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Mein Kampf is selling like hotcakes…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 3, 2017 at 11:41 am in Germany. And our Dear Leader Elect is a big fan too. Trump’s defense was cute, by the way. He didn’t deny keeping the book on the nightstand. He said the guy who gave it to him...
Mythopoeia
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 3, 2017 at 11:35 am Happy birthday, J.R.R. Tolkien! To one who said that myths were lies and therefore worthless, even though “breathed through silver” PHILOMYTHUS TO MISOMYTHUS You look at trees and...
After attempting to get away with murder
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 3, 2017 at 11:29 am House GOP Reverses Course on gutting Office of Congressional Ethics It was the thought that counted. We see that you wanted to cut the phone lines and security cameras so we...
Daily Reading for Wednesday, January 4th, 2017 HD
Catholic Online - Featured News - Jan 3, 2017 at 11:23 am Reading 1, First John 3:7-10
7 Children, do not let anyone lead you astray. Whoever acts uprightly is upright, just as he is upright.
8 Whoever lives ...
Pope’s policies seen weakening prosecution of sex-abuse cases
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 3, 2017 at 11:15 am Pope Francis is preparing to roll back some of the reforms calling for tough treatment of priests accused of sexual abuse, reports Michael Brendan Dougherty of The Week.
Pope to bishops: Defend children from abuse, protect their dignity, joy
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Jan 3, 2017 at 11:10 am Stand up and protect children from exploitation, slaughter and abuse, which includes committing to a policy of "zero tolerance" of sexual abuse by clergy, Pope Francis told the...
French presidential candidate Fillon rouses Catholics, challenges secularism
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 3, 2017 at 11:00 am Francois Fillon, the Republican candidate for the French presidency, is “tapping a wellspring of Catholic voters who have begun coalescing into a potentially decisive voting bloc...
VP-Elect Mike Pence Meeting With GOP to Discuss Repealing Obamacare, Defunding Planned Parenthood
LifeNews.com - Jan 3, 2017 at 10:58 am The first major objective for the Republican Congress this year is passing a reconciliation bill that would repeal Obamacare and defund the Planned Parenthood abortion business....
Catholics comprise 31% of new US Congress
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 3, 2017 at 10:54 am Catholics account for 31% of the members of the new US Congress, the Pew Forum reports.
German Bishop: Communion for non-Catholics married to Catholics Possible
Rorate Coeli - Jan 3, 2017 at 10:47 am From the official website of the German Bishops' Conference:
Hope for shared Holy Communion for married couples
It is already being lived out in many interdenominational marriages...
Iraqi prelate sees ‘grass-roots revolt’ by Muslims against terrorists
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 3, 2017 at 10:45 am Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako says that Muslims in Iraq are mounting a “grass-roots revolt against terrorism, against violence.”
8.7 Million Unborn Babies Have Been Aborted in the UK Since It Legalized Abortion 50 years Ago
LifeNews.com - Jan 3, 2017 at 10:37 am SPUC Scotland’s motivational message issued today via Twitter is: “The fight for the right to life is not the cause of a special few, but the cause of every man, woman and child...
I’m glad I kept my baby even though I was raped
LifeSiteNews - Jan 3, 2017 at 10:37 am When I was pregnant, many people gave me a lot of pressure to eliminate this little prince.
Biotech company seeks to profit from new search-and-destroy test for babies with Down’s
LifeSiteNews - Jan 3, 2017 at 10:36 am If rolling out NIPT will result in 195 more babies with Down’s syndrome being detected, that means potentially almost 180 more abortions for Down’s syndrome each year.
Small Things Done with Great Love
CatholicMom.com - Jan 3, 2017 at 10:30 am © 1986 Túrelio (via Wikimedia-Commons), 1986 /, via Wikimedia Commons
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks, as if they...
Newspaper Publishes How-To Guide on Aborting Your Baby
LifeNews.com - Jan 3, 2017 at 10:29 am Metro.co.uk, the online version of the UK’s fourth largest newspaper, has published an article called “Here’s what you need to know if you need to have an abortion”.
The piece...
On Tolkien’s birthday, a confession of sorts
The Curt Jester - Jan 3, 2017 at 10:12 am On Tolkien’s birthday it annoys me that once when it comes to books I was as irritating as Neil deGrasse Tyson. Fantasy books – no way. Give me Asimov, Niven, Clement. I want hard...
Massachusetts bishop indicted for abuse dies at 83
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 3, 2017 at 10:08 am Bishop Thomas Dupre, the first American prelate to be indicted for sexual abuse, has died at the age of 83.
Sharing the Word for January 4, 2017
Franciscan Media - Jan 3, 2017 at 10:00 am Memorial of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
January 04, 2017
Daily Reading from the USCCB: Psalm 98:1, 7-8, 9
https://www.franciscanmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/SW_010412_II.mp3...
That cushy Bart Campolo profile: Why weren't the tough, logical questions asked?
GetReligion - Jan 3, 2017 at 10:00 am A lot of folks are talking about a piece in the New York Times Magazine that profiles Bart Campolo, the born-again atheist son of Tony Campolo, famous progressive evangelical...
