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Pope says communists stole Christianity's concern for poor
Catholic News Agency - General - Jun 30, 2014 at 4:52 pm Vatican City, Jun 30, 2014 / 03:52 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In a new interview about moral and material poverty, Pope Francis has stressed that care for the poor is ultimately...
Historian confident in eventual beatification for Pope Pius XII
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 30, 2014 at 4:45 pm Father Peter Gumpel, a Jesuit historian who has been active for years in the cause for beatification of Pope Pius XII, has told the Zenit news agency that he is confident the...
Obama Wants to Force Americans to Pay for Abortion-Causing Drugs Since He Can’t Force Hobby Lobby
LifeNews.com - Jun 30, 2014 at 4:36 pm So just how is the Obama administration spinning the Supreme Court’s decision today that dealt it a devastating blow? Now that President Barcack Obama can’t force Hobby Lobby and...
ISIL power threatens Christians in Syria, Iraq
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 30, 2014 at 4:33 pm The growing power of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which now controls much of Iraq and Syria, has roused new fears for Christians in the region.
Two Chaldean...
Spanish king, enthroned without religious ceremony, meets with Pontiff
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 30, 2014 at 4:23 pm King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain met with Pope Francis at the Vatican on June 30.
The visit to Rome was the first foreign trip by King Felipe since he assumed the Spanish...
Hobby Lobby in narrow win; Little Sisters of the Poor on deck
GetReligion - Jun 30, 2014 at 4:20 pm So why are the Little Sisters of the Poor at the top of this post as the tsunami of Hobby Lobby coverage continues? So far, the mainstream press coverage of today’s U.S. Supreme...
Australian bishop 'emphatically denies' child-abuse charge, will appear in court
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 30, 2014 at 4:18 pm Bishop Max Davis, who heads the ordinariate serving Australia's armed forces, has been charged with sexual abuse.
Bishop Davis will appear in court on July 25 in response to the...
Pope selects Michigan priest to become bishop
Catholic News Agency - General - Jun 30, 2014 at 4:15 pm Lansing, Mich., Jun 30, 2014 / 03:15 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis has named Monsignor Steven J. Raica of the Diocese of Lansing to become the next bishop of Gaylord, Mich.
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Vatican reaches banking accord with US
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 30, 2014 at 4:10 pm The Vatican's Financial Information Authority (AIF) has signed an agreement with the US Comptroller of the Currency, providing for cooperation in banking regulations aimed at ...
Nigerian prelate asks for prayers after new Islamic attacks
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 30, 2014 at 4:04 pm The president of the Nigerian Catholic bishops' conference has asked for prayers for his country, after a new rash of attacks by Islamic terrorists.
Dozens of people were killed...
Justina Pelletier: “No One Should Be Put Through That — No One”
LifeNews.com - Jun 30, 2014 at 4:01 pm Justina Pelletier, the teenager at the heart of a controversial case of whether or not government can take away children from their parents and make their medical decisions for...
Korean officials 'very nervous' about security for papal visit
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 30, 2014 at 3:59 pm Government officials in South Korea are "very nervous" about security arrangements for an August visit by Pope Francis, the AsiaNews service reports.
The Pope will be in South...
Council of Cardinals to weigh consolidation of pontifical councils
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 30, 2014 at 3:54 pm The Council of Cardinals will begin four days of meetings on July 1, with the focus expected to be on reorganization of the Roman Curia.
After the last meeting of the Council of...
New Seminary in France, also for Extraordinary Form!
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jun 30, 2014 at 3:51 pm I am delighted at this news I just received via email:
I thought you might be interested in learning about the new seminary that will be established presently in the diocese of...
Bahrain: construction beginning for Catholic cathedral
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 30, 2014 at 3:49 pm Construction is due to begin on a Catholic cathedral in Bahrain, one of the few Islamic countries that allows freedom of worship for Christians.
When Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa...
New issue, now live
Commonweal - Jun 30, 2014 at 3:41 pm Our summer fiction is now live, featuring Liam Callahan’s short story “Exhibit A”; Mollie Wilson O’Reilly’s essay on reading George Eliot’s Middlemarch and Rebecca Mead’s book, My...
Pope Francis and the Pallia
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jun 30, 2014 at 3:38 pm Did you notice that Pope Francis, for Sts. Peter and Paul, went back to the ordinary modern pallium which all the metropolitan archbishops wear?
So, in the space of about 10...
Some Preliminary Thoughts On Today's Hobby Lobby Decision
The Religion Clause - Jun 30, 2014 at 3:22 pm The Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby opinions handed down today could (and not doubt will) spawn hundreds of pages of scrutiny and analysis. In this post I offer only some very...
Catholic church, sold, now to be a mosque
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jun 30, 2014 at 3:20 pm Some of you may have seen what recently transpired in my native place. A Catholic Church, where a friend of mine had been pastor, was closed and then sold to Muslims. It will soon...
Judge Upholds Ohio’s Decision Ordering Martin Haskell’s Late-Term Abortion Biz Closed
LifeNews.com - Jun 30, 2014 at 3:16 pm Today, a Hamilton County magistrate ruled to uphold the Ohio Health Department’s decision to close the Lebanon Road Surgery Center, Martin Haskell’s Sharonville abortion clinic,...
