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Heads of youth pastoral care from around the world to meet in Rome to discuss World Youth Day 2016
News.va - Apr 4, 2014 at 8:04 am Vatican City, 4 April 2014 (VIS) – The heads of youth pastoral care from all over the world will meet in Rome, invited by the Pontifical Council for the Laity, from 10 to 13 April...
Sister Jane, chapter 2: Observer still favors the protestors
GetReligion - Apr 4, 2014 at 8:00 am Remember the fracas over a speech by a nun at a Catholic school? Well, they haven’t forgotten at Charlotte Catholic School in North Carolina, where nearly 1,000 people gathered...
CEO resigns following outrage over support for marriage initiative
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 4, 2014 at 7:58 am Brendan Eich, inventor of the JavaScript computer programming language, resigned as CEO of Mozilla Corporation amid opposition over his support of Proposition 8, the 2008...
Pope to hand out pocket size Gospel to faithful this Sunday
Vatican Insider - Apr 4, 2014 at 7:54 amDiscriminatory Firing Claim Dismissed Under Ministerial Exception Doctrine
The Religion Clause - Apr 4, 2014 at 7:37 am In Conlon v. Intervarsity Christian Fellowship/ USA, (WD MI, April 3, 2014), a Michigan federal district court applied the ministerial exception doctrine to dismiss a...
Editor's Notebook — Pope talks to kids; Elizabeth Scalia responds to resignation of Mozilla CEO; Aquinas College responds to Charlotte uproar; and a gift for Prince George.
OSV Daily Take - Apr 4, 2014 at 7:37 amPrepare for Sunday Mass: 'Everyone who lives and believes in me will never die'
OSV Daily Take - Apr 4, 2014 at 7:34 am An excerpt from OSV Newsweekly. “As it comes closer to the Passion of Jesus,” observed Father Hans Ur von Balthasar about today’s readings, “Lent raises the penitent sinner’s hope...
Syracuse: former parish to become mosque, crosses to be cut off
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 4, 2014 at 7:28 am The Syracuse Landmark Preservation Board has approved a request by a group to cut the crosses off a former Catholic parish and turn the historic neo-Gothic structure into a mosque...
Venezuelan bishops: We must end the bloodshed in our country (Video)
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Apr 4, 2014 at 7:23 am They called on the government and opposition to "avoid further bloodshed and violence in the country.” To view the video click here.
Pope Francis meets with bishops of Tanzania during their 'ad limina' visit (Video)
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Apr 4, 2014 at 7:19 am To view the video click here.
Pope's Mass: Prophets are always persecuted, at times even within the Church (Video)
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Apr 4, 2014 at 7:17 am To view the video click here.
South African prelate laments excessive spending by nation's president
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 4, 2014 at 7:04 am Amid reports that President Jacob Zuma of South Africa improperly spent $23 million in public funds on improvements to his residence, the head of the regional episcopal conference...
Meatless Friday: Gnocchi with Cabbage and Shallots
CatholicMom.com - Apr 4, 2014 at 7:00 am
I miss one of the Polish dishes that used to be served at our parish carnival: kluski. This was not proper kluski, but instead a way to use up lots of leftovers from other dishes...
5th Circuit: Principal Enjoys Qualified Immunity In Adult Speech "Candy Cane" Case
The Religion Clause - Apr 4, 2014 at 6:46 am In Morgan v. Swanson, (5th Cir., April 2, 2014), the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the district court's conclusion that a Plano, Texas elementary school principal...
Mississippi governor signs religious freedom legislation
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 4, 2014 at 6:40 am Gov. Phil Bryant has signed the Mississippi Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which provides in some cases a legal means of redress for "a person whose religious exercise has...
Daily Catholic Quote from St. Alphonsus Maria de’ Liguori, C.Ss.R.
Integrated Catholic Life - Apr 4, 2014 at 6:30 am “How pleasing to Him it will be if you sometimes forget yourself and speak to Him of His own glory, of the miseries of others, especially those who mourn in sorrow; of the souls...
Wittgenstein and the Eucharist
Dominicana - Apr 4, 2014 at 6:30 am It’s a common enough question: “What do you mean by the real presence?” Or, if the inquirer is more theologically astute: “What do you mean by transubstantiation?” Basically: “...
How prophetic were Fulton Sheen’s words 80 years ago
Catholic Herald - Apr 4, 2014 at 6:28 am Having recently blogged about the late Archbishop Fulton Sheen, I note an American blogger, Little Catholic Bubble, is reading his “Seven Last Words and the Seven Virtues” as a...
Pope Francis recognizes three new saints of the Americas
EWTN - Vatican News - Apr 4, 2014 at 6:28 am Vatican City, Apr 4, 2014 / 06:28 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Pope Francis inscribed among the saints Thursday three blesseds who were
from Europe but were called to the New World by...
