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Story of Little Girl Kicked Out of KFC Restaurant Over Scars on Her Face is a Hoax
LifeNews.com - Jun 24, 2014 at 8:33 pm Last week LifeNews and many other media outlets reported on a grandmother’s accusation that her granddaughter whose face was still healing from being mauled by dogs had been...
Virgin Mary Calls Show
Jimmy Akin.org - Jun 24, 2014 at 8:18 pm If I do say so myself, this is one for the annals of unflappability.
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Meriam Ibrahim Freed Again After Being Detained for Several Hours Trying to Leave Sudan
LifeNews.com - Jun 24, 2014 at 8:17 pm Meriam Ibrahim, the Christian woman who was jailed and forced to give birth in prison in the Muslim nation of Sudan and who was released yesterday after a court overturned a...
Enter to Win a Pregnant Moms Prize Pack
CatholicMom.com - Jun 24, 2014 at 8:00 pm Thank you to Ave Maria Press, Marie Bellet, The Catholic Company, Regina Doman, Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle, Sarah Reinhard, Rosary Army and New Evangeliezrs, and Tan Books for...
Nevermind: lawyer now says there is no deal for nuns to care for dying priest
The Deacon's Bench - Jun 24, 2014 at 7:49 pm Details: A nursing home run by nuns has not been asked or agreed to take care of a dying Roman Catholic priest convicted of killing a nun at a hospital chapel in 1980, his...
Journalism, facts and the fires of hell (revisited)
GetReligion - Jun 24, 2014 at 7:00 pm Without a theory the facts are silent, the economist F. A. Hayek has written. That may be true of the cold facts of economics, but the facts of war are not cold. They burn with...
English Summary of Pope's Audience on the Church
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jun 24, 2014 at 7:00 pm Here is the English-language summary of Pope Francis' General Audience of today: ***
Dear Brothers and Sisters: In our catechesis on the Church, we have seen that God gathered...
Memorandum of Understanding Between Vatican Bank and Argentinian Financial Information Unit
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jun 24, 2014 at 7:00 pm Here is the text of the Vatican's Financial Information Authority (AIF) Memorandum of Understanding with the Argentinian Financial Information Unit (UIF). The AIF and UIF signed...
Pope at Audience: Your First Name Is "I Am a Christian," Last Name "I Belong to the Church"
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jun 24, 2014 at 7:00 pm Pope Francis has said that no Christian should feel isolated because all faithful belong to the family of the Church, which sustains and supports its members. Continuing his...
Bishops of Texas Address Surge in Unaccompanied Child-Immigrants
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jun 24, 2014 at 7:00 pm Here is a statement released Tuesday by the bishops of Texas. * * *
Texas' Catholic Bishops are deeply concerned about the increasing number of unaccompanied children and...
Holy See Reminds UN That Family Is Good for Individuals
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jun 24, 2014 at 7:00 pm Here is the address given by Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva, at the 26th...
Recent Prisoner Free Exercise Cases
The Religion Clause - Jun 24, 2014 at 6:42 pm In Powers v. Coleman, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 11667 (7th Cir., June 20, 2014), the 7th Circuit refused to overturn a jury's verdict that a Messianic Jewish inmate did not have a...
Bishop: government corruption a factor in Boko Haram violence
Catholic News Agency - General - Jun 24, 2014 at 6:16 pm Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jun 24, 2014 / 05:16 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The bishop of a northern Nigerian diocese said at a conference last week that among the factors which...
Discrimination order sparks fears over religious liberty
Catholic News Agency - General - Jun 24, 2014 at 5:57 pm Washington D.C., Jun 24, 2014 / 04:57 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- While affirming the dignity of every human person, Catholic and family advocates are voicing concern over reports of an...
Report: Meriam Ibrahim released after being “temporarily detained” over travel documents
The Deacon's Bench - Jun 24, 2014 at 5:38 pm Details: Mariam Yahya Ibrahim, the Christian woman sentenced to death and later freed after an international outcry, was briefly re-arrested while trying to leave the country for...
Hooks in My Heart
CatholicMom.com - Jun 24, 2014 at 4:55 pm Lately, I have felt like a fish. Swimming along just fine, until out of nowhere, the hook.
Life can often feel this way. And so this is how it has been in my waters. This is how...
Imitate John the Baptist, Pope tells congregation
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 24, 2014 at 4:26 pm Christians should follow the example of St. John the Baptist, and "diminish ourselves so that the Lord can grow in our hearts and in the souls of others," Pope Francis said in a...
Untitled
Saint Louis Catholic - Jun 24, 2014 at 4:21 pm Dear God, I thank You for those moments of clarity, when a small taste of the beauty of Heaven comes through. Too often I am grateful only for the consolations You so often give...
Archbishop accused of abuse is reportedly at liberty in Rome
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 24, 2014 at 4:19 pm A bishop from the Dominican Republic has reported that he was shocked to see a former papal nuncio, who is under investigation on sex-abuse charges, walking freely around the...
Francis’s interreligious friendships, Iraq’s troubles
Commonweal - Jun 24, 2014 at 4:17 pm Two new items on the homepage: James L. Fredericks looks at Francis’s approach to interreligious dialogue, while the editors comment on the conflict in Iraq and the problems it...
