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Only a well-formed conscience can decide: Cardinal Marx on sexual morality
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 28, 2017 at 3:39 pm Munich, Germany, Dec 28, 2017 / 02:39 pm (CNA).- German Cardinal Reinhard Marx has stated that decisions about sexual morality must be discerned according to a well-formed...
Abortion Activists Fail to Get UN to Back Abortion as Part of “Emergency Humanitarian Response”
LifeNews.com - Dec 28, 2017 at 3:29 pm (C-Fam) In a major setback to machinations of the UN bureaucracy and abortion groups to make abortion a humanitarian right, the UN General Assembly declined to endorse abortion as...
Woman Blasts Planned Parenthood for Comparing Miscarriage to Abortion: “They are Nothing Lie Each Other”
LifeNews.com - Dec 28, 2017 at 3:14 pm Kelsey Kurtinitis, like so many other mothers who have experienced the grief of miscarriage, felt outraged when she saw Planned Parenthood compare miscarrying a child to abortion...
Church gives away $100 bills; Waffle House workers get $3,500 tip; and more feel-good headlines
GetReligion - Dec 28, 2017 at 3:08 pm An anonymous donor gave everyone in church $100 — and 100 good deeds were the result https://t.co/ZOORArda11
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 25, 2017
Annual church...
Vatican agency says at least 23 church workers killed in 2017
Franciscan Media - Dec 28, 2017 at 3:02 pm VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The majority of Catholic Church workers violently killed in 2017 were victims of attempted robberies, the Vatican’s Fides agency said, with Nigeria and Mexico...
Why Abortion Will Eventually Lose: We’re a More “Fetally Aware” Society Thanks to Ultrasound
LifeNews.com - Dec 28, 2017 at 2:58 pm The beauty of the web is that one thing leads to another to another with often times fascinating results. Such is what happened yesterday, as I was trolling for information to...
Abortion Activist Leaves Note on Pro-Life Person’s Car: “Your Mother Should Have Aborted You”
LifeNews.com - Dec 28, 2017 at 2:10 pm Harassment has become a common occurrence for pro-life advocates.
Just before Christmas, a Catholic priest was targeted while he was visiting the University of Virginia with...
Exercise averse? Here’s how to fall in love with working out
Aleteia - Dec 28, 2017 at 2:00 pm It's time to stop seeing exercise as a dreaded chore and start seeing it as an exciting challenge.This morning we had a killer workout at kickboxing. The warmup alone had us all...
3 Minutes with Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle
Lisa Hendey.com - Dec 28, 2017 at 1:34 pm Lately, I've been thinking about how busy we all are these days. Too busy to do housework, to cook, to plan, to communicate. Too busy to read. Too busy to pray.
Too busy.
I share...
Saint Thomas Becket on God’s Enemies
Big C Catholics - Dec 28, 2017 at 1:33 pm Saint Thomas Becket was a 12th century English archbishop and martyr who chose Christ and Christ's Church over the King. This courageous act of fidelity and deep seed devotion...
28 Dec – Childermas: “They were the Church’s first blossoms” – Holy Innocents
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 28, 2017 at 1:22 pm
Monday was Christmas.
Today is Childermas, the Feast of the Holy Innocents.
The “Coventry Carol”, a lullaby of mothers to doomed children, dates to the 16th century. It was part...
How Christmas Was Trumpified
Commonweal - Dec 28, 2017 at 1:19 pm How Christmas Was Trumpified
By Paul MosesDecember 28, 2017
I often wish people a “happy Christmas” during this season rather than a “merry” one. “Happy” just sounds right to me—...
Commentary: Tribalism in the Christmas Octave
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 28, 2017 at 12:55 pm Washington D.C., Dec 28, 2017 / 11:55 am (CNA).- Pope Francis recently warned against the commercialization of Christmas, and reminded us that if our Christmas isn’t centered on...
Saint Thomas Becket, Bishop and Martyr
Big C Catholics - Dec 28, 2017 at 12:28 pm Optional Memorial - December 29th There was a time in England when being a friend of the king could easily lead to martyrdom. Such was the case of Saint Thomas Becket, whose 12th-...
Congressman Says President Trump is a Refreshing Change From Obama, Who Said “God Bless Planned Parenthood”
LifeNews.com - Dec 28, 2017 at 12:12 pm A Republican Congressman says that President Donald Trump is a refreshing change from pro-abortion former president Barack Obama.
Congressman Mark Walker, a Republican from North...
On this Feast of Holy Innocents…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 28, 2017 at 12:04 pm Rachel’s Vineyard, Project Rachel, and Silent No More Awareness Campaign are all good to support for post-abortive women. In addition, there is Rehumanize International and the...
Back by Popular Demand: Two Christmas Eves
Saint Louis Catholic - Dec 28, 2017 at 11:30 am Thank you to the kind reader who reminded me to re-post this beautiful seasonal essay:There would be tea brewing on the stove in the kitchen. The coals would show red with thin...
Octave of Christmas Pontifical Mass with Bishop Perry in Gary, IN, January 1
New Liturgical Movement - Dec 28, 2017 at 11:17 am The Northwest Indiana Latin Mass Community announces that, for the first time in over 50 years, a Pontifical Latin Mass will be celebrated at Holy Angels Cathedral in the Diocese...
How to talk to kids sensitively and truthfully about tragedies
Aleteia - Dec 28, 2017 at 11:00 am It's important to tell them the truth, look them in the eyes, hug them, and adapt your words to their age.Both love and hate are taught and learned at home. So is living with an...
Legislator Wants to Mandate That All Public Universities Stock Abortion Pills for Students
LifeNews.com - Dec 28, 2017 at 10:57 am California lawmakers are slated to debate a bill this week about whether to force public universities to offer taxpayer-funded abortion drugs to students on campus.
State Senate...
