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She Thought She Was Delivering Their Baby Alone, Then Her Deployed Soldier Husband Appeared

LifeNews.com - Jun 26, 2014 at 3:44 pm
Last Friday first-time mom Jenna Kunkel not only welcomed the arrival of her daughter Ryleigh Mae, but she was able to do so with her husband present. A local news station, Fox43...

Servindo a Deus na Doença [Serving God in Sickness]

CatholicMom.com - Jun 26, 2014 at 3:30 pm
Editor’s note: Today, we celebrate the addition of our first Portuguese-language contributor, Flávia Nunes Costa Ghelardi. Flávia lives in Brazil with her beautiful family. We...

Feminists and Population Controllers at Odds in Rare Abortion Dispute

LifeNews.com - Jun 26, 2014 at 3:18 pm
New York, NY (CFAM/LifeNews) — A partnership among abortion backers is showing cracks as feminists in the Global South are pushing back against environmentalists promoting...

Still Waiting on the Other Shoe…..

Quartermaster of the Barque - Jun 26, 2014 at 2:45 pm
…..But things are significantly more hopeful at the close of this week. In case you haven’t been paying attention, June 30 will be the close of the 2013 session of the United...

Church rejoices in scientific progress, Pope tells young astronomers

Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 26, 2014 at 2:45 pm
Research in the sciences can be "a fitting and effective means of promoting peace and justice," Pope Francis told an audience of young astronomers on June 26. Speaking to...

Pope urges Eastern churches to be peacemakers

Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 26, 2014 at 2:39 pm
Speaking on June 26 to the Reunion of Aid Agencies for the Oriental Churches (ROACO), Pope Francis thanked the groups for their efforts to "make peace grow through charity." The...

Third World feminists charge that population-control measures threaten women's rights

Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 26, 2014 at 2:31 pm
Feminists and population-control advocates, ordinarily allies in promoting legal abortion, are at odds over UN proposals to combat climate change, C-Fam reports. As the UN...

God gives up on no one

The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Jun 26, 2014 at 2:25 pm
June 29 is the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul on the church calendar. When this solemnity falls on a Sunday we have the opportunity throughout the world to reflect on these...

Prayer Request

Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jun 26, 2014 at 2:22 pm
A reader writes: This time it is for me and for my colleagues. Yesterday, without warning, we found out that our jobs will be outsourced to a company in Seattle. When you work for...

Huzzah to Springfield Bp. Paprocki: If we Voted, He’d have Mine to Succeed Cardinal George

Quartermaster of the Barque - Jun 26, 2014 at 2:20 pm
Springfield Bishop Thomas Paprocki is a stalwart, courageous — and by all accounts, holy — pastor of his flock in Springfield. A few months ago he supported denying communion to...

Pope: Jesus was a pastor, not a 'moralistic' power-seeker

Catholic News Agency - General - Jun 26, 2014 at 2:14 pm
Vatican City, Jun 26, 2014 / 01:14 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In his daily homily Pope Francis warned of those who reduce the faith to moralism and ambition, stating that people in...

Red for the feast of martyrs

The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Jun 26, 2014 at 2:13 pm
You’ll be seeing a lot of red this Sunday. The feast of Ss. Peter and Paul falls on a Sunday and replaces the celebration of the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Instead of green...

Visits from the traveling Madonna

Saint Louis Review - St. Louis News - Jun 26, 2014 at 2:10 pm
Dave Luecking | daveluecking@archstl.org | twitter: @stlreviewscribe Lord Stanley of Preston's gift to Canada is, arguably, the coolest trophy...

Apricot Preserves

CatholicMom.com - Jun 26, 2014 at 2:00 pm
I love the abundance of fruit and vegetables available in the summer. Every year I make apricot preserves from local apricots from the farmer’s market. It takes a little bit of...

Pope Francis: He Likes BEER (That’s it for Me)

Quartermaster of the Barque - Jun 26, 2014 at 1:56 pm
Catholics (and non-Catholics) of certain camps like to air their complaints in public regarding Pope Francis. He’s too Progressive. He’s too Conservative. He’s not “Pro-Life...

Working document for Pope Francis' Synod on Family: The Bible is the heart of transforming family life

The Sacred Page - Jun 26, 2014 at 1:55 pm
The Instrumentum Laboris (i.e., the working document) for the upcoming Synod on the Family called by Pope Francis has finally been released (html, pdf). The document highlights...

Supreme Court strikes down ‘buffer zones’ at abortion clinics

The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Jun 26, 2014 at 1:51 pm
WASHINGTON — In a June 26 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that 35-foot buffer zones around abortion clinics — meant to keep demonstrators away — violates First...

Attempting serious Communion at an unserious liturgy

Rorate Coeli - Jun 26, 2014 at 1:44 pm
Premières communiantesMusée de la civilisation, Québec As the Church recently observed one of the ten universal holy days of the liturgical year, the subject of Holy Communion has...
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