China Takes In Two Young Girls
LifeNews.com - Dec 15, 2014 at 5:58 pm Reggie Little John may not be a household name but she is well-known in the international political community as the top campaigner against gendercide — the brutal killing of “...
US asks Vatican to help relocate Guantanamo inmates
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 15, 2014 at 5:21 pm Vatican City, Dec 15, 2014 / 04:21 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- On Monday, the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met briefly with his Vatican counterpart, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, to...
Woman Wakes Up After Seizure to Discover She’s Given Birth
LifeNews.com - Dec 15, 2014 at 5:19 pm 23-year-old Gemma Jamieson had the surprise of her life when she woke up from a life-threatening seizure to discover that she had already give birth to her one-pound son.
After...
Looking for Joy
The Reason for Our Hope - Dec 15, 2014 at 5:12 pm As you might guess, there are times when the life of an Archbishop is not easy. Occasions arise when I have to make difficult and painful decisions, or confront situations I would...
“The war on Christmas is over. Jesus won.”
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 15, 2014 at 5:04 pm That’s the eye-catching headline of this item in The Washington Post, summarizing a new report from those folks at Pew: A new Pew Research Center survey finds nearly three-...
Media that crucified “Bishop of Bling” silent on overspending, Francis “gang of nine” Cardinal Marx
LifeSiteNews - Dec 15, 2014 at 5:01 pm Left-leaning Cardinal Reinhardt Marx, one of Pope Francis’s “gang of nine” key advisors, spends €130 million – for starters – on a diocesan “service centre” in his diocese of...
Honoring Our Lady In December
CatholicMom.com - Dec 15, 2014 at 5:00 pm My mom or as I lovingly called her “ma” had a great devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe. She and I would go to the novena masses ,offered at our parish, before her feast day on...
Should a Father Have Custody if He Pressured His Partner to Have an Abortion?
LifeNews.com - Dec 15, 2014 at 4:55 pm In Missouri, a new pro-life measure (HB 182) would allow a court to deny a father custody of his child if he attempted to coerce the mother into getting an abortion. In 2009, the...
The Weekly Francis – Volume 82 – 15 December 2014
The Curt Jester - Dec 15, 2014 at 4:53 pm This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 20 November – 13 December 2014.
The Weekly Francis is a compilation of the Holy Father’s writings...
