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Kickbacks for suing the Church? Lawsuit claims major misbehavior at SNAP
EWTN - US Latest News - Jan 19, 2017 at 7:02 am Chicago, Ill., Jan 19, 2017 / 07:02 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- A former employee of the controversial Survivors' Network of those
Abused by Priests has filed a lawsuit claiming wrongful...
College group sues after being denied grant for pro-life speaker
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 19, 2017 at 7:01 am Denver, Colo., Jan 19, 2017 / 06:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A Colorado chapter of a national pro-life collegiate group is suing Colorado State University, after the school denied the...
Latin and the Latin Mass in Singapore
New Liturgical Movement - Jan 19, 2017 at 7:00 am A regular reader from Singapore brought to my attention this article from the Straits Times (named for the strait that separates the island from the Malay Peninsula) about the TLM...
Pope: ‘Christian life is a daily struggle against temptation’
News.va - Jan 19, 2017 at 6:43 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Thursday invited the faithful to let themselves be drawn by Jesus pointing out that Christian life is a daily struggle against temptation.
Speaking...
Florida Supreme Court Denies Review In Tax Credit Scholarship Challenge
The Religion Clause - Jan 19, 2017 at 6:10 am Yesterday in McCall v. Scott, (FL Sup. Ct., Jan. 18, 2017) the Florida Supreme Court declined to hear in appeal in a case challenging the constitutionality of Florida's Tax Credit...
Lawsuit charges SNAP works for lawyers, not sex-abuse victims
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 19, 2017 at 6:09 am A former fundraiser for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) has filed a lawsuit against the group, charging that it “callously disregards the real interests of...
Court Upholds Refusal To Accommodate Correctional Officer's Khimar
The Religion Clause - Jan 19, 2017 at 6:05 am In Tisby v. Camden County Correctional Facility, (NJ App., Jan. 18, 2017), a New Jersey state appeals court upheld the refusal by the warden of a state correctional facility to...
What time is it?
CatholicMom.com - Jan 19, 2017 at 6:00 am
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It’s Ordinary Time! I for one, I’m thrilled it is ordinary time and it’s even better that Lent starts late this year (March...
New York Trial Court Holds State's "Get" Law Unconstitutional In Some Applications
The Religion Clause - Jan 19, 2017 at 6:00 am In an important decision handed down last week, a New York state trial court held unconstitutional, at least in some situations, the New York statutory provision allowing a...
The Spiritual Roots of the Church’s Crisis
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jan 19, 2017 at 5:45 am
In the midst of moral and sacramental debates in the Church, it is easy to focus on ecclesial politics and to look there for solutions. Without denying the importance of such...
Conversion is a prerequisite to ecumenism, Pope Francis says
EWTN - Vatican News - Jan 19, 2017 at 5:42 am Vatican City, Jan 19, 2017 / 05:42 am (EWTN News/CNA).- For Pope Francis, personal conversion is pretty much the key to the
Church's success in all of her activities, from Church...
Robert E. Lee’s Visage Becomes a Target of Mob Protests
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jan 19, 2017 at 5:40 am
In an unforgettable scene in the film Dr. Zhivago, the adaptable lawyer Komarovski bellows from the foot of the frozen stairs, where he had been flung by the eponymous hero: “We’...
At Davos Forum, Cardinal Parolin urges Europe toward constructive engagement with migrants
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 19, 2017 at 5:32 am Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the Vatican’s Secretary of State told the leaders of the world’s most powerful nation that “we have to learn the lesson...
US bishops ask Congress to preserve parts of Obama’s healthcare reform
Catholic Herald - Jan 19, 2017 at 5:18 am The chairman of the American bishops’ domestic policy committee has that a repeal of the federal health care law should not take place without immediate passage of a plan that...
The story behind sex change surgery you haven't heard
EWTN - US Latest News - Jan 19, 2017 at 5:04 am Phoenix, Ariz., Jan 19, 2017 / 05:04 am (EWTN News/CNA).- You've probably heard of Bruce Jenner.
Conversion is a prerequisite to ecumenism, Pope Francis says
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 19, 2017 at 4:42 am Vatican City, Jan 19, 2017 / 03:42 am (CNA/EWTN News).- For Pope Francis, personal conversion is pretty much the key to the Church’s success in all of her activities, from Church...
US abortion rate at its lowest level since 1973
Catholic Herald - Jan 19, 2017 at 4:41 am The US abortion rate is down to its lowest level since the Supreme Court made abortion legal in 1973, and the rate is half of its early 1980s peak.
According to a study issued on...
Pope: Luther’s intention was to renew the Church, not divide her
News.va - Jan 19, 2017 at 4:34 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Thursday said that “the intention of Martin Luther five hundred years ago was to renew the Church, not divide her”.
Speaking to members of an...
Pope Francis: Martin Luther wanted to ‘renew the Church, not divide her’
Catholic Herald - Jan 19, 2017 at 4:23 am Pope Francis has told Lutheran pilgrims from Finland that Martin Luther’s intention 500 years ago “was to renew the Church, not divide Her”.
The Pope was speaking to a delegation...
Artist performs pushups on altar, posts video, gets fined.
EWTN - World Catholic News - Jan 19, 2017 at 4:12 am Berlin, Germany, Jan 19, 2017 / 04:12 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- A German artist was fined after doing 27 pushups on a Catholic altar and posting a video of the stunt online.
