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The Weekly Francis – 15 December 2014
Jimmy Akin.org - Dec 15, 2014 at 4:51 pm This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 20 November – 13 December 2014.
Note: The Vatican has translated very few documents into English...
If a Fetus is Just a “Clump of Cells” Explain These Unborn Babies Getting Surgery in the Womb
LifeNews.com - Dec 15, 2014 at 4:26 pm The Daily Signal has an in-depth article today on doctors’ controversial efforts to perform successful surgeries on babies. Of course, no one would ever find such a story...
Best Books of 2014 (Part 2)
Commonweal - Dec 15, 2014 at 4:20 pm Mark Logsdon, who has been an essential part of our conversation of the Marilynne Robinson novels, suggested that we take a bit of a break before our discussion of Lila. I’m...
Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz Gives Away Glittery Penis Ornament at Christmas Party
LifeNews.com - Dec 15, 2014 at 3:58 pm Planned Parenthood often goes beyond the pale, but this one may take the cake. During a Christmas party earlier this month, the Maryland affiliate of the Planned Parenthood...
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo orders insurance companies to cover ‘sex change’ procedures
LifeSiteNews - Dec 15, 2014 at 3:57 pm But New York is the ninth state to demand that insurers cover “sex changes” after growing pressure from transgender activists.
Pope Francis to media: People are more valuable than 'hits'
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 15, 2014 at 3:54 pm Vatican City, Dec 15, 2014 / 02:54 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Catholics working in media would do well to remember that communications is about informing people – not collecting “hits...
What does preparing the way of the Lord mean?
Communio - Dec 15, 2014 at 3:47 pm Gaudete Sunday’s Office of Readings from a sermon of St. Augustine:
“To prepare the way” means to pray well; it means thinking humbly of oneself. We should take our lesson from...
Markets in Vienna offer taste of Old World Christmas
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Dec 15, 2014 at 3:41 pm VIENNA — Tucked behind the Austrian capital’s well known Museumsquartier — a complex of art, natural history and cultural museums — is a little side street Christmas market called...
Obamacare architect who pushed social benefits of aborting poor children tells Congress he has ‘no philosophy of abortion’
LifeSiteNews - Dec 15, 2014 at 3:40 pm 'What you inferred is that if we reduce the number of children born, life will be better for the rest of us still living,' Rep. Thomas Massie, R-KY, said as he questioned Jonathan...
Having fun hunting and scouting
Catholic Hot Dish - Dec 15, 2014 at 3:32 pm I have visited the property I bow hunt in Wisconsin twice over the last three days. I hunted there Friday morning, and did a little scouting yesterday afternoon.
I did not see a...
How to Stop Feeling Like a “Failure” and Stay Focused This Advent
CatholicMom.com - Dec 15, 2014 at 3:30 pm
The third week of Advent has just begun, and many of us are probably looking forward to the ‘climax’ of this season — Christmas!
Some of us, though, may be feeling a bit down...
Next Up: The Nuns
Whispers in the Loggia - Dec 15, 2014 at 3:27 pm Nearly six years since the Holy See stoked widespread shock by opening an Apostolic Visitation of the US' orders of women's religious engaged in apostolic work – and almost three...
About that celestial menagerie ...
Commonweal - Dec 15, 2014 at 3:22 pm Leave it to Dave Gibson to ferret out the facts on Pope Francis’s alleged comments about pets going to heaven.
Doctor Stops Just Short of Saying Euthanize Patients for Their Organs
LifeNews.com - Dec 15, 2014 at 3:18 pm For the past few years doctors in Belgium have linked organ donation to euthanasia. Recently the Dutch Minister of Public Health, Edith Schippers proposed guidelines for...
Papuan bishop decries witch hunts, violence against women
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 15, 2014 at 3:03 pm Wabag, Papua New Guinea, Dec 15, 2014 / 02:03 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A bishop in Papua New Guinea last week condemned the witch hunts which take place in the country, where many...
Woman With Same Cancer as Brittany Maynard Refuses Treatment to Have Her Baby
LifeNews.com - Dec 15, 2014 at 3:00 pm A 32-year-old mother found out she had stage IV glioblastoma when she was eight weeks pregnant with her second child. After the diagnosis, Julie and Luke Prater decided not to...
The real 'Exodus': media coverage that goes beyond the dollar signs
GetReligion - Dec 15, 2014 at 3:00 pm Ridley Scott mustered $140 million for Exodus, his epic on the biblical Passover story, only to see it reap a mediocre $24.5 million last weekend. But the real-life plagues struck...
Tory leadership hopeful ‘wholeheartedly disagrees’ with PC education critic who backed Wynne’s graphic sex ed
LifeSiteNews - Dec 15, 2014 at 2:59 pm 'I’ve heard from thousands of parents who are concerned about the hidden agenda that Kathleen Wynne has when it comes to sex-education in Ontario,' says Monte McNaughton.
Polemic Contra “Elf on the Shelf”
Quartermaster of the Barque - Dec 15, 2014 at 2:46 pm Christmas is not a magical season. Magic (apart from that which originates from the demonic) is not real. Telling children to believe in magic and fiction in connection with the...
Minnesota Taxpayers Forced to Fund 65,000 Abortions Since 1995
LifeNews.com - Dec 15, 2014 at 2:37 pm More than 65,000 unborn babies have been killed in Minnesota with taxpayer funds since a Dec. 15, 1995, Minnesota Supreme Court ruling required taxpayers to fund abortions,...
