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“Change”
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 9, 2011 at 12:39 pm Take 10 minutes and just watch. Looking for something to connect to this Sunday’s readings? I think this does it, beautifully. Here are glad tidings being proclaimed, and the...
Santorum: GOP Should “Not Surrender” on Pro-Life Issues
LifeNews.com - Dec 9, 2011 at 12:30 pm As the socially conservative voters in Iowa head to the polls next month to officially start the 2012 Republican presidential primary election, GOP candidate Rick Santorum says...
Fathers… people will go to confession if you preach about it and then sit in the box!
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 9, 2011 at 12:24 pm From a reader:
I finally went to confession after a long time away, and, today, I
made the total consecration to Jesus through Mary. I am very happy and
very grateful to you for...
Catholic Priests ,College Coaches ,and Pennsylvania Grand Jury Reports
Opinionated Catholic - Dec 9, 2011 at 12:24 pm The alleged sexual abuse by former Penn State Coach Sandusky has cemented a view I have had for a while. I don't like how Pennsylvania does Grand Jury indictments.In most States...
George Weigel: English bishops using wrong strategy in marriage battle
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 9, 2011 at 12:24 pm Rome, Italy, Dec 9, 2011 / 01:24 pm (CNA).- Blessed John Paul II’s biographer, George Weigel, says he disagrees with the Bishops of England and Wales’ decision not to oppose legal...
The GOP’s historic choice: a Catholic or a Mormon
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 9, 2011 at 12:14 pm
As a New York Times columnist puts it: “For the first time in American history, a major political party may be choosing between two leading presidential candidates neither of...
QUAERITUR: When priests and Catholics just don’t care enough to get it right.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 9, 2011 at 12:08 pm From a reader:
I am wondering what the difference of changing “one in being with the Father” to “consubstantial” is in the Creed? Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for being in line...
Meeting God in the Silence of Advent
CatholicMom.com - Dec 9, 2011 at 12:06 pm We’re coming up on the third week of Advent. It’s nearly time for the pink candle! Which means that by now, if we’re doing Advent right, we should have met God a time or two in...
Hillary Clinton: Religious objections to homosexuality like supporting honor killings, widow burning
LifeSiteNews - Dec 9, 2011 at 12:06 pm by Ben Johnson WASHINGTON, D.C. December 8, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a speech designed to convince the world that “gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights...
Church fears nothing but sin, Pope says on Marian feast
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 9, 2011 at 11:57 am "The only evil that the Church must fear is the sin of her members," Pope Benedict XVI said on December 8, the feast of the Immaculate Conception.
In keeping with a papal...
British Doctors Mislead Women on Abortion-Mental Health Link
LifeNews.com - Dec 9, 2011 at 11:51 am Medical groups in England are coming under fire from pro-life advocates for dismissing proven research showing abortion increases mental health risks for women who have them. The...
I’m going to be a dental floss tycoon
The Curt Jester - Dec 9, 2011 at 11:45 am They call themselves the Boston College Students for Dental Health (BCSDH), according to BC’s student newspaper The Heights,but openly admit they don’t care all that much about...
Indelible faith
The Busy Catholic - Dec 9, 2011 at 11:44 am Israeli ambassador shares research on pilgrim tattoos
Mordechay Lewy, Israel's ambassador to the Vatican, speaks at the conference he organized on permanent body marks in Rome...
The Fishwrap attacks bishops: unintended consequences
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 9, 2011 at 11:43 am Just to help you out of your Friday slump and into the weekend, the Fishwrap comes through again!
Here is an article in which the Fishwrap attacks Archbishops Chaput, Dolan, and...
Pope's 3 wishes for the Christmas season
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 9, 2011 at 11:37 am As he turned on hundreds of lights forming the "world's largest Christmas tree" on a mountainside outside Gubbio, Italy, Pope Benedict XVI said that he has 3 personal wishes for...
Arab Spring voting will lead to Islamic rule, author predicts
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 9, 2011 at 11:31 am Robert Reilly warns that in the Islamic world, the Arab Spring uprisings may produce popular votes in the short term, but the long-term results are unlikely to be democratic....
Sr. Joan and the “Organizing Committee of the Council of Elders”
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 9, 2011 at 11:23 am An Irishman was walking down the street one day and, to his delight, he saw a big crowd surrounding a couple of blokes coolly and systematically duking it out. The Irishman,...
Powerful Pro-Life Film Features Story of Abortion Survivor
LifeNews.com - Dec 9, 2011 at 11:15 am A powerful new pro-life film is capturing the attention of Americans because it features the story of Melissa Ohden, a woman who survived a failed saline abortion attempt on her...
Lawyers say testimony of ailing cardinal should be excluded
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 9, 2011 at 11:09 am Defense lawyers in a Pennsylvania sex-abuse case are arguing that testimony from Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua should not be allowed at trial, because the cardinal--who is...
Solemn Mass of the Last Sunday after Pentecost, Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux
New Liturgical Movement - Dec 9, 2011 at 11:00 am One of our readers sends in the following lovely photographs which they took when visiting the Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux. The photos show, we are told, Terce and the Mass...
