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The knives that were out for Card. Burke, are now being sharpened for…
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Nov 12, 2014 at 12:20 pm Marco Tosatti, more and more a guy to follow in the Italian press for analysis of churchy things, has a piece at La Stampa about Card. Pell and how things are going in the Curia....
Digital Resources for Liturgical Studies
New Liturgical Movement - Nov 12, 2014 at 12:16 pm Following my recent series of posts on the feast and octave of All Saints, I received two requests from people who wanted to know how to get their own electronic copies of the...
New Directions in Ecumenical & Interfaith Relations in the Mind & Heart of Pope Francis
Vatican Insider - Nov 12, 2014 at 12:08 pmUK pro-lifers take rare legal punch against sex-selective abortion
EWTN - World Catholic News - Nov 12, 2014 at 12:01 pm London, England, Nov 12, 2014 / 12:40 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Claiming that the government has turned a blind eye to sex-selective
abortions, British pro-life activists are launching...
Dad Impregnates Daughter After Raping Her and Forces Her to Have Abortion
LifeNews.com - Nov 12, 2014 at 11:50 am The pro-life movement has long pointed out that abortion is used to cover up cases of rape or incest and a horrific story out of Egypt proves the point.
According to a local news...
Obamacare architect calls American voters stupid
Catholic Vote - Nov 12, 2014 at 11:44 am The architect of Obamacare, Jonathan Gruber, is caught on camera saying voters are ‘stupid’ and can easily be fooled by lack of political transparency. He said that backers of...
UK pro-lifers take rare legal punch against sex-selective abortion
Catholic News Agency - General - Nov 12, 2014 at 11:40 am London, England, Nov 12, 2014 / 10:40 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Claiming that the government has turned a blind eye to sex-selective abortions, British pro-life activists are launching...
Bishops OK liturgy items, endorse sainthood cause, hold elections
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Nov 12, 2014 at 11:22 am Though there were no actions on the U.S. bishops' agenda in Baltimore dealing with immigration, poverty and other public policy issues, the president of their conference said Nov...
Hitler in a Church Painting...With Jesus!
Creative Minority Report - Nov 12, 2014 at 11:13 am So there's a painting in a Christian Church in Germany which appears to have Adolf Hitler standing right next to Jesus. Now, my first thought was that the picture should be tossed...
Making papal lemonade?
Rorate Coeli - Nov 12, 2014 at 11:12 am Reaction to Pope Francis' demotion of Raymond Cardinal Burke has produced further criticism of the Supreme Pontiff by writers and clergy who are considered conservative, but not...
Joseph Smith's many marriages
Commonweal - Nov 12, 2014 at 11:05 am Over the past decade or so, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints—usually known as the “Mormon” or “LDS” church—has moved toward greater transparency about its earliest...
Now on the website
Commonweal - Nov 12, 2014 at 11:03 am Two new items are now featured on the homepage: Robert Mickens’s latest Letter from Rome, in which he details recent key appointments (and continuing vacancies) at the Vatican,...
The Removal of a Great Cardinal, by Roberto de Mattei
Rorate Coeli - Nov 12, 2014 at 11:02 am Cardinals Raymond Burke and József Mindszenty
Corrispondenza Romana
November 12, 2014
The Pope inasmuch as he is supreme pastor of the universal Church, has full right to remove...
Black Thursday and St. Therese of Lisieux
CatholicMom.com - Nov 12, 2014 at 11:00 am In a November 4 article, Time.com ran an article with the headline “Two Dozen Retailers Won’t Open on Thanksgiving And They’re Shaming the Ones That Will”.
This is big news?
I...
“Absolutely Heartbreaking” News Crew Reacts to Seeing Graphic Abortion Images
LifeNews.com - Nov 12, 2014 at 10:59 am (LiveActionNews) — A New Jersey news crew recently produced a story on their own collective reaction to a video developed by Created Equal, a pro-life group that shows graphic...
Yo, New York Times: Religion ghost in your update on Baylor's Kenneth Starr?
GetReligion - Nov 12, 2014 at 10:59 am When your family is full of Baylor University graduates, there is a very good chance that someone is going to send you a link to an A1 piece in The New York Times about the...
New Major at Christendom a ‘First Step’ in Expanding Math, Natural Science Offerings
Catholic Education Daily - Nov 12, 2014 at 10:55 am The new major will distinguish itself from similar programs, said Dr. Greg Townsend, vice president for academic affairs, because students will comprehend "the relationship of the...
Dominican Sisters’ new CD: The Rosary
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Nov 12, 2014 at 10:51 am The Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist released their second CD, The Rosary.
You will remember their 2013 Billboard chart-topping album, Mater Eucharistiae. HERE...
Race the Sun: Solar-Powered Fun
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Nov 12, 2014 at 10:40 am NEW YORK — When you play the video game “Race the Sun” (Flippfly) for the first time, it’s easy to get the impression that you’ve been ripped off.
Here is a minimalistic game that...