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Sales Clerk Claims Store's Customer LGBT Policy Violated Her Religious Fredom
The Religion Clause - Dec 6, 2011 at 6:05 am Liberty Counsel issued a press release yesterday taking aim at the department store Macy's LGBT non-discrimination policy, claiming that its enforcement infringed the religious...
South Carolina School District Sued Over Promoting Religion
The Religion Clause - Dec 6, 2011 at 6:00 am The ACLU announced yesterday that it has filed a federal lawsuit challenging school-sponsored religious activities in the Chesterfield County, South Carolina schools. The...
Saint Nicholas
Communio - Dec 6, 2011 at 5:52 am The feast of Saint Nicholas observed today is an opportunity to reflect on our reliance on others as we go onto the Lord as a community, people who have regard for another. The...
A prayer to St. Nicholas
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 6, 2011 at 5:34 am
Good St Nicholas, Help us prepare for the miracle of the coming of Jesus. Help us not to be blind to the gifts of getting ready. Help us be sincere in the greetings we send and...
K is for....nothingJust what Europe needs: in Louvain, Catholic not even in name only
Rorate Coeli - Dec 6, 2011 at 5:32 am The largest and historically most prestigious University in the Low Countries, the University of Louvain (the Dutch-speaking university, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in...
Archbishop Wenski: President Obama fails to keep promises to Catholics
EWTN - US Latest News - Dec 6, 2011 at 5:30 am Miami, Fla., Dec 6, 2011 / 06:03 am (EWTN News).- President Barack Obama has not kept his promises about conscience protections for abortion opponents, and those who trusted him...
USCCB releases radio announcements on behalf of foreign aid
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 6, 2011 at 5:22 am The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has released radio public service announcements urging listeners to lobby federal lawmakers on behalf of poverty-focused...
Camaldolese hid Jews, others in Roman monastery
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 6, 2011 at 5:21 am During World War II, the Camaldolese monastery of San Gregorio Magno al Celio in Rome hid Jews, anti-Fascist political figures, and "after Mussolini's capitulation, even a few...
Holy See joins International Organization for Migration
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 6, 2011 at 5:19 am The Holy See has become a full member of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), an intergovernmental organization founded in 1951. The IOM has 132 member states and...
Pakistan: Christian couple tortured by police, resist pressure to convert to Islam
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 6, 2011 at 5:19 am Salma Emmanuel and her husband, Rashid Emmanuel, were tortured by Pakistani police over a three-day period after Salma, a maid, was falsely accused of stealing from her employer,...
Egypt: churchmen express 'alarm' over election results
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 6, 2011 at 5:18 am Churchmen in Egypt are expressing alarm over the strong showing of Islamist parties in the November 28 elections. According to provisional election results that vary depending...
Youths, Retired Sisters Make Dog Biscuits to Benefit Homeless
Franciscan Media - Dec 6, 2011 at 5:00 am OSHKOSH, Wis. (CNS)—Service has no age limits.
Our Lady of Guadalupe draws runners from Mexico to New York
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 6, 2011 at 4:50 am Wilmington, Del., Dec 6, 2011 / 05:50 am (CNA).- Around 5,000 runners are participating in the 10th annual relay from Mexico to New York in honor of the upcoming feast day of Our...
Archbishop Chaput reflects on first months in Philadelphia
EWTN - Vatican News - Dec 6, 2011 at 4:05 am Vatican City, Dec 6, 2011 / 04:05 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput is using his December "ad limina" visit to Rome to pause, pray and reflect upon the whirlwind...
[Translate to English:] Spagna, l’Opus Dei deve cancellare i nomi dei suoi ex aderenti
Vatican Insider - Dec 6, 2011 at 4:01 amWhat happens when Santa gives $100 to needy strangers?
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 6, 2011 at 2:44 am For some, it’s a gift of hope and an answered prayer. From the Reading Eagle in Pennsylvania:
Sitting in Reading’s Inter-City Bus Terminal on Tuesday night, Thomas Coates Jr. was...
Papal Mass for Latin America draws numerous cardinals, bishops
EWTN - Vatican News - Dec 6, 2011 at 2:03 am Vatican City, Dec 6, 2011 / 02:03 pm (EWTN News).- Pope Benedict's Mass in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Latin American bicentennial will gather over a dozen cardinals...
New alliance aims to defend marriage in Maryland legislature
EWTN - US Latest News - Dec 6, 2011 at 2:00 am Baltimore, Md., Dec 6, 2011 / 02:34 am (EWTN News).-
Religious leaders from across the state of Maryland announced the formation of a new coalition to fight against the...
The Rocheport Tunnel
Rome of the West - Dec 6, 2011 at 1:44 am
A former railroad tunnel, constructed in 1892, on the Katy trail, at Rocheport, Missouri. The Katy is a 240 mile long state park that consists of the right-of-way of the former...
Vatican officials will not testify in Oregon case
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 6, 2011 at 1:39 am Portland, Ore., Dec 6, 2011 / 02:39 am (CNA).- Demands for face-to-face questioning of Vatican officials were denied by a federal judge in a case involving a Washington man who...
