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Charlie Gard’s hospital ‘immorally’ usurps parental rights: Catholic bioethicist
LifeSiteNews - Jul 11, 2017 at 6:05 am It 'is not the case' that Charlie is a ward of the state, and therefore his parents have the right to make decisions, said Dr. John Haas.
First Canadian Prosecution For Selling Mislabeled Kosher Food
The Religion Clause - Jul 11, 2017 at 6:00 am The Canadian Food Inspection Agency last week announced that it has successfully prosecuted the first case brought before a provincial court involving misrepresentation of a...
Macron scrutinized for blaming Africa's poverty on high birthrate
EWTN - World Catholic News - Jul 11, 2017 at 5:21 am Hamburg, Germany, Jul 11, 2017 / 05:21 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- French President Emmanuel Macron has been under attack for identifying Africa's development issue as a problem of...
Pope Francis: ‘Europe must be federal’
Catholic Herald - Jul 11, 2017 at 5:05 am Pope Francis has reportedly said that Europe “must become a federal community or it will no longer count for anything in the world”. His comments were apparently made in an...
Decoding ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’–The impact of a 16-word poem
Aleteia - Jul 11, 2017 at 5:00 am Walking through these small poems with Anna O'Neil has become a delightful and insightful treat.The Red Wheelbarrow so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water...
Bishop: Abortion is not a ‘core Canadian value’
Catholic Herald - Jul 11, 2017 at 4:40 am The head of the Canadian bishops’ conference has criticised Canada’s foreign minister for saying that abortion rights are a cornerstone of the nation’s foreign policy. In a speech...
Bishops claim Venezuela is heading for dictatorship
Catholic Herald - Jul 11, 2017 at 4:16 am Venezuela’s bishops have said the government aims to install a “military dictatorship, socialist, Marxist and communist”. The Church and Venezuelan authorities have long had a...
Shroud, new study: there is blood of a man tortured and killed
Vatican Insider - Jul 11, 2017 at 4:12 am The Shroud of Turin, the linen cloth that according to an ancient tradition, wrapped the body of Jesus after crucifixion, actually came into contact with the blood of a dead man...
Vatican reiterates ban on gluten-free hosts
Catholic Herald - Jul 11, 2017 at 4:09 am The Vatican has reminded bishops that completely gluten-free hosts are invalid. Low-gluten hosts, on the other hand, are valid for people who, “for varying and grave reasons,...
Gluten and Communion: What's a celiac to do?
Catholic News Agency - General - Jul 11, 2017 at 4:01 am Vatican City, Jul 11, 2017 / 03:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The norms regarding gluten and Communion hosts that went viral this weekend are nothing new in the Catholic Church.
On...
How Catholics with celiac disease may receive Communion
EWTN - Vatican News - Jul 11, 2017 at 4:01 am Vatican City, Jul 11, 2017 / 04:01 am (EWTN News/CNA).- The norms regarding gluten and Communion hosts that went viral this weekend are nothing new in the Catholic Church.
Pro-lifers alarmed at call to use abortion as birth control
Catholic Herald - Jul 11, 2017 at 3:51 am More than half of women who seek abortions were using contraception at the time they conceived, an abortion provider has revealed. Data collected by the British Pregnancy Advisory...
Former Manchester United footballer ordained to the priesthood
Catholic Herald - Jul 11, 2017 at 3:32 am A former Manchester United footballer has been ordained as a Dominican priest. Fr Philip Mulryne, who earned 27 caps for Northern Ireland, was ordained at St Saviour’s church in...
Daily Gospel Reflection for July 11, 2017 - St. Benedict
CatholicMom.com - Jul 11, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: Matthew 9:32-38 – Memorial of St. Benedict
The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few.
I have used this scripture passage many times in my work in youth and...
Thorns in my side
CatholicMom.com - Jul 11, 2017 at 3:00 am
“Thorn in my side” by Tirzah (2010) via Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Why is it that some wounds remain even when one has been healed? Several years ago I lost my singing voice due to...
Another Refugee from the Anti-Abortion-But-Not-Prolife Cult Speaks Out
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jul 11, 2017 at 2:21 am Leticia Adams, who still (duh) opposes abortion baffles readers by asserting the radical notion that 1) it is wrong to use the unborn as human shields for every right wing culture...
Venezuela’s bishops call on Maduro to cancel plans for new constitution
Catholic Culture - World News - Jul 11, 2017 at 2:14 am The bishops of Venezuela have called upon President Nicolás Maduro to respect the independence of lawmakers and cancel the planned July 30 election for a “Constitutional Assembly...
The Case Against Cardinal Pell…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jul 11, 2017 at 2:11 am …looks mighty sketchy. I can see why he’s looking forward to his day in court. We’ll see, but color me skeptical on this one.
President Trump’s Warsaw Speech
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jul 11, 2017 at 2:10 am
In the mid-nineteenth century, the poet and playwright Adam Mickiewicz dramatized the theme of his suffering Poland as the “Christ of Nations” and, deprived of its national...
