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Judge Neil Gorsuch’s Touching Tribute to Justice Antonin Scalia Will Make You Like Him Even More
LifeNews.com - Feb 1, 2017 at 4:38 pm Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch and the late pro-life Justice Antonin Scalia have much in common. Both are originalists who believe that the courts are to interpret legal...
The Feast of St Ignatius of Antioch
New Liturgical Movement - Feb 1, 2017 at 4:22 pm Although St Ignatius of Antioch is the Apostolic Father of whose writings we have the most, we know very little about him, less by far than we know about his contemporary St...
Prelates raise concern over Trump decision to keep Obama executive order
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Feb 1, 2017 at 4:02 pm The chairmen of two bishops' committees expressed disappointment Feb. 1 over President Donald Trump's decision to retain a 2014 executive order by his predecessor, Barack Obama,...
Archbishop urges change as Commission ends Catholic review
The Catholic Leader - Feb 1, 2017 at 4:00 pm CHURCH leaders are bracing for a grim and confronting final hearing into the Catholic Church at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The three-...
Iowa Committee Passes Legislation to Defund Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz
LifeNews.com - Feb 1, 2017 at 3:40 pm An Iowa Senate committee moved forward Tuesday with legislation to defund the abortion business Planned Parenthood.
The bill, Senate File 2, will reallocate government funding...
In accused priest killer’s case, bishops urge mercy, reject death penalty
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Feb 1, 2017 at 3:38 pm Saying "justice needs to be tamed by mercy," Bishop Felipe Estevez of St. Augustine, Florida, and two brother bishops called Jan. 31 for the state of Georgia to drop the death...
St. Louis aldermanic committee passes Board Bill 203
Saint Louis Review - St. Louis News - Feb 1, 2017 at 3:36 pm By Jennifer Brinker | jbrinker@archstl.org | twitter: @jenniferbrinker
A proposed St. Louis City ordinance affecting reproductive health...
WATCH: Pope accuses Christians of ‘cowardliness’ for overfocus on following ‘all’ 10 Commandments
LifeSiteNews - Feb 1, 2017 at 3:35 pm Pope Francis accuses Christians concerned with 'obeying all the commandments' of being 'confined souls.'
Pope Francis: Put on the helmet of the hope of salvation!
Aleteia - Feb 1, 2017 at 3:33 pm VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis called on Christians this morning to put on the helmet of the hope of salvation. During his weekly general audience today, he turned to St. Paul’s...
Late-Term Abortionist Resumes Doing Abortions But Does Them in the Middle of the Night
LifeNews.com - Feb 1, 2017 at 3:31 pm New information has surfaced concerning abortionist LeRoy Carhart, who had reportedly quit working at a Maryland late-term abortion facility in October 2016, some of which raises...
Anti-clickbait 2.0: Warning! This post asks readers to think about messy life in Russia
GetReligion - Feb 1, 2017 at 3:30 pm Alas, it's true. As our own Bobby Ross Jr. mentioned earlier today, nothing seems to push readers away from a news-driven blog quicker than headlines about complex stories on the...
In accused priest killer’s case, bishops urge mercy, reject death penalty
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Feb 1, 2017 at 3:19 pm AUGUSTA, Ga. — Saying “justice needs to be tamed by mercy,” Bishop Felipe J. Estevez of St. Augustine, Florida, and two brother bishops called Jan. 31 for the state of Georgia to...
Glorify the Lord with me, let us praise God’s name
Catholic Hot Dish - Feb 1, 2017 at 3:18 pm
To God goes the glory! Really? Maybe it should go that way, but there are plenty of times that it does not. When we have done a good deed, quite often God is not the first...
Global priests’ movement urges Pope to answer 4 Cardinals: ‘A clarification is clearly needed’
LifeSiteNews - Feb 1, 2017 at 3:12 pm The confraternity of around 1,000 priests are urging the pope to 'correct the misuse' of Amoris Laetitia.
Book Review & Giveaway: You Carried Me
CatholicMom.com - Feb 1, 2017 at 3:00 pm
You Carried Me: A Daughter’s Memoir
by Melissa Ohden
What’s it about?
What happens when an abortion survivor finds her birth mother . . . who never knew her daughter was alive?
...
Sharing the Word for February 2, 2017
Franciscan Media - Feb 1, 2017 at 3:00 pm Feast of the Presentation of the Lord
February 02, 2017
Daily Reading from the USCCB: Hebrews 2:14-18
https://www.franciscanmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/SW_020211_I.mp3...
Sung EF Mass for Candlemas in Portland, Oregon
New Liturgical Movement - Feb 1, 2017 at 3:00 pm The church of St Stephen in Portland, Oregon, will have a Sung Mass in the Extraordinary Form tomorrow at 7pm for the feast of Candlemas, with Gregorian chant and the music of...
Metropolitan Jonah: ‘No room’ in the Church for accepting ‘the horror of abortion’
LifeSiteNews - Feb 1, 2017 at 2:43 pm The Russian Orthodox commemorated the sanctity of life at a liturgical celebration before the March for Life.
Why Newspaper Diet Advice Is Terrible: A Skipping Breakfast “Study”
Jimmy Akin.org - Feb 1, 2017 at 2:42 pm
The state of diet and nutrition reporting is horrible.
Remember the “chocolate makes you lose weight” claim that the media fell for all over the world—despite the fact it was a...
Wherein Fr. Z apologizes and explains a response to a reader’s question
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 1, 2017 at 2:36 pm I need to explain something and to apologize if I caused wonder or confusion.
On 27 January I posted an response to a person’s question:
QUAERITUR:
Given the rate things are going...
