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New office at HHS provides “bite” for conscience protection laws, advocates say
Aleteia - Jan 19, 2018 at 6:00 am Catholic Medical Association hails Trump Administration action on protection for healthcare providers.A new office in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has invited...
Catholics prefer ritual and consistency at Mass, study suggests
Catholic Herald - Jan 19, 2018 at 5:39 am So who really is singing “Gather Us In” at Mass? Does the pastor asking people about their week really make the Mass friendlier and more engaging? Why is the Our Father so...
New generation of pro-life advocates digs into politics (OSV Newsweekly)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 19, 2018 at 5:01 am Our Sunday Visitor interviewed officials of state Catholic conferences in Maine, South Carolina, and Nebraska.
Book of Lamentations is focus of Italy's Jewish-Catholic dialogue (CWN)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 19, 2018 at 5:01 am The Italian Episcopal Conference commemorated its annual Day of Judaism on January 17, the day before the start of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
English prelate pledges to help create welcoming environments for migrants, refugees (Catholic Church in England & Wales)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 19, 2018 at 5:01 am Auxiliary Bishop Paul McAleenan of Westminster is chairman of the English and Welsh bishiops’ Office for Migration Policy.
Croatian bishop praises large families (Servizio Informazione Religiosa)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 19, 2018 at 5:01 am Meeting with families with five or more children, Bishop Josip Mrzljak of Varazdin asked, “Why are so many couples scared of life? ... If we look at the past, there were fewer [...
German bishops give $6.4M to support Church in northern, eastern Europe (Servizio Informazione Religiosa)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 19, 2018 at 5:01 am Referring to the Church in Scandinavia, an official of the German bishops’ conference said that “the fast-growing Church in northern European countries is a materially poor Church...
’12 Strong’: A patriotic film that deserves our respect
Aleteia - Jan 19, 2018 at 5:00 am This offering is first and foremost an unabashed gung-ho tale of American military heroism.January is typically considered a “dump month,” a specific time of the year when studios...
Pope Francis clashes with abuse survivors over bishop
Catholic Herald - Jan 19, 2018 at 4:51 am Pope Francis has defended a Chilean bishop accused of covering up sex abuse, saying allegations against him are “calumny”. Abuse survivors accuse Bishop Juan Barros of Osorno of...
The Metaphysical Implications of Darwinian Theory
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jan 19, 2018 at 4:50 am
Darwin was always unsettled by the implications of his theory, and his growing agnosticism, along with his eventual belief that there was no soul, no eternity, just blind matter...
Turning the Darkest Tragedy Into Something Beautiful
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jan 19, 2018 at 4:45 am
Last month, the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons published the qualitative results of a survey that sought to increase understanding of the emotional toll of abortion...
De Mattei: Minimalism: the present-day sickness of Catholicism
Rorate Coeli - Jan 19, 2018 at 4:45 am Roberto de Mattei
Corrispondenza Romana
January 17, 2018
In Italy recently, two videos have been circulating online which give
pause for thought. The first replicates the...
Pro-life strength lies in love, speakers tell March for Life
EWTN - US Latest News - Jan 19, 2018 at 4:19 am Washington D.C., Jan 19, 2018 / 04:19 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
The pro-life movement's most powerful tool lies in its ability to love, speakers said Friday at the March for Life in...
Peru welcomes Pope Francis (Vatican News)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 19, 2018 at 4:01 am Click here for links to the Pope’s homilies and addresses during his apostolic journey to Chile and Peru, the 22nd foreign trip of his pontificate.
Roman convent, responding to Pope Pius XII's request, sheltered 150 during Nazi occupation (CWN)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 19, 2018 at 4:01 am During the nine-month Nazi occupation of Rome in 1943 and 1944, Augustinian oblate sisters at the convent of Santa Maria dei Sette Dolori in Trastevere sheltered 150 Jews and...
Vatican official sends message of support to March for Life participants (CNS)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 19, 2018 at 4:01 am Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, who sent the message, is president of the Pontifical Academy for Life.
Francis meets family members of the victims of Pinochet dictatorship
Vatican Insider - Jan 19, 2018 at 3:52 am A brief but moving meeting between Pope Francis and the relatives of the victims of the 1970s repression in Chile, at the time of the Pinochet dictatorship. After mass at the...
VIDEO: Pope Francis comforts policewoman thrown from horse
Catholic Herald - Jan 19, 2018 at 3:37 am Pope Francis consoled an injured policewoman who fell off her horse and nearly hit the popemobile on the last day of his visit to Chile. As the Pope was leaving his final Mass in...
Worshippers injured after police fire tear gas at cathedral in Congo
Catholic Herald - Jan 19, 2018 at 3:10 am Army and police in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) stand accused of killing at least four people and injuring several others in attacks on more than 130 churches around the...
Gunmen kill Christian in Egypt's Sinai (AP)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 19, 2018 at 3:01 am Since 2011, Islamists, including Al-Qaeda and ISIS, have fought Egypt’s government in the Sinai insurgency.
