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Alternate facts: New York Times posits 'Jediism' as actual religion in credulous feature
GetReligion - Jan 26, 2017 at 8:15 am Pardon the trite expression, but I just got sick, a little. I got my nausea through The New York Times.
The newspaper once positioned as America's "newspaper of record," the one...
Cardinal Etchegaray's retirement means the end of an era
EWTN - Vatican News - Jan 26, 2017 at 8:01 am Vatican City, Jan 26, 2017 / 08:10 am (EWTN News/CNA).- As Cardinal Roger Etchegaray leaves Rome to retire to France, his homeland, an era has closed.
Arkansas Senate set to ban ‘barbaric and gruesome’ dismemberment abortions
LifeSiteNews - Jan 26, 2017 at 8:00 am If the bill passes Thursday as expected, it will go to Gov. Asa Hutchinson and could be signed next week.
Friar: a sense of hope is growing in Aleppo
Catholic Herald - Jan 26, 2017 at 7:49 am A Franciscan friar who visited the Syrian city of Aleppo last week has said that the devastation there is beyond what people can imagine.
Fr John Luke Gregory, vicar general of...
A Plan to Proclaim God's Marvelous Deeds in 2017
CatholicMom.com - Jan 26, 2017 at 7:30 am
Copyright 2017 Pam Spano. All rights reserved.
We are now four weeks into the new year. Have your resolutions held up? Have you already given up or are you smugly keeping up all...
Italian bishop rebukes suggestions that torture can be used licitly
EWTN - World Catholic News - Jan 26, 2017 at 7:19 am Rome, Italy, Jan 26, 2017 / 07:19 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- The secretary general of the Italian bishops conference on Thursday said that torture can never be a response to terrorism,...
Cardinal Etchegaray's retirement means the end of an era
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 26, 2017 at 7:10 am Vatican City, Jan 26, 2017 / 06:10 am (CNA/EWTN News).- As Cardinal Roger Etchegaray leaves Rome to retire to France, his homeland, an era has closed.
He was a bishop without...
Cardinal Dolan: Abortion undermines everyone's human rights
EWTN - US Latest News - Jan 26, 2017 at 7:06 am Washington D.C., Jan 26, 2017 / 07:06 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- In a culture where abortion is prevalent, no one's rights are safe,
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York insisted at a...
Why Does Facing Ad Orientem Matter Ecumenically? - Guest Article by Prof. Ines Murzaku
New Liturgical Movement - Jan 26, 2017 at 7:00 am Our thanks to Dr Ines Murzaku, Professor of Church History at Seton Hall Univerity, for sharing this article with us.The theme for this year’s Week for Christian Unity (January 18...
Christians and Muslims are both concerned for the future of UK pharmacists
EWTN - World Catholic News - Jan 26, 2017 at 6:37 am London, England, Jan 26, 2017 / 06:37 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Proposed standards for U.K. medical professionals could force them to violate their religious beliefs on the job, both...
French Cardinal Etchegaray, vice-dean of College of Cardinals, retiring at 94
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 26, 2017 at 6:23 am Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, the vice-dean of the College of Cardinals, is leaving Rome at the age of 94 to spend his last days in his native France.
Lay church workers killed in Bolivia, South Sudan
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 26, 2017 at 6:10 am A lay missionary worker has been killed in Bolivia, and a catechist in South Sudan.
EEOC Gets New Acting Chair; Releases 2016 Data On Charges
The Religion Clause - Jan 26, 2017 at 6:10 am The EEOC announced yesterday that President Donald Trump has named Commissioner Victoria A. Lipnic as Acting Chair of EEOC. She replaces Jenny R. Yang who continues to serve as a...
Pro-Life Student Group Sues Over Denial of Recognition
The Religion Clause - Jan 26, 2017 at 6:05 am Yesterday a pro-life student group filed a federal lawsuit against officials of Queens College in New York after the organization was denied registered student organization status...
Young baker with Down Syndrome an international sensation
EWTN - Vatican News - Jan 26, 2017 at 6:05 am Vatican City, Jan 26, 2017 / 06:05 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Meet Collette: a talented young baker from the Boston area, who has been
working on her own original cookie recipes since...
O DESAFIO DE LIDAR COM FILHOS ADULTOS (The Challenge of Dealing with Adult Children)
CatholicMom.com - Jan 26, 2017 at 6:00 am
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Prayer can do much...
Suit Attacks Sex Offender Registry Law As Restricting Religious Freedom
The Religion Clause - Jan 26, 2017 at 6:00 am A federal civil rights lawsuit was filed this week challenging the extensive restrictions imposed by North Carolina's Sex Offender Registration Law. The complaint (full text) in...
US bishops rap Trump’s plan for border wall
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 26, 2017 at 5:57 am The US Conference of Catholic BIshops has taken issue with President Donald Trump’s plan for a wall at the Mexican border to stem the flow of immigrants.
What History May Tell Us About Amoris Laetitia
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jan 26, 2017 at 5:56 am
Today cardinals and bishops are intensely divided over whether or not invalidly married Catholics living in adultery can receive Holy Communion. Fifty years ago, this kind of...
All the Chatter about Silence
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jan 26, 2017 at 5:55 am
Silence is all the talk. And it should be. It is a stellar work of cinematography. That should come as no surprise with Scorsese as director.
Then too the film touches on themes...
