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Scientists Given Green Light to Edit the DNA of Unborn Babies
LifeNews.com - Feb 17, 2017 at 5:23 pm A group of international scientists opened Pandora’s box this week with a new report arguing that it may be acceptable to genetically edit unborn babies’ DNA in certain...
Ohioans urged to lobby for bill protecting pastors from forced participation in homosexual ‘marriages’
LifeSiteNews - Feb 17, 2017 at 5:03 pm A state representative is trying to get the religious freedom bill to the floor for a public vote.
Muslim refugee hails Pope Francis as the example of religion
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 17, 2017 at 5:02 pm Vatican City, Feb 17, 2017 / 04:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Nur Essa, a Muslim Syrian woman whose family was brought to Rome from Lesbos by Pope Francis last April, said that the...
Answers to “Dubia” from the Vatican! About the Traditional Mass and overly restrictive bishops.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 17, 2017 at 4:42 pm If you are a priest who has been hassled by your bishop about saying the traditional Mass with the 1962 Missale Romanum, pay attention. Help has arrived.
Recently a priest of my...
Teen Mom Gave Birth, Threw Her Baby Out the Car Window, Then Texted Her Boyfriend: “It Was a Girl”
LifeNews.com - Feb 17, 2017 at 4:41 pm A Nebraska teen admitted to throwing her premature newborn out of a window after she secretly gave birth in the middle of the night, killing the child, the Mirror reports.
Antonia...
Arkansas Senate Passes Bill Requiring Doctors to Care for Babies Born Alive After Abortion
LifeNews.com - Feb 17, 2017 at 4:29 pm In an unanimous vote, the Arkansas Senate passed a bill to require doctors to provide medical care to babies born alive after botched abortions.
The Associated Press reports state...
Bill and Melinda Gates are worried about money to pay for contraception after U.S. cuts off international funding
LifeSiteNews - Feb 17, 2017 at 4:15 pm The billionaire couple say they can't make up the deficit that will be left by the Mexico City Policy.
America's most and least religious states: How could this shape Democrats’ future strategy?
GetReligion - Feb 17, 2017 at 4:00 pm
There’s a solid local angle for every U.S. media outlet in 2016 polling that Gallup applies to ranking all 50 states in order of religiosity. Beyond collecting hometown reactions...
Radical Abortion Activists Will Flood Congressional Town Halls Demanding Planned Parenthood Funding
LifeNews.com - Feb 17, 2017 at 3:49 pm Planned Parenthood isn’t going down without a fight.
The abortion chain has rallies planned across the United States beginning Saturday to protest federal efforts to take away its...
I confess, I thoroughly enjoyed that interview with Bishop Barron. (Yes, THAT one.)
LifeSiteNews - Feb 17, 2017 at 3:46 pm After watching the complete interview, I couldn’t help feeling that I had just watched something truly remarkable unfold.
Catholic thinker Michael Novak remembered with gratitude
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 17, 2017 at 3:38 pm Washington D.C., Feb 17, 2017 / 02:38 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The theologian, philosopher and Catholic commentator Michael Novak died Friday, drawing remembrances for his insights...
Liberals twice as likely to attempt to ban speakers on U.S. college campuses: study
LifeSiteNews - Feb 17, 2017 at 3:32 pm The Heterodox Academy research shows 60 percent of 'disinvitation' requests came from left wingers.
These Two Republicans Voted to Force States to Fund Planned Parenthood
LifeNews.com - Feb 17, 2017 at 3:26 pm Two Republican U.S. Congressmen voted against a Planned Parenthood defunding measure on Thursday, in opposition to the majority of their party.
The bill would overturn a rule pro-...
Why shouldn’t Cardinal Burke have asked a condom-pushing official to resign? Any faithful Catholic leader would
LifeSiteNews - Feb 17, 2017 at 3:20 pm Was he supposed to turn a blind eye while grave evil was propagated under his watch?
Vatican doctrine chief criticizes bishops for giving ‘contradictory interpretations’ of Amoris
LifeSiteNews - Feb 17, 2017 at 3:20 pm 'The basis of the Church is the unity of faith.'
Sharing the Word for February 18, 2017
Franciscan Media - Feb 17, 2017 at 3:00 pm Saturday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time
February 18, 2017
Daily Reading from the USCCB: Hebrews 11:1-17
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More Art from the Sacristy
New Liturgical Movement - Feb 17, 2017 at 3:00 pm Last month, I published some photographs taken by Fr Jeffrey Keyes of the clever designs made with the ties of his amice by the sacristan of the convent where he says Mass. (This...
The Chair of Saint Peter the Apostle
Catholic Hot Dish - Feb 17, 2017 at 2:45 pm
The Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter on February 22 is unique because it mentions a chair. The usual meaning for a chair is a piece of furniture with four legs and a back for a...
Unusual detentions, raids raise questions as Trump announces ‘crackdown’
Franciscan Media - Feb 17, 2017 at 2:44 pm People participate in a protest Feb. 11 against U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration policy and the recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in New York City. (CNS...
BFR1017: Love and La La Land
SQPN - Podcast Network - Feb 17, 2017 at 2:43 pm
In this episode: Star Wars VIII image published; reviewing La La Land; International Day of Random Acts of Kindness; Dawn finds organic materials on Ceres; Sanitizing your...
