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Divorce numbers rise among older Americans, fall among younger couples

Catholic News Agency - General - Mar 10, 2017 at 3:05 pm

Washington D.C., Mar 10, 2017 / 02:05 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The divorce rate has doubled for Americans over age 50, and tripled among Americans over 65, a new survey shows. “At a...

Daily Readings for Saturday, March 11, 2017

Catholic Online - Featured News - Mar 10, 2017 at 3:01 pm

Reading 1: Deuteronomy 26:16-19, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 119:1-2, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 119:4-5, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 119:7-8, Gospel: ...

St. Constantine: Saint of the Day for Saturday, March 11, 2017

Catholic Online - Featured News - Mar 10, 2017 at 3:01 pm

Constantine was king of Cornwall. Unreliable tradition has him married to the daughter of the king of Brittany who on her death ceded his throne to ...

Sharing the Word for March 11, 2017

Franciscan Media - Mar 10, 2017 at 3:00 pm

Saturday of the First Week of Lent March 11, 2017 Daily Reading from the USCCB: Psalm 119:1-2, 4-5, 7-8 https://www.franciscanmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/SW_030312_II.mp3...

Abortion Activist Vandalizes Cross Display to Mourn Unborn Babies Killed in Abortions

LifeNews.com - Mar 10, 2017 at 2:51 pm

A pro-life student display that represented the number of babies aborted every day in America was vandalized this week at the University of Colorado in Boulder, CBS News 4 reports...

DeVos meets with gay and transgender activists. Now pro-family groups want equal time

LifeSiteNews - Mar 10, 2017 at 2:45 pm

The Education Secretary reached out to LGBTQ organizations after the reversal of the Obama school transgender mandate.

Democrats Push Bill to Legalize Assisted Suicide in Wisconsin

LifeNews.com - Mar 10, 2017 at 2:41 pm

Three Wisconsin lawmakers are seeking to pass new legislation allowing those with terminal illnesses to end life “on their terms,” or by assisted suicide, the Minneapolis Star...

Saint John Ogilvie, Scottish Martyr

Big C Catholics - Mar 10, 2017 at 2:39 pm

March 11, is the feast of Saint John Ogilvie (1579 – 1615), born in 1579 at Drum, Keith, Scotland. Walter Ogilvie was a Scottish noble who raised his son John in the state...

‘Landmark day for the Wyoming pro-life movement’: Governor signs state’s first pro-life laws in 28 years

LifeSiteNews - Mar 10, 2017 at 2:27 pm

Abortionists are now required to let women know of their right to see an ultrasound and hear their babies' heartbeats.

Purvis encourages black Catholics to take action

The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Mar 10, 2017 at 2:20 pm

After spending the day with participants of Catholics at the Capitol in St. Paul March 9, Gloria Purvis spent that evening in an intimate meeting with black Catholics at St. Peter...

Abortion Activists Falsely Promote “Post-Abortion Care” to Lure African Women Into Abortions

LifeNews.com - Mar 10, 2017 at 2:11 pm

(CFAM) — A recently published article exposes how abortion practitioners used U.S. foreign aid and the guise of “post abortion care” to increase the number of abortions in Zambia...

Former “Transgenders” Talk About De-“Transitioning”

LifeSiteNews - Mar 10, 2017 at 2:01 pm

Carey Callahan, a young liberal woman, describes her “de-transition” from identifying as a “transman” and exposes some inconvenient truths about the “trans” community on which the...

Let me remind my liberal friends: George Orwell was pro-life

LifeSiteNews - Mar 10, 2017 at 1:58 pm

With the rise of Trump, liberal bloggers have decided that America is now on the path to the dystopia of 1984.

This man drives for Uber to spread the pro-life message

LifeSiteNews - Mar 10, 2017 at 1:39 pm

It causes people to 'convert to pro-life right there in the car.'

The meaning of the season of Lent

Catholic Hot Dish - Mar 10, 2017 at 1:38 pm

There are four general Prefaces in the Roman Missal for the Season of Lent, and these texts are not only spoken liturgical prayers, they also serve as texts for personal prayer...

Effort to rescue Blessed Sacrament in fire recalled as act of great faith

The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Mar 10, 2017 at 1:33 pm

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — When they awoke Feb. 20, 1967, Father George Weinmann and Sister Lilian Marie McLaughlin did not know that by early afternoon they’d perform actions that would...

As evangelization tool, Alpha lays foundation for discipleship

The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Mar 10, 2017 at 1:32 pm

Deacon Mitchell described Alpha as a course “to explore life’s biggest questions through the lens of the Christian faith in a friendly, open and informal atmosphere through 10...

Old Man River

CatholicMom.com - Mar 10, 2017 at 1:30 pm

By Famartin (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons We live near the Mississippi River and one day on the way home from the grocery store we were driving along the river...

'Living Lent': Monday of the Second Week of Lent - Day 13

Catholic Online - Featured News - Mar 10, 2017 at 1:02 pm

PRAY: "Remember not against us the iniquities of the past; may your compassion quickly come to us, for we are brought very low." (Psalm 79:8)

'Living Lent': Sunday of the Second Week of Lent - Day 12