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Mental health has a spiritual element, Holy See reminds UN
Catholic News Agency - General - Jun 16, 2017 at 7:01 am Geneva, Switzerland, Jun 16, 2017 / 06:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Holy See's representative to the United Nations appealed Wednesday to the Human Rights Council to couple...
Mental health has a spiritual element, Holy See reminds UN
EWTN - World Catholic News - Jun 16, 2017 at 7:01 am Geneva, Switzerland, Jun 16, 2017 / 07:01 am (EWTN News/CNA).- The Holy See's representative to the United Nations appealed Wednesday to the Human Rights Council to couple...
Be a Good Samaritan to Christians in Syria and Iraq, bishop pleads
EWTN - US Latest News - Jun 16, 2017 at 7:01 am Indianapolis, Ind., Jun 16, 2017 / 07:01 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- As the U.S. bishops discussed immigration at their annual meeting this week, one Syriac Catholic bishop begged them...
Good News from Los Angeles
New Liturgical Movement - Jun 16, 2017 at 7:00 am A reader has written in, asking us to spread the word that St Anthony’s Church in El Segundo, California (720 E. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles County) has established a Sunday Mass in...
ISIS leader may be dead, thanks to Russian military strike
Aleteia - Jun 16, 2017 at 6:36 am Baghdadi may have been at meeting outside RaqqaRussia’s military said an airstrike it carried out may have killed the self-appointed caliph of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria...
Bishops’ president ’losing hope’ Francis will visit India in 2017
Vatican Insider - Jun 16, 2017 at 6:22 am Bombay Cardinal Oswald Gracias said that while he is optimistic the pope will visit India at some point in the future, discussions with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government...
Is there a pontifical commission to reinterpret Humanae vitae?
EWTN - Vatican News - Jun 16, 2017 at 6:19 am Vatican City, Jun 16, 2017 / 06:19 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- As rumors abound concerning a Vatican commission to reinterpret Humanae vitae in light of Amoris laetitia, the...
European Court Finds Bulgaria Violated Convention In Refusing To Recognize Ahmadiyya Group
The Religion Clause - Jun 16, 2017 at 6:10 am In Metodiev and Others v. Bulgaria, (ECHR, June 15, 2017), (full text of opinion in French), the European Court of Human Rights in a Chamber Judgment held that Bulgaria had...
Staffing Agency Settles EEOC Suit Over Accommodation of Rastafarian
The Religion Clause - Jun 16, 2017 at 6:05 am HospitalityStaff, a company that places employees in central Florida's hotel industry, has settled a religious discrimination claim filed against it by the EEOC. According to EEOC...
Do You Have To Belong to a Religion In Order to Have Moral Values?
CatholicMom.com - Jun 16, 2017 at 6:00 am
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The 2017 Gallup Poll entitled Views of US Moral Values Slip to Seven Year Lows noted that 81% of Americans...
Fugitive FLDS Leader Arrested
The Religion Clause - Jun 16, 2017 at 6:00 am As reported by KUTV, the FBI in Salt Lake City announced the arrest in South Dakota on Wednesday evening of fugitive FLDS leader Lyle Jeffs. Last June Jeffs fled while under house...
How peasants in the Middle Ages had more vacation time than we do
Aleteia - Jun 16, 2017 at 6:00 am Would you trade our modern conveniences for half a year off work?There’s one area where the medieval peasant had it better off than we do: his vacation time. According to Lynn...
ACLU asks court to stop deportation of Iraqi Christians
Aleteia - Jun 16, 2017 at 5:56 am Michigan branch of Civil Liberties Union cites grave danger for Chaldeans forced to return to IraqThe American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan has asked a court to impose a...
US bishops urge caution as Senate considers health care bill
EWTN - US Latest News - Jun 16, 2017 at 5:52 am Indianapolis, Ind., Jun 16, 2017 / 05:52 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- The US bishops' annual meeting included on Thursday a discussion on health care, focusing on efforts in Congress to...
PICTURES: Catholic world celebrates Corpus Christi
Catholic Herald - Jun 16, 2017 at 5:27 am The Catholic Church marked the feast of Corpus Christi on Thursday, celebrating the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. The feast is traditionally observed throughout the...
Catholics in Scotland ‘fear being open about their faith’, says bishops’ conference official
Catholic Herald - Jun 16, 2017 at 5:06 am A culture of fear in Scotland discourages people from speaking openly about their faith, the head of a bishops’ conference agency has said. Anthony Horan, director of the bishops...
About that New York Times movie list…
Aleteia - Jun 16, 2017 at 5:00 am The surprisingly controversial list of "the best films of the 21st century (so far)" contains glaring omissions and one real head-scratcher of an inclusionAs Carrie Barron M.D...
Saving ancient Christian cultures…one story at a time
Catholic News Agency - General - Jun 16, 2017 at 4:12 am Washington D.C., Jun 16, 2017 / 03:12 am (CNA).- Ancient artifacts. Centuries-old legends. Prayers dating back to the time of Christ. An enemy seeking to destroy it all. And a...
Daily Gospel Reflection for June 16, 2017
CatholicMom.com - Jun 16, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: Matthew 5:27-32
“If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than to have your whole body...
Catholics pray for congressman in ‘critical condition’ after shooting
Catholic Herald - Jun 16, 2017 at 3:14 am More than 150 people have attended a prayer service at St Catherine of Siena church in Metairie, Louisiana, to pray for the recovery of Steve Scalise, the Republican House...
