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USCCB Responds To Inaccurate Statement Of Fact On HHS Mandate Made During Vice Presidential Debate
Integrated Catholic Life - Oct 13, 2012 at 12:00 am Last night, the following statement was made during the Vice Presidential debate regarding the decision of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to force...
Cool Map- What Protestant Groups Dominate and Where in USA
Opinionated Catholic - Oct 12, 2012 at 8:35 pm This is an interesting map put out by the Association of Religion Data Archives looking at the 2010data. They have many more here. This map is where the different Protestant Faith...
#RNA2012: Outside a Mormon temple wedding
GetReligion - Oct 12, 2012 at 8:11 pm In a couple of recent posts — here and here — I’ve already highlighted some of the excellent Godbeat journalism that claimed prizes in the Religion Newswriters Association’s...
The slippery slope of assisted suicide
Cardinal Seán's Blog - Oct 12, 2012 at 8:11 pm Welcome all!
As I have been doing for the last few weeks, I want begin my post this week sharing a reflection on the issue of physician assisted suicide.
The slippery slope of...
Support pours in for minister
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What’s “the most Christian city in America”?
The Deacon's Bench - Oct 12, 2012 at 6:45 pm No big surprise here: A study measuring religious bodies in the United States called the, “2010 U.S. Religious Census: Religious Congregations & Membership Study (RCMS)” was...
English Propers, 28th Sunday of the Year
New Liturgical Movement - Oct 12, 2012 at 6:04 pm
Simple English Propers
Source: Parish Book of Psalms
Obama Campaign’s New Ad Hits Romney on Planned Parenthood Funding
LifeNews.com - Oct 12, 2012 at 6:04 pm The Obama campaign has run millions of dollars worth of ads attacking Mitt Romney’s pro-life views on abortion and the president’s campaign apparently thinks that’s not enough.
In...
Year of Faith Begins with a Heavy, Hopeful Heart
CatholicMom.com - Oct 12, 2012 at 6:00 pm Baby Francis
My excitement over the Year of Faith came to a sudden pause Wednesday, just hours before the bells were to ring to herald the launch.
The change in momentum resulted...
Marie Stopes situation in Belfast ‘grim’ unless politicians act swiftly: SPUC
LifeSiteNews - Oct 12, 2012 at 5:24 pm by Hilary White BELFAST, October 12, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – If politicians and legal authorities do not move very swiftly, abortion will become a daily reality in Northern...
We Are Suing the Obama Admin Over Its Abortion Mandate, Here’s Why
LifeNews.com - Oct 12, 2012 at 5:23 pm When Pope Benedict visited the United States in 2008, he challenged Catholics to resist the growing governmental and societal pressure to confine religious beliefs to houses of...
Wedding Feasting with the Practicing Catholic
CatholicMom.com - Oct 12, 2012 at 5:00 pm
We’re reflecting on the second luminous mystery of the rosary today as part of our celebration of the launch of A Catholic Mother’s Companion to Pregnancy.
The Wedding Feast is...
Battle of the Catholic Veeps
The Curt Jester - Oct 12, 2012 at 4:58 pm This must be certainly the first time the USCCB has issued a statement correcting a false assertion in a Vice Presidential debate.
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Conference of Catholic...
Joe Biden: “Under Law Planned Parenthood Can’t Perform Abortions”
LifeNews.com - Oct 12, 2012 at 4:44 pm Campaigning in Wisconsin, pro-abortion Vice President Joe Biden misled voters today by saying Planned Parenthood, the nation’s biggest abortion business doesn’t do any abortions...
Pro-lifers weigh in on the critical final minutes of the VP debate
LifeSiteNews - Oct 12, 2012 at 4:29 pm by Kirsten Andersen WASHINGTON, D.C., October 12, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Vice President Joseph Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan both proudly claim the “Catholic” label, but...
Belgium: Doctor Admits Euthanasia Patients’ Organs Harvested
LifeNews.com - Oct 12, 2012 at 4:20 pm Deaths from “voluntary euthanasia” in Belgium are approximated at 2 percent, – 2,000 annually. At a recent conference in Brussels, a Belgian doctor reported that organ transplants...
Canadian Archbishop warns U.S. of dire consequences of gay ‘marriage’
LifeSiteNews - Oct 12, 2012 at 4:16 pm by John-Henry Westen MINNEAPOLIS, October 12, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – “You are summoned to a tribunal where you cannot have a defense lawyer and you cannot record the...
The Missing Women In Guardian Piece on Paul Ryan and Abortion
Opinionated Catholic - Oct 12, 2012 at 4:12 pm Over at the Guardian we have this little piece called Paul Ryan on abortion: not so much 'reason and science' as stealth misogyny-What bothers me about male politicians...
VP Biden: Planned Parenthood “under law cannot perform any abortions”.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Oct 12, 2012 at 4:12 pm I subscribe to the plan of voting for the most conservative candidate who has a real chance to win. The candidate might not be perfect, but, as the young papist Tom Peters put it...
Agnostic scout ousted because he’s gay?
GetReligion - Oct 12, 2012 at 3:56 pm Anyone who has followed the tensions between gay-rights activists and the Boy Scouts knows that this is a rather tense and highly politicized situation, with obvious freedom-of-...
