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Court Upholds Denial of Football Stadium Loudspeakers For Prayer
The Religion Clause - Feb 9, 2017 at 6:10 am In Cambridge Christian School, Inc. v. Florida High School Athletic Association, Inc., (MD FL, Feb. 3, 2017), a Florida federal magistrate judge recommended dismissing a suit...
Class Acton Lawsuit Filed Against Travel Ban
The Religion Clause - Feb 9, 2017 at 6:05 am On Tuesday, another lawsuit was filed challenging President Trump's so-called travel ban Executive Order. This suit was brought on behalf of two refugee agencies-- International...
Cardinal Pell clashes with Greens amid row over abuse inquiry
Catholic Herald - Feb 9, 2017 at 6:02 am Cardinal George Pell has accused the Green party in Australia of being “anti-religion” after a motion was passed in the Australian senate calling for his return to the country, in...
Pope: Catholic educators must teach the grammar of dialogue
News.va - Feb 9, 2017 at 6:01 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has urged all those involved in Catholic education to be builders of a more united and peaceful world.
In an address on Thursday morning to the...
Book Notes: Meeting God in the Upper Room
CatholicMom.com - Feb 9, 2017 at 6:00 am
Monsignor Peter J. Vaghi describes the Upper Room as “the most important room in Christendom” in his new book, Meeting God in the Upper Room (Servant, 2017). In one whirlwind 8-...
Ohio City Enacts Broad Conversion Therapy Ban
The Religion Clause - Feb 9, 2017 at 6:00 am According to the Toledo Blade, Toledo, Ohio City Council on Tuesday passed a broad ban on conversion therapy-- therapy aimed at changing a person's sexual orientation or gender...
Pope: Fight anti-semitism with education and respect for all
News.va - Feb 9, 2017 at 5:49 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Thursday met with a delegation from the Anti-Defamation League encouraging them to cultivate justice and foster accord and telling them “the fight...
Vatican organ trafficking summit issues statement
News.va - Feb 9, 2017 at 5:07 am (Vatican Radio) The Pontifical Academy of Sciences has issued a statement following its summit on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism which was held in Rome this week. In it...
Vatican meeting calls organ trafficking a crime against humanity
EWTN - Vatican News - Feb 9, 2017 at 5:07 am Vatican City, Feb 9, 2017 / 05:07 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- After a conference on organ trafficking at the Vatican Feb. 7-8,
participants signed a statement agreeing to unite in...
The need for a Catholic ministry to transgendered persons
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 9, 2017 at 3:59 am Washington D.C., Feb 9, 2017 / 02:59 am (CNA).- Walt Heyer remembers the moment when he started desiring to be a girl.
When he was just 4 years old, Heyer’s grandmother would...
Daily Gospel Reflection for February 9, 2017
CatholicMom.com - Feb 9, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: Mark 7:24-30
The Greek woman sought Jesus to cure her daughter. She was not Jewish. In this day and age she wouldn’t have ever had any type of social contact...
Girl Boy Scouts … and 71 Other “Gender” Options
Crisis Magazine - Church - Feb 9, 2017 at 3:15 am
The Boy Scouts of America has announced a major policy reversal, a rather dramatic shift in the foundational policy of the organization. It is now accepting girls as Boy Scouts....
How Monasticism Testifies to God’s Reality
Crisis Magazine - Church - Feb 9, 2017 at 3:10 am
Over the years, I have become acquainted with various logical arguments for the existence of God—some I find more convincing than others. Of course, the strongest evidence comes...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 09/02/17
Catholic Herald - Feb 9, 2017 at 3:01 am The Holy See and China have reached “a preliminary consensus” on bishops’ appointments, Cardinal John Tong has said (full text). Cardinal George Pell’s spokesman has accused the...
Wednesday 8 February
Vatican Insider - Feb 9, 2017 at 3:00 am 10 am: Francis holds his General Audience in the Paul VI hall. ...
What’s inside this week’s magazine?
Catholic Herald - Feb 9, 2017 at 2:17 am Cover story… Pope Francis may be about to welcome home the SSPX, says Damian Thompson More comment… Sally Axworthy, Britain’s ambassador to the Holy See, says the Vatican foreign...
Can we end the need for abortion? One organization aims to find out
EWTN - Vatican News - Feb 9, 2017 at 2:01 am Denver, Colo., Feb 9, 2017 / 02:01 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
Women's healthcare is reaching a new dawn in the state of Colorado, courtesy of a new Catholic Charities initiative whose...
Comment on Migrants staying put in Mexico, abandoning efforts to reach U.S. by Agent Smith
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Feb 9, 2017 at 1:38 am Evil thrives when good men do nothing (or flee)
There is a strong temptation at work among conservative Christians
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Feb 9, 2017 at 1:34 am …to recast the Christian faith as an ethnonationalist blood and soil fertility cult. That any time whatsoever is spent trying to rationalize a neo-Nazi like Richard Spencer, or...
And Now the Horror of the Sex Abuse Crisis…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Feb 9, 2017 at 1:18 am …unspools in Australia. The best book I have read on this is by a lawyer named Joseph Klest called The Whole Truth. He’s an agnostic out in Chicago who has prosecuted around 500...
