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An open letter to President Trump
OSV Daily Take - Jan 3, 2017 at 8:06 am Dear President-elect Trump: Unsolicited advice is said to be the best kind because the most easily ignored. But even if this letter accomplishes nothing else, at least it will...
Judges rule Jakarta governor blasphemy trial closed to media
Catholic Herald - Jan 3, 2017 at 8:00 am An Indonesian court ruled on Tuesday that witness testimony will be closed to the media in the blasphemy trial of the capital’s minority Christian governor.
Jakarta Governor...
When the Crib Meets the Cross: Our Personal Adoption Story
CatholicMom.com - Jan 3, 2017 at 7:30 am Photo Credit: Judy Klein, Copyright 2017, All rights reserved
The minute the judge walked into the courtroom on December 5, I knew I was in trouble.
What I had envisioned as a...
Beta Testing Holy Icons on Facebook: Creating the New Epiphany of Beauty with Social Media
New Liturgical Movement - Jan 3, 2017 at 7:00 am When St John Paul II wrote his famous letter to artists in 1999, he called (in an oft quoted passage) for a “new epiphany of beauty.” It is not surprising that this phrase caught...
Federal judge overturns transgender surgery mandate
EWTN - US Latest News - Jan 3, 2017 at 6:58 am Dallas, Texas, Jan 3, 2017 / 06:58 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- A federal judge has ruled against the Obama administration's mandate
that health professionals must carry out gender...
Rorate City and State Statistics for 2016: Top 10 cities, states, and countries
Rorate Coeli - Jan 3, 2017 at 6:40 am Thanks to all our readers for their interest during 2016, our best year yet!
We have two interesting lists of the 10 cities that sent us most visitors. First, an overall look:
1....
Holy Name of Jesus
Communio - Jan 3, 2017 at 6:25 am
By no other name are we saved than that of the Lord’s.
Call on the Lord using His holy name in a respectful manner.
Pray the Litany of the Holy Name of Jesus today.
Book Notes: Pope Francis Takes the Bus
CatholicMom.com - Jan 3, 2017 at 6:00 am
The world has been fascinated with Pope Francis since his election in 2013. His love for the poor, his down-to-earth demeanor, and his folksy homiletic style are attractive to a...
India Supreme Court Gives Broad Reading To Law Banning Religious Appeals To Voters
The Religion Clause - Jan 3, 2017 at 6:00 am In Singh v. Commachen, (Sup. Ct. India, Jan. 2, 2016), the Supreme Court of India in a 4-3 decision yesterday interpreted broadly Sec. 123(3) of the Representation of the People...
Our “Learning Agenda” From the Anti-Life Gnostics
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jan 3, 2017 at 5:35 am
After Hillary Clinton defended partial-birth abortion at a presidential debate, a poet promised that late-term abortion could unleash a mother’s “compassion.” Her sheeny New York...
When God’s Authorship of Creation is Denied
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jan 3, 2017 at 5:30 am
Your perversity is as though the potter
were taken to be the clay:
As though what is made should say of its maker,
“He did not make me!” (Isaiah 29:16)
These words are as...
So, abortion doesn't harm women's mental health? The stats disagree
EWTN - US Latest News - Jan 3, 2017 at 5:10 am Washington D.C., Jan 3, 2017 / 05:10 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association says that women who get abortions show no...
Daily Gospel Reflection for January 3, 2017
CatholicMom.com - Jan 3, 2017 at 4:30 am Today’s Gospel: John 1:29-34
“Who are you?” the Jews and Levites asked John. If he was seeking power, he could have said he was the Messiah. He could have equated himself with...
No, Pope Francis didn't say Christianity and Islam should merge
EWTN - Vatican News - Jan 3, 2017 at 4:10 am Vatican City, Jan 3, 2017 / 04:10 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
Widely shared quotes attributed to Pope Francis, in which he advocates for a merging of the religions of Christianity and...
Don’t fall for fake Pope quotes on Islam, says Vatican
Catholic Herald - Jan 3, 2017 at 4:03 am A widely shared story that claimed Pope Francis called for merging Islam and Christianity is false.
The story quotes Francis as telling a Vatican audience: “Jesus Christ, Mohammed...
Leonardo Boff: ‘Pope Francis may soon allow Brazil to have married priests’
Catholic Herald - Jan 3, 2017 at 3:25 am Liberation theologian Leonardo Boff has claimed that Pope Francis may grant a special request by the Brazilian bishops to allow married priests to resume their priestly ministry....
Priest jailed for smuggling arms to Palestinian militants dies aged 94
Catholic Herald - Jan 3, 2017 at 2:34 am Monsignor Hilarion Capucci, who was a Greek Melkite Catholic archbishop in Jerusalem when Israel convicted him in 1976 of using his diplomatic status to smuggle arms to...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 03/01/17
Catholic Herald - Jan 3, 2017 at 2:33 am Pope Francis will announce an “urgent prayer intention” on the first Sunday of the month in a change to his traditional monthly intentions.
Iraqi Muslims expressed solidarity with...
For Cardinal Mueller, a humble faith is good for theology
EWTN - Vatican News - Jan 3, 2017 at 2:04 am Vatican City, Jan 3, 2017 / 02:04 am (EWTN News/CNA).- The ideological efforts to change Catholic doctrine after the Second Vatican Council were deeply misguided, said Cardinal...
What Christians are finding as they return to the Nineveh Plain
EWTN - World Catholic News - Jan 3, 2017 at 1:55 am Mosul, Iraq, Jan 3, 2017 / 01:55 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- As villages on Iraq's Nineveh Plain are liberated from Islamic State
forces, the Christians who lived there have returned,...
