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The new ‘abortion’: cutting newborns’ spinal cords
GetReligion - Mar 20, 2013 at 11:01 am Two years ago, Dr. Kermit Gosnell was arrested for the murders of eight people at the abortion clinic a jury called a “house of horrors.” As I wrote at that time, normally if...
The Wait for Francis and Googling Humility
CatholicMom.com - Mar 20, 2013 at 11:00 am
Pope Francis
My four-year-old breathed a heavy sigh beside me as he sat facing my laptop. “I just don’t like new popes.” His little shoulders sagged.
I had to agree—it did feel...
Compendium of the 1961 Revision of the Pontificale Romanum - Part 2.14: The Conclusion of the Dedication (1595)
New Liturgical Movement - Mar 20, 2013 at 11:00 am The bishop now blesses grains of incense which will be burned on the altar, with the following prayer (preceded by “Domine exaudi. Dominus vobiscum. Oremus.”)
O Lord God Almighty...
Cardinal Grocholewski: This Will Be a Great Pontificate
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Mar 20, 2013 at 10:48 am Polish Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, 72, prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, began to work in the Roman Curia before John Paul II. Tuesday, after the Mass of the...
Commission on the Status of Women Concludes, Abortion Activists Fail
LifeNews.com - Mar 20, 2013 at 10:47 am The two-week long exercise in futility known as the United Nations’ 57th annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is over. The harangues, the excesses, and the disconnect...
Pope speaks of ecumenism, the “walk towards unity” and welcomes patriarch as “Andrew”
The Deacon's Bench - Mar 20, 2013 at 10:46 am Some details, from CNS: For the good of all people, the care of the poor and the future of the Earth, religions must cooperate in reminding modern men and women that God exists...
The Black-and-White Pope
Crisis Magazine - Church - Mar 20, 2013 at 10:45 am A few days ago we all had a shocking surprise as a Latin American, Jesuit archbishop emerged onto the loggia of St. Peter’s to the general joy of the Catholic world. The...
Pope Francis: Whirlwind of Goodness
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Mar 20, 2013 at 10:35 am We do not know if the same happened when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires. Perhaps his election to the papacy has spread further and made the world know the human and spiritual...
Worth Remembering
Saint Louis Catholic - Mar 20, 2013 at 10:32 am Finally, we must conclude by saying that we ought never to reject God's word or the teachings Our Lord has left us because of the faults of preachers who propose them. Since our...
Shaw: Taking a wait-and-see approach
OSV Daily Take - Mar 20, 2013 at 10:31 am By Russell ShawThe surprising election of Pope Francis plainly was no surprise to the people who really counted: the cardinals, that is, who swiftly chose him on the first full...
Pro-abortion Biden and Pelosi receive communion, but not from Pope at inaugural Mass
LifeSiteNews - Mar 20, 2013 at 10:28 am by John-Henry Westen VAATICAN, March 20, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-abortion Catholics Vice President Joe Biden and House Leader Nancy Pelosi both received Holy Communion at...
Obama Labor Sec Nominee Ignored Planned Parenthood Sex Trafficking Issues
LifeNews.com - Mar 20, 2013 at 10:25 am President Barack Obama’s nominee for Labor Secretary has already been exposed for his connections with pro-abortion liberal billionaire George Soros, but he also has another pro-...
What to Hope for in a New Pope
Crisis Magazine - Church - Mar 20, 2013 at 10:25 am Imagine members of the lay faithful being invited to instruct the cardinals who come to Rome to select a new pope. They would be asked precisely whom they would choose as...
What will Benedict XVIs legacy be in the years ahead?
Communio - Mar 20, 2013 at 10:25 am The answer to this question will not be in its final form for a long time. The papacy only ended a few weeks ago. Historians will have to look at several things before they will...
An etiology
Commonweal - Mar 20, 2013 at 10:22 am On a less serious note: I told this story to a friend this morning who thought it would make for a good thread.
One of my cousins remembered as a child overhearing a conversation...
Both Benedict and Francis are holy men – but with naturally different personal styles
Catholic Herald - Mar 20, 2013 at 10:15 am In response to my last blog about the style the Holy Father brings to his office – a style that seems to suggest a new, Franciscan simplicity in contrast to former papal...
Today’s Catholic must-reads: 20/03/13
Catholic Herald - Mar 20, 2013 at 10:14 am Pope Francis is likely to visit the shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida during his visit to Brazil in July (report in Portuguese).
Pope Francis’s book Sobre el cielo y la tierra (On...
Pro-Life Businessman Purchases Former Michigan Abortion Clinic
LifeNews.com - Mar 20, 2013 at 10:08 am Earlier this month quack late-term abortionist Reginald Sharpe was forced to close his Women’s Advisory Center abortion clinic in Livonia, Michigan, when the building went into...
Papacy 'Illuminated' by Pope Francis' Humanity, Says UK Prelate
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Mar 20, 2013 at 10:07 am Three years after Benedict XVI's historic visit to the United Kingdom, British Catholics and non-Catholics alike are coming to embrace the papacy anew in the person of Pope...
Pro-life businessman purchases abortion clinic with sordid history
LifeSiteNews - Mar 20, 2013 at 10:03 am by Jill Stanek Earlier this month quack late-term abortionist Reginald Sharpe was forced to close his Women’s Advisory Center abortion clinic in Livonia, Michigan, when the...
