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Dioceses recovering from bankruptcy
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 5, 2012 at 4:56 am The National Catholic Register examines how four dioceses--Tucson, Davenport (Iowa), Spokane, and Portland (Oregon)--have fared in the years following their decision to file for...
Judge fines attorneys for anti-Catholic slurs, orders arrest of one
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 5, 2012 at 4:56 am Less than a month after a Minnesota attorney filed a court document laden with anti-Catholic slurs, the judge who bore the brunt of her comments has ordered her arrested....
Settlement between Pennsylvania diocese, Muslim ex-employee
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 5, 2012 at 4:54 am After filing a religious-discrimination lawsuit in federal court, Omayma Arafa, a Muslim employee who was fired from her part-time parish job in 2009, and the Diocese of Allentown...
Cardinal urges Vietnamese to testify to late prelate's holiness
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 5, 2012 at 4:53 am The cardinal archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City is urging Catholics who knew Cardinal Francois Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan (1928-2002) to testify to his holiness when a Vatican delegation...
El Salvador prelate recalls 20th anniversary of peace agreement
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 5, 2012 at 4:52 am Twenty years after a peace agreement ended the conflict between El Salvador's government and leftist rebels, the nation's leading prelate expressed gratitude that the peace has...
Prelate emphasizes: 'Nigeria cannot be divided according to religion'
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 5, 2012 at 4:50 am Following demands by the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram that Christians leave northern Nigeria, Archbishop John Onaiyekan of Abuja, the nation's capital, is emphasizing that...
In atonement for that last one…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 5, 2012 at 3:35 am I pay my debt to society fourfold with these musical bits of awesomeness from the incredibly gifted Bobby McFerrin:
and the old reliable…
Fellow Catholics…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 5, 2012 at 3:25 am Whenever you feel troubled by the spectacle of Sr. Orbis Rotunda doing liturgical dance in some Youtube video from some dreadful LA Liturgical Conference of Aging FutureChurch...
Nigerian archbishop denounces Christmas terrorist attacks
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 5, 2012 at 2:25 am Abuja, Nigeria, Jan 5, 2012 / 03:25 am (CNA).- A leading Catholic bishop in Nigeria denounced the terrorist attacks over Christmas and criticized media reports that depict the...
Cardinal Wuerl promotes freedom of conscience on TV
EWTN - US Latest News - Jan 5, 2012 at 2:15 am Washington D.C., Jan 5, 2012 / 02:30 am (EWTN News).-
Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington, D.C. advocated respect for religious freedom and discussed "the perfect gift" in a...
Speaking of Heart-Breakingly Beautiful Self Sacrifice
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 5, 2012 at 2:09 am An Idaho teen gave her life that her baby might live. St. Gianna Molla, be there at the Pearly Gates to welcome her and may our Father in heaven say to her, “Well done, thou good...
Military Families are as Worthy of Praise…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 5, 2012 at 2:06 am …as the soldiers they sacrificially support. It is lovely to see that a tune recorded by some military wives in Britain has soared to the top of the charts. At Christmas, it is...
Today in the Church Year: Jan. 5, 2012
Jimmy Akin.org - Jan 5, 2012 at 2:05 am Today is a Thursday in Christmas. The liturgical color is white.
Note: Tomorrow, in some parts of the world (but not the United States), is a holyday of obligation (Epiphany). If...
Spanish 'anti-clerical' newspaper suffers financial setbacks
EWTN - World Catholic News - Jan 5, 2012 at 2:04 am Madrid, Spain, Jan 5, 2012 / 02:04 pm (EWTN News).- The Spanish newspaper Publico, which was linked to the country's former ruling party, has asked for a restructuring of its...
Ignitum Today is on the Air!
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 5, 2012 at 1:53 am It’s a promising new blog by some promising new young writers. Here they are talking about the truest form of literature, the Fairy Tale and quoting GKC and Tolkien as they do it...
Behold Steven Greydanus!
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 5, 2012 at 1:48 am IMAGE Journal’s first Artist of the Month for 2012!
A worthy honor to an ornament of the Church! Way to go, Steve!
Scott P. Richert on Rick Santorum…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 5, 2012 at 1:46 am Catholic Dissenter.
He adds:
The possibility of Gingrich getting the nomination was bad enough; that Santorum may be on the rise is horrifying; and that conservative Catholics...
Guidelines for celebrating Year of Faith revealed
EWTN - Vatican News - Jan 5, 2012 at 1:11 am Vatican City, Jan 5, 2012 / 01:11 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
The Vatican issued guidelines Jan. 5 for how the Church at all levels should
celebrate the Year of Faith, which starts in...
Just so people understand my take on Ron Paul vs. the Party of Crazy and the God King
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 5, 2012 at 1:05 am As I mention below, I see Paul as a sort of counterweight to the Party of Crazy. I do not see him as the Messiah, nor do I agree with his libertarianism at all times. Pace Ryan...
The Great Enema Continues
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 5, 2012 at 1:03 am So another bishop bites the dust in scandal. This time, it’s a guy who has two teenaged sons.
I can see losing control in a moment of passion. Bishops are just men, after all....
