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Byron York: Santorum's Time
Creative Minority Report - Dec 29, 2011 at 7:43 am We have been saying for weeks that this could happen. A late break by Santorum could erase the plausibility question make Rick the conservative alternative to Mitt. Byron York...
“God’s igloo”: Germans build Catholic church made of ice
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 29, 2011 at 7:27 am
I shudder to think what baptisms would be like.
Details:
A church built entirely of ice and snow has opened in Bavaria — a century after villagers first built a snow church in...
The Pontifical Vesting Prayers of the Usus Antiquior
New Liturgical Movement - Dec 29, 2011 at 7:00 am As a follow up to yesterday’s post on the rite of vesting a bishop for the celebration of Mass, we here present the Pontifical vesting prayers of the Missal of St. Pius V in Latin...
UPDATE: Judge rules New Jersey nurses do not have to assist with abortions
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 29, 2011 at 6:42 am This story broke in the fall — and a resolution was reached just before Christmas.
Details:
The nurses in the same-day surgery unit of the University of Medicine and Dentistry...
Daily Quote from St. Thomas Becket
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 29, 2011 at 6:30 am St. Thomas Becket said this to a friend on his way to ordination: “Hereafter, I want you to tell me, candidly and in secret, what people are saying about me. And if you see...
Teacher's Defamation Suit Dismissed Under Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine
The Religion Clause - Dec 29, 2011 at 6:23 am In Becker v. Clardy, (TX App., Dec. 22, 2011), a Texas appellate court applied the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine to dismiss a defamation action brought by a religion teacher...
Palestinian Police Break Up Fight Between Priests At Church of the Nativity
The Religion Clause - Dec 29, 2011 at 6:10 am CNN reports that yesterday Palestinian police in the West Bank city of Bethlehem were sent into the Church of the Nativity to break up a fight that broke out between Greek...
USCIRF Urges State Department To Press North Korea On Religious and Human Rights
The Religion Clause - Dec 29, 2011 at 6:05 am With the recent death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom this week wrote Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (full text of...
Russian Court Says Krishna Holy Book Is Not "Extremist"
The Religion Clause - Dec 29, 2011 at 6:00 am In Russia yesterday, the Leninsky District Court in the Siberian town of Tomsk dismissed a case brought by the state prosecutor that sought to ban as "extremist" literature a...
Court Allows Pregnancy Centers To Intervene In Establishment Clause Challenge To Informed Consent Abortion Law
The Religion Clause - Dec 29, 2011 at 5:55 am In Planned Parenthood Minnesota v. Daugaard, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 148345 (D SD, Dec. 27, 2011), a South Dakota federal district court permitted two South Dakota crisis pregnancy...
Teacher sues Catholic schools following dismissal for artificial insemination
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 29, 2011 at 5:36 am A non-Catholic woman who served as a technology teacher at two Cincinnati Catholic schools has filed suit against her former employers.
Christa Dias, who is unmarried, was...
Uganda: acid attack against Protestant leader, a convert from Islam
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 29, 2011 at 5:35 am Umar Mulinde, a Protestant leader and former sheik who converted to Christianity from Islam, suffered severe burns following a Christmas Eve acid attack near Kampala, Uganda's ...
Nigeria: Christian family killed in machete attack
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 29, 2011 at 5:34 am A Christian family of four has been killed in a machete attack in Plateau State, one of the Nigerian states that was site of a church bombing on Christmas Day. Fulani herdsmen,...
Country Star's New Album Like Being in Church
Franciscan Media - Dec 29, 2011 at 5:00 am WASHINGTON (CNS)—Collin Raye, the Catholic country singer who had a
string of hits in the 1990s, said he wanted to make his latest album
"feel like you were in church for an hour...
QUAERITUR: About negative judgments for “annulments”
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 29, 2011 at 4:00 am From a reader:
Archbishop Sheehan’s Pastoral Letter on Couples who are cohabitating was published in my church bulletin, …. I belong in the third group. My husband, who is not...
More on Card. George’s comparison of the homosexual parade to a KKK demonstration.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 29, 2011 at 2:00 am From the Chicago Tribune:
Cardinal defends comparing gay parade organizers to Ku Klux Klan
By Brian Slodysko
Tribune reporter
1:03 p.m. CST, December 28, 2011
Setting off a new...
Some Christmas Beauty
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 29, 2011 at 1:30 am Courtesy the Cuteness and her rather gifted photographer Mom:
Chesterton Comes to Louisiana
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 29, 2011 at 1:05 am courtesy of L’Angelus, a fine Cajun band.
Kerrrrrayyyyyzy Ron Paul thinks War with Iran
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 29, 2011 at 1:03 am …is unjustified, so he is clearly insane according to the sober judgment of experts in Talk Radio and the War Party whose wisdom stampeded us into a foolish war less than a decade...
Today, my Beautiful Celtic Bride and I…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 29, 2011 at 1:01 am …head for Chicago! We’re helping out with a Militia Immaculata retreat for the youthly types this weekend at Marytown out in Libertyville. In addition, (on December 31 at 9:00...
