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Pro-life groups unite behind politician’s call to reopen Canadian abortion debate
LifeSiteNews - Jan 5, 2012 at 3:09 pm by Patrick B. Craine OTTAWA, Ontario, January 5, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life and faith-based groups are backing a Tory MP’s call for a new debate on the legal status of...
Book Arts: Modern Illuminators and Potentialities for Liturgical Books Today
New Liturgical Movement - Jan 5, 2012 at 3:00 pm I recently came across the following interview with a German artist, Benjamin Harff, who, as part of his examination at the Rhein-Sieg-Akademie für realistische bildende Kunst und...
Alan Colmes Shows How Abortion Destroys Respect for Life
LifeNews.com - Jan 5, 2012 at 2:58 pm Earlier this week, Alan Colmes, former show host for Fox News, was chastised for making completely inappropriate and degrading remarks about presidential candidate Rick Santorum...
New York parents shut down Planned Parenthood sex ed for middle schoolers
LifeSiteNews - Jan 5, 2012 at 2:58 pm by Kathleen Gilbert CLIFTON PARK, New York, January 5, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Planned Parenthood has been kicked out of a New York state school district after a group of...
Consistory announcement Friday at noon?
Rorate Coeli - Jan 5, 2012 at 2:52 pm It is what several different Italian sources say today. The Holy Father would create 15 new Cardinals, and the consistory would be held on Saturday, February 18, the last Saturday...
Twelfth Night
Saint Louis Catholic - Jan 5, 2012 at 2:29 pm Today is the eve of the great Feast of the Epiphany of Our Lord. Tonight marks the blessing of Epiphany water, which carries a special blessing. Use it, and blessed chalk,...
Conscience clauses.
Commonweal - Jan 5, 2012 at 2:28 pm Recently discovered in the desk of a (badly missed) colleague: the 1962 pamphlet How to Settle Your Conscience, by Hugh J. O’Connell, C.SS.R. It contains some illuminating...
Canada's 'most eligible bachelor' takes a bride
The Busy Catholic - Jan 5, 2012 at 2:20 pm Nazanin Afshin-Jam is a name known to B.C. Catholic readers!
And now, the 32-year-old former parishioner of St. Anthony's Church in West Vancouver is the new wife of Canadian...
Quotes form this week’s newsmakers – January 5, 2012
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Jan 5, 2012 at 2:18 pm “Children, inside and outside the womb, are uniquely vulnerable to environmental hazards and exposure to toxic pollutants in the environment. Their bodies, behaviors and size...
Teen: Teacher Had Sex With Me, Then Bought Abortion Pill
LifeNews.com - Jan 5, 2012 at 2:17 pm A new criminal case out of Michigan underscores the concerns pro-life advocates have with the abortion industry, in this case that it acts to cover up cases of child sex and teen...
RECENT POSTS and LOTS of THANKS! (Some reading tips too.)
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 5, 2012 at 2:06 pm Thanks for the support you are giving to the Wyoming Carmelites by buying their coffee. How is your coffee supply these days? Br. Java tells me their Jingle Bell Java blend is...
Meet New Contributing Writer – Stacy Trasancos
Integrated Catholic Life - Jan 5, 2012 at 2:06 pm Randy and I are pleased to welcome Stacy Trasancos as the newest contributing writer to The Integrated Catholic Life™. Her first article, “Does the River Jordan rain Down on Us...
New head for top Vatican tribunal
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 5, 2012 at 2:05 pm Pope Benedict XVI has appointed a new head of the Apostolic Penitentiary, one of the Vatican's three top tribunals.
Archbishop Manuel Monteiro de Castro, who has been serving as...
Christmas Is Over. Or Is It?
CatholicMom.com - Jan 5, 2012 at 2:00 pm Whew! Christmas is over for another year! Or is it? Here at my house, it is still Christmas. We typically wait until after the Epiphany, when the Wise Men prostrated...
Will Americans Loss of Belief In Organized and Revealed Religion Lead To Age Of Spiritualists and Superstition
Opinionated Catholic - Jan 5, 2012 at 1:56 pm I had an interesting conversation with two older ladies at my grandmother's funeral earlier this week. These women were friends with both my grandmother and grandfather ,and along...
Hot topics for US bishops on ad limina visits
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 5, 2012 at 1:45 pm The bishops of the US are currently making their ad limina visits to Rome, in groups arranged by metropolitan province. John Allen of the National Catholic Reporter lists the...
Tulsa Catholic Charities declines government funds
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 5, 2012 at 1:43 pm The office of Catholic Charities in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has decided to forego government grants, in order to maintain its independence and protect its ability to deliver services...
Actor ‘sister’ garners $14 grand for sisters
Catholic Hot Dish - Jan 5, 2012 at 1:43 pm
Kimberly Richards, the actor who plays the nun in the one-nun play “Sister’s Christmas Catechism,” gathered $14,306 in donations from audience members during the show’s recent...
