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Teen Mom Abandoned Her Newborn Baby, Buried Child Alive in the Dirt
LifeNews.com - Nov 13, 2014 at 9:09 am On Monday, 17-year-old Jessica Brewster (right) was arrested after the body of her newborn baby was found partially buried in the dirt behind a senior residence. Authorities say...
The saint who protected the Jews of Lincoln
Catholic Herald - Nov 13, 2014 at 8:56 am A leading figure in the 12th century proto-Renaissance, Hugh of Lincoln has suffered a spectacular historical decline, going from being one of the most famous saints in English...
Pope commissions showers for the homeless under the colonnades at St. Peter’s
The Deacon's Bench - Nov 13, 2014 at 8:51 am Remarkable: “Father, I can’t go to the restaurant with you because I smell.” Franco is a homeless man from Sardinia, he has a bristly grey beard and weather-beaten skin. At the...
Bishop Marcus Stock is installed in Leeds
Catholic Herald - Nov 13, 2014 at 8:46 am The Diocese of Leeds today gained a new bishop after a two-and-a-half-year wait.
Bishop Marcus Stock was installed at Leeds cathedral during a three-hour ordination Mass.
The main...
Daily Readings: November 16-22
Catholic Herald - Nov 13, 2014 at 8:43 am Ordinary Form
Divine Office Week I
Sunday, November 16: Thirty-third Sunday of the Year
Prv 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31; Ps 128;
1 Thes 5:1-6; Mt 25:14-30
Monday, November 17:St...
The Scriptures invite us to take stock of our lives
Catholic Herald - Nov 13, 2014 at 8:35 am As the days shorten and the year draws to an end, the Scriptures invite us to take stock of our lives. We are the stewards of all that we have received. Life itself is a gift....
India Must Abandon Population Control Sterilization Campaigns After a Dozen Women Die
LifeNews.com - Nov 13, 2014 at 8:34 am Eleven women have died after undergoing laparoscopic tubectomies as part of a mass sterilization campaign in Chhattisgarh, India. Of the more than 80 women who underwent the...
S0, What DOES Jesus Do With Ghosts?
CatholicMom.com - Nov 13, 2014 at 8:30 am From the mouth of a babe, straight from the heart of God
public domain
Years ago, my father-in-law father, a police officer, had given our family free tickets to a large three-...
Meet the Catholic priest risking his life to save Muslims
The Deacon's Bench - Nov 13, 2014 at 8:26 am A remarkable and inspiring witness, from The Guardian: The test of faith for which Father Bernard Kinvi had waited half his life arrived one January dawn when a heavily armed man...
UST-Houston Prof. Criticizes Some Catholic Colleges as ‘Hot-Beds of Anti-Catholicism’
Catholic Education Daily - Nov 13, 2014 at 8:25 am Dr. Randall Smith, professor of theology at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, argued in a recent article for Aleteia that something must be done about institutions that...
Thomas Aquinas College Announces Tuition Freeze for Next Academic Year
Catholic Education Daily - Nov 13, 2014 at 8:13 am Thomas Aquinas College (TAC) in Santa Paula, Calif.,recently announced a tuition freeze for the year. The College’s goal is that a TAC education remains a “viable” option for...
Croaked: A boy and his toad
OSV Daily Take - Nov 13, 2014 at 8:04 am The toad only had three legs, but that was the least of its problems once Jacob came upon him.
RNS gives story of Kenya Catholic bishops' tetanus-vaccine standoff its best shot
GetReligion - Nov 13, 2014 at 8:00 am
Since I wrote in this space about mainstream media ignoring the story of the standoff between Kenya's Catholic bishops and their country's government concerning a tetanus-...
Pope Francis: “The Kingdom of God is close to us everyday”
The Deacon's Bench - Nov 13, 2014 at 7:58 am From his homily this morning: In the silence of a home, where there may only be 50 cents left until the end of the month, but where there is always prayer, care for children and...
Pope Francis receives the president of Austria
News.va - Nov 13, 2014 at 7:47 am Vatican City, 13 November 2014 (VIS) – This morning, in the Vatican Apostolic Palace, the Holy Father Francis received in audience the president of the Republic of Austria, Heinz...
Catholics and Muslims working together for others
News.va - Nov 13, 2014 at 7:45 am (Vatican Radio) The Catholic-Muslim Forum held its third Seminar in Rome from Tuesday 11th to Thursday 13th November 2014. The theme it took as its main topic for deliberation was...
Catholics and Muslims, working together to serve others
News.va - Nov 13, 2014 at 7:45 am Vatican City, 13 November 2014 (VIS) – The third seminar of the Catholic-Muslim Forum was held in Rome from 11 to 13 November, on the theme “Working Together to Serve Others”....
The deadly cost of population control: India's targeted women
EWTN - US Latest News - Nov 13, 2014 at 7:30 am Denver, Colo., Nov 13, 2014 / 07:30 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- India's population control policy is under fire after at least 14 women
died following botched sterilizations due to...
US Catechism Goes Online in English and Spanish
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Nov 13, 2014 at 7:07 am An online version of the United States Catholic Catechism for Adults has been released by a committee of the US bishops' conference. The Committee on Evangelization and...
A Palestrina Mass in Philadelphia for the Dedication of Ss Peter and Paul
New Liturgical Movement - Nov 13, 2014 at 7:06 am A Solemn High Mass according to the 1962 Roman Missal will be offered at the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia on...
