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Media Trips Over Itself to Extol 29-Year-Old Woman Who Plans to Kill Herself
LifeNews.com - Oct 13, 2014 at 3:38 pm We are in the midst of a “suicide epidemic.” Yet, rather than look at causes, many commenters go shallow to focus on methods.
For example, most suicides are by gun. Thus, at Real...
What To Do With Columbus Day?
Commonweal - Oct 13, 2014 at 3:37 pm In most of the United States, today is Columbus Day. Recognition of the holiday is intimately tied with the Catholic presence in the United States, from initial observances by...
Synods are messy. The media quarantine isn’t helping.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Oct 13, 2014 at 3:29 pm One of the reasons why the “Synod of the Media” has been so successful in spinning the Synod is because of the media gag that the head of the Synod of Bishops, Lorenzo Card....
Chinese Dissident: Catholic Church Able to Stand Up to Communism Better than U.S. Gov't
Creative Minority Report - Oct 13, 2014 at 3:11 pm The Catholic Church is the best institution on the face of the planet to face down evil. By saying this, I'm not saying that people affiliated with the Church aren't capable of...
Wendy Davis Doubles Down on Attacking Greg Abbott for Being Paralyzed, Uses Disabled as Props
LifeNews.com - Oct 13, 2014 at 3:03 pm Wendy Davis learned nothing from the overwhelming backlash she faced from both the left and the right over her wheelchair ad last week.
In what may have been one of the most slimy...
'Mass mobs': NYT and NPR report new trend with a bit of flash
GetReligion - Oct 13, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Churches are getting hit by "mobs" in several states -- and that's good, as NPR and the New York Times report. So-called Mass mobs -- takeoffs on flash mobs and cash mobs -- are...
Maoist leader admits 2011 murder of Catholic nun in India
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 13, 2014 at 2:51 pm A Maoist leader in India has admitted that his group killed a Catholic religious in November 2011.
Sister Valsa John was brutally murdered by men who arrived at her residence at...
Calling Stones Bread: A Secret Synod’s Predictable Development of the Tragedy of Modernity
Rorate Coeli - Oct 13, 2014 at 2:37 pm A guest-post by Dr. John C. Rao
Thomas ColeDestruction (The Course of Empire), 1836The New-York Historical Society
Fallen men regularly present error as though it were something...
Beautiful Song Remembers My Baby I Almost Aborted But Who Died Before Birth
LifeNews.com - Oct 13, 2014 at 2:32 pm This is a song about a little girl, my daughter named Lily Katherine, who never took a breath in this world, yet her life has changed mine forever. In August 2009, I was 19 and...
Twin Cities archdiocese settles abuse suit.
Commonweal - Oct 13, 2014 at 2:28 pm At a press conference today, the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and the Diocese of Winona, Minnesota, with attorney Jeff Anderson, announced the settlement of a sexual-...
Minnesota dioceses settle contentious abuse suit, agree to 'child protection plan'
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 13, 2014 at 2:22 pm Diocesan officials in Minnesota have agreed to settle a lawsuit in which victims of sexual abuse made the novel argument that Church leaders had created a "public nuisance" by...
Synod Document Unacceptable: Say Polish Bishops!
Making Things Visible - Oct 13, 2014 at 2:07 pm Rejection!Check out the article. Pray for the Polish Bishops! Pray that other Bishops will have the fortitude to do the same.I suspect, that they will not be the last group to...
My Children Make Me Smile
CatholicMom.com - Oct 13, 2014 at 2:00 pm
My daughter’s school desk decorated for Christmas!
Last month, my youngest, Peter, began kindergarten. I homeschool my children until high school. Excited about coming down the...
Failure to agree on 'rule of law' undermines world security, Vatican delegate tells UN
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 13, 2014 at 1:54 pm In an October 13 address to a UN session on the rule of law, the Vatican's representative said that international agreements are hampered by the absence of a clear understanding...
The Great Division - Wojtyła Nation to the Rescue. President of the Polish Bishops' Conference: "Synod Document Unacceptable"
Rorate Coeli - Oct 13, 2014 at 1:52 pm Archbishop Gądecki: Document of the Synod of Bishops Unacceptable For Many
The document summarizing the first week of the synod is not acceptable to many bishops - so says...
Mgr. Forte: Guaranteeing gay people’s rights is a matter of respect
Vatican Insider - Oct 13, 2014 at 1:52 pmPlanned Parenthood Complains: “As the World Fixates on a Single Ebola Case, Abortion Clinics are Closing”
LifeNews.com - Oct 13, 2014 at 1:49 pm The Planned Parenthood abortion business has a history of exploiting tragic circumstances to promote abortion and the recent worldwide attention the Ebola virus and its victims...
Be wary of news reports about the what the Synod is up to
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Oct 13, 2014 at 1:42 pm We must be wary about the “Synod of the Media”.
There is a Synod of Bishops that takes place and there is the way the MSM and also Catholic (especial catholic) media spins the...
Synod interim report: the Church can renew commitment to family
Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 13, 2014 at 1:18 pm Vatican City, Oct 13, 2014 / 12:18 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The approach to irregular unions must start from positive aspects, and stable couples should be accompanied in a...
Words Are Not Adequate, but Here They Are
Saint Louis Catholic - Oct 13, 2014 at 1:03 pm You will read many takes by Catholic bloggers on the relatio post disceptationem issued today by the Synod against on the Family. No doubt others will have better points of view...
