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Chris Christie, Ralph Reed: Mitt Romney is Strongly Pro-Life
LifeNews.com - Oct 11, 2012 at 10:28 am Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey and leading pro-life activist Ralph Reed have both given new interviews in which they vouch for presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s pro-life...
The Year of Faith: 3 Ways to Grow in Faith This Year
The Catholic Foodie - Oct 11, 2012 at 10:18 am
FAITH IS A GIFT
We can’t earn it. We can’t buy it. We can’t make ourselves grow in it. We can only do things that dispose us to receive the gift of Faith from God.
Just to make...
Program plans to train new generation of Catholic Hispanic lay leaders
EWTN - US Latest News - Oct 11, 2012 at 10:16 am Chicago, Ill., Oct 11, 2012 / 10:16 am (EWTN News).-
A new national initiative from Catholic Extension intends to train 100 new Hispanic lay leaders in poor mission dioceses...
John XXIII: the speech to the moon above...
News.va - Oct 11, 2012 at 10:10 am (Vatican Radio) Veronica Scarisbrick brings you echoes from the era of the pontificate of Blessed John XXIII, the twentieth century Pope to inaugurate a less formal way of public...
Pope Benedict calls for re-evangelisation in the spiritual desert of the contemporary world
News.va - Oct 11, 2012 at 10:10 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Benedict presided at a solemn mass in front of St Peter’s Basilica marking the 50 th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council and Thursday’s...
Cardinal Wuerl: Society suffers from "tsunami of secular influence"
News.va - Oct 11, 2012 at 10:10 am One of the most influential Synod Fathers is the relator-general, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington. In his speech Monday to the XIII Ordinary General Assembly of...
Catholic bishop supports girl shot by Taliban
Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 11, 2012 at 10:10 am Islamabad, Pakistan, Oct 11, 2012 / 09:10 am (CNA).- A Catholic bishop in Pakistan has voiced “sympathy and solidarity” towards Malala Yousafzai, a 14-year-old Muslim activist...
“I was just ordained a deacon!”
The Deacon's Bench - Oct 11, 2012 at 10:04 am That’s the headline for this heartfelt reflection by Deacon Christopher Gray, who was ordained last week at St. Peter’s at the Vatican and will be ordained a priest in a few...
Study: Climate change could fry key crops for Central American farmers
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Oct 11, 2012 at 10:02 am WASHINGTON — A small plot of land provides a single mother in Honduras with the corn and beans her family needs to eat, but as a result of recent droughts, she's left peeling back...
The Council: A "picturesque" meeting according to the U.S.
Vatican Insider - Oct 11, 2012 at 10:02 amTen Ways to Celebrate the Year of Faith
CatholicMom.com - Oct 11, 2012 at 10:00 am Year of Faith
With his Apostolic Letter of October 11, 2-11, Porta Fidei, Pope Benedict XVI declared that a Year of Faith would begin on October 11, 2012, and conclude on...
Northern Ireland Pro-Lifers Outraged by New Abortion Biz
LifeNews.com - Oct 11, 2012 at 10:00 am Leading pro-life advocates in Northern Ireland are outraged that the Marie Stopes abortion business is opening up a clinic there, in what amounts to the first abortion facility in...
Pope presents Vatican II messages for laypeople to help change world
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Oct 11, 2012 at 9:59 am VATICAN CITY — In a gesture recalling how the Second Vatican Council sought to enhance the connection between the church and the world, Pope Benedict XVI handed out copies of the...
Benedict XVI on Year of Faith: “a pilgrimage in the deserts of today’s world, taking with us only what is necessary”
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Oct 11, 2012 at 9:53 am “Reference to the documents saves us from extremes of anachronistic nostalgia and running too far ahead, and allows what is new to be welcomed in a context of continuity.”
Thus,...
At anniversary Mass, pope recalls 'authentic spirit' of Vatican II
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Oct 11, 2012 at 9:52 am VATICAN CITY — Marking the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council and the start of a special Year of Faith, Pope Benedict XVI called on Catholics to revive...
International Day of the Girl Child Ignores Sex-Selection Abortion
LifeNews.com - Oct 11, 2012 at 9:42 am Today, October 11, the world celebrates the first ever “International Day of the Girl Child” but too many commemorations will ignore the violence of sex selection abortion as the...
Alvaro Corcuera, LC, steps aside as General Director of the Legion of Christ
Communio - Oct 11, 2012 at 9:32 am In a letter dated October 9, 2012 and released to the public today, (see below) to the priests and brothers of the Legion of Christ, the Regnum Christi Movement and the faithful...
Bus Driver Tells Kid With Romney Sign: You Should Have Been Aborted
LifeNews.com - Oct 11, 2012 at 9:19 am A bus driver recently told a 12 year-old boy who was riding the bus he should have been aborted.
The boy’s parents have a “Romney/Ryan” sign in their front yard and the bus driver...
The Motherhood of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Saint Louis Catholic - Oct 11, 2012 at 9:14 am Today marks the feast of Our Lady's Divine Motherhood. This piece from Catholic Answers covers it reasonably well:Fundamentalists are sometimes horrified when the Virgin Mary is...
The Council at 50: Mass Post-Vatican II, A Participatory Event
USCCB Media Blog - Oct 11, 2012 at 9:10 am Welcome to
one of the series of blogs on the Second Vatican Council. Each piece reviews
one of the 16 documents produced by the Council Fathers during the
extraordinary occasion...
