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AP issues massive correction on Ireland child burial story
Catholic News Agency - General - Jun 24, 2014 at 1:16 pm Dublin, Ireland, Jun 24, 2014 / 12:16 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Associated Press has retracted key claims from its reports of an Irish Catholic home for unwed mothers supposedly...
Sudanese Christian woman re-arrested after court-ordered release
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 24, 2014 at 1:10 pm A Sudanese Christian woman who was freed yesterday when a court overturned her conviction for apostasy has been arrested once again.
Miriam Ibrahim, who had faced a death sentence...
My nominee for World’s Greatest Dad
The Deacon's Bench - Jun 24, 2014 at 12:52 pm 12-year-old McKenzie Carey suffers from mitochondrial disease, a close cousin of Parkinson’s and ALS. But she loves dancing. So her dad decided to lend a hand at a recent school...
One Faith: East and West International Art Exhibition in NYC
New Liturgical Movement - Jun 24, 2014 at 12:46 pm For those who are within striking distance of New York City, there is an exhibition of sacred art at the NYU Catholic Center, 238 Thompson Street, this week. Entitled One Faith:...
Sisters join lawsuit to force neighboring ‘gentlemen’s club’ to close
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Jun 24, 2014 at 12:43 pm CHICAGO — The Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo are not pleased by having a “gentlemen’s club” operating in their backyard, and they are not going to be quiet about it...
Mexico’s congress lifts restrictions on politicking from pulpit
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Jun 24, 2014 at 12:33 pm MEXICO CITY — The Mexican congress removed restrictions on preaching about politics from the pulpit, a move some priests say increases religious liberty in a country with a...
Wisdom: Recognizing a Villain
CatholicMom.com - Jun 24, 2014 at 12:30 pm Uriah Heep, from David Copperfield, is one of Charles Dickens’s most wicked characters, definitely a villain; a greedy clerk and money-lender, who fawns his way through David...
South African police arrest man accused of murdering Idaho-born nun, 82
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Jun 24, 2014 at 12:30 pm MTHATHA, South Africa — A man accused of murdering an 82-year-old Idaho-born nun in South Africa, where she had worked among the poor for about 60 years, was arrested June 19.
Sr...
Archdiocese urges Sudan to reconsider case against Catholic woman
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Jun 24, 2014 at 12:26 pm KHARTOUM, Sudan — The Archdiocese of Khartoum has urged the judiciary to review the case against a Catholic woman who refused to renounce her faith and has been sentenced to death...
Suprise! You're an "award-winning columnist"
Creative Minority Report - Jun 24, 2014 at 12:03 pm *subhead*Toot! Toot!*subhead*In the blogosphere, there are times I think when it is acceptable to toot your own horn. This maybe one of those times, so I am going to toot away.At...
WDTPRS COLLECT- St. John the Baptist
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jun 24, 2014 at 12:00 pm Let’s have a look at the…
COLLECT: Deus, qui beatum Ioannem Baptistam suscitasti,
ut perfectam plebem Christo Domino praepararet,
da populis tuis spiritalium gratiam gaudiorum,
et...
Five Things To Remember On Jan. 24
USCCB Media Blog - Jun 24, 2014 at 11:43 am 1. Today is the Solemnity of St. John the Baptist, and Pope Francis said the saint is a model of evangelization. Find out why.
2. The Fortnight for Freedom is taking place across...
Journalists covering Iraq, please learn this word — ‘dhimmi’
GetReligion - Jun 24, 2014 at 11:20 am Like it or not, journalists and editors who are handling coverage of events in Iraq are going to have to learn this controversial word — “dhimmitude.” Trust me, the faithful in...
Layman used soccer to unite Italian city
The Busy Catholic - Jun 24, 2014 at 11:02 am Bl. Alberto Marvelli saved many lives
Blessed Alberto Marvelli, depicted in a stained glass window in Sts.
Peter and Paul Church in Vancouver. The Italian layman organized soccer...
Book Talk and Cowboy Boots
CatholicMom.com - Jun 24, 2014 at 11:00 am
Well, it’s been a few weeks since I’ve dusted myself off to do a book talk, hasn’t it? Well, it’s not for lack of reading, though there was a week in there when I nearly lost my...
Meriam Ibrahim Rearrested
Creative Minority Report - Jun 24, 2014 at 10:55 am Meriam Ibrahim has been rearrested trying to leave the country.Meriam Ibrahim, the Christian woman released from death row in Sudan on Monday, was arrested with her husband and...
No one unscathed in Yale professor’s account of 1940s ‘polio wars’
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Jun 24, 2014 at 10:52 am “Polio Wars” tells the story of the conflict between the medical establishment and “Sister” Elizabeth Kenny, who came to the United States from Australia in the early 1940s with a...
Pope: a Christian does not announce himself, but the Lord
Catholic News Agency - General - Jun 24, 2014 at 10:50 am Vatican City, Jun 24, 2014 / 09:50 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In his homily for the feast of John the Baptist’s birth, Pope Francis emphasized that a true Christian puts oneself aside...
Pope: a Christian does not announce himself, but the Lord
EWTN - Vatican News - Jun 24, 2014 at 10:50 am Vatican City, Jun 24, 2014 / 10:50 am (EWTN News/CNA).- In his homily for the feast of John the Baptist's birth, Pope Francis emphasized that a true Christian puts oneself aside...
