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Pope baptizes 16 in Sistine Chapel
EWTN - Vatican News - Jan 8, 2012 at 2:51 am Vatican City, Jan 8, 2012 / 02:51 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Pope Benedict XVI baptized 16 newborn babies during Sunday Mass within the historic surroundings of the Vatican's Sistine...
Pope Benedict: Renew your joy as a child of God
EWTN - Vatican News - Jan 8, 2012 at 2:21 am Vatican City, Jan 8, 2012 / 02:21 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Pope Benedict XVI used his Sunday Angelus address to remind Christians of the joy of being "children of God," courtesy of...
Art from the Heart - An exhibition of Christian Art
Diocese of Westminster - Jan 8, 2012 at 12:00 am An exhibition of Christian Art in the parish of Bethnal Green.
Romney's Catholic Support
The Forum - Jan 7, 2012 at 11:19 pm Mary Ann GlendonFrom the AFP:Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney, a Mormon facing doubts about his conservative credentials, said Saturday he had the endorsement of five...
Crucial Lessons from the Epiphany
Integrated Catholic Life - Jan 7, 2012 at 11:01 pm We have heard the story of the Epiphany — the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles represented by the wise men — so many times that the truly remarkable aspects of it, and...
The Church Year: Jan. 8, 2012
Jimmy Akin.org - Jan 7, 2012 at 9:11 pm Today is a Sunday in Christmas. The liturgical color is white.
In the Ordinary Form, in the United States, today is Epiphany.
In the Extraordinary Form, it is Holy Family of Jesus...
Extraordinary Form Holydays of Obligation?
Jimmy Akin.org - Jan 7, 2012 at 8:58 pm A reader writes:
I usually attend the extraordinary form of the mass. But I couldn't make mass this Friday, when the epiphany was celebrated in the extraordinary form. Now if I go...
Boko Haram Muslim Sect Kills Christians In Northern Nigeria
The Religion Clause - Jan 7, 2012 at 7:36 pm In Nigeria, the radical Muslim Boko Haram sect has killed 44 people in the last few days after it promised to kill Christians living in the predominately Muslim north of the...
Suit Challenges Interfaith Portion of Jewish Cemetery
The Religion Clause - Jan 7, 2012 at 7:11 pm AP reported yesterday on a case originally filed nearly a year ago involving a dispute over who can be buried in a Jewish cemetery. The case is coming up for trial next month. At...
82 Religious Groups Apply To Hungarian Parliament For Recognition Under New Law
The Religion Clause - Jan 7, 2012 at 6:48 pm As previously reported, Hungary's Parliament last month passed a new Law on Churches that requires all but 14 traditional religious faiths to apply to Parliament for registration...
Evangelical Leaders To Meet To Seek Single Alternative To Romney
The Religion Clause - Jan 7, 2012 at 6:23 pm In an article titled For Evangelicals Wary of Romney, Time Runs Short, the New York Times yesterday reported that dozens of conservative Christian leaders and political...
Sin & Baptism; Taxes & Abortion; Mary & Communion; Dungeons & Dragons
Jimmy Akin.org - Jan 7, 2012 at 5:37 pm What happens if you forgot to repent of a sin before baptism? Will you still be forgiven? How can you fix the situation?
Is it okay to pay taxes knowing that the government will...
Irish Catholic group insists cartoonist not worthy of NJ honors
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 7, 2012 at 5:25 pm Trenton, N.J., Jan 7, 2012 / 06:25 pm (CNA).- An Irish-American Catholic fraternal group has repeated its objections to 19th-century cartoonist Thomas Nast’s nomination to the New...
Pro-Life Former Vatican Ambassadors Endorse Mitt Romney
LifeNews.com - Jan 7, 2012 at 5:03 pm Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney earned the endorsements of a handful of pro-life advocates who served as ambassadors to the Vatican on behalf of the United States....
Santorum Loses Gay, Potsmoking, College Kids
Creative Minority Report - Jan 7, 2012 at 4:34 pm That Santorum guy better be careful or he is gonna lose the gay, pot-smoking, college Republican vote.Key finding: "Santorum came under scrutiny at a campaign stop in Concord, N.H...
1st Vespers for Holy Family (BrevRom): “ineffable” sighting
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 7, 2012 at 4:29 pm For my weary brethren, 1st Vespers for Holy Family from the Breviarium Romanum. I sing the hymn and recite the rest. FOLLOW ALONG.
There is a prime use of “ineffable”.
The hymn...
Ad From Ron Paul Backers Attacks Huntsman’s Adopted Daughter
LifeNews.com - Jan 7, 2012 at 4:24 pm A new online advertisement run by a group supporting Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is drawing passionate condemnation from Jon Huntsman, whose adopted daughter is...
Loving Children Resulting from Rape, No Need for Abortion
LifeNews.com - Jan 7, 2012 at 3:09 pm One-hundred-year-old Minka Disbrow recently began sharing her story in the news of how she was raped at the age of 17 and became pregnant. Despite the violence inflicted upon her...
QUAERITUR: Friday fish and chips cooked in beef fat? WDTPRS POLL: “meatless Fridays”.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 7, 2012 at 2:40 pm POLL BELOW!
From a reader:
I was watching TV last night & on the program they were talking about fish & chips fried in rendered beef fat at a restaurant.
Fish & Chips...
Why evangelicals may back a Catholic or a Mormon
The Deacon's Bench - Jan 7, 2012 at 2:35 pm
It’s an interesting twist this election year, and one observer wonders why it’s happening:
For a party that was once defined by a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant heritage, this is...
