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Daily Catholic Quote from Pope St. John Paul II
Integrated Catholic Life - May 1, 2014 at 6:30 am “Saint Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten families.” (Pope St. John Paul II...
Papal Polemics
Dominicana - May 1, 2014 at 6:30 am Has there ever been a cause for more unreflective editorializing than the recent papal canonizations? If you clicked on nearly any commentary about the new saints in the past few...
Today Is National Day of Prayer
The Religion Clause - May 1, 2014 at 6:25 am Today is National Day of Prayer. 36 USC Sec. 119 provides:The President shall issue each year a proclamation designating the first Thursday in May as a National Day of Prayer on...
Pope Francis Commissions Cardinals to Address Peruvian University’s Catholic Identity
Catholic Education Daily - May 1, 2014 at 6:21 am In July of 2012, a Vatican decree stripped the University of its titles “Catholic” and “Pontifical” because of years of refusal to bring its statues into line with Ex corde...
Court OK's Sale of Mausoleum Space and Headstone Inscriptions By NJ Catholic Cemeteries
The Religion Clause - May 1, 2014 at 6:20 am In Monument Builders of New Jersey v. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, (NJ Super., April 29, 2014), a New Jersey trial court upheld the right of the Newark Catholic...
Christendom College Student Describes Powerful Experience on Mission Trip
Catholic Education Daily - May 1, 2014 at 6:20 am Bridget Handy, a freshman at the College, said that “While we had helped them all week by laying floors and playing with them, they had evangelized me all the more.”
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Pope Francis sends condolences to family of Ann Maguire
Catholic Herald - May 1, 2014 at 6:17 am Pope Francis has sent his condolences to the family of murdered schoolteacher Ann Maguire.
The Pontiff asked his ambassador in Britain to convey his sympathy to all those affected...
President Declares May As Jewish American Heritage Month
The Religion Clause - May 1, 2014 at 6:15 am President Obama issued a Proclamation (full text) yesterday declaring May as Jewish American Heritage Month. The Proclamation reads in part:For thousands of years, the Jewish...
Adoption a loving choice for children, women, activist says
EWTN - US Latest News - May 1, 2014 at 6:09 am Washington D.C., May 1, 2014 / 06:09 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Adoption offers not only an opportunity for children to live, but for
women to make a "loving parenting choice,"...
Bill Would Eliminate Constitutional Problems With Parsonage Allowance
The Religion Clause - May 1, 2014 at 6:05 am As previously reported, an appeal has been taken to the 7th Circuit in Freedom From Religion Foundation v. Lew, in which a Wisconsin federal district court held that the tax code...
Venice Day 8 – Of Moses and Sardines
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - May 1, 2014 at 6:04 am This morning I said Mass for us at San Moisè, which is convenient for the hotel. The sacristan is wonderful. He is as helpful and friendly as (most) Roman sacristan are… not....
Webinars: Inviting Experts Home
CatholicMom.com - May 1, 2014 at 6:00 am
When I worked as an elementary school counselor, I used to get emails about webinars several times a year. Some looked really interesting, yet I never bit. How was I going to...
Suit Challenges Ohio's Refusal To Allow Same-Sex Marriages
The Religion Clause - May 1, 2014 at 6:00 am In the wake of a federal district court ruling two weeks ago that Ohio's refusal to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere is unconstitutional (see prior posting), a new...
JP2's call for new evangelization bears fruit in lay initiatives
EWTN - US Latest News - May 1, 2014 at 5:52 am Denver, Colo., May 1, 2014 / 05:52 am (EWTN News/CNA).- With more than 350 lay missionaries serving on over 80 college campuses, the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (...
JP2's call for new evangelization bears fruit in lay initiatives
Catholic News Agency - General - May 1, 2014 at 5:52 am Denver, Colo., May 1, 2014 / 04:52 am (CNA/EWTN News).- With more than 350 lay missionaries serving on over 80 college campuses, the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (...
Pope appoints commission of cardinals to resolve Peruvian university conflict
Catholic Culture - World News - May 1, 2014 at 5:43 am Pope Francis has appointed a commission of three cardinals to resolve a longstanding conflict between the Vatican and a Lima university once known as the Pontifical Catholic...
Digital storytelling project shares faith stories of Australians
EWTN - World Catholic News - May 1, 2014 at 5:38 am Canberra, Australia, May 1, 2014 / 05:38 pm (EWTN News).- "Stirring Hearts," a digital storytelling project, has been launched in
the dioceses of Australia to mark the 48th World...
Why Rowan Williams is much more comfortable as an academic than he was as an archbishop; and why he should never have gone to Canterbury in the first place
Catholic Herald - May 1, 2014 at 5:26 am When I read the headlines about Rowan Williams on Sunday and Monday I groaned; it all seemed so reminiscent of what we all got used to when he was archbishop of Canterbury. Here...
The Triumph of Nice
Crisis Magazine - Church - May 1, 2014 at 5:20 am In the summer of 2012, Michele Bachmann and four other House members sent a letter to the Inspector-Generals of key government agencies asking them to open an investigation into...
Green Bay Diocese Announces Plans for Catholic Classical Curriculum School
Catholic Education Daily - May 1, 2014 at 5:18 am “The goal is to develop complete thinkers who learn to draw on faith and reason together for the purpose of building up the church and society,” Bishop David Ricken of Green Bay...
