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Pope draws attention to plight of Rohingya Muslims, human trafficking victims
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 8, 2017 at 10:41 pm In remarks made following his February 8 general audience, Pope Francis appealed for prayers for the Rohingya Muslims, who suffer intense persecution in Myanmar (Burma).
Samurai beatified in Japan
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 8, 2017 at 10:23 pm Dom Justo Takayama Udon (1552-1615), a samurai who converted to Catholicism at the age of 12, was beatified as a martyr in Osaka, Japan, on February 7.
Muslim community donates $3000 to Vinnies Jimboomba
The Catholic Leader - Feb 8, 2017 at 8:00 pm MUSLIM leaders based in Jimboomba have donated $3000 to a Catholic charity to support the poor and needy. St Vincent de Paul Society Jimboomba conference president Peter Flynn...
Townsville Diocese thrilled with new shepherd
The Catholic Leader - Feb 8, 2017 at 7:44 pm AFTER nearly three years of waiting, the announcement of a new bishop has been warmly greeted across the vast Townsville Diocese. “We’re getting text messages and emails of...
Senate Defeats Democrat Filibuster of Pro-Life Rep. Tom Price as HHS Secretary
LifeNews.com - Feb 8, 2017 at 6:47 pm Senate Republicans today turned back a Democrat filibuster of pro-life HHS Secretary nominee Tom Price, a member of the U.S. House. The 51-48 vote to invoke cloture sets up a vote...
Senate Confirms Pro-Life Jeff Sessions as Attorney General, First Pro-Life AG in Eight Years
LifeNews.com - Feb 8, 2017 at 6:24 pm The Senate voted today to confirm pro-life Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions. The Senate approved the nomination 52-47 on a virtual party-line vote with Republicans and West...
Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes 2017 | Day 8
Big C Catholics - Feb 8, 2017 at 6:05 pm February 9, 2017When Our Lady appeared to Bernadette as a young girl, Bernadette did not have a good education or catechesis. But what she did have was more important: she was...
Philippines bishops: Trust in God, not Duterte's deadly drug war
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 8, 2017 at 6:02 pm Manila, Philippines, Feb 8, 2017 / 05:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Though the Philippines president has professed a willingness to go “to hell” to win his deadly war on drugs, the...
Abortionist Says He Does Abortions Because of a “Life-Altering Conversion” to Christianity
LifeNews.com - Feb 8, 2017 at 5:57 pm One abortionist is revealing his abortion religion – and one New York Times writer couldn’t get enough of it.
In a piece published Wednesday, New York Times Magazine columnist Ana...
Watch a 20-week baby in utero with new groundbreaking technology
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 8, 2017 at 5:35 pm London, England, Feb 8, 2017 / 04:35 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- When the fetal ultrasound gained popularity in the 1970s, it was hailed as a “window to the womb.” But now, new...
Former Boston priest faces more sex abuse charges
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 8, 2017 at 5:28 pm Augusta, Maine, Feb 8, 2017 / 04:28 pm (CNA).- A former priest previously convicted of sex abuse of an altar boy was indicted on 29 counts of sexual misconduct involving two other...
Utah House Passes Bill Banning Dangerous Webcam Abortions
LifeNews.com - Feb 8, 2017 at 5:18 pm On Tuesday the Utah House of Representatives voted to approve HB 154, a bill which (as the Associated Press explained) “mainly promotes the use of telemedicine, a growing practice...
Francis: “Without the woman, there is no harmony in the world”
Vatican Insider - Feb 8, 2017 at 5:16 pm She makes the world beautiful. On planet Earth, “without the woman, there is no harmony.” Says Pope Francis, in his homily of today’s morning Mass (9 February 2017) at Casa Santa...
Will Canada Force Doctors to Participate in Assisted Suicides?
LifeNews.com - Feb 8, 2017 at 5:15 pm Just a quick post to show you how the slippery slope slip slides away.
Canada’s Supreme Court imposed a nationwide regime on the entire country. An obedient Parliament passed...
Do not let evil steal our hope
Vatican Insider - Feb 8, 2017 at 5:11 pm At the beginning of 2017, the world that stands before us is wrecked by conflicts, violence, hatred, terrorism and unforeseeable armed assaults. The inability to pursue negotiated...
FAITHFUL FAN | Holliday may be gone but he leaves a legacy in St. Louis
Saint Louis Review - Viewpoints - Feb 8, 2017 at 4:57 pm By Joseph Kenny | jkenny@archstl.org | twitter: @josephkenny2
In a few days, former St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Matt Holliday will report...
TWENTY SOMETHING | Angels among us: Helping leads to healing
Saint Louis Review - Viewpoints - Feb 8, 2017 at 4:55 pm By Christina Capecchi
Spend a day in a surgery waiting room and you'll witness a hundred quiet acts of mercy.
Strangers gather for a host of...
Local Church leaders consider options in wake of immigration executive orders
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Feb 8, 2017 at 4:27 pm Three men live with the Franciscan Brothers of Peace who are not religious brothers. They are among 55 victims of torture seeking political asylum in the U.S. whom the brothers...
Pregnant After Rape at 15, People Criticized Me Because I Didn’t Abort My Baby
LifeNews.com - Feb 8, 2017 at 4:25 pm In the summer of 2008 in the South of Chile, I was raped at the age of 15. Time passed, and I found out I was pregnant. I was scared, and I didn’t want to be a mother, so I kept...
The problem with the Beethoven argument
LifeSiteNews - Feb 8, 2017 at 4:17 pm The deliberate taking of an innocent human life is wrong, whether that baby grows up to write a symphony or not.
