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SNAP Founder Resigns Suddenly. Second Major Departure
Creative Minority Report - Feb 6, 2017 at 8:23 am The group Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests has just seen one of its founders resign suddenly. Barbara Blaine, founder of the advocacy group, resigned immediately. This...
Iraqi prelate: foreign troops, sectarian militias could endanger Iraq’s future
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 6, 2017 at 8:19 am Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Raphael Louis Sako has said that there is no need for either foreign troops or sectarian militia groups to protect Christians in Iraq’s Nineveh Plains...
Vatican unveils Charter for Health Care Workers
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 6, 2017 at 8:14 am At a Vatican press conference on February 6, the new dicastery for Integral Human Development introduced a new Charter for Health-Care Workers.
Pope Francis at Mass: be open, receptive to God's gifts
News.va - Feb 6, 2017 at 8:01 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis said Mass in the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta on Monday morning. In remarks to the faithful following the readings of the day, the Holy Father...
German Catholics and Lutherans take new steps towards unity
News.va - Feb 6, 2017 at 8:01 am (Vatican Radio) The 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation offers Catholics and Lutherans an opportunity to take further steps towards reconciliation and full Christian...
Another resignation at SNAP as controversy continues
EWTN - US Latest News - Feb 6, 2017 at 7:45 am Chicago, Ill., Feb 6, 2017 / 07:45 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Another leader of a controversial group representing survivors of clergy sexual abuse has resigned, denying that the...
South African Jesuits ‘disturbed’ by 94 patient deaths following neglect
Catholic Herald - Feb 6, 2017 at 7:43 am South Africa’s Jesuit Institute has said it is appalled at government actions that led to the deaths of 94 mentally ill patients in Gauteng province, and the bishops’ justice and...
Salt is Good for Us
The Reason for Our Hope - Feb 6, 2017 at 7:30 am Now, before all the health experts get too upset, let me explain: by the title of this post I am lifting up a teaching of Jesus in Sunday’s Gospel, not offering an assessment of...
What We Can Learn from Breastfeeding Babies
CatholicMom.com - Feb 6, 2017 at 7:30 am
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I sat in the pew as the First Reading began. My newborn son started whimpering for milk, and I quickly tried to quiet him so that I could...
The Liturgical Rollercoaster: A Recent Proposal for 14 “Improvements” to the TLM
New Liturgical Movement - Feb 6, 2017 at 7:00 am Just when one thinks that one has stepped off the heaving, rickety train or storm-tossed boat of liturgical change, someone of an impeccably reformist mentality will come along...
This proposed law would protect doctors who object to abortion
EWTN - US Latest News - Feb 6, 2017 at 6:37 am Washington D.C., Feb 6, 2017 / 06:37 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- A bill that would protect health care providers' freedom to opt-out of
abortion mandates they find objectionable has once...
The surprising real reason for the hate against Donald Trump
LifeSiteNews - Feb 6, 2017 at 6:28 am Nothing else can explain the massive US and international howling and well-organized, vicious, non-spontaneous, “spontaneous” demonstrations that have been taking place in many...
Recent Articles of Interest
The Religion Clause - Feb 6, 2017 at 6:05 am From SSRN:
Gary S. Gildin, A Blessing in Disguise: Protecting Minority Faiths Through State Religious Freedom Non-Restoration Acts, (23 Harv. J. L. & Pub. Pol'y 411 (2017))....
Hawaii Sues Trump Over Travel Ban
The Religion Clause - Feb 6, 2017 at 6:00 am Last Friday, the state of Hawaii filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump challenging his Executive Order imposing a travel ban on individuals from seven Muslim countries...
When I Can Barely Cope with My Day
CatholicMom.com - Feb 6, 2017 at 6:00 am
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Life in the Lush Fields
I like to think I pay attention. I like to think I’m mindful of where God is leading me. And I absolutely like to think that...
On her Sapphire Jubilee, the Queen remains a wonderful inspiration to all
Catholic Herald - Feb 6, 2017 at 5:04 am Today is a historic day, as today the Queen becomes the first monarch ever to celebrate her Sapphire Jubilee. She acceded to the throne on this day sixty-five years ago.
We are...
US Bishops launch campaign urging Trump to protect religious freedom
Catholic Herald - Feb 6, 2017 at 4:46 am Saying “religious freedom in America has suffered years of unprecedented erosion,” the US Catholic bishops have posted an online letter for Catholics to send to President Donald...
Filipino archbishop resigns after clash with Vatican on reported apparitions
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 6, 2017 at 4:36 am Archbishop Ramon Arguelles of Lipa, the Philippines, has resigned, several months after he was the object of a reproval from the Vatican over his endorsement of reported...
Trump to meet Pope in May?
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 6, 2017 at 4:24 am US President Donald Trump is likely to meet with Pope Francis in May, when Trump travels to Sicily for a meeting of G7 economic leaders.
SNAP president resigns, following director, after lawsuit filed against group
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 6, 2017 at 4:20 am The president of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) has resigned her post, just a week after a lawsuit was filed against the group by a former employee.
