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Two views of SCOTUS abortion decision — both on NBC

GetReligion - Jun 27, 2014 at 8:00 am
Is NBC News going schizoid? The way the network reported the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on abortion buffer zones sounded like it was done by different people, maybe even on...

The Holy Father, say those close to him, is wearing himself out. He should slow down, beginning with at least three weeks off at Castel Gandolfo

Catholic Herald - Jun 27, 2014 at 7:59 am
Last week the Telegraph reported that, according to the Vatican press office, Pope Francis would not be walking in the traditional Corpus Christi procession through the streets of...

Fifty years of the Gemelli Polyclinic-The dream of a Franciscan doctor

News.va - Jun 27, 2014 at 7:50 am
Fr Agostino Gemelli, founder of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, included the Department of Medicine and Surgery in his initail plan for the university. But the...

Tens of thousands of Syrian Catholics flee Islamist advance

Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 27, 2014 at 7:48 am
More than 90% of the people of Qaraqosh, a largely Catholic city of over 40,000 in Syria, have fled as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant moved to capture the area. The...

Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Communio - Jun 27, 2014 at 7:48 am
Two of my friends, one from France and another from the Swiss Cantons, hadn’t heard of the reasons for the devotion to Sacred Heart or of the persons of Saint Margaret Mary and...

The Heart of Our God

Dominicana - Jun 27, 2014 at 7:44 am
When St. Gertrude and St. Margaret Mary, several centuries apart from each other, encountered Jesus in visions, they both did something curious. Ears pressed close to Jesus’...

New Zealand judge: Catholic school may not suspend boy for long hair

Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 27, 2014 at 7:32 am
A New Zealand judge has ruled that a Catholic school is not permitted to suspend a 16-year-old boy for long hair. The judge ruled that the school, St. John's College in Hastings,...

Let’s show forgiveness to Luis Suarez

Catholic Herald - Jun 27, 2014 at 7:32 am
I am not following the World Cup as religiously as some, but even I have heard the news that Luis Suarez has bitten another player, and, for this crime, has been sent home from...

Cameroon: arrest made in abduction of 3 missionaries

Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 27, 2014 at 7:06 am
Police in Cameroon have made an arrest in the kidnapping of two Italian priests and a Canadian nun. The three missionaries, abducted on April 5, were released on June 1. The Fides...

Meatless Friday: Tomato, Onion and Avocado Salad

CatholicMom.com - Jun 27, 2014 at 7:00 am
This is a really easy go to salad. It should be eaten right away. Avocados tend to brown when exposed to the air for any length of time. So it is best to peel and cut just before...

Pope Francis: To have a dialogue with God we need to make ourselves like a small child

News.va - Jun 27, 2014 at 6:55 am
Pope Francis said God is like a gentle father who holds us by the hand and we need to become like a small child to have a dialogue with Him.  This was the focus of his homily...

EWTN files for emergency mandate relief with Supreme Court

EWTN - US Latest News - Jun 27, 2014 at 6:44 am
Washington D.C., Jun 27, 2014 / 06:44 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- The EWTN Global Catholic Network has filed a motion for emergency relief with the U.S. Supreme Court asking for an...

Indiana's bishops lament court decision on marriage

Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 27, 2014 at 6:42 am
The bishops of Indiana have decried a federal court decision that struck down Indiana's marriage law. "The Church upholds the dignity and sanctity of marriage as a natural union...

Sacred Heart of Jesus

Communio - Jun 27, 2014 at 6:34 am
God’s heart, as the expression of his will, is spoken of twenty-six times in the Old Testament. Before God’s heart men and women stand judged. [...] Yet another passage of the Old...

Sudanese Christian woman again freed

Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 27, 2014 at 6:31 am
A Sudanese Christian woman who was convicted of apostasy, freed, and then rearrested, has been freed again, according to an Associated Press report. Meriam Ibrahim, 27, is the...

Archbishop: Mandate ruling threatens Philly's vulnerable

EWTN - US Latest News - Jun 27, 2014 at 6:25 am
Philadelphia, Pa., Jun 27, 2014 / 06:25 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia said that he is "deeply disappointed" that a district judge has denied...

Cardinal welcomes Supreme Court's �buffer zone' decision

Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 27, 2014 at 6:20 am
Cardinal Seán O'Malley of Boston, chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities, has welcomed the Supreme Court's decision to...
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