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A sceptical note on Canada’s bishops and Development and Peace
LifeSiteNews - Dec 12, 2011 at 5:57 pm by Fr. Alphonse de Valk December 12, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The bishops’ annual plenary session in Cornwall, Ontario, from October 17–21, began with the Editor of LifeSite-News...
Sebelius’ sensible decision
LifeSiteNews - Dec 12, 2011 at 5:44 pm by Dr. Gerard M. Nadal The recent overruling of the FDA decision to sell Plan B over the counter (OTC) to children as young as eleven years of age has engendered no small amount...
NBC Mocks Tim Tebow as “God’s Quarterback,” Cites Pro-Life Ad
LifeNews.com - Dec 12, 2011 at 5:18 pm In a report for Monday’s NBC Today, correspondent Peter Alexander described the rise of Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow, noting how the NFL player’s devout Christian faith...
Pope: ‘Remember that the first of all rights is the right to life’
LifeSiteNews - Dec 12, 2011 at 5:18 pm by John-Henry Westen VATICAN CITY, December 12, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Speaking at his Angelus address today to thousands of pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s square, Pope...
Spanish bishop calls for authentic joy in Christmas season
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 12, 2011 at 5:09 pm Cordoba, Spain, Dec 12, 2011 / 06:09 pm (CNA/Europa Press).- Bishop Demetrio Fernandez of Cordoba, Spain said the upcoming Christmas season should be a time of great joy for...
Senate provision allows military chaplains to opt out of same sex ‘marriages’
LifeSiteNews - Dec 12, 2011 at 5:04 pm by Christine Dhanagom WASHINGTON, DC, December 12, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A provision added to the Senate defense authorization bill would give military chaplains the right to...
Address of the Irish Bishops to Cardinal Cullen at the Close of the Fourth Public Session of Vatican I
Lux Occulta - Dec 12, 2011 at 4:48 pm
Out of a total of 744 bishops in attendance at the First Vatican Council (1869–70), some seventy were of Irish birth and about another 150 were of Irish descent. The author of...
Diocese of Charleston South Carolina Deals Church Worker Child Protection Social Media Guidelines
Opinionated Catholic - Dec 12, 2011 at 4:44 pm I can't find the report on the web site but as to social media its quite extensive it appears. I would like to look at the document to see if there is any overkill in this. I am...
Abp. Carlson to lead Advent day of recollection
Saint Louis Review - St. Louis News - Dec 12, 2011 at 4:41 pm Archbishop Robert J. Carlson will lead an Advent day of recollection Saturday, Dec. 17, at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, Lindell Boulevard and Newstead Avenue in the...
Msgr. Gherardini: Vatican II is not a super-dogma The importance and the limits of the authentic Magisterium
Rorate Coeli - Dec 12, 2011 at 4:39 pm Source: Disputationes Theologicae, December 7, 2011 [Translation provided by the United States District of the Society of Saint Pius X - FSSPX/SSPX]
The great 50th anniversary...
Pope confirms Cuba, Mexico visits on Guadalupe feast
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 12, 2011 at 4:26 pm Vatican City, Dec 12, 2011 / 05:26 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Benedict XVI confirmed that he will visit Cuba and Mexico next year, during a Dec. 12 Mass honoring Our Lady of...
Numbers almost doubled in this year’s March for Life in the Netherlands
LifeSiteNews - Dec 12, 2011 at 4:25 pm by Thaddeus Baklinski THE HAGUE, December 12, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An estimated 1,400 people participated in the annual March for Life in the Netherlands held on Saturday,...
Board approves miracle needed for Blessed Marianne Cope’s canonization
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Dec 12, 2011 at 4:16 pm
The Sisters of St. Francis and Honolulu Bishop Larry Silva said a second miracle has been confirmed in the canonization cause for Blessed Marianne Cope, who is pictured in a...
Obama Admin Blocks Texas’ De-Funding of Planned Parenthood
LifeNews.com - Dec 12, 2011 at 4:15 pm The Obama administration has turned down a request from Texas to run a family its Title X family planning program, funded with federal taxpayer dollars, without funding the...
Senate defense bill removes military ban on sodomy, bestiality
LifeSiteNews - Dec 12, 2011 at 4:15 pm by Christine Dhanagom WASHINGTON, DC, December 12, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - According to the Pentagon, if a provision in the defense authorization bill repealing a military ban...
Cuban bishops announce Marian jubilee year, confirm papal visit
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Dec 12, 2011 at 3:52 pm The Cuban bishops announced that 2012 would be a Marian jubilee year and that Pope Benedict XVI would come to Cuba as a “pilgrim of La Caridad,” the popular name for the Virgin of...
Testifying to the light: Third week of Advent
OSV Daily Take - Dec 12, 2011 at 3:45 pm By Mary DeTurris PoustA reflection from my own blog, Not Strictly Spiritual: It's always right around this time each Advent season that I move into high holiday spirit. I take...
San Francisco archdiocese approves parish facility for cremated remains
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 12, 2011 at 3:40 pm San Francisco's Archbishop George Niederauer has given his approval for a "columbarium"--a place for the storage of urns containing the cremated remains of the deceased�in a local...
