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Archbishop Fellay: offer of a personal prelature under consideration
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 3, 2017 at 8:30 am Vatican City, Feb 3, 2017 / 07:30 am (CNA/EWTN News).- While divisions between the Vatican and the break-off Society of St. Pius X still exist, representatives from both sides...
Iowa Senate passes bill to stop Medicaid funds from going to Planned Parenthood
LifeSiteNews - Feb 3, 2017 at 8:22 am The defunding measure, which passed 30-20 in the state Senate, next goes to the Iowa House and the governor for approval.
Surprise! New York Times frames Johnson Amendment 'explainer' in pure Kellerism
GetReligion - Feb 3, 2017 at 8:15 am It's a given, isn't it, that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. It seems also a given that The New York Times will drench itself in Kellerism -- the emerging...
Senate Defeats Democrat Filibuster of Pro-Life Trump Education Secretary Nominee Betsy DeVos
LifeNews.com - Feb 3, 2017 at 8:07 am The U.S. Senate has voted to stop the Democrat filibuster of the nomination of pro-life Michigan school choice advocate Betsy DeVos for education secretary. A final vote is slated...
Priests leaving for Europe, African bishop reports
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 3, 2017 at 7:56 am A Catholic bishop in Ivory Coast has revealed that 78 priests have left the country, apparently to seek security in Europe.
Catholic Extension honors Texas first lady with Spirit of Francis Award
Franciscan Media - Feb 3, 2017 at 7:56 am Texas first lady Cecilia Abbott receives Catholic Extension’s Spirit of Francis Award Jan. 28 from retired Archbishop Joseph A. Fiorenza of Galveston Houston and Father Jack Wall...
Meatless Friday: Mushroom-Rosemary Pasta Sauce
CatholicMom.com - Feb 3, 2017 at 7:30 am
For the longest time, I was loyal to one spaghetti sauce recipe: the one my mom always made, which makes enough sauce (with meatballs) for a party or a freezer full of family...
The Treasury of Monza Cathedral
New Liturgical Movement - Feb 3, 2017 at 6:37 am Closing out our series of Nicola’s photographs from the cathedral of Monza, here are some of the beautiful items kept in the treasury. (See part 1, the Chapel of St Theodelinda;...
Draft Executive Order Would Expand Free Exercise Protections
The Religion Clause - Feb 3, 2017 at 6:05 am The Nation reported yesterday on a leaked copy of a draft Executive Order on Religious Freedom which is currently being circulated by the White House, saying:The draft order seeks...
Supreme Court nominee authored a book on assisted suicide
EWTN - US Latest News - Feb 3, 2017 at 6:03 am Washington D.C., Feb 3, 2017 / 06:03 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- President Donald Trump's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court wrote a book
on "the future of assisted suicide" in 2006 – and...
Jacob Rees-Mogg: it is becoming more difficult to be both a Christian and an MP
Catholic Herald - Feb 3, 2017 at 6:00 am To be a Christian and an MP is increasingly difficult in Britain, a Catholic MP has said.
In an podcast interview for the Catholic Herald, Jacob Rees-Mogg, MP for North East...
Trump At National Prayer Breakfast Again Promises Johnson Amendment Repeal
The Religion Clause - Feb 3, 2017 at 6:00 am President Donald Trump spoke yesterday at the National Prayer Breakfast. (Full text of remarks.) In a wide-ranging speech, he reiterated his campaign promise to repeal the...
Lifting Upward
CatholicMom.com - Feb 3, 2017 at 6:00 am
Photo copyright 2013 James Chan, Freeimages.com, CC0 Public Domain
Things weren’t going well. I felt like a hamster on a wheel, going faster, faster, but not getting anywhere. My...
Pope encourages Nobel laureates to pursue nonviolence
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 3, 2017 at 5:51 am Pope Francis has sent a message to a meeting of Nobel Peace Prize winners, encouraging them “in their efforts to promote understanding and dialogue among peoples.”
Vatican Secretary of State signs diplomatic accord with Republic of Congo
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 3, 2017 at 5:51 am Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, signed a church-state accord with the Republic of Congo on February 2.
Filipino leader moves to rein in vigilante squads
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 3, 2017 at 5:50 am Under pressure from the Catholic Church as well as international human-rights activists, President Rodrigo Duterte has taken a step to curb the extra-judicial killings of...
Pope Francis encourages successful dialogue at Nobel Peace summit
EWTN - Vatican News - Feb 3, 2017 at 5:27 am Vatican City, Feb 3, 2017 / 05:27 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
On behalf of Pope Francis, the Vatican's Secretary of State sent a message encouraging the participants of XVI World Summit...
The story of Rowen and Blake: Twins who cuddled to stay alive
EWTN - World Catholic News - Feb 3, 2017 at 5:02 am London, England, Feb 3, 2017 / 05:02 am (EWTN News/CNA).- When newlyweds Charlie and Hayley Lampshire from Oxfordshire, England
found out they were pregnant with twins in 2015,...
The Mother of God is a model for times of ‘incredible darkness’
Catholic Herald - Feb 3, 2017 at 4:55 am I am delighted that CTS has just published, in booklet form, an abridged version of the late Fr Benedict J. Groeschel’s book Arise from Darkness. The new version – titled A Test...
Why some Texas legislators want to limit the death penalty
EWTN - US Latest News - Feb 3, 2017 at 4:53 am Austin, Texas, Feb 3, 2017 / 04:53 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- One death sentence in Texas has prompted some legislators to rethink the state's broad qualifications for the death penalty.
