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Rising violence against Christian churches in Indonesian province

Catholic Culture - World News - Jul 23, 2012 at 3:06 pm
Christian leaders in Indonesia's Aceh province are expressing grave concern over a wave of violent attacks against churches. The attacks have apparently been carried out by Muslim...

Pope names new Vatican vice-chamberlain

Catholic Culture - World News - Jul 23, 2012 at 3:02 pm
Archbishop Pier Luigi Celata, the retired secretary of the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue, has been named by Pope Benedict XVI to become vice-chamberlain of the...

Details: Cecchini Chasuble

New Liturgical Movement - Jul 23, 2012 at 3:00 pm
Detail from chasuble showing the arms of the Roman-born Domenico Cardinal Cecchini (1589-1656), Cardinal Deacon of S. Sisto

Jesuit Uses Shooting To Promote Gun-Control

Creative Minority Report - Jul 23, 2012 at 2:56 pm
Yawn. Fr. James Martin SJ of America Magazine has penned a piece in which he uses religion to justify a knee-jerk leftist policy (read political) position, even though he assures...

Italian influence at Vatican now waning?

Catholic Culture - World News - Jul 23, 2012 at 2:46 pm
A series of personnel changes in the Roman Curia--mostly at the level of second-in-command in various dicasteries--have lowered the level of Italian influence at the Vatican,...

Vatican denies speculation about Vatileaks suspects

Catholic News Agency - General - Jul 23, 2012 at 2:42 pm
Vatican City, Jul 23, 2012 / 01:42 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Vatican is denying newspaper claims that three officials close to Pope Benedict XVI were found complicit in the recent...

President Obama’s “Covert Zeal” Supporting Unlimited Abortion

LifeNews.com - Jul 23, 2012 at 2:40 pm
Abraham Lincoln faced a similar problem in 1854 when he spoke of the “covert zeal” of President Franklin Pierce and Sen. Stephen A. Douglas for the spread of slavery. These...

Catholics urge Vatican Cardinal to skip dissenting conference on Vatican II

LifeSiteNews - Jul 23, 2012 at 2:30 pm
by Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, June 27, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholic activists are urging a Vatican Cardinal to skip a controversial conference at Ottawa’s Saint Paul...

Woman Who Survived Colorado Theater Shooting Gives Birth

LifeNews.com - Jul 23, 2012 at 2:01 pm
The Colorado theater shooter may have taken a dozen lives and injured dozens more in his rampage but he wasn’t able to claim the life of one person — an unborn child just days...

Flowing into the Church

CatholicMom.com - Jul 23, 2012 at 2:00 pm
Flowing into the Church The other day I was on the on-ramp of the expressway trying to enter the flow of traffic while following a slow-moving car.  Honestly, some people have no...

How to spot a media-generated trend on purity balls

GetReligion - Jul 23, 2012 at 1:51 pm
How do you spot a fake trend? You start asking questions. You find out what key figures are behind something, how much money goes into it, who knows about it. Remember Mark...

Denver bishop urges hope at vigil for shooting victims

Catholic News Agency - General - Jul 23, 2012 at 1:11 pm
Aurora, Colo., Jul 23, 2012 / 12:11 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Bishop James D. Conley of Denver delivered the invocation at a non-denominational Sunday evening vigil for the victims of...

Cuban dissident leader Oswaldo Paya dies in alleged accident

Catholic News Agency - General - Jul 23, 2012 at 1:07 pm
Havana, Cuba, Jul 23, 2012 / 12:07 pm (CNA/Europa Press).- Cuban dissident leader Oswaldo Paya, died on July 22 in an apparent traffic accident in the southeastern province of...

Meditations on the Rosary

Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jul 23, 2012 at 12:54 pm
The Coronation of Mary as Queen of Heaven

Colorado Theater Shooting Reminds Us Human Life is Precious

LifeNews.com - Jul 23, 2012 at 12:41 pm
Reminders of the Fall were all around us this weekend. Of course an entire nation mourned the massacre in Denver, but even more died — anonymously — in a horrific truck crash...

Infantry combat not for women, says battle-tested female Marine captain

LifeSiteNews - Jul 23, 2012 at 12:35 pm
by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman July 21, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - America’s compulsive feminist impulse has pushed women into ever-more unconventional roles, but if Marine Captain...

Two Catholics shot

The Busy Catholic - Jul 23, 2012 at 12:31 pm
Pastors of Aurora churches comfort, encourage parishioners Aurora cinema shooting suspect James Holmes. This Catholic News Agency story tells something of the aftermath of the...

Olympics and Performance Enhancements

Creative Minority Report - Jul 23, 2012 at 12:31 pm
I love the Olympics, especially the Summer Games. I cannot wait for the ultimate in human sporting events.  The test of speed, strength, endurance and most importantly, will. In...

Devote time to relationship, Pope urges married couples

Catholic Culture - World News - Jul 23, 2012 at 12:30 pm
The Pope also said that married couples have a "duty to sit down together" to discuss problems and deepen their relationships. He said: In our world, which is so deeply marked...
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