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Charlie Gard’s parents withdraw appeal
Catholic Culture - World News - Jul 24, 2017 at 6:50 am The parents of Charlie Gard have withdrawn their appeal for permission to try experimental treatment for their child.
Did Vatican pay twice for contractor’s work in embezzlement case?
Catholic Culture - World News - Jul 24, 2017 at 6:44 am Investigators have unearthed a series of financial transactions that suggest a contractor was paid by two different Vatican offices for his work in a case that has given rise to...
Government ‘on the verge of dropping Catholic schools promise’
Catholic Herald - Jul 24, 2017 at 6:36 am The government is reportedly on the verge of dropping a key promise that would have allowed the Catholic Church to open new schools.
The Conservative Party pledged in its...
Pope’s plans thwarted by resistance in clergy, according to essay in Vatican newspaper
Catholic Culture - World News - Jul 24, 2017 at 6:33 am An article in the official Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano argues that the “main obstacle” to the work of Pope Francis is resistance among Catholic priests and bishops.
Colombian martyrs: witnesses to the point of death
Franciscan Media - Jul 24, 2017 at 6:23 am VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis’ decree to beatify two Colombian martyrs from two troubled eras in the South American country’s history underscores his call for courageous...
You are being watched!
CatholicMom.com - Jul 24, 2017 at 6:00 am
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In your neighborhood, at work, school and on the soccer field; at the movies, the mall and church, curious eyes are on you....
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The Religion Clause - Jul 24, 2017 at 6:00 am From SSRN:
Yishai Blank, In Search of the Secular, (Institutionalizing Rights and Religion: Competing Supremacies 126-144 (L. Batnitzky & H. Dagan eds., Cambridge University...
Francis prays for Charlie Gard, as his parents end legal battle
EWTN - Vatican News - Jul 24, 2017 at 5:20 am Vatican City, Jul 24, 2017 / 05:20 pm (EWTN News).- After a US neurologist determined that an experimental therapy could no longer potentially be of aid to a British baby born...
NFP: It's not just a Catholic thing anymore
EWTN - US Latest News - Jul 24, 2017 at 5:13 am Washington D.C., Jul 24, 2017 / 05:13 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
For some, it was a health-conscious decision. For others, it was environmental. For still others, it was faith-based.
The heart-rending dilemmas of an atheist brain surgeon
Catholic Herald - Jul 24, 2017 at 4:53 am Possibly because we know so little about the workings of the body, we are fascinated in a slightly morbid way by what medical experts get up to when they deal with the frailties...
Regensburg Choir, bishop’s letter: “I can only humbly ask for forgiveness for the abuses”
Vatican Insider - Jul 24, 2017 at 4:35 am “All this deeply pains me and fills me with shame. I can only humbly ask for forgiveness and, on behalf of the guilty, mostly deceased, I ask you to accept this request for...
UK porn sites to ban access for users under 18 years old
EWTN - World Catholic News - Jul 24, 2017 at 4:35 am London, England, Jul 24, 2017 / 04:35 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- As part of an increasing government crackdown on internet pornography, U.K. porn sites will soon require users to...
NFP: It's not just a Catholic thing anymore
Catholic News Agency - General - Jul 24, 2017 at 4:13 am Washington D.C., Jul 24, 2017 / 03:13 am (CNA/EWTN News).- For some, it was a health-conscious decision. For others, it was environmental. For still others, it was faith-based....
Archbishop Gomez calls on Congress to pass Dream Act
EWTN - US Latest News - Jul 24, 2017 at 4:02 am Los Angeles, Calif., Jul 24, 2017 / 04:02 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Too many young people are threatened with deportation because their parents brought them to the U.S. without...
Chaplains to the Zeitgeist
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jul 24, 2017 at 3:50 am
Recently, La Civilta Cattolica ran an article by that journal’s editor-in-chief, Fr. Antonio Spadaro, and by Marcelo Figueroa, the Argentinian Presbyterian minister chosen by...
On the Need to State the Obvious
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jul 24, 2017 at 3:45 am
One of the most subversive, dangerous, thankless, and necessary tasks is to state the obvious. Our mental filing systems tend to push things labeled as “obvious” into the back of...
Daily Gospel Reflection for July 24, 2017
CatholicMom.com - Jul 24, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: Matthew 12:38-42
The Pharisees are asking Jesus for a sign that He’s God. Studying my relationship with Jesus, I realize that somedays I’m a doubting Pharisee. I...
Son Cow Shea records the following conversation
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jul 24, 2017 at 2:57 am Seraphim was struggling to understand why I call Grandma and Grandpa “Mom and Dad” sometimes. Me: They’re your Grandma and Grandpa, but when I was a kid, I lived with them and...
