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Vatican Insider - May 2, 2017 at 7:20 am 12 pm: The Pope will recite the Angelus prayer. ...
Italian prosecutor: human traffickers involved in migrant-rescue efforts
Catholic Culture - World News - May 2, 2017 at 7:19 am An Italian prosecutor has charged that some of the organizations helping to rescue migrants in the Mediterranean are involved in the work of human trafficking.
Indian cardinal protests city’s demolition of historic cross
Catholic Culture - World News - May 2, 2017 at 7:15 am Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai, India, has protested the destruction of a historic cross by city officials.
Pontifical Academy calls for inclusive society
Catholic Culture - World News - May 2, 2017 at 7:10 am The Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences concluded its annual meeting on May 2, issuing a call for efforts to include those who are marginalized by their societies.
Why it might be too soon to lift the sanctions on Sudan
Catholic News Agency - General - May 2, 2017 at 7:02 am Washington D.C., May 2, 2017 / 06:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Despite Sudan's recent compliance to U.S. guidelines, one expert thinks there's not enough information to warrant a...
Why it might be too soon to lift the sanctions on Sudan
EWTN - US Latest News - May 2, 2017 at 7:02 am Washington D.C., May 2, 2017 / 07:02 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Despite Sudan's recent compliance to U.S. guidelines, one expert thinks
there's not enough information to warrant a...
The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences discusses democracy, populism, and Ong
Vatican Insider - May 2, 2017 at 7:01 am The crisis of the representative democracy, the risk of raising populist movements, the possibility that the United Nations and the NGOs address today’s transnational problems,...
Why Pope John Paul II placed an image of the Virgin Mary over St. Peter’s Square
Aleteia - May 2, 2017 at 7:00 am This "Little Madonna" looks over the pilgrims making their way to the Square.On Day 2 of our tour of Rome’s Madonnelle (“little Madonnas”), we pause before Maria Mater Ecclesiae...
Be a Benedictine Monk for 48 Hours!
New Liturgical Movement - May 2, 2017 at 7:00 am Thank you to Fr Dunstan and Fr Gregory of St Mary’s Benedictine Monastery in Petersham, Massachussetts, for dropping me a line about their next monastic experience weekend, in...
Venezuela’s President Maduro claims opposition spurns Pope’s call for negotiations
Catholic Culture - World News - May 2, 2017 at 6:43 am Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has charged that the country’s opposition leaders are refusing to engage in peace talks, as recommended by Pope Francis.
'Thank you': DC cardinal to fallen police officers, first responders
EWTN - US Latest News - May 2, 2017 at 6:33 am Washington D.C., May 2, 2017 / 06:33 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- At a Mass on Tuesday, the archbishop of Washington, D.C. thanked law enforcement officers and first responders for...
Pro-lifers dismayed: GOP spending proposal would fund Planned Parenthood
Catholic Culture - World News - May 2, 2017 at 6:32 am American pro-life activists have expressed dismay that a federal spending bill, put forward by the Republican Congressional majority, would apparently continued taxpayer funding...
Catholics bring Pope Francis’ call to protect creation to climate march
Franciscan Media - May 2, 2017 at 6:24 am WASHINGTON (CNS) — Carrying banners and signs with quotes from Pope Francis’ encyclical “Laudato Si’,” hundreds of Catholics joined the People’s Climate March to call for moral...
Judge Recuses Himself Over Conscientious Objection To Gay Adoptions
The Religion Clause - May 2, 2017 at 6:10 am The Louisville Courier Journal last week reported on Kentucky Family Court Judge W. Mitchell Nance who issued an order last Thursday stating that he will recuse himself from all...
Satanic Temple Will Erect War Memorial In Park's Free Speech Zone
The Religion Clause - May 2, 2017 at 6:05 am The Minneapolis Star Tribune last week reported on the controversy in Belle Plaine, MN over a war memorial in a city park. The memorial includes a 2-foot tall cross. After a...
Picture This
CatholicMom.com - May 2, 2017 at 6:00 am Cast all your cares on Him because He cares for you. -1 Peter 5:7
My younger daughter was confirmed last Wednesday night. Family came in from all over the country to help us...
Cert. Denied In Challenge To California Sexual Orientation Therapy Ban
The Religion Clause - May 2, 2017 at 6:00 am The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday denied review in Welch v. Brown (Docket No., 16-845, cert. denied 5/1/2017). (Order List.) In the case, the 9th Circuit rejected facial free...
Teachers are getting antsy over Fidget Spinners
Aleteia - May 2, 2017 at 6:00 am The popular children's toy is being banned from classrooms.The latest toy craze for children of all ages has come in the form of Fidget Spinners. These little spinning hunks of...
Pope Francis: Closed hearts cause suffering in the Church
EWTN - Vatican News - May 2, 2017 at 5:29 am Vatican City, May 2, 2017 / 05:29 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Moralists without empathy are unable to see how God transforms "hearts
of stone" into real hearts of flesh – and it's a...
“God can replace a stone heart with a heart made of flesh”
Vatican Insider - May 2, 2017 at 4:42 am The Lord, with His tenderness, can soften the hard hearts, those who condemn everything that is outside the Law. Those same hearts that are unaware that God’s tenderness can...
