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One Baby Lived, The Other Baby Died: Finding and Sharing Hope After Tragedy
LifeNews.com - Jun 9, 2013 at 3:42 pm Washington, DC (LiveActionNews) — When Marlena Diedrich and her husband Joseff learned they were expecting twin girls, they were ecstatic. Like most parents, they hoped and prayed...
Pope: God forgives sins that wound
Catholic News Agency - General - Jun 9, 2013 at 3:23 pm Vatican City, Jun 9, 2013 / 02:23 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis on Sunday emphasized the mercy of God, declaring that God always those who show him the “inner wounds” of their...
What is a catafalque and why is it used?
New Liturgical Movement - Jun 9, 2013 at 3:21 pm
The catafalque is either an empty casket or a wooden form made to look like a casket that is covered by the black pall and surrounded by six unbleached (orange) candles (when...
Congressional Democrats Float Bill Attacking Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers
LifeNews.com - Jun 9, 2013 at 3:17 pm For a movement that claims to be all about safeguarding women’s choices, pro-aborts do an awful lot of caterwauling about those who provide alternatives to abortion. Democrat Rep...
Political reporters learn about St. Augustine. Chaos ensues.
GetReligion - Jun 9, 2013 at 3:13 pm On Friday, Angus Dwyer wrote on Twitter: You’ll never guess what uncontroversial Christian doctrine this Republican candidate and/or office-holder believes! Yes, friends, it’s...
Playing Pilot
The Curt Jester - Jun 9, 2013 at 2:49 pm (Vatican Radio) In a style that seems to have become almost signature of the current pontificate, Pope Francis stepped out of yet another scripted session to engage in a...
The Gift of Joy: Blessing of the Child in the Womb
CatholicMom.com - Jun 9, 2013 at 2:00 pm
The Gift of Joy: Blessing of the Child in the Womb
WASHINGTON—A new booklet on “The Blessing of the Child in the Womb” co-authored by the vice president and associate general...
Catherine of Siena and Prayer
CatholicMom.com - Jun 9, 2013 at 2:00 pm
Catherine of Siena and Prayer
Prayer has been heavily on my mind these last few weeks. It began on retreat when the question “how do you pray?” was posed and the group asked to...
Happy news from Rome
New Liturgical Movement - Jun 9, 2013 at 1:41 pm Happy News from Rome that Monsignor Philip Whitmore Prot. Ap is to be the new Rector of the Venerable English College. Monsignor Whitmore has worked for many years in the Vatican'...
No Free Exercise Problem With Evidence of Defendant's Santa Muerte Necklace
The Religion Clause - Jun 9, 2013 at 1:20 pm In Batiste v. State of Texas, (TX Ct. Crim App., June 5, 2013), defendant who was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death objected, among other things, to the...
The Weekly Francis eBook – Volume 13
The Curt Jester - Jun 9, 2013 at 1:15 pm
This is the 13th volume of The Weekly Francis ebook which is a compilation of the Holy Father’s writings, speeches, etc which I post at Jimmy Akin’s The Weekly Francis. The post...
"The effect was stunning"
New Liturgical Movement - Jun 9, 2013 at 1:08 pm Here is Deacon Pat Cunningham's final homily to Holy Spirit Parish, San Antonio, Texas. The two paragraphs before the peroration are pertinent to the cause of good liturgy.
Tenth...
The Weekly Francis – 9 June 2013
Jimmy Akin.org - Jun 9, 2013 at 1:07 pm This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 23 May 2013 – 9 June 2013 (subscribe here; get as an eBook version for your Kindle, iPod, iPad,...
Recent Prisoner Free Exercise Cases
The Religion Clause - Jun 9, 2013 at 12:52 pm In Ali v. Reilly, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 77549 (D NH, June 3, 2013), a New Hampshire federal magistrate judge recommended allowing a Muslim inmate to move ahead with a number of...
Pope Francis: messages of hope and perseverance to pilgrims
News.va - Jun 9, 2013 at 12:35 pm (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis spoke with tens of thousands of pilgrims who made a 28km, all-night pilgrimage on foot from Macerata to the Marian shrine at Loreto, in Italy. Noting...
“Pro-Choice” Blogger Mocks Father’s Anguish Over Abortion Of His Baby
LifeNews.com - Jun 9, 2013 at 11:51 am Washington, DC (LiveActionNews) — A common tale is the man who gets a girl pregnant, and then pressures her into having an abortion. For men just looking to screw around and avoid...
Pastors Must Preach Against Abortion More Often, We Must Encourage Them
LifeNews.com - Jun 9, 2013 at 11:13 am Many people find themselves in churches in which ministers rarely, if ever, preach against abortion from the pulpit. The abortion issue is also a subject we rarely address in...
Organ recording from the London Oratory
New Liturgical Movement - Jun 9, 2013 at 11:00 am Matthew Martin, Organist of the London Oratory, has made a recording which was released earlier this year. The recording, on the Oratory’s historic 1954 Walker/Downes organ, is...
Parents of Sick Kids Forced to Reject Abortion and Euthanasia Suggestions
LifeNews.com - Jun 9, 2013 at 10:58 am In 2011, a survey study in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology reported that only 14% of practicing obstetrician/gynecologists are willing to perform abortions.1 In Oregon,...
Ohio State University Student Found Guilty of Destroying Pro-Life Display
LifeNews.com - Jun 9, 2013 at 10:36 am In April, Hans posted video of a woman at Ohio State University knocking down signs that had been erected by Created Equal showing the atrocity of abortion.
The vandal was...
