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Sunday Soundbite for February 5, 2017
Franciscan Media - Jan 31, 2017 at 11:00 pm Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Cycle A
February 05, 2017
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Our first reading today always causes me to...
Hope, wishful thinking and presumption — what’s the difference?
Aleteia - Jan 31, 2017 at 11:00 pm “‘Hope!’ What a waste of energy!” No easy “greeting-cards cheerfulness” for that bitter old man. I admired that part of him. But his hopelessness? Not so much. Granted, he had...
Iceland knows the secret to stopping teen substance abuse — Is anyone paying attention?
Aleteia - Jan 31, 2017 at 11:00 pm In the past 20 years, Iceland’s rates of teen drinking, smoking, and drug use rates have drastically plummeted. Mosaic Science reports that in 1998, the percentage of 14- to 16-...
Community legal centres can’t keep up with the high demand for DV services, according to new report
The Catholic Leader - Jan 31, 2017 at 11:00 pm MASSIVE increases in the number of women accessing domestic violence services means Queensland’s community legal centres are unable to keep up with demand. Last year community...
Lift your glass: a song for the feast of St. Brigid
Aleteia - Jan 31, 2017 at 11:00 pm Oh when the saints go marching in, they will behold a lake of beer and they all will dive right in. Today is February 1, the feast of St. Brigid. And to celebrate, we are pulling...
Go to church, meet annoying people
Aleteia - Jan 31, 2017 at 11:00 pm In the modern world, “The question of identity has changed from being something you are born with to a task: you have to create your own community.” Here’s the problem: “...
Travels, travails, and Trump: Chris Arnade chronicles the heartache in the heartlands
Aleteia - Jan 31, 2017 at 11:00 pm How many oil changes would you have to get for your car in 100,000 miles? If you followed the standard of changing it every 3,000 miles, it would be 33 oil changes. But who would...
WATCH: Kindergartener shows that you’re never too young to put some good out into the world
Aleteia - Jan 31, 2017 at 11:00 pm After a family lost everything they had in a tornado, a little girl named A’layah — one of their neighbors — donated all the money she had saved to help them. Then the...
The first great ‘secret’ of Fatima: The message of the Angel of Portugal
Aleteia - Jan 31, 2017 at 11:00 pm Undoubtedly, one of the most important events of this year will be the celebration of the anniversary of the apparitions of Fatima: 100 years since the apparitions of Our Lady to...
Prelate speaks at Yale Law School on religious liberty
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 31, 2017 at 10:39 pm Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore, the chairman of the US bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty, spoke recently at Yale Law School on religious liberty.
So It's Gorsuch. Now What? Expect Lunacy
Creative Minority Report - Jan 31, 2017 at 10:38 pm There's a new villain in town. And it's Judge Neil Gorsuch. While there's always partisan tension around the naming of a Supreme Court nominee, expect this one to make the left...
USCCB on refugee executive order: solidarity with Muslims, religious-freedom concerns
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 31, 2017 at 10:30 pm Citing “fear and untold anxiety,” the chairmen of three committees of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops have expressed deep concern about President Donald Trump’s...
Conscience vote on abortion bills promised to MPs, Premier confirms
The Catholic Leader - Jan 31, 2017 at 9:00 pm QUEENSLAND Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has promised to allow Government members a conscience vote on two contentious abortion bills. The Premier’s promise follows speculation...
Philippines bishops oppose bid for severe death penalty revival
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 31, 2017 at 8:37 pm Manila, Philippines, Jan 31, 2017 / 07:37 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Catholic bishops of the Philippines voiced strong objections to proposals intended to reinstate the death...
Neil Gorsuch looks good
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 31, 2017 at 8:05 pm Here’s a profile from NPR on him. Better still, he’s written in opposition to euthanasia and assisted suicide. Well done, Donald Trump.
Pro-Life Groups Praise SCOTUS Nominee Neil Gorsuch: If You Liked Justice Scalia, You’ll Like Him
LifeNews.com - Jan 31, 2017 at 7:55 pm Leading pro-life organizations are already weighing in on the Supreme Court nomination of Justice Neil Gorsuch. Top pro-life groups say if you like pro-life Justice Antonin Scalia...
Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch Sided With State Defunding Planned Parenthood
LifeNews.com - Jan 31, 2017 at 7:30 pm When it comes to Planned Parenthood — the nation’s largest abortion business — states hoping to protect taxpayers from having to fund the abortion company can count on Supreme...
Meet Donald Trump’s Pick for Supreme Court: Neil Gorsuch
Aleteia - Jan 31, 2017 at 7:29 pm During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump said that if he were elected he would appoint judges “very much in the mold of” deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin...
Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch Sided With Hobby Lobby and Little Sisters of the Poor
LifeNews.com - Jan 31, 2017 at 7:20 pm Hobby Lobby and Little Sisters of the Poor. Their names were synonymous with major Supreme Court battles to stop the Obama Administration from forcing them and others to pay for...
Judge Neil Gorsuch nominated to fill Supreme Court vacancy
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Jan 31, 2017 at 7:08 pm Grouch, 49, hasn't written a ruling specifically on abortion but he has strong views on religious liberty. He sided with the Little Sisters of the Poor in their challenge of the...
