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Judge Questions Lawyers On Whether Lord's Prayer Is Christian

The Religion Clause - Jan 18, 2012 at 6:05 am
Yesterday's Wilmington (DE) News Journal reports on an interesting line of questioning raised by a Delaware federal district judge in oral arguments in Mullin v. Sussex County,...

Maldives Religious-Political Battles Lead To Competing Arrests

The Religion Clause - Jan 18, 2012 at 6:00 am
Religious-political battles in the Maldives are intensifying.  Minivan News reports that last Thursday opposition Dhivehi Qaumee Party (DQP) Deputy Leader Dr Mohamed Jameel Ahmed...

Walk for Life West Coast looks to continue pro-life momentum

EWTN - US Latest News - Jan 18, 2012 at 5:50 am
San Francisco, Calif., Jan 18, 2012 / 06:28 am (EWTN News).- The Eighth Annual Walk for Life West Coast will take place in San Francisco this Saturday, Jan. 21. Event leaders say...

A seminarian on preaching: “The first thing I do is pray…”

The Deacon's Bench - Jan 18, 2012 at 5:49 am
Catholic San Francisco has been following the pastoral year of seminarian Tony Vallecillo as he moves closer to ordination in 2014.  The latest installment in the series looks at...

Colorado bill a ‘stepping stone’ to same-sex marriage, Catholic conference says

Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 18, 2012 at 5:14 am
Denver, Colo., Jan 18, 2012 / 06:14 am (CNA).- Colorado’s proposed civil unions bill is “just a stepping stone to the legalization of same-sex marriage,” the head of the Colorado...

Background: Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 18, 2012 at 5:04 am
In 1908, Rev. Paul Wattson, then an Anglican religious in Graymoor, New York, began a Church Unity Octave with the support of Anglican and Catholic prelates, including Cardinal...

Prelate takes stock of Pope's ecumenical thought

Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 18, 2012 at 5:01 am
Writing in L'Osservatore Romano, Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, discusses some of the highlights of Pope Benedict's thought...

English ordinariate commemorates 1st year

Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 18, 2012 at 4:59 am
Amid Solemn Evensong, a Eucharistic procession, and Benediction, the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham commemorated the first anniversary of its establishment on...

Pakistan: 2,000 protest government's demolition of Church buildings

Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 18, 2012 at 4:57 am
Two thousand Pakistani Christians, including Auxiliary Bishop Sebastian Shah of Lahore, priests, and Protestant leaders, protested the Punjabi government's decision to confiscate...

Massachusetts court overturns decision ordering abortion, sterilization

Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 18, 2012 at 4:56 am
A Massachusetts appeals court has struck down a lower court decision ordering a pregnant 32-year-old schizophrenic woman to undergo an abortion and sterilization. Associate...

Nigeria: Christmas church bombing suspect arrested, escapes

Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 18, 2012 at 4:55 am
Kabiru Sokoto, the man suspected of planning the Christmas Day attack on a Nigerian parish that left 38 dead, was arrested in the governor's compound in Borno State, which is...

Martin Luther King, Jr. breakfast honors St. Matthew’s community service

The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Jan 18, 2012 at 4:07 am
Click here to view the embedded video. Community members of all ages, races and religious backgrounds came together Jan. 16 at St. Matthew Catholic Church in St. Paul to celebrate...

Candidates defend religious freedom, marriage in South Carolina

EWTN - US Latest News - Jan 18, 2012 at 2:20 am
Charleston, S.C., Jan 18, 2012 / 03:03 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Republican presidential candidates promised to uphold values such as religious liberty and traditional marriage at...

Pope says uniting Christianity requires conversion

EWTN - Vatican News - Jan 18, 2012 at 2:15 am
Vatican City, Jan 18, 2012 / 02:15 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Pope Benedict XVI said today that achieving Christian unity requires more than "cordiality and cooperation" and that it...

Candidates defend religious freedom, marriage in South Carolina

Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 18, 2012 at 2:03 am
Charleston, S.C., Jan 18, 2012 / 03:03 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Republican presidential candidates promised to uphold values such as religious liberty and traditional marriage at...

Mark Driscoll

Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 18, 2012 at 2:00 am
Think of him as the Protestant Michael Voris. Though to Voris’ credit, he never said, as Driscoll did, that he couldn’t worship a God he could beat up, a sentiment shared by the...

A reader asks…

Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 18, 2012 at 1:35 am
…about a neighbor’s Bible Study.

Gay Brownshirts on the Wedding March!

Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 18, 2012 at 1:09 am
Golly. Who could have foreseen this? One of my superstar former students, writing about his experience at one of our nation’s premier law schools, sent me a note after reading my...

Vox Christi is on the Air!

Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 18, 2012 at 1:07 am
Allow me to introduce you to a new and exciting project from Kenrick–Glennon Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri calledVox Christi, a quarterly publication of the seminarians of...
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