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A Cure for Wellness
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Feb 17, 2017 at 9:32 am NEW YORK (CNS) — The Swiss spa that serves as the primary setting for the creepy, but otherwise pointless horror exercise “A Cure for Wellness” (Fox) operates, it seems, on the...
Pope lashes out at ‘corrupt’ global system, intolerance of foreigners
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 17, 2017 at 9:29 am Pope Francis said that “no people is criminal and no religion is terrorist,” in a message to a California conference of popular movements.
Calhoun College Revisited... and Renamed
Commonweal - Feb 17, 2017 at 9:28 am Update: A year and a half ago I posted a piece titled “What’s in a Name?”, taking up several controversies of memorialization and history, including the brouhaha at Yale over...
Pope Francis has removed every single member of the Vatican pro-life academy
LifeSiteNews - Feb 17, 2017 at 9:24 am The Pontifical Academy for Life, long a bastion of orthodoxy at the Vatican, is effectively shut down for now.
Integration key to quelling fear of migrants, Pope Francis says
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 17, 2017 at 9:20 am Vatican City, Feb 17, 2017 / 08:20 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Friday Pope Francis paid a visit to Rome’s “Roma Tre” university, stressing to students the importance of dialogue,...
Catholic doctor fired for refusing to administer birth control. Court rules against her
LifeSiteNews - Feb 17, 2017 at 9:20 am Family practitioner Katarzyna Jachimowicz refused to insert IUDs based on her faith.
Pope Francis to university students: keep hope alive
News.va - Feb 17, 2017 at 9:01 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Friday visited one of Rome’s major institutions of higher education: the Università degli studi “Roma 3”, which has an enrollment of roughly 40...
Audrey Assad & Andrew Peterson Launch "The Edge of Dawn" Tour
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Critically lauded singers, songwriters and authors Audrey Assad and Andrew...
Good News from Ireland: TLM in Waterford Cathedral
New Liturgical Movement - Feb 17, 2017 at 9:00 am From the Latin Mass Society of Ireland comes this report of the first Traditional Latin Mass held in the cathedral of Waterford in 50 years. The next one is scheduled for February...
One Catholic College Temporarily Closes, But Another Springs Up
Catholic Education Daily - Feb 17, 2017 at 8:59 am Commonweal magazine proclaimed this headline: “Catholic to the Core: How One College Does It.” It celebrated the 10-course, four-year core curriculum and strong commitment to...
Migrants aren’t a danger to Europe but a ‘challenge to grow’, says Pope Francis
Catholic Herald - Feb 17, 2017 at 8:58 am Pope Francis, who was reunited on Friday with one of the Syrian refugees he brought home with him from Lesbos, Greece, has said migrants do not pose a danger to Europe’s culture...
The 25th Amendment
Commonweal - Feb 17, 2017 at 8:53 am A few weeks back the Fordham University Law School offered a lecture by Dean John Feerick who has central to the legal and legislative work that went into shaping the 25th...
“No people is criminal and no religion is terrorist”
Vatican Insider - Feb 17, 2017 at 8:45 am Ignoring the poor is “moral blindness”. There is no Christian, Jewish or Muslim terrorism. No people is terrorist. Pope Francis does not mince words in his message to the Popular...
Are you treating food like a Christian – or like a modernist?
Catholic Herald - Feb 17, 2017 at 8:30 am Every week, it seems, we are bombarded by health gurus as to what we should and shouldn’t eat. One typical recent headline in the Telegraph was: “First roast potatoes, now we are...
What much of the media ignored in the execution of 21 Coptic Christians
Aleteia - Feb 17, 2017 at 8:25 am In February 2015, the whole world was in shock given the appalling images of the execution of twenty-one Egyptian Coptic Christians on a Libyan beach. The video that shows the...
Survival Rates of Premature Babies Born at 23-24 Weeks are Improving
LifeNews.com - Feb 17, 2017 at 8:24 am Research based on an 11-year study of 4,500 babies indicates very premature babies are surviving at a greater rate than ever before.
The researchers found a “small but significant...
Kentucky Legislators Propose Bill to Defund Planned Parenthood Abortion Corporation
LifeNews.com - Feb 17, 2017 at 8:21 am Kentucky state lawmakers introduced a new bill on Thursday establishing a hierarchy for distributing nearly $300,000 of federal family planning funds, and placing Planned...
Even If You're 49...
Saint Louis Catholic - Feb 17, 2017 at 8:18 am Sometimes I read something so well written and insightful I just have to cut and paste it here. Hilary White posted the following paragraphs (and more), in a recent piece at...
Back to the Washington state florist: Was Stutzman seeking right to shun all gay customers?
GetReligion - Feb 17, 2017 at 8:15 am To no one’s huge surprise, the Washington state Supreme Court ruled against Baronelle Stutzman for refusing to provide flowers for a gay friend’s wedding. Also to no one’s...
How one organization hopes to revolutionize orphanages
EWTN - World Catholic News - Feb 17, 2017 at 8:01 am Rome, Italy, Feb 17, 2017 / 08:01 am (EWTN News/CNA).- The Catholic Church puts a lot of effort into having excellent schools and hospitals, but what about its orphanages? For...
