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Belgium to execute rapist-murderer—at his request
The Deacon's Bench - Sep 15, 2014 at 2:54 pm From the BBC: A Belgian man serving a life sentence for rape and murder will be allowed to have doctors end his life, after a landmark ruling. Unable to control his violent sexual...
Sri Lanka: “Don’t force political issues on the Pope, says Cardinal Ranjith
Vatican Insider - Sep 15, 2014 at 2:29 pmOur Lady of Sorrows
Communio - Sep 15, 2014 at 2:26 pm Today, Pope Francis delivered this homily for the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows:
“Jesus came into the world to learn how to be a man, and by being a man, walk with men. He came...
Victims of Communism will be focus of Pope's visit to Albania
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 15, 2014 at 2:21 pm During his September 21 visit to Albania, Pope Francis will pay tribute to the victims of Communism, the Vatican has announced.
Father Federico Lombardi, the director of the...
Catholic Employees Fight Back Against Being Forced to Pay for Abortions
LifeNews.com - Sep 15, 2014 at 2:18 pm Life Legal Defense Foundation and Alliance Defending Freedom have filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services over the California Department of...
Middle East is greatest crisis since World War II, cardinal says
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 15, 2014 at 2:15 pm Addressing a meeting of Catholic charitable agencies involved with the Middle East, Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga said that the conflicts in that region have produced "the...
10 Years Without Michael Davies - I - Protestant Liturgical Revolution as Precursor of Catholic Upheaval
Rorate Coeli - Sep 15, 2014 at 2:12 pm Michael Davies in 1959. He was 23 at the time,
and a recent convert from a Baptist background.
Traditional Catholics seem to be few and spread our in our age -- but they are...
Cardinals discussing mergers of pontifical councils, creation of new congregations?
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 15, 2014 at 2:05 pm As the Council of Cardinals holds its 6th meeting (see today's separate CWN headline story), Andrea Tornielli of La Stampa writes that the discussions will focus on proposals to...
3 Things We Can Learn from Our Lady of Sorrows
CatholicMom.com - Sep 15, 2014 at 2:00 pm
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Today, September 15, is the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. It is a time to remember and reflect on the Seven Sorrows of Mary, and the...
Psychiatrist Wants to Push Mentally Ill Patients Into Assisted Suicide
LifeNews.com - Sep 15, 2014 at 1:51 pm When you begin to redefine terms to permit some suicides, you have surrendered to suicide.
Case in point: In Psychiatric Times, Psychiatrist H. Steven Moffic advocates renaming...
Catholics played key role in legislative action
Saint Louis Review - St. Louis News - Sep 15, 2014 at 1:20 pm Joseph Kenny | jkenny@archstl.org | twitter: @josephkenny2
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This could make me want to take up golf
The Deacon's Bench - Sep 15, 2014 at 12:56 pm Behold, the Golf Board: From the website: The most innovative invention for golf since the advent of the graphite shaft, the GolfBoard is going to change the way you experience...
Amazing Time-Lapse Video Shows Beauty of Life From Infancy to Old Age
LifeNews.com - Sep 15, 2014 at 12:44 pm A beautiful new time-lapse video celebrates the beauty of life as Korean artist and illustrator Seok Jeong Hyeon transforms a baby to an old woman in minutes.
“Seok, who is better...
Religion ≠ Magic; Jesus ≠ Illusionist
CatholicMom.com - Sep 15, 2014 at 12:30 pm Dear Atheist,
There’s nothing like a good magic show, huh? Harry Houdini knew this as the all-time great illusionist. David Copperfield is right behind him in the theater of...
Does the EF Have Too Much Pomp?
New Liturgical Movement - Sep 15, 2014 at 12:30 pm So often, I have heard it said that the Extraordinary Form of the Mass was filled with too much pomp, too many rules, and that it's not what Christ wanted, as if the church was...
Sunday Vespers starting soon at the Oratory in Formation in DC
New Liturgical Movement - Sep 15, 2014 at 12:29 pm Sunday Vespers starting soon at the Oratory in Formation in DC:It is a long established custom in Oratorian communities to sing Vespers (Evening Prayer of the Church) on Sundays...
Do you use intinction?
The Deacon's Bench - Sep 15, 2014 at 12:12 pm I’ve never see this done in parishes around the United States, but Fr. Z took note of this practice during yesterday’s big wedding Mass at St. Peter’s: His Holiness, again, did...
Teacher Sexts 14-Year-Old Then Gives Her Money for Plan B Morning After Pill
LifeNews.com - Sep 15, 2014 at 12:11 pm A Pennsylvania teacher has been accused of “sexting”, or sending sexual messages to underage students and providing a teen with money to purchase the morning after birth control...
Our Sorrowful Mother, Queen of Martyrs
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Sep 15, 2014 at 12:00 pm Today is the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Can you name them?
Here the entry from the Roman Martyrology:
Memoria beatae Mariae Virginis perdolentis, quae, iuxta...
