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The Salmon Cannon: Technological Apex of Civilization

Catholic and Enjoying It! - Nov 12, 2014 at 3:26 pm
I require this for my complete happiness and fulfilment as a human being: WE CAN DO GREAT THINGS!

Compassion in Action–One Year after Typhoon Haiyan

CatholicMom.com - Nov 12, 2014 at 3:17 pm
It’s hard to believe that we’re only a few days beyond the one year anniversary of Typhoon Haiyan and that the news from the Philippines brings many stories of recovery and...

Nurses and Ebola: MSNBC story tells a story of faith and courage

GetReligion - Nov 12, 2014 at 3:00 pm
"MSNBC can do a decent religion story? Miracles do happen," a friend of GR said in a tip about an article on nurses volunteering to fight Ebola. And the tipster is right. For a...

Doctors Told Her Parents to Bury Her Because She Would Die Soon, Now She’s a Pro-Life Advocate

LifeNews.com - Nov 12, 2014 at 2:49 pm
While Hillary Clinton supports abortion on demand in the United States for any unborn child, another Hilary (spelled with one “L”) out of the UK has emerged with a positive...

End extreme inequality

The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Nov 12, 2014 at 2:25 pm
Last month, Oxfam America launched a global campaign to address extreme inequality. As part of this campaign, Oxfam, a nonprofit organization that works to find solutions to...

Beatification cause opened for Brazil's 'Surfer Angel'

Catholic News Agency - General - Nov 12, 2014 at 2:24 pm
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Nov 12, 2014 / 01:24 pm (CNA).- The Congregation for the Causes of Saints has approved the cause of beatification of Guido Schaffer, who was a Brazilian...

ASK FATHER: Tactical Clerics

What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Nov 12, 2014 at 2:20 pm
Speaking of clerical garb, I am, oddly enough, fairly often asked about my black clerical shirts. I have adapted some 5.11 Tactical shirts, both ripstop and cotton, and both short...

Desperate Mom Who’s Had 13 Miscarriages Would Sell Wedding Ring to Pay for Adoption

LifeNews.com - Nov 12, 2014 at 2:05 pm
At LifeNews over 22 years we’ve reported on occasions on which some mothers seem to have an abortion pretty cavalierly without any consequence to the taking of their little boy or...

Revision of ritual for dedicating altar, other liturgy items approved

The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Nov 12, 2014 at 2:04 pm
BALTIMORE — With little discussion except over a handful of minor amendments, the U.S. bishops accepted four liturgical items Nov. 11 during their annual fall general assembly in...

Paraplegic Veteran Surprises His Bride With First Dance on Their Wedding Day

LifeNews.com - Nov 12, 2014 at 1:41 pm
Paraplegic veteran, Sergeant Joey Johnson surprised his wife when he got out of his wheelchair for the first dance at their wedding. Sgt. Johnson served for ten months in...

USCCB report: Young Catholics “agree to disagree” about some Church teachings

The Deacon's Bench - Nov 12, 2014 at 1:39 pm
From Catholic News Agency:  While a failure to understand doctrine is present in many segments of the Catholic population, young adults are exhibiting an alarmingly casual...

Revision of ritual for dedicating altar, exorcisms, other liturgy items approved

The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Nov 12, 2014 at 1:29 pm
With little discussion except over a handful of minor amendments, the U.S. bishops accepted four liturgical items Nov. 11 during their annual fall general assembly in Baltimore...

The loving gift of authority

Credo Catholic - Nov 12, 2014 at 1:15 pm
I am the oldest of four girls. My father undoubtedly loves each one of us unconditionally. When we were growing up, he made us pancakes on Saturday mornings, took us to the park...

Priest swaps clerical hats with a 'sharp, healthy' Benedict XVI

Catholic News Agency - General - Nov 12, 2014 at 12:49 pm
Rome, Italy, Nov 12, 2014 / 11:49 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A priest who met and exchanged zucchettos with retired pontiff Benedict XVI last week marveled at the former pope's joy,...

Inside Iraq: “I cry every day. I pray and I am fasting. I am simply hoping…”

The Deacon's Bench - Nov 12, 2014 at 12:45 pm
The Autumn edition of ONE, the magazine of CNEWA, is now online, and the centerpiece is an astonishing and moving glimpse at life for Iraqi Christian refugees in Erbil. Journalist...

Glorious Roman church eye-candy

What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Nov 12, 2014 at 12:33 pm
At the Mail online there are some spectacular wide-angle photos straight up at the ceilings of some Roman churches. Here is one. These churches are expressions of identity. They...

How Many Catholic Churches Are There?

CatholicMom.com - Nov 12, 2014 at 12:30 pm
If someone were to ask you how many Catholic Churches there are in the world, what would be your response? Not small ‘c’ churches referring to church buildings, but rather Church...

The Energizer Preacher: Florida pastor breaks world record for longest speech

The Deacon's Bench - Nov 12, 2014 at 12:25 pm
Priests and deacons: try to break this record next Sunday and tell me what happens. From The Christian Post:  A Florida Pastor recently broke the Guinness world record for the...

Judge Who Decides if Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz Must Close is Former Board Member

LifeNews.com - Nov 12, 2014 at 12:23 pm
Federal Court Judge Timothy Black, who formally served on the Board of Directors of Planned Parenthood in Cincinnati, has been appointed to hear a suit brought by that same...

Article: Dystopia, <i>The Hunger Games</i> and the critique of the culture of death

Decent Films Guide - Nov 12, 2014 at 12:20 pm
The word utopia was coined by St. Thomas More in his book of that name — an important and enigmatic work of fiction and political philosophy generally understood as some sort of...
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