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Feds Unable To Find Compromise On Contraceptive Coverage Mandate
The Religion Clause - Jan 12, 2017 at 6:00 am Last July, in response to the U.S. Supreme Court's remand in Zubik v. Burwell several federal agencies sought suggestions on ways to further accommodate objections by religious...
Manzoni’s The Betrothed and Pope Francis’ Economics
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jan 12, 2017 at 5:35 am
The parsing of literature to support any given political, economic and social agenda is not an uncommon practice, but one that, nevertheless, must be done with great care....
Why Do People Do Such Barbarous Things?
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jan 12, 2017 at 5:30 am
Hardly a day passes when some barbarous act does not jump to the headlines. Barbarous—there is no other word to describe these vile deeds. Thus, whether it be the sadistic...
Looking for family history? Boston archdiocese is digitizing Catholic records
EWTN - US Latest News - Jan 12, 2017 at 5:29 am Boston, Mass., Jan 12, 2017 / 05:29 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- If you've been wanting to learn more about your family tree, a new
online database is making the search easier with...
Persecution of Christians has risen for the fourth straight year
EWTN - US Latest News - Jan 12, 2017 at 5:18 am Washington D.C., Jan 12, 2017 / 05:18 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Global persecution of Christians has risen for the fourth year in a row
and is on a "rapid rise" in Asia, the advocacy...
Four out of 10 Causes are from Italy, says Vatican prefect
Catholic Herald - Jan 12, 2017 at 5:04 am An overwhelming number of sainthood Causes in the past decade have originated in Italy, according to the head of the Vatican office responsible for investigating them.
Of the 351...
St Louis archbishop foresees dire effects of proposed abortion law
EWTN - US Latest News - Jan 12, 2017 at 5:02 am St. Louis, Mo., Jan 12, 2017 / 05:02 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Giving civil rights protection to abortion would undermine respect for
life and threaten the religious freedom of...
Paralysed NYPD officer who forgave teenage attacker dies aged 59
Catholic Herald - Jan 12, 2017 at 4:47 am Detective Steven McDonald, the New York City police officer who was paralysed after being shot in the line of duty and famously forgave his teenage assailant, has died.
He was 59...
Who will Trump pick as Vatican ambassador?
Vatican Insider - Jan 12, 2017 at 4:35 am Donald Trump’s presidency could be a rocky ride for the Vatican, particularly given the public clashes with Pope Francis over building a wall on the Mexican border....
Cardinal Dolan contemplates selling NY chancery in biting letter to priests
Vatican Insider - Jan 12, 2017 at 4:27 am New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan has informed his clergy he is considering moving his archdiocese’s headquarters out of the building it now occupies in midtown Manhattan in a bid...
Persecution of Christians has risen for the fourth straight year
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 12, 2017 at 4:18 am Washington D.C., Jan 12, 2017 / 03:18 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Global persecution of Christians has risen for the fourth year in a row and is on a “rapid rise” in Asia, the advocacy...
Nigerian archbishop asks president to act against ‘unparalleled’ savagery
Catholic Herald - Jan 12, 2017 at 4:06 am The head of the Nigerian bishops’ conference urged has urged Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari to stop the evolving culture of brutality and savagery in Nigeria, which he said...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 12/01/17
Catholic Herald - Jan 12, 2017 at 3:43 am Some 215 million Christians are suffering persecution today, according to the charity Open Doors (full report).
World Youth Day will be held in Panama in the first months of 2019...
Daily Gospel Reflection for January 12, 2017
CatholicMom.com - Jan 12, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: Mark 1:40-45
I have Multiple Sclerosis. And Hashimoto’s disease and skin cancer and blepharitis. (I know I have you guessing on that last one.)
My MS meds cost...
Bishop opposes death penalty for Dylann Roof: ‘All human life is sacred’
Catholic Herald - Jan 12, 2017 at 2:52 am Jurors unanimously agreed to sentence Dylann Roof to death for killing nine black churchgoers.
In closing statements before the deliberation, the unrepentant 22-year-old told...
Tijuana shelters overwhelmed by Haitian migrants
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 12, 2017 at 1:08 am Tijuana, Mexico, Jan 12, 2017 / 12:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The shelters in Tijuana that care for the migrant population are now in a state of emergency, severely overcrowded due...
Sister Bonetti: “Trafficking victims are primarily illiterate female minors”
Vatican Insider - Jan 12, 2017 at 1:02 am This coming February 8th will mark the celebration of the international day of prayer against trafficking in persons; “Kids they are! Not Slaves!” is the title chosen for this...
Pope recalls Polish saint, warns against fraudulent charges to papal audiences
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 12, 2017 at 12:08 am At the conclusion of his January 11 general audience, Pope Francis paid tribute to St. Albert Chmielowski, a Polish Third Order Franciscan who died on Christmas Day in 1916.
Background support for the Five Dubia
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 12, 2017 at 12:01 am Edward Pentin, probably the best English language journalist working around the Vatican these days, posted at the National Catholic Register a piece about support for the Four...
The Catholic Tool that All Teachers Need
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Jan 12, 2017 at 12:00 am
