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Virginia Court Awards Property of Break-Away Churches To Episcopal Diocese
The Religion Clause - Jan 12, 2012 at 6:00 am In 2010, the Virginia Supreme Court held that Virginia's 1867 "Division Statute" does not apply to nine congregations that broke away from The Episcopal Church and affiliated with...
On Philly Schools, The Fallout Continues
Whispers in the Loggia - Jan 12, 2012 at 5:34 am Picking up another of last week's rippling threads, emotions are still running high across the Philadelphia church in the wake of Friday's announcement that 48 Catholic elementary...
New Vikings stadium could be ‘disastrous’ for Catholic basilica
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 12, 2012 at 5:11 am Minneapolis, Minn., Jan 12, 2012 / 06:11 am (CNA).- Two proposed new stadium sites for the Minnesota Vikings professional football team, especially one only 300 feet from the...
A Rock Critic Talks Faith
Franciscan Media - Jan 12, 2012 at 5:00 am LIKE A DNA helix, music and faith have intertwined throughout the life of Rob Sheffield, a Catholic and rock critic for Rolling Stone magazine. He’s also the author of Love Is a...
Hundreds of Miami Catholics to attend Pope's Masses in Cuba
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 12, 2012 at 4:53 am Describing the Archdiocese of Miami as "almost like another archdiocese of Cuba'' because of the number of Cuban-Americans there, Archbishop Thomas Wenski says that "several...
Caritas: 250,000 Somalis at risk of famine
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 12, 2012 at 4:52 am A quarter million Somalis are at risk of famine, while an additional four million live in a situation of food insecurity, according to a report prepared by Caritas Somalia, the...
Pakistani Catholic welcomes Pope's tribute to Bhatti as crisis deepens
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 12, 2012 at 4:51 am Peter Jacob, director of the Pakistani bishops' justice and peace commission, has welcomed Pope Benedict's tribute to Shabaz Bhatti in his recent address to the diplomatic corps...
US bishops welcome Supreme Court decision on ministerial exception
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 12, 2012 at 4:50 am The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has welcomed the Supreme Court's unanimous landmark decision in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v....
Gunmen kill 4 Nigerian Christians
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 12, 2012 at 4:49 am Gunmen on the outskirts of Potiskum, a northeastern Nigerian city of 200,000, have killed four Christians who were fleeing the area in the wake of previous attacks. The Islamist...
Christian Egyptian business leader to face trial for defaming Islam
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 12, 2012 at 4:46 am Naguib Sawiris, a prominent Egyptian business leader and a Coptic Christian, will face trial for insulting religion because he tweeted images of Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse...
Court okays Texas requirement for sonograms before abortions
EWTN - US Latest News - Jan 12, 2012 at 3:57 am Austin, Texas, Jan 12, 2012 / 03:57 am (EWTN News).-
A federal appeals court has upheld a Texas law requiring a sonogram for women considering abortion.
Dismissing — and dissing — bishops
The Deacon's Bench - Jan 12, 2012 at 2:19 am
Wherein Msgr. Charles Pope, from the Archdiocese of Washington, vents:
I am well aware of the (often legitimate) frustrations by some Catholics that the Bishops, either...
Australian ambassador: countries without Rome-based embassy suffer
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 12, 2012 at 2:06 am Rome, Italy, Jan 12, 2012 / 03:06 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The departing Australian ambassador to the Holy See says that countries without a resident diplomatic presence in Rome are...
Pope links economic crisis with individualism, urges reform
EWTN - Vatican News - Jan 12, 2012 at 1:56 am Rome, Italy, Jan 12, 2012 / 01:56 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
Pope Benedict said Jan. 12 that the economic crisis hitting much of the West is the result of self-centeredness but that it...
GOP candidates look ahead to South Carolina
EWTN - US Latest News - Jan 12, 2012 at 1:18 am Washington D.C., Jan 12, 2012 / 01:18 am (EWTN News/CNA).- The Republican presidential candidates urged fidelity to America's founding principles as they spoke at the New...
O Frabjous Day!
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 12, 2012 at 1:13 am Just got my copies of The Work of Mercy from St. Anthony Messenger (and sent the pre-ordered copies out to all the folks who wanted one)!
Here’s the blurb:
At the very heart of...
Shorter Michael Voris
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 12, 2012 at 1:11 am A very fair and perceptive fisk boils it down to this: Voris and the Church are one. Criticize him and you oppose the Church and serve the Powers of Darkness.
Sorry. Not buying...
John C Wright has way too much fun…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 12, 2012 at 1:09 am dismantling the absurd myth of sola scriptura and making the common sense argument that the Bible is authoritative precisely because it is the written aspect of the Church’s...
Kevin O’Brien…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 12, 2012 at 1:07 am …on how little we Catholics rely on actual Church teaching to navigate our faith.
Attack of the Zombie Slave Bees…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 12, 2012 at 1:05 am results in Flight of the Living Dead!!!!!
Go toward the liiiiiiight!
