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Catholic pharmacists could be forced to dispense morning-after pill, warn bishops
Catholic Herald - Mar 8, 2017 at 8:29 am The Catholic Church has predicted that British pharmacists could be forced to dispense lethal drugs, including the morning-after pill, under plans to prohibit conscientious...
Abortion Advocates Want to Silence Pro-Life People Praying at a Local Abortion Clinic
LifeNews.com - Mar 8, 2017 at 8:27 am British abortion activists are demanding that local officials put an end to a peaceful pro-life vigil outside of a Nottingham hospital that performs abortions.
Notts TV reports...
Report Card: Schools defend rights in court, Notre Dame sidesteps controversy with Pence invite
Catholic Education Daily - Mar 8, 2017 at 8:21 am Supreme Court orders lower court to reconsider transgender bathroom case
The U.S. Supreme Court has vacated an appeals court ruling that supported the Obama administration’s...
Visiting 'The Shack' -- Media pros should bone up on some theology before doing so
GetReligion - Mar 8, 2017 at 8:15 am By this time, “The Shack,” a movie based on the best-selling novel of the same name, has been out a week. It has received lackluster reviews so far, even though it has Octavia...
Government’s commitment to child refugees is now one of ‘honour and trust’ says Catholic peer
Catholic Herald - Mar 8, 2017 at 8:12 am The Government’s commitment to child refugees is now “a matter of honour and trust” a Catholic cross bench peer has warned.
Following the defeat of an amendment in the House of...
Former Bank of America exec tapped as next Washington auxiliary
EWTN - Vatican News - Mar 8, 2017 at 8:02 am Vatican City, Mar 8, 2017 / 08:13 am (EWTN News/CNA).- On Wednesday the Vatican announced Pope Francis' appointment of Fr. Roy
Edward Campbell, Jr., a former vice-president for...
TRIDUUM NOTE – How early can the Easter Vigil 2017 begin?
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Mar 8, 2017 at 8:00 am We are getting to that time of Lent when we should be thinking about the schedule for the Vigil of Easter.
Here is an oldie but goodie. Updated for 2017.
From a reader:
QUAERITUR...
A day without a woman in Planned Parenthood
LifeSiteNews - Mar 8, 2017 at 8:00 am Planned Parenthood won’t shut down their abortion mills for A Day Without Woman strike. They won’t be taking their cut in pay, just cutting off human lives.
Beauty and the Beast boycott petition reaches 100,000 and continues to climb
LifeSiteNews - Mar 8, 2017 at 7:52 am Signers are making a strong statement that they reject Disney's LGBT agenda.
Cardinal Bertello helps mark Ghana’s 60 years of independence
Catholic Herald - Mar 8, 2017 at 7:30 am Cardinal Giusseppe Bertello, the former papal nuncio to Ghana, has returned to the country to mark its sixtieth anniversary of independence.
Cardinal Bertello, president of the...
CRS Photo of the Month: CRS Thrive Projects in Kenya
CatholicMom.com - Mar 8, 2017 at 7:30 am
Women of the THRIVE Caregivers group irrigate their farm with water from Lake Victoria. Their shared work on the farm gives them purpose and self-esteem. Photo by Philip Laubner/...
Former Bank of America exec tapped as next Washington auxiliary
Catholic News Agency - General - Mar 8, 2017 at 7:13 am Vatican City, Mar 8, 2017 / 06:13 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Wednesday the Vatican announced Pope Francis’ appointment of Fr. Roy Edward Campbell, Jr., a former vice-president for...
This Catholic school made $24 million by investing in Snapchat
Catholic News Agency - General - Mar 8, 2017 at 7:06 am Mountain View, Calif., Mar 8, 2017 / 06:06 am (Church Pop).- St. Francis Catholic High School in Mountain View, California recently revealed that it invested just $15,000 in a...
EF Pontifical with Card. Burke in Oakland. California, March 19
New Liturgical Movement - Mar 8, 2017 at 7:00 am His Eminence Raymond Cardinal Burke will celebrated a Pontifical High Mass on March 19, the Third Sunday of Lent, at the church of St Margaret Mary in Oakland, California,...
Amid fears, unauthorized immigrants ask church for spiritual, legal help
Franciscan Media - Mar 8, 2017 at 6:51 am ARLINGTON, Va. (CNS) — In late February Father Mauricio Pineda, parochial vicar of All Saints Church in Manassas, heard from a couple he had married a few years ago.
The husband...
100 Senators Call For Action On Jewish Community Center Bomb Threats
The Religion Clause - Mar 8, 2017 at 6:20 am All 100 members of the U.S. Senate yesterday signed a letter (full text) to the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Director of the FBI calling for "swift...
A Friar Reflects on the Hope of Lent
Franciscan Media - Mar 8, 2017 at 6:19 am The word season has many meanings, and each tells us something about what Lent can and should mean for us.
It means, first of all, one of the four seasons of the year. Lent falls...
Court Rejects RFRA Challenge To Dakota Access Pipeline
The Religion Clause - Mar 8, 2017 at 6:15 am In Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, (D DC, March 7, 2017), the D.C. federal district court denied a preliminary injunction requested by the Cheyenne...
Pennsylvania Diocese Reaches Agreement With Prosecutors On New Child Protection Measures
The Religion Clause - Mar 8, 2017 at 6:10 am As previously reported, a year ago a Pennsylvania Grand Jury filed a lengthy Report on sexual abuse of children by Pennsylvania Catholic clergy. On Monday, the U.S. Attorney's...
