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Thomas More Society – In the News – August 2017
Thomas More Society - Aug 1, 2017 at 11:30 am In Kansas, The Wichita Eagle reports that our client, pro-life activist and sidewalk counselor David Schmidt, who volunteered with Kansas Coalition for Life, was acquitted of...
Where Have You Been, Bishop?
Commonweal - Aug 1, 2017 at 11:28 am Where Have You Been, Bishop?
By Peter SteinfelsAugust 1, 2017
When I read the bishop’s letter, the word that sprung to mind was “pathetic.”
I truly meant pathetic in both its...
Vatican urges vacation-goers to be responsible tourists
Catholic News Agency - General - Aug 1, 2017 at 11:25 am Vatican City, Aug 1, 2017 / 10:25 am (CNA/EWTN News).- As Rome and other parts of the world gear up for their August holidays, the Vatican has urged tourists to remember the human...
Vatican urges vacation-goers to be responsible tourists
EWTN - Vatican News - Aug 1, 2017 at 11:25 am Vatican City, Aug 1, 2017 / 11:25 am (EWTN News/CNA).- As Rome and other parts of the world gear up for their August holidays,
the Vatican has urged tourists to remember the human...
15-Year-Old Raped By Her Cousins Will Not Abort Her 8-Month-Old Unborn Baby
LifeNews.com - Aug 1, 2017 at 11:19 am A 15-year-old teenager in India will not abort her unborn baby after enduring months of sexual abuse allegedly at the hands of her cousins.
NDTV reports the victim, who is not...
Catholic says ‘exuberant’ charismatic movement brought her back to church
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Aug 1, 2017 at 11:18 am Chris Shafer grew up as a "nominal Catholic," and she wasn't even sure she still believed in God in the mid-1970s when she moved to Fort Walton Beach, Florida, where her husband,...
Archbishop Chaput: ‘The future belongs to people with children, not with things’
LifeSiteNews - Aug 1, 2017 at 11:08 am 'Islam has a future because Islam believes in children'
African-born clergy, religious ministering in U.S. gather in New Orleans
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Aug 1, 2017 at 11:07 am The growing numbers of African-born clergy and religious ministering in the United States are at the vanguard of an important moment in both the U.S. and worldwide Catholic Church...
George and Amal Clooney to help Syrian refugee children go to school
Aleteia - Aug 1, 2017 at 11:00 am An estimated 200,000 refugee children living in Lebanon are not in schoolGeorge and Amal Clooney plan to help 3,000 Syrian refugee children attend school in Lebanon by funding 7...
Auschwitz survivor and her rescuer celebrate 70 years of marriage
Aleteia - Aug 1, 2017 at 11:00 am This Holocaust survivor married the soldier who rescued her, and they spent over 7 decades together.In 1944, Edith Steiner was only 20 years old when she was liberated from...
NLM’s 12th Anniversary
New Liturgical Movement - Aug 1, 2017 at 11:00 am Today is the twelfth anniversary of the New Liturgical Movement, and as always, we cannot let the day pass without a word of thanks to our founder Shawn Tribe for his years of...
Americans end pilgrimage to Canadian shrine after 95 years
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Aug 1, 2017 at 10:56 am Leonardo DiVittorio approached the statue of St. Anne. As part of the opening ceremony of the feast of the grandmother of Jesus July 25, he laid a wreath of flowers, a symbolic...
Feast of the Holy Machabees
Saint Louis Catholic - Aug 1, 2017 at 10:55 am Gospel Luke 12: 1-8[1] And when great multitudes stood about him, so that they trod one upon another, he began to say to his disciples: Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees,...
Appraising lay leaders of Vatican press office after a year
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 1, 2017 at 10:51 am John Allen of Crux notes that one year has passed since the Greg Burke took over as director of the Vatican press office, with Paloma Garcia Ovejero as his deputy.
Blind Elderly Man Arrested for Trying to Stop Abortion Clinic Staffer From Stealing His Sign is Acquitted
LifeNews.com - Aug 1, 2017 at 10:40 am A nearly blind pro-life activist has been acquitted of battery charges that were brought after he defended a sign that an abortion clinic security guard was trying to steal.
David...
English bishop fears government’s anti-extremism policy could turn against Christians
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 1, 2017 at 10:39 am A British government program designed to discourage religious extremism could affect Christians, the Catholic bishop of Shrewsbury warns.
Head of Knights of Malta relief efforts says sea rescue is a ‘mission’
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Aug 1, 2017 at 10:34 am While European leaders continue to debate how to handle the influx of migrants, the head of the Order of Malta's Italian relief corps said that search and rescue operations are a...
Where the Crusades and Clashes Between the Papacy and the Holy Roman Empire Etc. Instances of Political Meddling by the Catholic Church? “No.”
Big C Catholics - Aug 1, 2017 at 10:34 am By Father Thomas MattisonSo, you will ask me — legitimately — how about the Crusades and the clashes between the papacy and the Holy Roman Empire etc.? Were these not instances of...
White House Meets With Evangelical Leaders
The Religion Clause - Aug 1, 2017 at 10:31 am Christian Post reports that last week the White House Office of Public Liaison held three separate 2-hour listening sessions with almost 100 evangelical Christian leaders. The...
Canadian cardinal would approve funeral after assisted suicied
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 1, 2017 at 10:30 am Cardinal Gerald Lacroix of Quebec City has indicated that he would approve funerals for Catholics who opted for physician-assisted suicide.
