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Get ready for National Marriage Week
LifeSiteNews - Oct 21, 2013 at 12:38 pm by Eric Metaxas October 21, 2013 (BreakPoint) - You may remember early in the summer we talked about a new study by University of Texas associate professor Mark Regnerus. Regnerus...
My Brother Had Down Syndrome, Lived 61 Years, and Loved Every Minute of It
LifeNews.com - Oct 21, 2013 at 12:21 pm The following tribute was shared with Live Action by Eddie’s cousin. She writes, “He was 61 years old and was born with Down syndrome. His younger sister Debbie wrote and shared a...
‘Nothing had prepared me for the searing pain’: Pro-choice woman describes RU-486 nightmare
LifeSiteNews - Oct 21, 2013 at 12:19 pm by Sarah Terzo October 20, 2013 (LiveActionNews) - RU-486, the abortion pill, is offered to women who are less than nine weeks pregnant. When it first became available in the...
Is it time for the old Mainline churches to shed that label?
GetReligion - Oct 21, 2013 at 12:17 pm BOBBY ASKS: Who are the “Mainline” Protestants today? DOUGLAS LIKEWISE ASKS: (Paraphrasing) What do we make of proposals for “Mainline” Protestants to drop that label for...
A Reader asks about Catholic Failure to Catechize
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Oct 21, 2013 at 12:00 pm …over at the Register and gets a lesson in the problem of going to the elves for counsel (for they will say both Yes and No.)
Thoughts on Large Families for our ‘Tolerant’ Modern Society
CatholicMom.com - Oct 21, 2013 at 12:00 pm Large families are an anomaly in desperate need of an advocate in modern society.
A prompt on a health website asked, ”Are you an advocate for any cause?”
I sputtered to myself, ”...
Boy born with part of brain outside skull and large facial cleft proves life is beautiful
LifeSiteNews - Oct 21, 2013 at 11:57 am by Nancy Flanders October 18, 2013 (LiveActionNews) - On June 18, 2012 a baby boy named Dominic Pio was born into the world who, had he been given different parents, may never...
Pro-Life Leader Assaulted Outside Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic
LifeNews.com - Oct 21, 2013 at 11:55 am Local pro-life leader Brian Gibson, the Executive Director of Pro-Life Action Ministries, was assaulted Friday morning at the Planned Parenthood abortion facility in St. Paul,...
Third California Catholic College Reassess Elective Abortion Coverage
Catholic Education Daily - Oct 21, 2013 at 11:54 am St. Mary’s College in Moraga, Calif., a liberal arts institution run by the Christian Brothers of St. John Baptist de La Salle, is the latest to announce it too is reassessing its...
Third California Catholic College Reassesses Elective Abortion Coverage
Catholic Education Daily - Oct 21, 2013 at 11:54 am St. Mary’s College in Moraga, Calif., a liberal arts institution run by the Christian Brothers of St. John Baptist de La Salle, is the latest to announce it too is reassessing its...
Obama administration targets Catholic teaching with HHS mandate, Washington lawsuit charges
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 21, 2013 at 11:43 am In a lawsuit challenging the contraceptive mandate, the Archdiocese of Washington, DC, argues that the Obama administration has pursued a "conscious political strategy to...
New US ambassador to Vatican takes the helm in Rome
Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 21, 2013 at 11:39 am Rome, Italy, Oct 21, 2013 / 10:39 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The recently appointed American ambassador to the Holy See presented his credentials to Pope Francis in a meeting earlier...
New US ambassador to Vatican takes the helm in Rome
EWTN - Vatican News - Oct 21, 2013 at 11:39 am Rome, Italy, Oct 21, 2013 / 11:39 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
The recently appointed American ambassador to the Holy See presented his credentials to Pope Francis in a meeting earlier...
My brother with Down syndrome: he taught us how to live, how to laugh, and how to love
LifeSiteNews - Oct 21, 2013 at 11:28 am by Debbie Gifford October 18, 2013 (LiveActionNews) - Editor’s Note: The following tribute was shared with Live Action by Eddie’s cousin. She writes, “He was 61 years old and was...
Pope meets German bishop at center of spending controversy
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Oct 21, 2013 at 11:27 am VATICAN CITY — After giving a morning Mass homily on the virtue of poverty, Pope Francis held a private meeting Oct. 21 with a German bishop under fire for a massive building...
The Most Powerful Pro-Life Speech Ever Heard at the United Nations
LifeNews.com - Oct 21, 2013 at 11:25 am A leading pro-life advocate who lobbies at the United Nations says the Holy See has given what he considered to be the most powerful pro-life speech ever presented to the UN....
Aquinas College Announces Campus Expansion Amid “Problem” of Needing More Space
Catholic Education Daily - Oct 21, 2013 at 11:24 am Aquinas College released plans to purchase the Welch College campus, which is located less than a mile from the current Aquinas campus.
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Gay marriage impacts North Carolina Catholic churches, local interfaith service
The Deacon's Bench - Oct 21, 2013 at 11:22 am From the Charlotte Observer: One Catholic Church in Charlotte fired music director Steav Bates-Congdon after he married his longtime male partner. Now another has pulled out of...
Faith leaders welcome government reopening, point to unfinished work
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Oct 21, 2013 at 11:17 am WASHINGTON — Religious leaders welcomed the congressional deal of Oct. 16 that reopened the federal government after a 16-day shutdown, but some cast wary glances at the...
Pope’s chief of staff gives behind-the-scenes talk on media, reform
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Oct 21, 2013 at 11:12 am VATICAN CITY — The Vatican’s online access to official papal texts and speeches free people from relying on media coverage that may be manipulative or biased, said a top official...
