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What Darwinian Explanation is There for Genetic Homosexuality?
Creative Minority Report - Dec 21, 2016 at 9:04 am Actual question. I'm really asking. If you take a godless Darwinian world as a given. And you accept evolution which favors above all else the propagation of the species. What...
Texas Will Defund Planned Parenthood, Cancels $3.1 Million in Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Biz
LifeNews.com - Dec 21, 2016 at 8:58 am Texas officials gave final notice to Planned Parenthood on Tuesday that its taxpayer funding is going away.
The abortion chain in Texas currently receives $3.1 million in Medicaid...
New LGBT czar barely survives second vote to do away with position
LifeSiteNews - Dec 21, 2016 at 8:49 am A host of nations voted for a second time against retaining an 'Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.'
Lena Dunham Apologizes After Saying “I Haven’t Had an Abortion, But Wish I Had”
LifeNews.com - Dec 21, 2016 at 8:42 am Abortion activist and planned Parenthood spokeswoman Lena Dunham is apologizing for saying, “I still haven’t had an abortion, but I wish I had.” After reports in LifeNews and...
ASK FATHER: Blessing wine on St. John’s Day… or “another beverage”?
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 21, 2016 at 8:34 am From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
You usually give your readership an annual reminder for the blessing of wine on St. John’s Day.
The Rituale says “Benedicere… hunc calicem vini et...
Perfectly valid (even if rather bizarre) Christmas wars stories in Texas and South Florida
GetReligion - Dec 21, 2016 at 8:33 am Not all Christmas wars stories are created equal.
The most important ones have something to do with religious believers of all kinds attempting to carve out some space in what is...
The Supreme Gift Of Marriage
CatholicMom.com - Dec 21, 2016 at 8:30 am
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“Every night before I get my one hour of sleep, I have the same thought: ‘Well, that’s a wrap on another day of acting like I know what I’m...
Pope Francis asks: What is the real hope that Christmas brings?
Aleteia - Dec 21, 2016 at 8:22 am VATICAN CITY — “What is the real hope that Christmas brings?” Pope Francis asked today as Christians around the world prepare to celebrate the Birth of Jesus. The true hope that...
“Amoris Laetitia”: Burke’s ultimatum to Francis
Vatican Insider - Dec 21, 2016 at 8:17 am Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, has given Francis an ultimatum: if the Pope does not respond to the five “dubia” calling for clarity...
USCCB president urges Catholics to give gift of themselves in New Year
Franciscan Media - Dec 21, 2016 at 8:05 am A woman prays in front of a creche in 2012 in Chicago’s Daley Plaza. In his message for Christmas, Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, president of the U.S....
A New Year Blessing HD
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 21, 2016 at 8:05 am Every culture marks the end of one year and the beginning of a new year with celebration and hope because we all desire to be made new.
In the last ...
The Consecration of St Mark’s Cathedral in Cairo, 1968
New Liturgical Movement - Dec 21, 2016 at 8:00 am A friend brought to my attention this fascinating footage of the consecration of St Mark’s Cathedral in Cairo, the seat of the Coptic Orthodox Pope. The church was built in the...
Daily Reading for Friday, December 23rd, 2016 HD
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 21, 2016 at 7:56 am Reading 1, Malachi 3:1-4, 23-24
1 'Look, I shall send my messenger to clear a way before me. And suddenly the Lord whom you seek will come to his ...
Town Nixes Nativity Due to 4 Muslims in Town?
Creative Minority Report - Dec 21, 2016 at 7:56 am A town in Belgium reportedly refused to include a nativity scene over fears it could upset one of the four Muslims in the town, according to news reports.What the what?This is...
Vatican: ‘Ordination in China marred by presence of illegitimate bishop’
Catholic Herald - Dec 21, 2016 at 7:47 am The Vatican says it was saddened that the ordination of two new Chinese bishops — consecrated with the approval of both China and the Holy See — was marred by the presence of an...
Nonviolence proponents meet with Vatican foreign minister Archbishop Gallagher
Vatican Insider - Dec 21, 2016 at 7:26 am Several representatives of groups that participated in a landmark Vatican meeting last spring to reevaluate the Catholic Church’s long-held just war theory met with Church...
St Peter Canisius
Communio - Dec 21, 2016 at 7:02 am Saint Peter Canisius
Pray for us, pray for Germany.
Pope: 'open your hearts to the good news of Christmas'
News.va - Dec 21, 2016 at 7:01 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Wednesday urged the faithful to open their hearts to the Good News of the Saviour’s birth.
The Pope was addressing the pilgrims gathered in the...
2016 Nativity Scene Linkup: Our Celebration of the Creche
CatholicMom.com - Dec 21, 2016 at 7:00 am
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Welcome to the CatholicMom.com Nativity Scene Linkup for 2016! We’re glad you’ve joined us!
Link up at @CatholicMomWeb to share your Nativity scene...
Christmas Novena 2016 | Day 6
Big C Catholics - Dec 21, 2016 at 7:00 am December 21, 2016Today we meditate on peace and the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ. We pray for greater peace in the world, and especially for an end to abortion -- which is the...
