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What Are Kids Reading in School?
The Deacon's Bench - Jun 12, 2013 at 6:15 am You might be surprised. From NPR: “Last year, we had more than 8.6 million students from across the country who read a total of 283 million books,” says Eric Stickney, the...
Israeli Knesset Passes Law Requiring 4 Women On Rabbinical Judges Selection Committee
The Religion Clause - Jun 12, 2013 at 6:15 am In Israel, government-appointed judges of rabbinical courts have jurisdiction over issues of Jewish marriage and divorce in the country. The rabbinical court judges are chosen by...
Muslims May Proceed With Equal Protection Challenge To Discriminatory Religious Interrogation At US-Canadian Border
The Religion Clause - Jun 12, 2013 at 6:05 am In Cherri v. Mueller, (ED MI, June 11, 2013), a Michigan federal district court permitted four Muslim-Americans to proceed with their suit against federal officials. The suit...
Lawmaker calls for concrete action to fight modern slave trade
EWTN - US Latest News - Jun 12, 2013 at 6:04 am Washington D.C., Jun 12, 2013 / 06:04 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
A U.S. congressman urged the international community to train transportation employees to identify and fight human...
My Consecration App
CatholicMom.com - Jun 12, 2013 at 6:00 am
After many years of discerning the beautiful Consecration to Jesus through Mary – and I must confess after more than a few false starts — I am finally prepared to complete it. ...
Russian Duma Passes Laws Banning Insulting of Religious Feelings and Disseminating Homosexual Propaganda To Minors
The Religion Clause - Jun 12, 2013 at 6:00 am Yesterday in Russia, the Duma-- the lower house of Russia's Parliament-- passed two bill of interest. The first is a ban on publicly insulting religious feelings. As reported by...
Catholics Must Grow in Love of God, Neighbor, Pope Says
Franciscan Media - Jun 12, 2013 at 6:00 am VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Christians have "far to go" if they seek to be
known primarily for their love of God and neighbor, Pope Francis said.
Inside the United States
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jun 12, 2013 at 5:27 am Hilarious and darkly funny piece on what it would be like if journalists covered the US the way they cover other countries. What I love is that they have to have a disclaimer at...
Scottish adoption agency celebrates despite closure threat
Catholic News Agency - General - Jun 12, 2013 at 5:17 am Glasgow, Scotland, Jun 12, 2013 / 04:17 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Friends of the St. Margaret’s Children and Family Care Society gathered at Glasgow’s cathedral on June 9 to...
Scottish adoption agency celebrates despite closure threat
EWTN - World Catholic News - Jun 12, 2013 at 5:17 am Glasgow, Scotland, Jun 12, 2013 / 05:17 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
Friends of the St. Margaret's Children and Family Care Society gathered at Glasgow's cathedral on June 9 to...
Pope appeals for an end to child labour
News.va - Jun 12, 2013 at 5:10 am (Vatican Radio) Below is an English language translation of the Pope’s Appeal on the World Day Against Child LabourToday the World Day Against Child Labour is being celebrated...
Report finds Catholic population growing in South Korea
EWTN - World Catholic News - Jun 12, 2013 at 5:01 am Seoul, South Korea, Jun 12, 2013 / 05:01 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
Recent statistics indicate that the Catholic population in South Korea has increased over the past year.
Lawn Chair Catechism Session 3: We Don’t Know What Normal Is
CatholicMom.com - Jun 12, 2013 at 5:00 am
Welcome to the third session of Lawn Chair Catechism, using Forming Intentional Disciples: The Path to Knowing and Following Jesus, by Sherry Weddell (Our Sunday Visitor, 2012)....
Well, I guess that makes me normal!?! #LawnChairCatechism
Snoring Scholar - Jun 12, 2013 at 5:00 am This week’s chapter of Forming Intentional Disciples is fittingly named “We Don’t Know What Normal Is.” The discussion is up over at CatholicMom.com…I hope you’ll join in!
One of...
Pope Francis sends message to centre for the blind
Catholic Herald - Jun 12, 2013 at 4:55 am Pope Francis has sent an audio message to the Italian Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired at the start of their summer program at the Le Torri Centre in Tirrenia,...
Some Turkish protesters, even non-Christians, light candles to St. Anthony
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 12, 2013 at 4:45 am Before taking part in demonstrations in Istanbul's Taksim Square, "many young people" visit Istanbul's largest Roman Catholic parish to light a candle to St. Anthony, according to...
Concordat between Holy See, Cape Verde on Church's legal status
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 12, 2013 at 4:44 am Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, the Holy See's Secretary for Relations with States, traveled to the Atlantic island nation of Cape Verde on June 10 to sign a diplomatic accord on...
Church desecrated in Sri Lanka
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 12, 2013 at 4:42 am Destroying statues and removing the tabernacle, attackers desecrated a parish in Sri Lanka on the night on June 5.
"The unknown group had forcefully removed the tabernacle from...
Evangelical political influence on the rise in Brazil
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 12, 2013 at 4:41 am The rising political influence of evangelicals in Brazil has made abortion a more central political issue in the world's fifth most populous nation.
"Though belonging to a dozen...
Vatican, Vietnam resume talks on diplomatic relations
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 12, 2013 at 4:40 am Representatives of the Holy See and the Vietnamese government will soon begin a fourth round of meetings devoted to the establishment of diplomatic relations.
The Communist nation...
