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Free speech questions surface after Clinton's invitation to Muslim group
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 6, 2011 at 1:51 pm Washington D.C., Dec 6, 2011 / 02:51 pm (CNA).- A religious liberty expert is concerned that the U.S. State Department appears to be collaborating with a group that has worked to...
Even a $47 million cut doesn’t slow down wealthy Texas Planned Parenthood
LifeSiteNews - Dec 6, 2011 at 1:38 pm by Susan Tyrrell December 6, 2011 (Bound4Life.com) - The recent revelation that Planned Parenthood of North Texas (PPNT) was simultaneously shuttering many clinics as it plans to...
Vatican officials meet with Jain leaders
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 6, 2011 at 1:36 pm Vatican officials met on December 6 with representatives of the Jain faith.
After the meeting--the first such session since 1995--the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious...
O, Tannen-bomb: the Christmas tree controversy in Rhode Island
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 6, 2011 at 1:34 pm
Trouble is taking root, and spreading:
Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee unwrapped a Christmas conundrum when he erected a “holiday” tree in the Statehouse, incensing the Roman...
Dutch priest, suspended for living with woman, threatens legal challenge
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 6, 2011 at 1:31 pm A Catholic priest in the Netherlands, removed from ministry because he refused to stop living with a female companion, has threatened to fight his suspension before the European...
Picture Julie Andrews in a Snood...
Saint Louis Catholic - Dec 6, 2011 at 1:30 pm ...and you can picture Delena, the proprietress of the It's on My To-Do List blog, who has penned the following ditty, sung to the tune of "My Favorite Things". From her full...
Vatican's giant Christmas tree arrives; Pope to illuminate mountainside above town
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 6, 2011 at 1:23 pm Pope Benedict XVI will illuminate the "world's largest Christmas tree"--actually a series of lights strung across a mountain--on December 7.
During a video conference that will be...
Church of Scotland tells government ‘no’ to homosexual ‘marriage’
LifeSiteNews - Dec 6, 2011 at 1:23 pm by Peter Baklinski SCOTLAND, December 6, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Church of Scotland has said “no” to homosexual ‘marriage’ in its official response to the Scottish...
Blessed John Paul II’s relics to visit Colombia
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 6, 2011 at 1:15 pm Bogotá, Colombia, Dec 6, 2011 / 02:15 pm (CNA).- The bishops of Columbia announced that relics of Blessed John Paul II will arrive in the capital city of Bogota for a two-day...
'Rigid hierarchy' blamed for removal of priest who fathered child
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 6, 2011 at 1:14 pm Father Stan Strycharz was removed as pastor of his southwest Florida parish because he fathered a child and because questions arose about $1 million in undocumented expenses. Yet...
Ad campaign warns US public about threats to religious liberty
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 6, 2011 at 1:13 pm A Catholic group has launched a television advertising campaign to alert the American public to threats against religious freedom by the Obama administration.
The ads by ...
Catholics getting ‘consubtantial’ with new Mass language?
Catholic Hot Dish - Dec 6, 2011 at 1:01 pm There’s material for stand-up comedians in the newly translated Roman Missal, to be sure, but there’s also an opportunity for those humble enough to try to see the chalice as half...
Thanks to all you “lockstep sheep and papist throwbacks”!
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 6, 2011 at 1:00 pm
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Thanks to the many “mind-numbed robots” out there, incapable of thinking for yourselves and merely longing for the past out of irrational nostalgia who have ordered...
Reminder: Fasting and Abstinence on the Eve of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception
Rorate Coeli - Dec 6, 2011 at 12:54 pm In the years leading up to the conclusion of Vatican II, the day before the Feast of the Immaculate Conception was commonly observed throughout the Catholic world as one of the...
Texas Planned Parenthood Didn’t Need Tax Funding, It’s Rich
LifeNews.com - Dec 6, 2011 at 12:23 pm The recent revelation that Planned Parenthood of North Texas (PPNT) was simultaneously shuttering many clinics as it plans to open a new abortion supercenter leaves us with...
Conference for Priests on Exorcism: 5-8 Feb 2012 in Tulsa, OK
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 6, 2011 at 12:09 pm For the second year, the Diocese of Tulsa is putting on a conference for priests… priests, not lay people… on the Rite of Exorcism in the Latin Church, which will include also...
Prayer request for a priest
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 6, 2011 at 11:57 am In your charity, please pray for an old priest who has had a serious stroke, Fr. Robert Auman, who may be known to some of you long and I mean loooong time readers of this blog...
Colonial Times, Interracial Marriage, and the 14th Amendment
Opinionated Catholic - Dec 6, 2011 at 11:48 am I thought this was an interesting discussion that showed a line of Court cases and history I was not aware of till I read it. See The original meaning of the 14th Amendment...
Obama’s FDA considers allowing morning-after abortion pill available on supermarket shelves
Rock for Life Blog - Dec 6, 2011 at 11:44 am Breaking news story: Obama’s FDA is considering allowing the morning-after abortion pill available on drugstore and supermarket shelves, available to anyone of any age without a...
Senate Republicans Stop Another Obama Pro-Abortion Judge
LifeNews.com - Dec 6, 2011 at 11:44 am Senate Republicans on Tuesday successfully filibustered the nomination of pro-abortion judicial nominee Caitlin Halligan to replace Supreme Court Justice John Roberts on the D.C....
