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Mother’s Abortion Refusal Gives Hope to Many Moms to Be
LifeNews.com - Dec 29, 2011 at 2:58 pm He will have the most amazing set of lungs.” Paul Stefan James lived for only forty-two minutes – with a heartbeat, but never taking a breath. It seemed like a cruel coincidence...
“This is my story”: Ben Breedlove’s astonishing testimony
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 29, 2011 at 1:50 pm The teenager died Christmas Day, just a week after making the brief videos below. Read more about his life here and here. But watch these two brief YouTube clips (which have...
Divorce, Italian style: couple splits after 77 years
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 29, 2011 at 1:28 pm Would counseling have helped? Better pre-Cana?
Details:
The Italian man, identified by lawyers in the case only as Antonio C, was rifling through an old chest of drawers when he...
The “Social” in Social Media
Catholic Tech Talk - Articles - Dec 29, 2011 at 1:10 pm Over the Christmas holiday, I had the opportunity to go back to my old church, St. Bernard, here in Wauwatosa, WI. They have a new priest, Father Mike Barrett. I hadn’t met...
Kortney Blythe Gordon Named as Pro-Life Person of the Year
LifeNews.com - Dec 29, 2011 at 12:46 pm The pro-life group Operation Rescue has named Kortney Blythe Gordon as its Pro-Life Person of the Year for 2011 in recognition of her life-time achievements and dedication to the...
The crisis of the Church is a crisis of Bishops 3 - the Bishop of Antwerp on celibacy and the ordination of women
Rorate Coeli - Dec 29, 2011 at 12:39 pm In an interview published very recently on Knack.be, the Bishop of Antwerp Johan Bonny made the following statement regarding the movement that produced the heretical Gelovigen...
Nigeria, all in agreement against gay marriage. Except the West
Vatican Insider - Dec 29, 2011 at 12:34 pmImpossible lunch
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 29, 2011 at 12:18 pm I came today to Veselka in the East Village. It is jammed but I slid into a seat at the counter. I am across from the grill where a very competent fellow is doing well. It...
NBC Paints Santorum’s Pro-Life Abortion Views as Extreme
LifeNews.com - Dec 29, 2011 at 12:05 pm As GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum appeared as a guest on Thursday’s Today show on NBC, substitute co-host Savannah Guthrie focused the interview on the former...
QUAERITUR: simultaneous Masses v concelebration
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 29, 2011 at 12:00 pm From a reader:
Canon 902 states that “Unless the welfare of the Christian faithful
requires or suggests otherwise, priests can concelebrate the Eucharist. They are completely free...
Papal spokesman notes highlights of 2011 for Benedict XVI
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 29, 2011 at 11:53 am Looking back across the year 2011, the director of the Vatican press office saw papal voyages abroad, the beatification of John Paul II, the inter-religious meeting in Assisi, and...
Review - "Surrender!" by Fr. Larry Richards
Brandon Vogt - Dec 29, 2011 at 11:48 am
Fr. Larry Richards is certainly one of the most dynamic teachers in the Catholic Church (watch this video and see what I mean.) His preaching is electric and fiery and his blunt...
Abortions Rose Slightly in 2008, But CDC Report Incomplete
LifeNews.com - Dec 29, 2011 at 11:32 am On November 25, 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its annual report with the most recent data and statistics on abortion in the United States,...
Philippines: suspect arrested in October murder of missionary priest
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 29, 2011 at 11:22 am Police in the Philippines have announced the arrest of a man suspected in the murder of Father Fausto Tentorio
The Italian missionary was shot down in Arakan, on the island of...
Journal article shows Vatican acceptance of St. Egidio community's diplomatic influence
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 29, 2011 at 11:14 am An article in the Jesuit journal Civilta Cattolica on the St. Egidio community shows the considerable influence of that Catholic movement, as well as the limits of Vatican...
Nigeria's Boko Haram sect: a reaction against colonial influence
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 29, 2011 at 11:02 am The Fides news service provides a quick sketch of the development of Boko Haram, the Islamic extremist group that has launched a campaign of terror against Christians in Nigeria....
Don Giuseppe Vallauri: The Silent Prayers of the Roman Liturgy
New Liturgical Movement - Dec 29, 2011 at 11:00 am Continuing on with our coverage of some of the presentations given at the FIUV's 20th general assembly in Rome this past November, we now turn to a paper by Don Giuseppe Vallauri...
Islamic brotherhood asks Egyptian military to protect Coptic Christmas celebration
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 29, 2011 at 11:00 am Leaders of the Islamic Brotherhood have urged Egypt's military government to offer special protection to Coptic Christian churches as they celebrate Christmas. (Copts, following...
