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Montana Planned Parenthood Activist Bashes Pro-Life Rehberg
LifeNews.com - Jan 2, 2012 at 4:28 pm The former spokeswoman for the Planned Parenthood abortion business in Montana has a new letter to the editor in which she promotes pro-abortion Sen. Jon Tester and bashes pro-...
Irish archbishop cautions against 'caricature' of religious influence
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 2, 2012 at 4:27 pm Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin has urged the people of Ireland to avoid a "cynical caricature of faith" in discussions of the role that religion should play in public ...
Welsh archbishop opposes 'presumed consent' policy for organ donation
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 2, 2012 at 4:19 pm Archbishop George Stack of Cardiff, Wales, has issued a strong objection to a government proposal that would assume that everyone consented to being an organ donor.
Archbishop...
Florida Family being pressured to pull plug on 2-year-old mistakenly declared brain dead
LifeSiteNews - Jan 2, 2012 at 4:15 pm by Ben Johnson OCOEE, FLORIDA, January 2, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - As other families are wrapping up their holiday celebrations, a Florida family is fighting for the life of a...
Corporate interests, paramilitaries suspected in priest's slaying in Philippines
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 2, 2012 at 4:08 pm Although 2 men have been arrested for the October 17 murder of Father Fausto Tentorio in the Mindanao province of the Philippines, the people ultimately responsible for his death...
China confirms arrest of Christian dissident--after 20 months
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 2, 2012 at 4:00 pm China's government has finally admitted the arrest of a Christian human-rights activist who was taken into custody in February 2009.
The Beijing regime revealed that Gao Zhisheng...
Duggar Family Backs Republican Rick Santorum for President
LifeNews.com - Jan 2, 2012 at 3:58 pm Appearing at a campaign stop in Iowa for pro-life Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, the Duggar Family, stars of TLC’s “19 and Counting,” issued an endorsement for...
Showdown looms between Vatican, Peru's Catholic university
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 2, 2012 at 3:56 pm A papal representative has ended his visit to the Catholic Pontifical University of Peru, finding the school's leaders unwilling to accept any direction from the Vatican....
600 Joan of Arc : I - The armor-clad Saint
Rorate Coeli - Jan 2, 2012 at 3:50 pm 6 janvier 1412 – 6 janvier 2012A special guest-series by Côme de Prévigny
Joan of Arc (I) : The armor-clad Saint
What mysterious force could transform an ignorant shepherdess from...
Philadelphia's Archbishop Chaput will sell expensive residence
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 2, 2012 at 3:48 pm Philadelphia's Archbishop Charles Chaput plans to sell the mansion that has been home to the city's archbishops since 1935.
Since his installation in Philadelphia in September, ...
On 10th anniversary of Boston scandal, Cardinal O'Malley speaks of recovery
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 2, 2012 at 3:16 pm Ten years after the release of a sensational Boston Globe report that exposed the tolerance of sexual abuse within the Boston archdiocese, Cardinal Sean O'Malley said that his...
From city official to Sister of St. Joseph
The Deacon's Bench - Jan 2, 2012 at 3:00 pm This is certainly a different kind of vocation story:
A former Portland City official took perpetual vows in November as a Sister of St. Joseph of Peace.
Sister Susan Francois,...
Jesus was born into family life, Pope reminds Spanish faithful
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 2, 2012 at 2:56 pm The feast of the Holy Family should be recognized as "a continuation of Christmas," Pope Benedict XVI said in a message to Spanish families.
The papal message, addressed to...
Trust God, have confidence in new year, Pope says
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 2, 2012 at 2:51 pm Pope Benedict XVI closed out the year 2011 by exhorting the faithful to trust in God, and overcome worries about passing problems.
On December 31, the Holy Father presided at a...
Christmas Cookies Recipe (Revised Translation)
Lux Occulta - Jan 2, 2012 at 2:51 pm The ACP have posted on their site an amusing Christmas Cookie recipe which parodies the new liturgical translations:
Christmas Cookies Recipe
(According to the Revised Translation...
Blessed JPII's Jewish friend dies in Rome
OSV Daily Take - Jan 2, 2012 at 2:51 pm From Reuters today:Jerzy Kluger, the Polish Jewish boyhood friend of the late Pope John Paul who had a major influence on the pontiff's revolutionary relations with Jews, has died...
Pope delivers World Day of Peace message
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 2, 2012 at 2:48 pm As he celebrated Mass in the Vatican basilica on January 1, the feast of Mary, Mother of God, Pope Benedict XVI formally released his message for the 45th World Day of Peace,...
Of Course Abortion Causes Mental Health Problems for Women
LifeNews.com - Jan 2, 2012 at 2:46 pm The 252 page systematic review “Induced Abortion and Mental Health” published in December 2011 by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges is easily dismantled by appealing to its...
Woe to me if I do not preach the Gospel
The Curt Jester - Jan 2, 2012 at 2:33 pm Having followed the new media adventures of Greg and Jennifer Willits from the early days of the Rosary Army podcast to their show on Sirius satellite radio “The Catholics Next...
Population Controllers: Earth Would be Better Without People
LifeNews.com - Jan 2, 2012 at 2:30 pm Several years ago, I remember watching a story on the efforts to save India’s gharial crocodile. On the verge of extinction, it is the most endangered crocodile on the planet. ...
