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Congress pays tribute to imprisoned Chinese activist
EWTN - US Latest News - Dec 9, 2011 at 5:45 am Washington D.C., Dec 9, 2011 / 06:03 am (EWTN News).- Witnesses at a Congressional hearing condemned ongoing human rights abuses in China and paid tribute to imprisoned activist...
There’s Something Weirdly Fitting About the Fact…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 9, 2011 at 5:41 am …that when the rule of law suffers bipartisan attempted murder in a Paris Hilton culture like ours, the clearest most serious treatment of the danger we face is given us, not in...
Saint Juan Diego Cuahtlatoatzin
Communio - Dec 9, 2011 at 5:40 am A relatively obscure saint on our liturgical calendar, as many are, but here in the USA while Saint Juan Diego (1774-1548) is not well-known, what his being an instrument of...
2 Americans named consultors to pontifical council
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 9, 2011 at 5:15 am Two Americans have been named consultors to the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization.
Curtis Martin is the founder of the Fellowship of Catholic University...
FDA urged to revise contraceptive labels over blood clot risks
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 9, 2011 at 5:14 am A panel that advises the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is calling upon the agency to revise the labels of Yaz and Yasmin, two popular forms of the birth control pill.
The...
Mexican archdiocese's editorial sees 'xenophobic' attitude in US
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 9, 2011 at 5:12 am Desde La Fe, the official publication of the Archdiocese of Mexico City, is strongly criticizing the Mexican government for its "laziness" in failing to address recent legislation...
100th anniversary of Myanmar cathedral: prelate hopes for democratic future
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 9, 2011 at 5:11 am Pope Benedict XVI has drawn attention to the plight of persecuted Christians in Myanmar (Burma) by sending Cardinal Renato Martino as his special envoy to the December 8...
Sebelius, with Obama's support, rejects over-the-counter morning-after pill
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 9, 2011 at 5:09 am Kathleen Sebelius, the US secretary of health and human services, has overruled a Food and Drug Administration proposal that would have permitted the morning-after pill to be sold...
On Civil War's 150th anniversary, historian reflects on religion's role
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 9, 2011 at 5:09 am Tuscaloosa, Ala., Dec 9, 2011 / 06:09 am (CNA).- Religion had a “pervasive” role in American life at the time of the United States’ Civil War, one historian says, explaining his “...
Promotion of gay rights worldwide is a US foreign policy priority, says Clinton
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 9, 2011 at 5:06 am "Gay rights and human rights" are "one and the same," US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton declared in an address delivered at the United Nations Office at Geneva.
"Some...
Guadalupe Procession, Mass in L.A. Honors 'Mother of our Roots'
Franciscan Media - Dec 9, 2011 at 5:00 am LOS ANGELES (CNS)—Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez Dec. 4 urged a
crowd of 25,000 people from throughout the archdiocese to immerse
themselves in a deeper conversion and to...
US bishops pleased with new papal audience format
EWTN - Vatican News - Dec 9, 2011 at 3:14 am Vatican City, Dec 9, 2011 / 03:14 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
As their time in Rome comes to a close, the bishops of Pennsylvania and New Jersey say they like the new format for the...
US Senate blocks pro-abortion court nominee
EWTN - US Latest News - Dec 9, 2011 at 1:40 am Washington D.C., Dec 9, 2011 / 02:32 am (EWTN News).- Pro-life groups applauded a rare move by the U.S. Senate to block abortion advocate Caitlin Halligan from the D.C. Circuit...
More Inexplicable Behavior from Bp. Cupich of Spokane
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 9, 2011 at 1:09 am Some time back Bp. Cupich decided, for completely incoherent reasons, to stiff arm 40 Days for Life, as well as to try to crush any involvement by clergy and seminarians in this...
Sexual Perversion is Aggressive, Militant, and Evangelical
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 9, 2011 at 1:09 am A Canadian reader writes:
Our Ontario Premier wants to indoctrinate 3rd grade children into “exploring” their gender identity (male, female, transgendered, transsexual, two-...
The Thing That Used to Be Conservatism Continues Its Descent into Hilarious Insanity
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 9, 2011 at 1:07 am First, of course, is the ludicrous joke of La Donald hosting a debate, which at least some candidates could not abase themselves to participate in because they have, you know, a...
12 Things Happy People Do Differently
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 9, 2011 at 1:05 am This sort of article is a classic example of how the seeds of the word are already present in a lot of popular culture. Much of it rehashes counsel that comes to us from the New...
Jeffrey Mark Ostrowski asks the Musical Question
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 9, 2011 at 1:03 am Can Hymns or Songs Replace Propers at Mass?
For some background go here.
Consequentialism in Chemical Purity
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 9, 2011 at 1:01 am The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists officially recommends “feticide” for its “beneficial emotional, ethical and legal consequences”.
Our civilization is winding...
Students rally behind Catholic school teacher with leukemia
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 9, 2011 at 12:52 am Bethesda, Md., Dec 9, 2011 / 01:52 am (CNA).- Kate Truax, a beloved literature teacher for fifth, sixth and seventh graders at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School in Bethesda, Md...
