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Uruguay to Become Second South American Nation to OK Abortion
LifeNews.com - Oct 17, 2012 at 5:21 pm The nation of Uruguay will become the next on the mostly Catholic continent of South America to legalize abortion. Today the Uruguay Senate approved a bill to okay abortions there...
Of wars and women
LifeSiteNews - Oct 17, 2012 at 5:21 pm by Alma Acevedo October 17, 2012 (Mercatornet.com) - The war metaphor, a staple of electoral rhetoric, is again at full blast on American soil. There are strategies and stratagems...
Council focus was on liturgy as central to Christian life
Saint Louis Review - St. Louis News - Oct 17, 2012 at 5:05 pm By Joseph Kenny | jkenny@archstl.org
Citing the words of Blessed John XXIII at the opening of the Second Vatican Council — "Mother Church...
Traditional marriage volunteer, pregnant bystander, confronted by enraged gay activist
LifeSiteNews - Oct 17, 2012 at 5:04 pm by Thaddeus Baklinski BURIEN, Washington, October 17, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A volunteer working on a campaign in support of traditional marriage, as well as a pregnant...
The Scourging with Franciscan Mom
CatholicMom.com - Oct 17, 2012 at 5:00 pm
We’re reflecting on the second sorrowful mystery of the rosary today as part of our celebration of the launch of A Catholic Mother’s Companion to Pregnancy.
It’s all too easy for...
Call to evangelize energizes assembly participants
Saint Louis Review - St. Louis News - Oct 17, 2012 at 4:45 pm By Joseph Kenny | jkenny@archstl.org
A gathering of representatives from parishes throughout the archdiocese took steps Oct. 13 toward...
Planned Parenthood Prez Defends $400K Salary, Taxpayer Funding
LifeNews.com - Oct 17, 2012 at 4:42 pm A conservative reporter caught up with Cecile Richards, the president of the Planned Parenthood, and asked her about her $400,000 annual salary and the federal funding the nation’...
Baja, California Life and Family Congress resulted from efforts to modify state constitution
LifeSiteNews - Oct 17, 2012 at 4:37 pm by Matthew Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent October 17, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Tenth International Life and Family Congress will be held in Baja California, Mexico at...
Pope sends cardinals to Syria to promote peace, show solidarity
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Oct 17, 2012 at 4:36 pm VATICAN CITY — A papal delegation of bishops, including Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, will travel to the capital of war-torn Syria in late October to show solidarity with...
Editorial rues breakdown of talks toward bankruptcy settlement in Milwaukee archdiocese case
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 17, 2012 at 4:34 pm An editorial in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel argues that the failure of negotiations between the Milwaukee archdiocese and sex-abuse victims, and the consequent return to...
Charter-school movement offers possibilities for Catholic-school survival
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 17, 2012 at 4:31 pm Writing in City Journal, Sean Kennedy remarks that Catholic schools face serious economic challenges, but could survive and even prosper by taking advantage of the new public...
Joe, Home – In Indy, Appointment Eve
Whispers in the Loggia - Oct 17, 2012 at 4:29 pm Building on last night's "checkered flag" for the church's "Indy 500," Whispers ops indicate that Archbishop Joe Tobin's Appointment Day press conference is scheduled for 10am...
Key state contests in US elections
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 17, 2012 at 4:28 pm George Marlin writes for The Catholic Thing about state elections that have special significance for Catholics: state-senate contests in New York, a bid to legalize physician-...
Lutheran leader raps Catholic archbishop's opposition to same-sex marriage
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 17, 2012 at 4:26 pm A Lutheran bishop has chastised a Catholic prelate for organizing public opposition to a bid for legal approval of same-sex marriage.
"I recognize your authority in formulating ...
Pakistani court again delays ruling on girl's blasphemy charge
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 17, 2012 at 4:22 pm A Pakistani court has postponed a ruling on the blasphemy charges against Rimsha Masih, the young girl who was accused of blasphemy.
The High Court in Islamabad announced that it...
Thoughts on Mary: How a Convert Accepts the Church’s Teachings About Christ’s Mama
CatholicMom.com - Oct 17, 2012 at 4:15 pm Thoughts on Mary: How a Convert Accepts the Church’s Teachings About Christ’s Mama
My husband and I prayed, read, and wept our way into the Catholic church. We had so many...
Mother of Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler’s Aborted Baby to Head Pro-Life Event
LifeNews.com - Oct 17, 2012 at 4:11 pm American Idol judge and Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler will not be at the annual benefit dinner for the Life Legal Defense Foundation next month. But his one-time fiancé and...
Hispanics kick off Year of Faith with conference
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Oct 17, 2012 at 4:09 pm About 450 people turn out to hear Mexican priest discuss Eucharist
GREEN BAY — Fr. Ricardo Valenzuela, a liturgy professor at the Seminary of Mexico in the Archdiocese of Mexico...
“My Journal of the Council” – Review
Brandon Vogt - Oct 17, 2012 at 4:07 pm My Journal of the Council
by Yves Congar
Liturgical Press, 1,100 pages, hardcover
Yves Congar is widely hailed as a top Catholic thinker today, but it wasn't always that way....
Use your time wisely, catechists told
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Oct 17, 2012 at 3:54 pm Youth, young adult ministers gather for second annual diocesan symposium
GREEN BAY — "On the Seventh Day He Rested" was the theme of the second annual symposium designed for youth...
