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The 47-Year Epoch of The Two Great Popes 1958-2005
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - May 4, 2014 at 7:00 pm The great burst of energy that John Paul II infused into humankind by his emphasis on the culture of life cannot be understood apart from his other purposes. It is fitting that...
Bringing the Fight for Life to Rome
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - May 4, 2014 at 7:00 pm Leaders in the pro-life movement from around the world were in Rome over the weekend to take part in the city’s third annual March for Life. Some 50,000 people took to the...
Asia Bibi Appeal Hearing to Take Place on May 27
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - May 4, 2014 at 7:00 pm An appeal hearing for a Catholic woman sentenced to death on Pakistan on charges of blasphemy will take place on May 27. Accrording to a Fides report, Asia Bibi, who has been...
UN Committee Grills Holy See
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - May 4, 2014 at 7:00 pm The Holy See faced tough questioning about sexual abuse during an appearance before a UN commission against torture on Monday. Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Holy See's...
UK rules exclude pro-life medical professionals from specialist diploma
Catholic News Agency - General - May 4, 2014 at 4:41 pm London, England, May 4, 2014 / 03:41 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- U.K. requirements that medical professionals seeking a specialist diploma must be willing to prescribe contraception and...
Pope Francis tells Rome March for Life 2014 to ‘keep going’ – photo essay
LifeSiteNews - May 4, 2014 at 4:30 pm by John-Henry Westen ROME May 4, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Italian national March for Life took place Sunday in Rome with organizers estimating a crowd of 50,000. The march...
Catholicism and the Nature of Marriage
Catholic Vote - May 4, 2014 at 4:17 pm I have sometimes seen well-intentioned commentators say that the Church needs to insist that a Christian marriage is only between a man and a woman. Similarly, I have seen others...
The embraceable pope
The Deacon's Bench - May 4, 2014 at 3:50 pm It sounds on its surface unremarkable, but NCR begs to differ: In what might be an unprecedented act —and extraordinary sign of affection— a Catholic from Minneapolis, MN embraced...
Florida Judge Ordered To Stop Offering Bibles To Criminal Defendants
The Religion Clause - May 4, 2014 at 3:45 pm According to News 13 today, Osceola County, Florida state criminal court judge Hal Epperson has been ordered by Chief Judge Belvin Perry to end his practice of offering criminal...
Atheist Groups Begin New Project To Combat Discrimination
The Religion Clause - May 4, 2014 at 2:32 pm RNS reported last week that a group of four secular organizations has begun a new project called Openly Secular. Its goal is to draw attention to incidents of anti-atheist...
Recent Prisoner Free Exercise Cases
The Religion Clause - May 4, 2014 at 2:21 pm In Todd v. Holt, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 57961 (MD PA, April 25, 2014), a Pennsylvania federal district court allowed an inmate to proceed with his complaint that he was denied...
The Weekly Francis – Volume 57 – 4 May 2014
The Curt Jester - May 4, 2014 at 2:20 pm This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 10 April 2014 to 3 May 2014.
The Weekly Francis is a compilation of the Holy Father’s writings,...
The Weekly Francis – 4 May 2014
Jimmy Akin.org - May 4, 2014 at 2:17 pm This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 10 April 2014 to 3 May 2014.
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10 April 2014 – Message for dialogue in Venezuela
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From Despair to Joy at Emmaus
Integrated Catholic Life - May 4, 2014 at 2:14 pm What a disappointment! They thought they’d found the Messiah. But he’d been trapped like an animal and executed as a criminal. Up until his very last breath, they had hoped he’d...
Italy’s March for Life draws global participation
Catholic News Agency - General - May 4, 2014 at 2:11 pm Rome, Italy, May 4, 2014 / 01:11 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The fourth annual March for Life held in Rome May 4 drew attendees from across Italy, Europe and the United States.
“The...
Court Invalidates Limits On Muslim Worship In Texas Prisons
The Religion Clause - May 4, 2014 at 1:50 pm A Texas federal district court has handed down a decision giving a major victory to Muslim inmates in Texas seeking more access to religious worship services. In Brown v....
The Populus Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2014
New Liturgical Movement - May 4, 2014 at 1:31 pm The third annual Populus Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage will take place in Rome 23-26 October 2014. This year the highlights include a joint Mass with Juventutem to celebrate the...
The peace talks failed because....
Commonweal - May 4, 2014 at 1:21 pm The many efforts to bring Israelis and Palestinians to negotiate their differences have always ended with the U.S. finding the Palesinians responsible for their failure. This time...
Poem: The Beauty of Creation Bears Witness to God
Breviary Hymns - May 4, 2014 at 1:04 pm Question the Order of the StarsThe Beauty of Creation Bears Witness to God is an anonymous translation of the original Latin poem by St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430). It is...
Getting faith into SI story of patient D-League hoops star
GetReligion - May 4, 2014 at 12:19 pm Once again, I realize that the world of GetReligion readers seems to contain a stunningly low percentage of sports fans, especially in comparison with the American public as a...
