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Lawmaker calls for concrete action to fight modern slave trade
Catholic News Agency - General - Jun 12, 2013 at 6:04 pm Washington D.C., Jun 12, 2013 / 05:04 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A U.S. congressman urged the international community to train transportation employees to identify and fight human...
“Partners in Our Husbands’ Ministry”: The Vocation of the Wife of a Deacon
The Deacon's Bench - Jun 12, 2013 at 6:01 pm Some words to ponder from Mary Gannon Kaufman, the wife of a deacon candidate, from Homiletics and Pastoral Review: I was at a retreat in another diocese, when a man in formation...
SVDP opens fifth thrift store in St. Louis area
Saint Louis Review - St. Louis News - Jun 12, 2013 at 6:00 pm Jennifer Brinker | jbrinker@archstl.org
The St. Vincent de Paul Society has opened its fifth thrift store in the St. Louis area amid a booming...
'Little but mighty' boy overcomes obstacles
Saint Louis Review - St. Louis News - Jun 12, 2013 at 6:00 pm
At a mere 21 weeks into her pregnancy, Tracey Sheahan went into labor. Because she was only at the halfway point of a typical full-term pregnancy and the baby was...
'Wired' for serving others with Project Life
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They're called "Feet Washers," and they united last week to serve God and others through Project Life.
One...
Enthusiasm reigns at Liturgy Camp
Saint Louis Review - St. Louis News - Jun 12, 2013 at 5:59 pm Joseph Kenny | jkenny@archstl.org
"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Assisting veterans
Saint Louis Review - Viewpoints - Jun 12, 2013 at 5:58 pm Thank you for your recent coverage in the May 20-26 issue of the St. Louis Review regarding the challenges faced by women veterans. In fact, two of the women highlighted, Elisha...
Franciscan Sisters of Mary join effort for safe cleanup of landfill
Saint Louis Review - St. Louis News - Jun 12, 2013 at 5:58 pm Jennifer Brinker | jbrinker@archstl.org
Residents and others concerned for years about the cleanup of radioactive waste at the West Lake...
Implications of emergency contraception
Saint Louis Review - St. Louis News - Jun 12, 2013 at 5:58 pm Jennifer Brinker | jbrinker@archstl.org
The recent push to make emergency contraception more widely available in the United States raises...
Wash U. Catholic Student Center a refuge for helping students appreciate sexuality
Saint Louis Review - St. Louis News - Jun 12, 2013 at 5:58 pm Jennifer Brinker | jbrinker@archstl.org
Pharmacy student Tracey Nguyen recently recalled being taught in one of her classes that pregnancy...
EDITORIAL | Department of Special Education excels with the help of many
Saint Louis Review - Viewpoints - Jun 12, 2013 at 5:57 pm Msgr. Elmer Behrmann, the visionary priest who founded the archdiocesan Department of Special Education in 1950, was someone you met but couldn't forget.
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Traditional Diaconal Ordination of Diocesan Seminarian
Rorate Coeli - Jun 12, 2013 at 5:56 pm In the great bastion of Traditional practices in the Congregatio Solesmensis, the Abbey of Our Lady of Fontgombault (Notre-Dame de Fontgombault), in Indre (central France), the...
China: 400 Million Forced Abortions, Sterilizations Under One-Child Policy
LifeNews.com - Jun 12, 2013 at 5:43 pm Recent reports from China show coercion in China’s infamous one-child policy is once again on the rise. Women in the southern city of Huizhou are being targeted for sterilization...
Mother of ‘sewer baby’ hid pregnancy over fear of Chinese one child policy
LifeSiteNews - Jun 12, 2013 at 5:43 pm by All Girls Allowed Jinhua, China, June 12, 2013 (AllGirlsAllowed) — When Baby 59’s unmarried mother delivered him in her bathroom, she thought her child would remain a secret....
To My Amazement, a Trip to Rome May Really Materialize
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jun 12, 2013 at 5:34 pm So awhile back, I noted that one of my ambitions is to get to Rome (and truth to tell, across France to Dunkirk and then on to England (particularly Oxford and Glastonbury)...
I am Curia (Pink)
The Curt Jester - Jun 12, 2013 at 5:30 pm Over and over we are seeing with Pope Francis that some of the more interesting things he says are the things we don’t have transcripts for. What he has to say in public shows his...
“You Are a Freak. But I Mean That in a Good Way…”
The Deacon's Bench - Jun 12, 2013 at 5:25 pm A jaw-dropping, forehead-slapping performance from “America’s Got Talent.” Folks, this has to be seen to be believed.
Vatican Cardinal: Contraception ‘is fundamentally an anti-life act’
LifeSiteNews - Jun 12, 2013 at 5:11 pm by John-Henry Westen June 12, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In an interview with the US Bishops’ news service, Catholic News Serivce, Cardinal Raymond Burke, the head or “prefect” of...
Planned Parenthood Closes Second New York Clinic in Two Weeks
LifeNews.com - Jun 12, 2013 at 5:04 pm The Planned Parenthood abortion business is closing its second facility in New York State in two weeks, after another center closed in Herkimer, New York. This time, the closed...
Report finds Catholic population growing in South Korea
Catholic News Agency - General - Jun 12, 2013 at 5:01 pm Seoul, South Korea, Jun 12, 2013 / 04:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Recent statistics indicate that the Catholic population in South Korea has increased over the past year.
Last month...