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Georgetown Becomes First Catholic University to Hire Hindu Chaplain
Catholic Education Daily - Oct 15, 2014 at 11:48 am In addition to providing Catholic chaplains and staff, the University also has a Protestant chaplain and assistant chaplain, Interreligious coordinator, and Orthodox chaplaincy...
Cardinal Kasper: “African Catholics shouldn’t tell us what we have to do” at the synod
The Deacon's Bench - Oct 15, 2014 at 11:45 am Am I the only one who thinks it might be a good idea for Cardial Kasper to take a vow of silence for a few weeks? From First Things: In a stunning new interview, German Cardinal...
Synod groups work to fine tune document on family life
News.va - Oct 15, 2014 at 11:45 am (Vatican Radio) Participants at the Synod on the Family continued their work in small language groups on Wednesday, offering amendments or additions to their working document made...
A short story for the synod?
Commonweal - Oct 15, 2014 at 11:38 am Whether the moment was merely fortuitous or more shrewdly considered, the New Yorker is featuring a short story this week that makes for timely reading during the current synod....
Planned Parenthood Refused to Help Woman Unless She Had an Abortion
LifeNews.com - Oct 15, 2014 at 11:32 am Jeanie, a 40 Days for Life leader in Syracuse, New York, told of a woman who came out of a Planned Parenthood clinic in tears. Jeanie and the people praying with her were able to...
Prayers in Liberia: One strange note in riveting WPost trip inside Ebola zone
GetReligion - Oct 15, 2014 at 11:30 am I have said this many times, but I have nothing but admiration for the reporters who work in war zones and in lands ravaged by disasters of all kinds.
It's hard enough for...
Houston, we have a problem: city subpoenas pastors’ sermons
The Deacon's Bench - Oct 15, 2014 at 11:25 am Is this what we have come to? From The Houston Chronicle: Houston’s embattled equal rights ordinance took another legal turn this week when it surfaced that city attorneys, in an...
Reading Lila with Scott
Commonweal - Oct 15, 2014 at 11:24 am In case you all needed further reason to join Scott Moringiello in reading Marilynne Robinson's new novel, it has just been announced that Lila made the short list for the...
Cardinal: majority of synod now supports Communion for remarried
Catholic Herald - Oct 15, 2014 at 11:08 am Cardinal Walter Kasper has said he believes a “growing majority” of the synod fathers are in favour of his proposal to allow some divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to...
Card. Kasper’s observations about Africa
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Oct 15, 2014 at 11:07 am Card. Kasper has been at the epicenter of the controversies surrounding the ongoing Extraordinary Synod. He set the ball rolling in a speech to a consistory of Cardinals in which...
Release of Highly Anticipated DVD, Mary of Nazareth
CatholicMom.com - Oct 15, 2014 at 11:00 am Mary of Nazareth
MARY of NAZARETH, the epic motion picture on the life of the Blessed Mother from her childhood through the Resurrection of Jesus is available now on DVD. This...
Synod reaction from a bishop: “The sky has not fallen”
The Deacon's Bench - Oct 15, 2014 at 10:58 am Bishop Robert Vasa, from the Diocese of Santa Rosa, has looked over the relatio, and offers this context: It is important to recognize this report does not constitute a final...
Amnesty International Activist Went to Pro-Life Country to Push Abortion
LifeNews.com - Oct 15, 2014 at 10:53 am The time has come for Irish pro-life advocates to question whether they can continue to support Amnesty Ireland.
Three weeks ago, Colm O’Gorman, the Executive Director of Amnesty...
Is the leadership of the Synod dealing from a stacked deck?
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Oct 15, 2014 at 10:37 am Italian journalist Marco Tosatti, who writes for the Italian daily La Stampa, hit it directly on the head today. He points to some facts. You decide. HERE in Italian. My...
Houston Has a Problem: City Subpoenas Preachers’ Sermons over Equal Rights
Catholic Vote - Oct 15, 2014 at 10:37 am Earlier this year, the city of Houston, Texas passed an equal rights ordinance which bans, among other things, discrimination based on gender identity. The ordinance’s greatest...
'Come and See' Day at Allen Hall
Diocese of Westminster - Oct 15, 2014 at 10:26 am There will be a "Come and See" day held at Allen Hall seminary on 25 October 2014.
This retreat day at Allen Hall seminary is for men (aged 18+) who are discerning a possible...
AP: Religious groups to seek exemptions that would allow them to refuse service to gays
The Deacon's Bench - Oct 15, 2014 at 10:22 am Details: Alarmed by the broad expansion of same-sex marriage set in motion by the U.S. Supreme Court, religious conservatives are moving their fight to state legislatures —...
Cardinal Dolan Describes New Structure for Catholic Schools in N.Y. Archdiocese
Catholic Education Daily - Oct 15, 2014 at 10:21 am Catholic schools are absolutely worth fighting for, according to Cardinal Timothy Dolan in a recent article for America magazine discussing the Archdiocese of New York’s new...
College of St. Mary Magdalen Hosts Seminar at Napa Institute Symposium
Catholic Education Daily - Oct 15, 2014 at 10:10 am The College of Saint Mary Magdalen in Warner, N.H., recently held a luncheon and seminar on Catholic solidarity and American individualism in conjunction with the third annual...
Nurse Killed 38 Patients Because She Found Them “Annoying”
LifeNews.com - Oct 15, 2014 at 10:07 am Daniela Poggiali, an Italian nurse, has been arrested for allegedly killing up to 38 patients because she found them or their relatives annoying. One of her victims, Rosa...
