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"Power to the mothers", Hauwa Ibrahim’s Testimony
Vatican Insider - Mar 8, 2017 at 6:09 am "I understood that I would have ended up married to a man much older than me and, above all, that I would have had to say goodbye forever to my school, I was just 11 years old. So...
Revised Settlement Agreement Reached In Suits On NYPD Surveillance of Muslims
The Religion Clause - Mar 8, 2017 at 6:05 am The ACLU on Monday announced a revised settlement agreement in two cases involving the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslims. As previously reported, last November...
Wyoming Supreme Court Censures Judge Who Refused To Perform Same-Sex Marriages
The Religion Clause - Mar 8, 2017 at 6:00 am In a 3-2 opinion yesterday, the Wyoming Supreme Court held that a judge who, because of religious objections, refuses to perform same-sex marriages violates the Wyoming Code of...
I have a friend named Jerry and you should too
CatholicMom.com - Mar 8, 2017 at 6:00 am
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It’s Lent and a time for reflection as part of our journey. What’s been on my mind is friends. Friends, acquaintances,...
Lady Day: A Counter Protest Like No Other
Crisis Magazine - Church - Mar 8, 2017 at 5:40 am
The people who brought you the extra-large vaginas marching on Washington in January are at it again. They have deemed today, March 8th, as “A Day Without Women.” You can show...
New Utah bishop is first Filipino-born prelate to lead US diocese
Catholic Herald - Mar 8, 2017 at 5:36 am The first Filipino-American bishop ordained in the United States has been installed as the leader of Salt Lake City’s Catholic diocese, ending the city’s longest period without a...
Of Friendship, Faith, and Death: A Film Series for the Ages
Crisis Magazine - Church - Mar 8, 2017 at 5:35 am
Let your acquaintances be many, but one in a thousand your confidant (Sirach).
I heard last month about the Academy Awards and the Big Flub. I suppose it would’ve been fun to...
Raymond Arroyo’s Latest Will Wilder Novel
Crisis Magazine - Church - Mar 8, 2017 at 5:30 am
If we hope to have a Catholic Literary Revival—the kind for which Dana Gioia called, and which periodicals like Dappled Things and publishers like Wiseblood have been supporting—...
For women, Vatican's new female advisory group 'a good start'
EWTN - Vatican News - Mar 8, 2017 at 5:02 am Vatican City, Mar 8, 2017 / 05:02 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
A new advisory group for the Pontifical Council for Culture is being hailed as the beginning of a greater representation of...
For women, Vatican's new female advisory group 'a good start'
Catholic News Agency - General - Mar 8, 2017 at 4:02 am Vatican City, Mar 8, 2017 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A new advisory group for the Pontifical Council for Culture is being hailed as the beginning of a greater representation of...
How you would have observed Lent in 1873
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Mar 8, 2017 at 4:00 am Today is Ember Wednesday in the 1st Week of Lent. It is a day of even deeper penance.
For those of you who may think that Lent is a pretty tough time to be a Catholic, giving up...
Trump’s latest travel ban still endangers most vulnerable, say Catholic bishops
Catholic Herald - Mar 8, 2017 at 3:53 am American Catholic bishops have expressed concern following the introduction of a revised travel ban.
Following President Donald Trump’s latest executive order banning arrivals...
Ember Wednesday in Lent: The Sign for an Evil and Adulterous Generation
Rorate Coeli - Mar 8, 2017 at 3:46 am We are in the Ember Days in Lent - the first one being this Wednesday, whose Gospel is dedicated to the signs demanded from the Lord by Scribes and Pharisees. The words of Christ...
Four Ethiopia nuns killed in car crash on the way to a funeral
EWTN - World Catholic News - Mar 8, 2017 at 3:43 am Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Mar 8, 2017 / 03:43 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- The Church in Ethiopia is mourning the deaths of four religious sisters
who died in a car accident that critically...
Daily Gospel Reflection for March 8, 2017
CatholicMom.com - Mar 8, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: Luke 11, 29-32
Did you notice this Gospel reading opens when the crowds gathering around Jesus were actually increasing? Christ’s angry reaction to this growing...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 08/03/17
Catholic Herald - Mar 8, 2017 at 3:11 am The Cause of an imprisoned North Korean bishop declared dead in 2013 is advancing (biography).
Those who put “tremendous pressure” on Benedict XVI to resign “will be found out”,...
Trump offers federal funds to Planned Parenthood as long as it stops providing abortions
Catholic Herald - Mar 8, 2017 at 2:50 am President Donald Trump has offered to maintain federal funding for Planned Parenthood if the group stops providing abortions.
Its president spurned the proposal and noted that...
Pope Francis has some ideas on how to fix the priest shortage
EWTN - Vatican News - Mar 8, 2017 at 2:22 am Vatican City, Mar 8, 2017 / 02:22 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- In a newly-released interview Pope Francis discussed the shortage of
vocations to the priesthood, saying the first response...
Bishop rejects South Sudan president's day of prayer as a political move
EWTN - World Catholic News - Mar 8, 2017 at 2:04 am Juba, South Sudan, Mar 8, 2017 / 02:04 am (EWTN News/CNA).- The call by South Sudan's president for a national day of prayer was met with derision by one of the country's bishops...
Pro-Life, Pro-Truth
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Mar 8, 2017 at 1:39 am Alexi Sargeant (Leah Libresco-Sargeant’s husband) writes a great piece on the need for the pro-life to remember how the stakes of the abortion fight create a *greater* obligation...
