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Pope Francis: “Abortion Compounds the Grief of Many Women”
LifeNews.com - Apr 25, 2014 at 11:25 am Pope Francis has won accolades for combining compassion and concern for unborn children killed in abortions and women who face grief and anguish after an abortion.
The leader of...
A Letter a Day
CatholicMom.com - Apr 25, 2014 at 11:00 am
Today, I’m SO EXCITED to share a guest post from Jess Griffith, who is a fellow midwesterner and a wonderful writer. I first read her work in the memoir she co-wrote with her...
A Little Girl Sings “You Are My Sunshine”, But Ends Up Being The True Sunshine
LifeNews.com - Apr 25, 2014 at 10:56 am When it comes to reporting on pro-life issues, the fight to protect human life can be negative and depressing so often.
With reports of abroted babies being incinerated for energy...
The Canonization Chronicles: A deacon’s view in Rome this week
The Deacon's Bench - Apr 25, 2014 at 10:52 am Deacon Bill Ditewig, in Rome for the canonizations, found the most important spot in the Eternal City: Bill will be blogging in the days ahead. His first impressions: I’m sitting...
Catholic Distance University Celebrates 30 Years of Faith and Innovation
Catholic Education Daily - Apr 25, 2014 at 10:52 am After beginning with two staff members and only paper-based courses, the now online University enrolls students from all 50 states and 64 countries.
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John Paul II knew about the Vatican investigation into the Maciel case
Vatican Insider - Apr 25, 2014 at 10:40 amSpokesman, biographer talk about how John Paul handled abuse crisis
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Apr 25, 2014 at 10:39 am VATICAN CITY — The man who served as Blessed John Paul II’s spokesman and media adviser told reporters that the late pope did not initially understand the gravity of the clerical...
Atheists: Our Moral and Intellectual Superiors
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Apr 25, 2014 at 10:38 am Dachau: Good or evil?
Admittedly, it’s a really hard question to answer–”Mass murder: good or evil?”–but you’d think that somebody as devoted to the worship of the intellect as...
Clergy appointments April 24
Saint Louis Review - St. Louis News - Apr 25, 2014 at 10:29 am Deacon Richard J. Boland, a permanent deacon, assisting the pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, Washington, is granted retirement status, effective June 1, 2014.
Deacon Joseph M...
Custos of Holy Land Reacts to Palestinian Deal
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Apr 25, 2014 at 10:27 am Rival Palestinian factions reached a reconciliation agreement on Wednesday. Representatives of the Hamas group and the Fatah party of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced...
Plant Worker: Aborted Babies Had Been Incinerated for Years, “There Was So Much Blood”
LifeNews.com - Apr 25, 2014 at 10:20 am A former plant worker at the facility found to be burning aborted babies for energy says the practice had been going on for years and he believes plant officials and perhaps even...
John Paul II is the great hero of post-war Catholicism and his critics can get stuffed
Catholic Herald - Apr 25, 2014 at 10:15 am I’m struck, when talking to conservative Catholic friends, by the strange animus they feel towards Pope John Paul II. You expect liberal types to loathe him — Misogynist!...
Pope says he hopes new saints will inspire church to fulfill mission
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Apr 25, 2014 at 9:57 am VATICAN CITY — Just days before Pope Francis was set to canonize two of his predecessors, he expressed his hopes the two soon-to-be saints would continue to inspire the whole...
Boston College to Honor Pro-Abortion Rights Secretary of State John Kerry at Graduation
Catholic Education Daily - Apr 25, 2014 at 9:57 am John Kerry, a Boston College Law School graduate and former senior US senator from Massachusetts, will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the University’s 138th annual...
FOCUS Wins Injunction Against Contraception Mandate
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Apr 25, 2014 at 9:51 am A federal court issued an order Wednesday that halts enforcement of the Obama administration’s abortion pill mandate against Fellowship of Catholic University Students. Alliance...
Doctors Groups Promote Denying Medical Treatment to Elderly, Disabled Patients
LifeNews.com - Apr 25, 2014 at 9:51 am In “Treatment Cost Could Influence Doctors’ Advice,” the New York Times’s Andrew Pollack reports that several major physician groups are poised to begin openly considering cost...
Putin’s anti-Westernism contains within it a profound anti-Catholicism
Catholic Herald - Apr 25, 2014 at 9:43 am Nick Clegg has called for the disestablishment of the Church of England, something that has long been Liberal Democrat policy, and in his remarks he has made this telling...
It is the person who is canonized, not every pontifical choice he made
Vatican Insider - Apr 25, 2014 at 9:21 amAbby Johnson Reads Letter to Baby She Watched Die in Abortion: “I’m Sorry I Didn’t Defend You”
LifeNews.com - Apr 25, 2014 at 9:20 am In a powerful and moving new video, Abby Johnson, the former manager of a Planned Parenthood abortion facility in southeast Texas reads a letter to an aborted baby she watched die...
