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It’s strictly taboo: Newspaper kills an article about a witch
GetReligion - May 30, 2014 at 8:00 am How controversial could a witch be in 2014? Plenty, if you’re in Lancaster, Pa. — where a newspaper ran a feature on a local practitioner, then killed it. At issue is a long,...
Church in Pakistan Condemns Family's Slaying of Pregnant Mother
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - May 30, 2014 at 7:59 am The emeritus archbishop of Lahore has called the “honour killing" of a pregnant mother at the hands of her family an “evil practice” that “has no place in a modern democratic...
Christian joy is based in hope, Pope Francis reflects
Catholic News Agency - General - May 30, 2014 at 7:53 am Vatican City, May 30, 2014 / 06:53 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In his first daily homily since returning from the Holy Land Pope Francis centered on the theme of Christian joy,...
Christian joy is based in hope, Pope Francis reflects
EWTN - Vatican News - May 30, 2014 at 7:53 am Vatican City, May 30, 2014 / 07:53 am (EWTN News/CNA).- In his first daily homily since returning from the Holy Land Pope
Francis centered on the theme of Christian joy,...
Prayer Request
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 30, 2014 at 7:50 am A reader writes:
Could you please ask your readers to pray for a friend of mine who’s been diagnosed with ALS? She has three children, two 11 year olds, and a 14 year old. Pray...
Court Lets Fired Catholic School Administrator Continue Discrimination Suit
The Religion Clause - May 30, 2014 at 7:43 am LifeSite News reports that a Washington state trial court judge last week refused to dismiss an employment discrimination lawsuit against Seattle's Eastside Catholic High School...
Editor's Notebook — Porn bad for the brain?; was pope's Holy Land trip overhyped?; Sister Cristina's final judgment...and more news.
OSV Daily Take - May 30, 2014 at 7:39 amHappy 140th!
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 30, 2014 at 7:38 am Yesterday was G.K. Chesterton’s 140th birthday. In honor of that glorious nativity, the delightful Regina Doman writes:
In honor of G.K. Chesterton’s birthday, Chesterton Press...
How New Media Are Destroying Our Lives
Catholic Vote - May 30, 2014 at 7:13 am Plato worried that the new media called “writing” would ruin our memories – and he was right.
“If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to...
Relationship problems, not family rejection, leading cause of higher gay suicides: study
LifeSiteNews - May 30, 2014 at 6:56 am by Ben Johnson NATHAN, Queensland, Australia, May 30, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – While many assume that family rejection is the leading cause of depression among LBGTI individuals...
Meatless Friday: What’s for Lunch?
CatholicMom.com - May 30, 2014 at 6:55 am
Is it just me, or is it a zillion times harder to satisfy your kids at lunch when they’re home for summer vacation? There’s something to be said for packing a lunchbox at 7 AM...
For Francis, The Synod "Makes Good"... and Other June Notes
Whispers in the Loggia - May 30, 2014 at 6:44 am Once upon a time – read: until two years ago – June in the Vatican was a time of dotting "i"s, crossing "t"s and a steady, happy stream of desk-clearing as the Curia prepared for...
Franciscan University Youth Conferences Help Foster Religious Vocations
Catholic Education Daily - May 30, 2014 at 6:43 am A new study shows that 14 percent of those ordained to the priesthood this year had attended at least one Franciscan University of Steubenville summer youth conference before...
Photographing the Ascension
Dominicana - May 30, 2014 at 6:30 am There’s an interesting feature about many artistic representations of the Ascension of Jesus into heaven, common to the works of both run-of-the-mill painters and masters like...
Daily Catholic Quote from Thomas à Kempis
Integrated Catholic Life - May 30, 2014 at 6:30 am “Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God’s sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.” (Fr. Thomas à Kempis) If you liked this quote, please share it...
Houston Passes Controversial Equal Rights Ordinance
The Religion Clause - May 30, 2014 at 6:21 am As reported by CultureMap Houston, on Wednesday the Houston, Texas City Council by a vote of 11-6 passed the controversial Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (full text). The new law...
Atheists Lose Bid to Remove "In God We Trust" from Dolla Dolla Bill Y'all
Creative Minority Report - May 30, 2014 at 6:18 am Atheists have lost again. No, they weren't kicked out of their mom's boyfriend's basement. They lost their lawsuit which attempted to have the "In God We Trust" motto on the...
Now we know why Dawkins refused to sign that letter from atheists condemning Cameron’s ‘we are a Christian country’: could he be on the way to belief?
Catholic Herald - May 30, 2014 at 6:12 am On Easter Monday, the Telegraph published a Letter to the Editor from around 50 leading atheists, predictably including such names as Philip Pullman, Peter Tatchell, Polly Toynbee...
Lawyer: Colo. baker forced to choose between faith, work
EWTN - US Latest News - May 30, 2014 at 6:10 am Denver, Colo., May 30, 2014 / 06:10 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
A commission's ruling that Colorado baker Jack Phillips must bake same-sex "wedding" cakes forces him to choose between...
No Problem With School's Rejection of Tattooed Jesus Jumbotron Ad
The Religion Clause - May 30, 2014 at 6:05 am In Little Pencil, LLC v. Lubbock Independent School District, (ND TX, May 29, 2014), a Texas federal district court rejected the free speech and free exercise claims by an...
