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Former sex-abuse commission member rebuts Cardinal Müller’s defense of Vatican
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 14, 2017 at 12:32 pm Marie Collins, who cited an intransigent Vatican bureaucracy when she resigned from her post on the Vatican sex-abuse commission, has taken issue with Cardinal Gerhard Müller’s...
Alaska Legislature Will Hold Hearing on Dangerous Bill Legalizing Assisted Suicide
LifeNews.com - Mar 14, 2017 at 12:25 pm A hearing has been set for March 14 at 3 p.m. on a bill that aims to legalize doctor-prescribed suicide in Alaska. House Bill 54, sponsored by Anchorage Democrat Rep. Harriet...
Vatican official thinks Catholic brand will be defined locally
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Mar 14, 2017 at 12:21 pm AUSTIN, Texas — McDonald’s, Apple, Starbucks and … the Catholic Church?
In terms of recognizable organization names, the Catholic Church has to rank near the top. But, does it...
Saint Mathilda, Widow
Regina Magazine - Mar 14, 2017 at 12:17 pm March 14 Today is the feast day of Saint Mathilda, Ora pro nobis. Saint Mathilda (Matildis, Maud) was born at the Villa of Engern in Westphalia, about 895. She was the Queen of...
Why Should We Meditate?
Franciscan Media - Mar 14, 2017 at 12:14 pm He fasted for forty days and forty nights. —Matthew 4:2
Forty is one of those numbers that seem to turn up everywhere. It has many symbolic meanings but in biblical terms, as well...
The sad episode that began the Vatican pro-life academy’s decline
LifeSiteNews - Mar 14, 2017 at 12:14 pm Sadly, the woes at the Pontifical Academy for Life began well before Pope Francis' election.
Aquinas College makes changes, will now offer only degrees in education
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Mar 14, 2017 at 12:12 pm NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Aquinas College in Nashville announced March 10 it will reconfigure its degree programs to focus solely on preparing teachers for Catholic schools and will...
Trudeau policy ‘reprehensible example’ of imperialism, says Bishop Crosby
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Mar 14, 2017 at 12:06 pm TORONTO (CNS) — In a biting letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the president of the Canadian bishops’ conference called the government’s new overseas abortion policy “a...
A Whirlwind Lent Already!
CatholicMom.com - Mar 14, 2017 at 12:00 pm
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So much has happened in this first week of Lent for me that my head is spinning. I am so overwhelmed, that I am experiencing a “writer’s block” of...
A drive-thru funeral window? Opposition to Bible Belt mortuary's service hints at a holy ghost
GetReligion - Mar 14, 2017 at 11:55 am Is nothing sacred?
Well, I think we probably know the answer to that one (if you have online friends like my online friends who forward you lots of strange stuff), when it comes...
Surprising Research Finds More Sexual Activity on ‘Mostly’ Catholic Campuses
Catholic Education Daily - Mar 14, 2017 at 11:52 am A “lukewarm” faith has never been good for Christians (Rev. 3:16), and a new study suggests it’s not very helpful with regard to a college’s Catholic identity, either.
College...
Pope Francis: ‘I do not feel that Cardinal Burke is my adversary’
LifeSiteNews - Mar 14, 2017 at 11:52 am In an interview with Die Zeit, the pontiff touched on topics ranking from the Knights of Malta to 'fundamentalist' Catholics.
Ohio Bans Late-Term Abortions After 20 Weeks on Unborn Babies Who Feel Excruciating Pain
LifeNews.com - Mar 14, 2017 at 11:50 am A new Ohio law takes effect today that bans late-term abortions on unborn babies after 20 weeks. The law is designed to protect unborn children who research shows feel...
Attacks show Venezuelan government relations with Catholics deteriorating
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Mar 14, 2017 at 11:45 am CARACAS, Venezuela — A series of attacks and confrontations against Catholics in Venezuela has marked a renewed deterioration of relations between the church and the national...
Archbishop Chaput's new book ‘fights the good fight’ against cultural assimilation
OSV Daily Take - Mar 14, 2017 at 11:45 am It’s a commonplace to say that America, along with other Western countries, is currently experiencing a cultural — which is to say, moral — crisis. And, in some quarters at least...
WATCH: Planned Parenthood VP Repeatedly Won’t Say if an Unborn Baby is a Human Being
LifeNews.com - Mar 14, 2017 at 11:42 am Fox News’s Tucker Carlson put Planned Parenthood Vice President Dawn Laguens on the spot Monday when he repeatedly asked her what she thinks about babies in the womb.
Carlson...
Tucker Grills Planned Parenthood Official Who Instantly Morphs into Soundbyte Spouting Robot
Creative Minority Report - Mar 14, 2017 at 11:24 am This Planned Parenthood official instantly morphs into soundbyte spouting robot when asked what is being aborted. Tucker astounded she just talks about rights and attacking pro-...
Autopsy Proves Planned Parenthood Killed Young Woman in Botched Abortion
LifeNews.com - Mar 14, 2017 at 11:06 am The death of a young mother, Cree Erwin-Sheppard, just three days after receiving a surgical abortion at a Planned Parenthood facility in Kalamazoo, Michigan, has turned into a...
A return to our Catholic inheritance through the Liturgy
Communio - Mar 14, 2017 at 11:02 am We can’t escape the fact that the paradigms of modern society are suffocating the intellect, the heart and the souls of men and women. What has efficacy for salvation? What...
TOB Tuesday: Virginity for the Sake of the Kingdom
Big C Catholics - Mar 14, 2017 at 10:41 am Editor's note: On Tuesdays, we will feature posts discussing Saint John Paul the Great's Theology of the Body; his reflection on our nature and life as persons made in the image...
