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Cardinal Muller responds to Collins and defends not answering survivors’ letters
Vatican Insider - Mar 6, 2017 at 8:19 amThe Ivanka/Jared factor: Who's reporting on their clout and the faith connection?
GetReligion - Mar 6, 2017 at 8:15 am I was going through my daily collection of emails from the various media on Friday when I noticed something on the Washington Post’s “Daily 202” email blast about the documents...
She Was Diagnosed With a Rare Disease at 1, But Her Father Did Something Amazing to Save Her Life
LifeNews.com - Mar 6, 2017 at 7:57 am President Donald Trump may not have mentioned abortion in his Congressional address last Tuesday, but he did provide a special example of how society should value every human...
“L.A. Law” Actor Corbin Bernsen Regrets Aborting His Baby, It’s “The Worst Day of My Life”
LifeNews.com - Mar 6, 2017 at 7:54 am While some celebrities “shout” their abortions, actor Corbin Bernsen said the abortion of his unborn child was nothing to be proud of.
Known for his roles in “L.A. Law,” “Psych”...
Philippines, priests defy Duterte’s “War on Drugs”
Vatican Insider - Mar 6, 2017 at 7:44 am Looking at reality through the eyes of the Gospel. Might it be a telephoto lens. Armed with his inseparable camera, Ciriaco Santiago, a Filipino member of the Order of the...
This Lent, Try Being Flexible
CatholicMom.com - Mar 6, 2017 at 7:30 am
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I love Lent, but I often fail to embrace an appropriate attitude during this season. Instead of focusing on growing closer to Christ, I...
I Want Candy!!!
The Reason for Our Hope - Mar 6, 2017 at 7:30 am It took me a while to know what he was saying. In the course of my pastoral visit to St Dominic Savio parish in Edmonton on Sunday, at the end of mass a little boy joined the line...
In Honor of St. Thomas Aquinas: A Portion of St. Francis Borgia’s “Litany of the Attributes of God”
New Liturgical Movement - Mar 6, 2017 at 7:00 am On the eve of the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, recalling the very day of his passing from this life to life eternal (March 7, 1274), I would like to share with readers a...
Failure to Communicate
Commonweal - Mar 6, 2017 at 6:09 am Yesterday, going through boxes in the attic, I came across a plaque my late mother kept in her kitchen. It bears the following baroque utterance: “I know you believe you...
Recent Articles and Book of Interest
The Religion Clause - Mar 6, 2017 at 6:00 am From SSRN:
Edward A. Zelinsky, Churches' Lobbying and Campaigning: A Proposed Statutory Safe Harbor for Internal Church Communications, (Rutgers Law Review, Forthcoming).
Jared A...
Balthasar and the Scandal of the Fully Human God
CatholicMom.com - Mar 6, 2017 at 6:00 am Hans Urs von Balthasar. I would not be kidding if I told you that I had a period of my pre-marital life where I considered naming my first son Balthasar for this man. Thankfully I...
Don't shut US doors to refugees, bishops plead
EWTN - US Latest News - Mar 6, 2017 at 5:50 am Washington D.C., Mar 6, 2017 / 05:50 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- With people fleeing humanitarian crises around the world, President
Donald Trump's new executive order halting refugee...
Discovering Our Own Sinfulness
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Pro-Life Counseling Becomes Illegal in France
Crisis Magazine - Church - Mar 6, 2017 at 5:25 am
France, the land of the French Revolution, of liberty, fraternity, and equality, is displaying few of these qualities these days. Not that the French revolutionaries ever did so...
He used to spit on those going to Mass – now he's a priest
EWTN - World Catholic News - Mar 6, 2017 at 5:07 am Madrid, Spain, Mar 6, 2017 / 05:07 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- After an anti-clerical childhood and adolescence, filled with hatred for
the Church, Fr. Juan José Martínez says he...
Marie Stopes providing abortions based on 20-second consultations, claims new investigation
Catholic Herald - Mar 6, 2017 at 5:03 am Britain’s second-largest abortion provider is offering abortions to women based on a 20-second conversation with call centre workers, a Daily Mail investigation has revealed.
An...
Trump visits Catholic school to show support for school choice
Catholic Herald - Mar 6, 2017 at 3:58 am US President Donald Trump has visited a Catholic school in Florida to show his support for school choice.
The president was joined at St Andrew Catholic School in Orlando by...
Baby mass grave in Ireland, the archbishop: “I am shocked”
Vatican Insider - Mar 6, 2017 at 3:53 am “I am as shocked as everyone else by the news reported by the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation regarding the remains of hundreds of babies and young children...
Daily Gospel Reflection for March 6, 2017
CatholicMom.com - Mar 6, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: Matthew 25:31-46
One of the privileges I’m bestowed in my parish is to bring Eucharist to the home-bound. As an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion, I’m...
Catholics in Egypt are sheltering Orthodox families fleeing ISIS
Catholic Herald - Mar 6, 2017 at 3:09 am A spokesman for Egypt’s Catholic Church has praised local Muslims for helping embattled Christians after a series of Islamic State attacks in Sinai.
Fr Rafic Greiche, spokesman...
