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Atheists planning TV channel
The Deacon's Bench - May 8, 2014 at 11:01 am From Religion News Service: Speaking at a gathering of local atheists, humanists, freethinkers and other nontheists in a chemistry lecture hall at Stanford University, David...
Book Review: Three Persons, One God
CatholicMom.com - May 8, 2014 at 11:00 am
In Three Persons, One God: Growing in Relationship with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Leonine Publishers), Allison Gingras offers a primer in developing a personal...
Ed Peters on Card. Kasper on Pope saying half of marriages are not valid
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - May 8, 2014 at 11:00 am The distinguished canonist Ed Peters writes about the reckless comments made by Card. Walter Kasper the other day at Fordham University. My emphases and comments.
Even if the...
St. Dymphna Novena, Day Three
Journey of a Catholic Nerd Writer - May 8, 2014 at 11:00 am Day 3: For CharityGod of love, Thou art the most perfect Being, and Creator of all that is good and beautiful. Through the intercession of St. Dymphna, who in her youth loved Thee...
Super-Rich Working Harder Than Ever…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 8, 2014 at 10:47 am while the middle class is clearly slacking off. This, I am reliably informed, is the only possible explanation for the fact that middle-class earnings so crappy while the super-...
Bishops in Cameroon demand release of Canadian nun and Italian priests
Catholic Herald - May 8, 2014 at 10:40 am The Catholic bishops’ conference of Cameroon has demanded the release of two Italian priests and a Canadian nun, a month after they were kidnapped by suspected Nigerian Islamists...
Scientists Engineer E. Coli with Six DNA Base Pairs…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 8, 2014 at 10:39 am …instead of the four that exist in all of nature.
Because what could it possibly hurt?
Father Cantalamessa Says the Family Is Church's Backbone
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - May 8, 2014 at 10:32 am Here is the text of an address given last week in Norfolk, Virginia, by the preacher of the Pontifical Household, Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa. The conference was titled...
When Annulment Isn't an Option
Commonweal - May 8, 2014 at 10:26 am I hope that Jim Pauwels, Carlo Lancellotti, and others who have questions or objections after reading the short sample of our Cardinal Kasper interview below will read the whole...
Christian unity is way to honor common witness of martyrdom, pope says
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - May 8, 2014 at 10:23 am VATICAN CITY — To honor the sacrifice of those killed for their faith in the 20th century, Christians today must renew their commitment to reconciliation and full Christian unity...
Liberals Rightly Condemn Donald Sterling’s Racism, But Ignore Margaret Sanger’s
LifeNews.com - May 8, 2014 at 10:21 am What’s wrong with this picture? Democrat billionaire Donald Sterling has been declared persona non grata for terribly racist comments made in a private conversation. Former...
Daily Homily: My Flesh Is True Food and My Blood Is True Drink
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - May 8, 2014 at 10:16 am --
Acts 9:1-20 Psalm 117:1bc, 2 John 6:52-59
Jesus is finishing his discourse in the synagogue in Capernaum. He has just alluded to the great truth of the Eucharist and, in...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to meet Pope Francis
News.va - May 8, 2014 at 10:10 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis will receive United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in audience in the Vatican Friday. The UN chief is in Rome for an annual meeting of all...
Was Isabella the Catholic really a saint?
Catholic Herald - May 8, 2014 at 10:01 am In March 1974, when the idea gained credence that Queen Isabella of Spain (1451-1504) might be a candidate for canonisation, it was firmly opposed by both Jewish and Muslim...
Motherhood: Settling into “Me” {Moms’ Night Out: A Real Life Look}
CatholicMom.com - May 8, 2014 at 10:00 am Editor’s note: Today we have another installment of our Moms’ Night Out: A Real Life Look series, where our writers share how this movie resonated with them, how it touched them...
Don’t let bureaucracy block evangelization, pope says
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - May 8, 2014 at 9:56 am VATICAN CITY — Too often Catholics turn the church into “a company that manufactures impediments” to faith, rather than a community that patiently helps people come to believe in...
HGTV Cancels Reality TV Show Flip It Forward After Learning Stars are Pro-Life
LifeNews.com - May 8, 2014 at 9:55 am HGTV has canceled a new reality television show, Flip It Forward, that was scheduled to debut on Home and Garden Television this October, after learning the stars of the show are...
What a feeling: Sister Cristina performs “Flashdance”
The Deacon's Bench - May 8, 2014 at 9:51 am And, evidently, she’s now got fans with t-shirts celebrating her partnership with J-Ax. From CNS’s blog: Ursuline Sister Cristina Scuccia nailed it again last night with her...
Helen Alvaré to Deliver Commencement Address at Benedictine College
Catholic Education Daily - May 8, 2014 at 9:50 am Benedictine College in Atchison, Kan., announced that it will host Vatican consultor and George Mason University law school professor Helen Alvaré as its commencement speaker....
