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Another “Preying Presbyterian” in Aurora?
GetReligion - Jul 22, 2012 at 6:56 pm It was the detail in the Aurora, Colo., massacre that, logically enough, led more than a few GetReligion readers to drop me a note. Here’s the top of a Los Angeles Times report...
Prayers in Colorado: “What kind of people are we becoming?”
The Deacon's Bench - Jul 22, 2012 at 6:28 pm
Details, from the Los Angeles Times:
At Queen of Peace Catholic Church, about 20 minutes from the Century 16 theater, service-goers on Sunday almost completely filled the 1,500-...
Catholics to mark opening of Olympic Games with Masses
Catholic News Agency - General - Jul 22, 2012 at 6:06 pm London, England, Jul 22, 2012 / 05:06 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Catholic Church in England and Wales will celebrate special Masses to open the Olympic Games and the Paralympic...
The Weekly Benedict eBook – Volume 27
The Curt Jester - Jul 22, 2012 at 5:53 pm
This is the 27th volume of The Weekly Benedict ebook which is a compilation of the Holy Father’s writings, speeches, etc which I pull from Jimmy Akin’s The Weekly Benedict. This...
The Weekly Benedict: 22 July, 2012
Jimmy Akin.org - Jul 22, 2012 at 5:51 pm This version of The Weekly Benedict covers material released in the last week from 15 – 16 July 2012 (subscribe here; get as an eBook version for your Kindle, iPod, iPad, Nook,...
Sr Patricia Miller in op-ed canonizes St. Obama for his respect for religious liberty. No, really.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jul 22, 2012 at 4:13 pm Joseph Goebbels advised that when telling lies, tell a big one and tell it often. Another approach is to jam so many distortions into so brief a space that they are too hard to...
Aurora CO Shooting: The Problem of Evil
Making Things Visible - Jul 22, 2012 at 3:15 pm I haven't written or blogged this weekend, because my heart has been heavy. I have been praying for the victims, families, and the suspect in the Colorado shootings. The Holy...
Benedict XVI: “May London Olympics be a fraternal occasion”
Vatican Insider - Jul 22, 2012 at 3:00 pmDenzinger's Enchiridion
Rome of the West - Jul 22, 2012 at 2:16 pm Denzinger's famous Enchiridion Symbolorum et Definitionum is a handbook on the sources and development of the Catholic Faith. Like other typical German Handbuchs of the 19th...
Giving Beth March Her Due
CatholicMom.com - Jul 22, 2012 at 2:00 pm
Beth and Jo at the seashore
All my life I have had a passion for Louisa May Alcott. When I was ten my aunt gave me a children’s biography of Louisa which I still have, albeit...
50-year member: Catholic Daughters offers friendships, service
Catholic News Agency - General - Jul 22, 2012 at 2:00 pm Omaha, Neb., Jul 22, 2012 / 01:00 pm (CNA).-
Any guest in Josephine Valasek's midtown apartment quickly discovers what's important to the 89-year-old member of St. Cecilia...
Archbishop of Denver: Comfort in Christ
News.va - Jul 22, 2012 at 1:35 pm A vigil is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. local time in Denver Sunday in front of Aurora city hall to remember those killed in a gun rampage at a cinema in the US suburb. It has been...
Pope Benedict 'deeply shocked' by Aurora tragedy
Catholic News Agency - General - Jul 22, 2012 at 12:07 pm Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Jul 22, 2012 / 11:07 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Benedict XVI is “deeply shocked by the senseless violence” carried out by a lone gunman who injured 58 ...
Pope Benedict 'deeply shocked' by Aurora tragedy
EWTN - Vatican News - Jul 22, 2012 at 12:06 pm Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Jul 22, 2012 / 12:06 pm (EWTN News).-
Pope Benedict XVI is "deeply shocked by the senseless violence" carried out by a lone gunman who injured 59 people...
Hasidic Retailers In Williamsburg Seek To Impose Dress Code On Customers
The Religion Clause - Jul 22, 2012 at 12:01 pm The New York Post today reports on the growing trend in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn for retail stores owned by Hasidic Jews to try to impose a dress code on all their...
Book Review: How to Defend the Faith without Raising Your Voice
CatholicMom.com - Jul 22, 2012 at 12:00 pm
How to Defend the Faith without Raising Your Voice
This book recently caught my eye because the title seemed perfect for the upcoming Year of Faith that begins this October. So I...
“Going My Way” – An alternate view of the Catholic Church can be found in American history
Catholic Servant - Jul 22, 2012 at 11:36 am
Barry Fitzgerald (left) as Father Fitzgibbon and Bing Crosby (right) as Father O’Malley in a scene from “Going My Way” (1944). This staunchly pro-Catholic film went on to win...
Recent Prisoner Free Exercise Cases
The Religion Clause - Jul 22, 2012 at 11:21 am In Chavez v. Lewis, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 97753 (ND CA, July 13, 2012), a California federal district court denied the habeas corpus petition of a state prisoner who claims that...
New York MTA Ban On Ads That Demean Religious Groups Violates 1st Amendment
The Religion Clause - Jul 22, 2012 at 10:16 am In American Freedom Defense Initiative v. Metropolitan Transit Authority, (SD NY, July 20, 2012), a New York federal district court held unconstitutional the provision in the...
Who Is Driving?
CatholicMom.com - Jul 22, 2012 at 10:00 am
Who is driving?
We feel like we have our hands on the steering wheel of this life. We know what direction we are going.
We have full control of the car. We see the mountains...
