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Pennsylvania: Pro-Life Gov. Tom Corbett Gaining on Pro-Abortion Tom Wolf
LifeNews.com - Aug 6, 2014 at 5:01 pm Pro-life Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, who has frequently been cited as one of the most vulnerable incumbent governors in the 2014 election cycle, is gaining ground,...
Directions for Life and Death
CatholicMom.com - Aug 6, 2014 at 5:00 pm I was in the middle of a life and death crisis, and I had no idea where to turn. Literally, I didn’t know where to turn as I idled at a red light completely disorientated,...
Four ordained for Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest
Saint Louis Review - St. Louis News - Aug 6, 2014 at 4:39 pm By Dave Luecking | daveluecking@archstl.org | twitter: @stlreviewscribe
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Woman Gives Birth to Baby Boy and Dumps Him in the Trash, Miraculously He Survives
LifeNews.com - Aug 6, 2014 at 4:33 pm A 22-year-old Indianapolis woman, accused of giving birth last Friday to a baby boy in the restroom of her job and then dumping him in the trash before going back to work, was...
A salute to Officer Scott Patrick
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Aug 6, 2014 at 4:23 pm Photos by Dave Hrbacek/The Catholic Spirit
Mary Landrieu: ‘Life is a Gift From God,” But Abortion’s Okay
LifeNews.com - Aug 6, 2014 at 3:52 pm Mary Landrieu, a Democratic senator from Louisiana, claims she respect the dignity of human life and she reportedly holds strong Catholic views. But she also thinks abortion on...
Boy, I Hope Not
Creative Minority Report - Aug 6, 2014 at 3:47 pm George Weigel, observing the occasion of his 1,000th column makes this statement.Yet one more conviction links the 1000 columns, and in fact dates back to the earlier series of...
Top 16 Reasons Why Staying on Top of Things is Over-rated
CatholicMom.com - Aug 6, 2014 at 3:30 pm Is it just me or has the whole world gone OCD? I don’t know about you, but I am finding that nine out of ten of my mommy friends are highly-organized, super-efficient, supremely-...
Ben Carson: We Called Ancient Civilizations Heathens Because They Sacrificed Babies, But We Abort Them
LifeNews.com - Aug 6, 2014 at 3:24 pm Dr. Ben Carson has a way of putting things in perspective that endears him to pro-life activists. The neurosurgeon and the author of six best-selling books makes another...
Five Things To Remember On Aug. 6
USCCB Media Blog - Aug 6, 2014 at 3:14 pm 1. Today is the anniversary of Pope Paul VI's death. Pope Francis said, “I remember him with affection and admiration, given how he lived a life totally dedicated to serving the...
Peruvian abortion law prompts call for prayer, fasting
Catholic News Agency - General - Aug 6, 2014 at 3:08 pm Lima, Peru, Aug 6, 2014 / 02:08 pm (CNA).- Archbishop Jose Antonio Eguren of Piura and Tumbes in Peru is calling on the faithful to pray and fast, asking God for the reversal of...
A First Mass and Some New Vestments in the Diocese of Charlotte, NC
New Liturgical Movement - Aug 6, 2014 at 3:00 pm We are very pleased to offer our congratulations to Fr. Noah Carter, who was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, on June 28th. The following...
Why are Pro-Abortion Groups Rebranding? They’re Losing With Young People
LifeNews.com - Aug 6, 2014 at 2:53 pm The New York Times ran an interesting article last week about how supporters of legal abortion are backing away from the label “pro-choice.” But supporters of legal abortion...
Priest sees ‘kinship’ between Chesterton, church’s ‘Little Flower’
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Aug 6, 2014 at 2:51 pm MUNDELEIN, Ill. — Whether a sainthood cause will be opened for G.K. Chesterton is uncertain, but for a Catholic priest investigating the life of the much-beloved British...
Eyeroll of the Day
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Aug 6, 2014 at 2:49 pm Julian Bond sez right to abortion same as right to eat at lunch counter.
I’m thinking Alveda King doesn’t buy that bushwah.
Painfully familiar "ghost" in the shooting of the U.S. general
GetReligion - Aug 6, 2014 at 2:30 pm
What we have here is -- alas -- an example of a religion-new "ghost" that your GetReligionistas could write about day after day after day, world without end, amen.
For newcomers...
Los Angeles Times: No Difference Between Yanking a Tooth and Yanking Off Baby’s Arm in Abortion
LifeNews.com - Aug 6, 2014 at 2:27 pm Interesting pair of commentaries in the Los Angeles Times tell us a lot about the state of the abortion battle and the disarray within the pro-abortion community.
First an...
Transfiguration: “The spring goes down to suffer thirst; and you refuse to suffer?”
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Aug 6, 2014 at 2:26 pm This is the Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord.
The word transfiguratio is interesting in itself. In classical, post-Augustan Latin Pliny used this for “a change of shape”....
Conference on Church Architecture Announced at the Liturgical Institute in Mundelein
Creative Minority Report - Aug 6, 2014 at 2:13 pm *subhead*Decoding the Christian Temple.*subhead*Is your church beige, boring and forgettable? Chances are, it hasn't been thought of as a sacramental building and its architect...
Pope says memorize the beatitudes, assess your care for the needy
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Aug 6, 2014 at 1:49 pm VATICAN CITY — Christians should memorize not only the Ten Commandments but also the beatitudes, which Jesus taught as the path to true happiness, Pope Francis said.
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