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Remembering the refugees
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Jan 4, 2017 at 4:42 pm Welcome to 2017. Each new year offers us a fresh start, an opportunity to seek and accomplish new hopes and dreams. For some people, it’s in the form of resolutions; promises to...
Kentucky Pro-Life Legislators Introduce Late-Term Abortion Ban and Allowing Women to See Ultrasounds
LifeNews.com - Jan 4, 2017 at 4:40 pm Kentucky lawmakers began the new year by introducing three different bills to help protect babies and moms from abortion on Tuesday.
The Associated Press reports a bill to ban...
Memorial of Saint John Neumann, Bishop
Big C Catholics - Jan 4, 2017 at 4:31 pm On January 5th, the Church celebrates the memorial of Saint John Neumann (1811-1860), the 19th century bishop, missionary and founder, who as the first Redemptorist missionary to...
Babies Were Born Alive And Left to Die After Abortions at a University Hospital
LifeNews.com - Jan 4, 2017 at 4:25 pm The congressional Select Panel on Infant Lives has issued its final report, with a detailed account including violations of criminal law and women’s rights by University of New...
Saint Angela of Foligno, Widow
Regina Magazine - Jan 4, 2017 at 3:57 pm January 4 Today is the feast day of Saint Angela of Foligno. Ora pro nobis. Saint Angela of Foligno was born in 1248 of a prominent family in Foligno, three leagues from Assisi....
Catholics in Congress: one-third of House, one-quarter of Senate
Franciscan Media - Jan 4, 2017 at 3:46 pm U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., raises the gavel during the opening session of the new Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington Jan. 3. Ryan, who is Catholic, was re-elected...
The Epiphany of the Lord
Catholic Hot Dish - Jan 4, 2017 at 3:08 pm The Magi versus the Chief Priests and the Scribes
The visit of the magi to Jesus in Bethlehem reveals a deeply disturbing fact: the chief priests and the scribes did not go to...
Senate Passes Budget Resolution Bill That’s the First Step to Defunding Planned Parenthood
LifeNews.com - Jan 4, 2017 at 3:05 pm Following November’s presidential election that saw Americans elect a president who has promised to sign a bill that would defund the Planned Parenthood abortion business, pro-...
Liturgical Notes for the Vigil of Epiphany: Guest Article by Mr John Rotondi
New Liturgical Movement - Jan 4, 2017 at 3:00 pm Our thanks to Mr John Rotondi, who serves as an instituted acolyte at the Mater Ecclesiae Mission in Berlin, New Jersey, for sending us this article.The Epiphany of Our Lord is...
Jews and Muslims: Here From the Founding
Commonweal - Jan 4, 2017 at 2:19 pm Are we a Christian nation? The religious affiliations of the new Congress certainly make it look that way. As our “representative” body, the Congress is 91% Christian, a figure...
BSM brings ultrasound to classroom to teach fetal development
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Jan 4, 2017 at 2:14 pm Mark Hutchinson, an ultrasound technician who volunteers at Robbinsdale Women’s Center, told the students that the baby already yawns, gets hiccups and dispenses waste. He also...
House Investigation: Planned Parenthood’s Aborted Baby Sales So Disturbing It Must be Defunded
LifeNews.com - Jan 4, 2017 at 2:12 pm A congressional investigation into the Planned Parenthood abortion business over its sales of body parts of aborted babies has concluded. Lawmakers are suggesting that Congress...
Alabama Supreme Court unanimously recognizes equal protection for pre-born children
LifeSiteNews - Jan 4, 2017 at 2:07 pm Judges ruled that the state's Wrongful Death Act includes the unborn.
A reader goes ballistic
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 4, 2017 at 1:54 pm So the other day, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that unborn children are persons entitled to the protection of law. On my Facebook page, I commented, “Good. This is common sense...
OSV's top reads — January 2
OSV Daily Take - Jan 4, 2017 at 1:51 pm 1. Surge in the South (God Lives, Jan. 8-14) 2. Awaiting vote, Church readies for pastoral work (News Analysis, Oct. 2, 2016) 3. Top 10 Catholic cities, USA (In Focus, June 2,...
Reflections on Into the Deep: Finding Peace Through Prayer
CatholicMom.com - Jan 4, 2017 at 1:30 pm
Here we go again. Another new calendar year, another gloriously empty planner, another fresh start. Another chance to count our calories and our steps, watch our words, manage...
Yesterday, I talked about Herod and the Magi…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 4, 2017 at 1:30 pm …on Connecting the Dots:
‘I agree with them!’: Austria’s Bishop Laun defends four Cardinals
LifeSiteNews - Jan 4, 2017 at 1:18 pm The bishop asked, 'Could St. John the Baptist have 'mercifully allowed' Herod to have his brother’s wife?'
Bishop offers prayers after Brazil prison riot leaves 56 dead
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 4, 2017 at 1:18 pm Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jan 4, 2017 / 12:18 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A local bishop called for prayer and prison reform efforts after a 17-hour prison uprising in the Amazon city of...
Abortion provider to court: Texas rules for proper burial of unborn are ‘morally offensive’
LifeSiteNews - Jan 4, 2017 at 1:16 pm A U.S. District judge is expected to rule this week on proposed Texas laws requiring aborted babies to be buried or cremated.
