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Pope urges scouts to work and pray for a united and peaceful Europe
Vatican Insider - Aug 4, 2014 at 11:54 amFight! Radical Feminism vs. Transgenderism
Creative Minority Report - Aug 4, 2014 at 11:45 am *subhead*The battle is on.*subhead*To be honest, this piece at The New Yorker is one of the most fascinating stories I have read in a long time. It opened my eyes to two foreign...
Dal Covolo on the youth situation: Diagnosis is all very well but it’s treatments that are lacking
Vatican Insider - Aug 4, 2014 at 11:17 amCNN’s “gotcha” piece: Hitting bishops where they live
The Deacon's Bench - Aug 4, 2014 at 11:03 am A few people sent me this link from CNN yesterday, forwarding it with a mix of agitation and umbrage. I meant to get to it and post on it, but stuff—including three Masses and 10...
12 Tricks for a Successful Family Road Trip
CatholicMom.com - Aug 4, 2014 at 11:00 am True confession: the night before we left for our national park road trip my husband and I seriously considered cancelling the whole thing. On a total whim (and moment of fantasy...
Archbishop says he won’t resign, points to progress on abuse claims
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Aug 4, 2014 at 10:50 am ST. PAUL, Minn. — Archbishop John C. Nienstedt of St. Paul and Minneapolis said the archdiocese has made significant progress in improving procedures for addressing sexual abuse...
Sign of peace at Mass: Vatican says it stays put, but urges education
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Aug 4, 2014 at 10:20 am VATICAN CITY — The sign of peace at Mass has not always led to serenity among liturgists or within the congregations gathered each Sunday in Catholic churches around the world...
Get On Up
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Aug 4, 2014 at 10:17 am NEW YORK — “Get On Up” (Universal) is director Tate Taylor’s musically compelling yet morally troubling portrait of the “godfather of soul,” singer James Brown (1933-2006).
The...
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Aug 4, 2014 at 10:09 am NEW YORK — Self-sacrificing, morally elevating love as well as dedicated camaraderie are showcased in the crackerjack sci-fi adventure “Guardians of the Galaxy” (Disney).
While...
Transcending Oppositions: Liturgy as the Synthesis of Faith and Reason
New Liturgical Movement - Aug 4, 2014 at 10:00 am Philipp Rosemann argues that the very incompleteness of the Summa theologiae, which Saint Thomas could not bring himself to complete at the end of his life, should be taken as a...
The inky-fingered Dawn
GetReligion - Aug 4, 2014 at 10:00 am
It is a joy and an honor to join GetReligion, as this site has done much to shape my understanding of the dynamics involved in news coverage of religious issues.
I am a very...
WWKD: The heroic choice of Dr. Kent Brantly, Ebola victim
The Deacon's Bench - Aug 4, 2014 at 9:37 am From Michael Daly in The Daily Beast: The medical evacuation plane reached Dobbins Air Force Base in Georgia at 11:20 a.m. on Saturday with a hero from the hot zone who is the...
A company’s ad shows the Dad as “awesome”?
Catholic Vote - Aug 4, 2014 at 9:36 am Last week, Long John Silver’s had a great ad which affectionately showed a Catholic parish’s fish fry.
This week, the impossible happened: A corporation aired a two-minute online...
“Catholic Mass unlike any you’ve ever seen”
The Deacon's Bench - Aug 4, 2014 at 9:28 am An unusual report, in the secular press, on a unique liturgy being celebrated in Norfolk, Virginia: St. Mary’s should be felt both ways – empty and full. With no one in the pews,...
Pope Francis calls Spanish convent for the second time
Catholic News Agency - General - Aug 4, 2014 at 9:16 am Vatican City, Aug 4, 2014 / 08:16 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Calling a Carmelite convent in Lucena, Spain for the second time since December, Pope Francis contacted the nuns asking them...
Abortion Has Cost the U.S. $16 Trillion in Lost Revenue, The Size of the National Debt
LifeNews.com - Aug 4, 2014 at 9:15 am Washington, DC (LiveAction) — The pro-life movement often talks of the science behind life in the womb, the fact that abortion leaves emotional, psychological and physical scars...
Five Things To Remember on August 4
USCCB Media Blog - Aug 4, 2014 at 8:59 am 1. National Religious Retirement Collection distributed $24 million to retired religious in June and July. http://www.usccb.org/news/2014/14-136.cfm
2. The Vatican recently...
Why is Planned Parenthood Running Away From the Term “Pro-Choice?”
LifeNews.com - Aug 4, 2014 at 8:48 am In January 2013 came news that shocked both sides of the abortion debate: Planned Parenthood had determined the term “pro-choice” was no longer helpful and recommended abandoning...
Exposing the Hypocrisy of Opposing the Death Penalty But Supporting Abortion in 10 Seconds
LifeNews.com - Aug 4, 2014 at 8:32 am One of the biggest hypocrisies in the abortion debate are those abortion defenders who oppose the death penalty because it involves killing a human being but who steadfastly...
The Thief and the Seminarian
CatholicMom.com - Aug 4, 2014 at 8:30 am It was one of the last days of school this past school year. I was in the cafeteria serving cake that my daughter had brought in to celebrate her late-summer birthday with the...
