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Venezuela's brutal crime crackdown: executions, machetes and 8,292 dead (Wall Street Journal)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 22, 2017 at 6:12 am'There is a climate of greater hope,' Aleppo bishop says a year after Assad victory (AsiaNews)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 22, 2017 at 6:12 am Bishop Georges Abou Khazen, who ministers to the Syrian city’s Latin-rite Catholics, spoke of peace and optimism a year after the Syrian government defeated rebels, ending a 4-...
European Court: EU Regulation Does Not Apply to Religious Court Divorces
The Religion Clause - Dec 22, 2017 at 6:05 am In Sahyouni v. Mamisch, (CJEU, Dec. 20, 2017), the Court of Justice of the European Union held that EU Council Regulation 1259/2010 implementing enhanced legal cooperation in...
Behold, He Makes All Things New
CatholicMom.com - Dec 22, 2017 at 6:00 am Photo copyright 2017 Olivia Hoegstrom. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
God IS good.
No matter how many different ways I think to start this story, my heart keeps coming...
Remains of a 1500-year-old monastery found in Israel
Aleteia - Dec 22, 2017 at 6:00 am Exceptional mosaic work reveals the building had a special importance among early ChristiansArchaeologists working with the Israel Antiquities Authority discovered the site in...
Another Court Enjoins Expanded Exemptions From Contraceptive Coverage Mandate
The Religion Clause - Dec 22, 2017 at 6:00 am In State of California v. Health and Human Services, (ND CA, Dec. 21, 2017), a California federal district court issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against enforcement of...
Gingrich officially begins term as new US ambassador to Vatican
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 22, 2017 at 6:00 am Vatican City, Dec 22, 2017 / 05:00 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Newly-appointed American Ambassador to the Holy See, Callista Gingrich, presented her letters of credential to Pope Francis...
‘Each one of us can lack fidelity’: Cardinal Law given austere funeral at St Peter’s
Catholic Herald - Dec 22, 2017 at 5:28 am Cardinal Bernard Law, who resigned as archbishop of Boston when it became clear he had knowingly transferred priests accused of sexually abusing children, made mistakes as all...
13th-century basilica reopens 7 years after earthquake (ANSA)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 22, 2017 at 5:12 am The Basilica of Santa Maria di Collemaggio is the site of the tomb of St. Celestine V, who resigned from the papacy in 1294. Pope Benedict XVI made a post-earthquake visit to the...
Catholics of the Year 2017 (OSV Newsweekly)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 22, 2017 at 5:12 am The Catholic newspaper Our Sunday Visitor was founded in 1912.
Poland remains defiant as EU threatens sanctions (Voice of America)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 22, 2017 at 5:12 amGuatemala: Supreme Court strikes down UNFPA pro-abortion manual (C-FAM)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 22, 2017 at 5:12 amCatalan pro-independence group claims election victory (AP)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 22, 2017 at 5:12 am The Archdiocese of Barcelona, led by Cardinal Juan José Omella, has not commented on the election.
UN war crimes court that prosecuted Milosevic closes doors (Reuters)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 22, 2017 at 5:12 amWorldwide round-up of journalists killed, detained, held hostage, or missing in 2017 (Reporters Without Borders)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 22, 2017 at 5:12 am 65 were killed, 326 detained, and 54 held hostage; 2 are missing.
‘Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle’ is a good popcorn movie for cold days
Aleteia - Dec 22, 2017 at 5:00 am It works and it's fun, so take the family!Twenty-two years ago, the original Jumanji ended with the titular board game lying half buried on a beach. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle...
The New Wave auteur who believed great cinema had to be Christian
Catholic Herald - Dec 22, 2017 at 4:48 am While thrilling art-house audiences with his urbane, witty films, Éric Rohmer attended Mass each Sunday at the Church of St Medard, subscribed to the royalist weekly La Nation...
Philippines' coast guard rescues 252 passengers from capsized ferry (Reuters)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 22, 2017 at 4:12 am L’Osservatore Romano (12/22 Italian ed.) devoted front-page coverage to this story.
Prelate says President Trump should work with Congress toward 'acceptable tax bill' (USCCB)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 22, 2017 at 4:12 am Bishop Frank Dewane, chairman of the US bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, praised the Tax Reform and Jobs Act, passed by both houses of Congress, for “...
USCCB president on the passing of Cardinal Law (USCCB)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 22, 2017 at 4:12 am The US bishops’ conference introduced the statement with these words: “If you have been abused or know of someone who has been abused, contact the local diocesan victims...
