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The Reason for Our Hope - Jan 7, 2013 at 9:46 am
I've spent the last few days crossing multiple borders, having come to the Holy Land for the annual gathering called the Holy Land Coordination. (Since this first began, the CCCB...

Ladies: A Pro-Life Approach to Your Lady Plumbing

LifeNews.com - Jan 7, 2013 at 9:45 am
I remember being in the fifth grade. It was a great year for me. It was the last year I was really popular. One day, we got separated from the boys and put in a room. The light...

Niños en Pobreza: Una Vergüenza para la Nación

USCCB Media Blog - Jan 7, 2013 at 9:35 am
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The pro-life movement: loving the unloved, wanting the unwanted

LifeSiteNews - Jan 7, 2013 at 9:29 am
by James Egan “In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.”...

Terri Schiavo’s Brother Tries to Save Patient From Dehydration

LifeNews.com - Jan 7, 2013 at 9:21 am
It is very scary when a state wants to dehydrate a citizen. That happened several years ago in the Haleigh Poutre case in Massachusetts. Haleigh was a 12-year-old child abuse...

Children in Poverty: A Shame of the Nation

USCCB Media Blog - Jan 7, 2013 at 9:21 am
January is Poverty Awareness Month. To help raise awareness among Catholics of poverty and its underlying issues, USCCB has updated its website, www.PovertyUSA.org, and launched a...

Got news? The hidden mystery of 60K Christians

GetReligion - Jan 7, 2013 at 9:20 am
Of all the interesting things to consider as a media critic, the most important is probably story choice. We frequently look at individual stories and praise them or criticize...

10 pro-life books to read in 2013

LifeSiteNews - Jan 7, 2013 at 9:06 am
by Laura Peredo January 7, 2013 (LiveActionNews.org) - Knowledge is power, right? To be a credible pro-life activist, you need to know what you’re talking about. People will trust...

Five Things to Remember on Jan. 7

USCCB Media Blog - Jan 7, 2013 at 9:03 am
  1.      The 113th Congress has 163 Catholics (30 percent of the body), up from 156 Catholics (29 percent of the Congress) in the previously elected body, notes the Pew Forum on...

Hey ladies, are you being kept in the dark about your health?

LifeSiteNews - Jan 7, 2013 at 8:47 am
by Kristen Walker Hatten January 7, 2013 (LiveActionNews.org) - I remember being in the fifth grade. It was a great year for me. It was the last year I was really popular. One day...

The Soho Masses are now to be discontinued; and the ordinariate has its ‘cathedral’; all we need now is to clarify Catholic teaching on civil unions

Catholic Herald - Jan 7, 2013 at 8:38 am
Two of the obstacles to the greatly-to-be-hoped-for appearance, some time soon, of the name of Archbishop Vincent Nichols in the Bollettino della Santa Sede, as one of those to be...

Love among the ruins: life in Aleppo

The Deacon's Bench - Jan 7, 2013 at 8:32 am
A glimpse at life in one corner of war-ravaged Aleppo, Syria, from AFP: The aging Christians holed up inside a retirement home in the devastated northern Syrian city of Aleppo...

The next frontier for homosexualists will be the legal age limit

What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 7, 2013 at 8:30 am
Remember my post about The 2020 annual LCWR Assembly?  The assembly’s theme would be “Age: The Final Frontier“. Now I read this in The Guardian: Paedophilia: bringing dark desires...

Vatican spokesman: Magi are models for Year of Faith

Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 7, 2013 at 8:26 am
In his weekly editorial, the director of the Holy See Press Office said that the Magi "can and must accompany us" during the Year of Faith. "Faith taken for granted is not faith...

USCCB anti-trafficking efforts focus on recent Haitian, Hispanic immigrants

Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 7, 2013 at 8:25 am
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has launched the Amistad Movement, a campaign that will "focus on awareness raising, education, and coalition building among...

Iranian Protestant pastor, once sentenced to death for apostasy, freed from prison

Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 7, 2013 at 8:25 am
An Iranian Protestant pastor whose treatment by the Iranian regime has attracted international attention has again been released from prison. Yousef Nadarkhani, a convert from...

Vatican cardinal: prayers for peace in the Central African Republic

Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 7, 2013 at 8:24 am
As rebel groups vie for power with the government of the Central African Republic, the prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples has sent a message to the...

Patriarch urges Russians to adopt children

Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 7, 2013 at 8:22 am
A week after a leading Russian Orthodox official backed legislation barring adoption of Russian children by US couples, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church urged Russians to...

French government calls for no discussion of same-sex marriage in Catholic schools

Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 7, 2013 at 8:21 am
French President Francois Hollande and Education Minister Vincent Peillon are urging Catholic schools not to hold discussions with students about impending legislation that would...

Is training in the Extraordinary Form forbidden at St. Mary’s College in Oscott, England?

What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 7, 2013 at 8:09 am
I have been sitting on this for months, but… As a preamble, let me repeat something. The Supreme Pontiff’s 2007 Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum established juridically that the...
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