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Supreme Court pick wins applause from religious freedom advocates
EWTN - US Latest News - Feb 1, 2017 at 12:16 pm Washington D.C., Feb 1, 2017 / 12:16 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Pro-life leaders and religious freedom advocates hailed President
Trump's choice of Neil Gorsuch to fill the Supreme...
Planned Parenthood was founded to ‘destroy the African-American community’: black leader
LifeSiteNews - Feb 1, 2017 at 12:13 pm It's time to expose "the truth that Planned Parenthood is an organization that was founded by racist eugenicists to destroy the African-American community."
Traveling for Work? Turn to God for Peace
CatholicMom.com - Feb 1, 2017 at 12:00 pm
By Flickr user Axwel [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
My husband and I were talking through our family schedule for the next couple months in the kitchen as the kids were just...
Nigerian bishop: Evangelize though family, social media
EWTN - World Catholic News - Feb 1, 2017 at 11:46 am Abuja, Nigeria, Feb 1, 2017 / 11:46 pm (EWTN News).- For one Catholic bishop in Nigeria, social media and family life are two
keys for evangelization and sharing the values of...
Profile of new director of Vatican Museums
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 1, 2017 at 11:42 am The Wall Street Journal has profiled the new director of the Vatican Museums, Barbara Jatta.
Finding Strength in Our Interior Beauty
Franciscan Media - Feb 1, 2017 at 11:41 am Image: Max Pixel
Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain,
but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
—Proverbs 31:30
I’m not a saint or a mystic, but I had a striking...
Vatican cardinal sees crisis in defections from religious orders
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 1, 2017 at 11:32 am The prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Religious was called attention to a crisis in vocations, noting that more than 2,000 male and female religious quit their orders in...
International priests’ groups join in call for clarification of Amoris Laetitia
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 1, 2017 at 11:26 am The Confraternities of Catholic Clergy in the US, Britain, Australia, and Ireland, have joined in a statement calling for clarification of Amoris Laetitia.
Deutschland Revisited
Commonweal - Feb 1, 2017 at 11:19 am Last summer our family took a long-planned family trip and spent nearly a month in Germany, where I lived in my thirties. After we got back, a friend who’d never been there asked...
Lithuanian Cardinal Backis turns 80, drops from list of cardinal-electors
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 1, 2017 at 11:19 am Cardinal Audrys Backis, the retired Archbishop of Vilnius, Lithuania, celebrated his 80th birthday on February 1. By reason of age, he is no longer eligible to participate in a...
Esto Vir Men’s Conference is March 4
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Feb 1, 2017 at 11:17 am GREEN BAY — The call to discipleship will be at the forefront of the 12th annual Esto Vir Men’s Conference, March 4, at the KI Convention Center in Green Bay. Last year’s...
Supreme Court pick wins applause from religious freedom advocates
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 1, 2017 at 11:16 am Washington D.C., Feb 1, 2017 / 10:16 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pro-life leaders and religious freedom advocates hailed President Trump’s choice of Neil Gorsuch to fill the Supreme...
BREAKING: Senate committee votes to confirm pro-life Jeff Sessions as U.S. Attorney General
LifeSiteNews - Feb 1, 2017 at 11:15 am Pro-life Senator Jeff Sessions clears committee hurdle to become U.S. Attorney General.
Senate Committee Approves Pro-Life Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions
LifeNews.com - Feb 1, 2017 at 11:14 am The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday approved the nomination of Pro-Life Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions.
Sessions is President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for...
‘Clarification is gravely needed’: international priests’ association gives support to dubia
Catholic Herald - Feb 1, 2017 at 11:11 am An international association of Catholic priests has issued a statement in support of the four cardinals’ request for clarification of Amoris Laetitia.
The Confraternities of...
Fr. Nowakowski, 93, dies; as youth served as Cubs bat boy
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Feb 1, 2017 at 11:10 am ALLOUEZ — Fr. Edward Nowakowski, who served nearly 45 years as pastor at St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish in the northern Wisconsin rural community of Armstrong Creek, died Jan. 29 at...
Vatican official voices ‘worry’ over Trump immigrant orders
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 1, 2017 at 11:09 am A ranking Vatican official reported concern at the Holy See over President Trump’s immigration policies, in an Italian television interview.
Refugee ban is misguided
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Feb 1, 2017 at 11:08 am In last week’s editorial, we urged readers to follow Pope Francis’ example and offer prayers for the new president. We quoted from the pope’s letter to President Trump written...
Week of awareness for plight of trafficked children
News.va - Feb 1, 2017 at 11:07 am (Vatican Radio) The exploitation and enslavement of children is the focus of a week of activities leading up to the February 8th world day of prayer for an end to human...
The Presentation of the Lord
Big C Catholics - Feb 1, 2017 at 11:02 am February 2nd, the Church celebrates the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord [originally known as the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin] It occurs forty days after...