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Stephen Colbert: “The deliverance God offers you from pain is not no pain…”
The Deacon's Bench - Jan 5, 2012 at 8:36 am
“I’m not bitter about what happened to me as a child, and my mother was instrumental in keeping me from being so. She taught me to be grateful for my life regardless of what that...
African women struggle more than others in food crisis
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Jan 5, 2012 at 8:31 am NAIROBI, Kenya — The year 2011 was not good for women such as Joan Ochieng. Just about everything was a struggle.
"We were not treated fairly," the Nairobi resident and single...
I’d like to thank the Academy…
The Deacon's Bench - Jan 5, 2012 at 8:24 am Actually, I’d like to just thank Marcel LeJeune, the wizard who runs the Aggie Catholics blog and who has, to my wonderment, included me on his annual list of Top 20 Catholic...
St. John Neumann, C.Ss.R.
CatholicMom.com - Jan 5, 2012 at 8:15 am Today on the liturgical calendar, we celebrate the life of St. John Neumann, C.Ss.R., the first American male and the first American Bishop to be canonized. St. John Neumann has a...
The Church and Freemasonry: A long history of incompatibility
Vatican Insider - Jan 5, 2012 at 8:10 amSaint John Neumann
Communio - Jan 5, 2012 at 7:26 am The famed American bishop, John Neumann (1811-60), is recalled by the Church today in her Liturgy. Known for his zeal and charity, John Neumann was an immigrant from Bohemia to...
The Ancient Origins of the Nativity Scene - Part 1
New Liturgical Movement - Jan 5, 2012 at 7:00 am One of the most ancient iconographic traditions in the depiction of Christ’s Nativity is the placement of an ox and an ass near the manger in which He was laid by His Mother. No...
Court Blocks New York Housing Development Favoring Hasidic Residents Over Neighboring Blacks and Hispanics
The Religion Clause - Jan 5, 2012 at 6:35 am A New York state trial court ruled yesterday in a housing discrimination case that pits the Hasidic Jewish community in the New York City neighborhood of Williamsburg against...
Bishop Michael Browne on the Prosecution of Bishop Pietro Fiordelli
Lux Occulta - Jan 5, 2012 at 6:30 am For background on this case see here
The following statement was issued by the Most Rev. Michael Browne, Bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh, on 14th March, 1958:
The fact that the...
Daily Quote from St. John Neumann, Bishop
Integrated Catholic Life - Jan 5, 2012 at 6:30 am “Everyone who breathes, high and low, educated and ignorant, young and old, man and woman, has a mission, has a work. We are not sent into this world for nothing; we are not born...
Bankruptcy Judge Imposes Sanctions In Case Involving Anti-Catholic Statements In Legal Memo
The Religion Clause - Jan 5, 2012 at 6:15 am As previously reported, last month Minnesota U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Nancy Dreher issued show-cause orders to attorney Rebekah Nett and her client Naomi Isaacson (who is also a...
A Catholic “Undercover Boss”
The Deacon's Bench - Jan 5, 2012 at 6:10 am I’m a fan of the show, and can’t wait ’til it comes back this winter. (I preached about it a couple years ago, in fact.) But this episode, airing in late January, sounds like...
Anti-Copyright Group Recognized As A Religion In Sweden
The Religion Clause - Jan 5, 2012 at 6:05 am In Sweden, the "Missionary Church of Kopimism" has, on the third try, obtained approval to register Kopimism (pronounced "copy me-ism") as one of the country's 22 recognized...
Indian Medicine Man Sues Claiming Tax Lien Infringes His Religious Liberty
The Religion Clause - Jan 5, 2012 at 6:00 am Last month, Jonathan Smith who is a Medicine Man (i.e. spiritual leader) in the Shinnecock Indian Nation filed a federal lawsuit claiming that imposing federal income tax on him,...
Jews and Evangelicals stand with Church against contraception mandate
EWTN - US Latest News - Jan 5, 2012 at 5:45 am Washington D.C., Jan 5, 2012 / 06:11 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
Evangelical and Jewish leaders are supporting the Catholic Church's opposition to proposed federal rules requiring...
Vatican will not discount consistory reports
EWTN - Vatican News - Jan 5, 2012 at 5:11 am Vatican City, Jan 5, 2012 / 05:11 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
The Vatican is refusing to deny media speculation that Pope Benedict XVI will announce a list of new cardinals as early as...
Jews and Evangelicals stand with Church against contraception mandate
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 5, 2012 at 5:11 am Washington D.C., Jan 5, 2012 / 06:11 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Evangelical and Jewish leaders are supporting the Catholic Church's opposition to proposed federal rules requiring...
Elizabeth Seton: Mother to Many
Franciscan Media - Jan 5, 2012 at 5:00 am We sometimes think of our lives as
small, mundane, tucked away in an
insignificant part of the world and having
little impact. So we wonder, “Have
I accomplished anything...
