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The Third Sorrowful Mystery: Crowning with Thorns
CatholicMom.com - Oct 18, 2012 at 7:00 am
Today we’re reflecting on the third sorrowful mystery of the rosary, the Crowning with Thorns, hosted by Jen Steed at Happy Little Homemaker. You’ll find my reflection on the...
The Sanctuary of the Duomo of Milan: Historical, Transitional, Renovated
New Liturgical Movement - Oct 18, 2012 at 7:00 am While I have been to the Duomo in Milan, including many of its nooks and crannies (thanks to the late and great Msgr. Angelo Amodeo who was our estimable tour guide) there were a...
“Any discussion of reviving the female diaconate must not include Holy Orders…”
The Deacon's Bench - Oct 18, 2012 at 6:48 am Writer David Alexander takes a long and pretty exhaustive look at the question of women deacons, and offers these conclusions: Pending sufficient review of the historical and...
Venice Commission Opinion Criticizes Azerbaijan Law On Religion; Government Responds
The Religion Clause - Oct 18, 2012 at 6:34 am On Oct. 15, the European Union's Venice Commission along with the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights issued a Joint Opinion (Opinion 681 / 2012) finding...
Federal appeals court rules against Defense of Marriage Act
EWTN - US Latest News - Oct 18, 2012 at 6:31 am Washington D.C., Oct 18, 2012 / 06:31 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
A federal appeals court struck down a key portion of the federal Defense of Marriage Act in a New York case, renewing...
8th Circuit En Banc Upholds Funeral Picketing Ordinance
The Religion Clause - Oct 18, 2012 at 6:25 am In Phelps-Roper v. City of Manchester, (8th Cir., Oct. 16, 2012), the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals sitting en banc upheld against facial First Amendment challenges the...
Swedish Appeals Court Permits Home Schooling Of Chabad Children
The Religion Clause - Oct 18, 2012 at 6:20 am According to Chabad Lubavitch News, an appellate court in Sweden yesterday struck down a law that barred Chabad parents from home schooling their children through Chabad's...
Texas AG Petitions To Intervene In Case To Support Cheerleaders' Signs With Bible Verses
The Religion Clause - Oct 18, 2012 at 6:15 am As previously reported, last month a Texas state court issued a temporary restraining order allowing Kountze (TX) Independent School District football cheerleaders to continue to...
Church Nursery School Teacher Sues After Being Fired For Living With Fiancee
The Religion Clause - Oct 18, 2012 at 6:10 am The Macon (GA) Telegraph reports on a lawsuit filed in a Georgia federal district court on Oct. 3 by a woman who claims religious and gender discrimination in her termination as ...
Suit Charges Evangelical Church Officials Abetted Sexual Abuse of Children By Church Members
The Religion Clause - Oct 18, 2012 at 6:05 am A suit was filed yesterday in state court in Montgomery County, Maryland against six pastors and church officials of the Sovereign Grace Ministries, a group of some 80 evangelical...
Avoid the Online Occasion of Sin
CatholicMom.com - Oct 18, 2012 at 6:00 am
It seems we need our computers, phones, and iPods for every moment of the day. Recently something went wrong with my computer and it “forgot” the drivers which help it access...
Court Rejects Biblical Objection To Conviction Under Law Defining Defendant As A "Person"
The Religion Clause - Oct 18, 2012 at 6:00 am In Fond Du Lac County v. Manke, (WI App., Oct. 17, 2012), a Wisconsin state appeals court rejected an unusual religious liberty defense to a speeding ticket. Defendant Jeffrey...
Catholics Need to Focus on Creed, Says Pope
Franciscan Media - Oct 18, 2012 at 6:00 am VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Ignorance of the faith puts Christians at risk of following a "do-it-yourself" religion, Pope Benedict XVI said.
Boom: rise in vocations spurs Cisterican nuns to build new monastery in Wisconsin
The Deacon's Bench - Oct 18, 2012 at 5:58 am Details: Following a vocations boom at Valley of Our Lady Monastery near Madison, Wis., an architecture firm is designing a new monastery complex for the community of Cistercian...
Diocese of Phoenix releases names of priests accused of abuse
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 18, 2012 at 5:35 am The Diocese of Phoenix has released the names of 29 clergy accused of the sexual abuse of minors.
Among the most well-known names on the list are Donald McGuire, the former Jesuit...
Reports: Tobin to Indy
The Deacon's Bench - Oct 18, 2012 at 5:34 am From the Indianpolis Star: A high-ranking Vatican official, seen as a moderate who is sympathetic to American nuns in their ongoing tensions with the hierarchy of the Catholic...
Nuncio sees increased freedom in Egypt following Arab Spring
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 18, 2012 at 5:34 am Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, the Holy See's apostolic nuncio in Egypt and former president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, has painted a relatively...
US bishops to consider document on bishops and the digital age
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 18, 2012 at 5:33 am At their November 12-15 meeting in Baltimore, members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops will consider whether to approve "Contemporary Challenges and...
Cardinal Wuerl, in major address, summarizes synod discussion
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 18, 2012 at 5:33 am Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the relator-general of the Synod of Bishops for the new evangelization, has delivered the relatio post disceptationem (report after the discussion) on the...
