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‘Zero tolerance’: Pro-gay group wants ‘real’ marriage defender ejected from Canadian pro-life event
LifeSiteNews - Apr 3, 2014 at 3:35 pm by Peter Baklinski WEYBURN, Saskatchewan, April 3, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Saskatchewan pro-life group is under heavy fire over its decision to host a U.S. speaker at its...
Alabama Pro-Life Law That Could Close Abortion Clinics Gets Hearing May 15
LifeNews.com - Apr 3, 2014 at 3:34 pm A very quick update on the ongoing, ongoing case before U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson. Television station WAFF is reporting that Judge Thompson has ordered a non-jury trial...
The First Joyful Mystery: The Annunciation
CatholicMom.com - Apr 3, 2014 at 3:30 pm Starting this month, I’m continuing my series on Dominican life with some reflections on the Rosary. The First Pillar of Dominican life is prayer; and the Dominican prayer par...
The role of dads
St. Louis Areopagus - Archdiocesan Blog - Apr 3, 2014 at 3:29 pm New York Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy welcomed his first child, Noah, into the world on Monday, March 31. Congratulations to him and his wife, Tori. Nothing wrong with a...
Bishop offers special blessing to altar server recovering from brain tumor
The Deacon's Bench - Apr 3, 2014 at 3:28 pm Photo: Sam Lucero | The Compass From The Compass in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Beautiful: Last November, Joey Pickett, a fourth grader at Crivitz Elementary School, donned his altar...
Striking workers return to Israeli foreign ministry, easing concerns on planning for papal visit
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 3, 2014 at 3:21 pm Workers in Israel's foreign ministry have ended a strike, easing concerns about the May visit to the Holy Land by Pope Francis.
The Israeli diplomats' strike had slowed...
Pope entrusts Rwandan reconciliation to Our Lady of Kibeho
Catholic News Agency - General - Apr 3, 2014 at 3:20 pm Vatican City, Apr 3, 2014 / 02:20 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Meeting with the Rwandan bishops for their ad limina visit Thursday, Pope Francis urged them to be be agents of...
Archbishop's deposition ends 'heatedly' in Minnesota abuse lawsuit
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 3, 2014 at 3:16 pm The deposition of Archbishop John Nienstedt of St. Paul-Minneapolis ended "abruptly" after a lengthy session on April 2, with an attorney for sex-abuse victims charging that the...
Alberta gvmt says it won’t force schools to accept gay-straight alliances
LifeSiteNews - Apr 3, 2014 at 3:10 pm by Thaddeus Baklinski EDMONTON, Alberta, April 3, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A spokesman for Alberta's education minister said that while the minister supports the establishment of...
Second Black Woman Killed in Botched Late-Term Abortion, Where’s the NAACP?
LifeNews.com - Apr 3, 2014 at 3:02 pm While pro-life advocates are up in arms about the recent death of Lakisha Wilson, a 22-year-old patient at Preterm Abortion Clinic in Cleveland, who died from a botched five-month...
Columnist decries failure to allow tax relief for parochial schools in New York
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 3, 2014 at 3:02 pm Writing in the New York Post, Seth Lipsky has lamented the failure of the New York state legislature to approve tax credits that would help parents of children in parochial...
Catholic patriarch condemns vandals' attacks on churches in Holy Land
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 3, 2014 at 2:53 pm The Latin-rite Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem has strongly condemned an attack by vandals on a Catholic shrine near Jerusalem, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) reports.
Archbishop...
ASK FATHER: Emergency baptism of an adult
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Apr 3, 2014 at 2:50 pm From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
I am a Police Officer and often am in situations where people are dying or close to death. Is it improper to baptize someone who is unconscious or having...
Most Americans back death penalty, but support falling, poll reports
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 3, 2014 at 2:44 pm American public support for capital punishment is falling, according to a Pew Research survey, although a majority still back the death penalty.
The Pew poll, conducted in 2013,...
St. Peter's Cemetery offers glimpse into rich past
The Busy Catholic - Apr 3, 2014 at 2:30 pm Land was cleared for a public cemetery about 1861
Director of Catholic Cemeteries Peter Nobes (right) tours St. Peter's
Cemetery with historians Dale (left) and Archie Miller and...
Quintessential for April 3
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Fostering the choice for life
SLU Students for Life hosts panel to discuss expanding support for pregnant and parenting students at university. The...
Man Arrested After Taking Teenage Girl He Raped for Abortion
LifeNews.com - Apr 3, 2014 at 2:13 pm A 29-year-old Florida man was arrested after he allegedly engaged in a sexual relationship with a teenaged girl. According to reports, the teen was impregnated by the pedophile...
Illinois bishop upholds priest’s decision to deny Communion to pro-abort Sen. Dick Durbin
LifeSiteNews - Apr 3, 2014 at 2:10 pm by Patrick B. Craine SPRINGFIELD, IL, April 3, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, known for his outspoken defense of the right to life...
Just deal with it!
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Apr 3, 2014 at 2:04 pm On a busy, complicated, not entirely pleasant day, I saw this and was both encouraged and amused:
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Who’s your favorite priest?
OSV Daily Take - Apr 3, 2014 at 2:04 pm Share your story with OSV Newsweekly. Inspired by editor Gretchen R. Crowe’s recollection of an African priest who influenced her life — and readers’ response to it — the...
