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Allentown To Levittown – In "Varsity" Call-Up, Barres Gets Long Island
Whispers in the Loggia - Dec 9, 2016 at 6:30 am First, they steal Nelson... now this?Continuing Long Island's raid on the Southeastern Pennsylvania talent-pool (well, what's left of it), at Roman Noon this Friday the Pope named...
New Rockville Center bishop was baptized by Fulton Sheen
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 9, 2016 at 6:21 am Vatican City, Dec 9, 2016 / 05:21 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Friday the Vatican announced that Bishop John O. Barres of Allentown – who was baptized by the famed and saintly...
Congress Gives Final Passage To Defense Authorization Act-- Some Sections Impact Religion
The Religion Clause - Dec 9, 2016 at 6:10 am Yesterday the Senate gave final approval to S.2943 as amended by Conference Report 114-840, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017. (Full text). The 975-page...
Company Using FLDS Child Labor Held In Contempt
The Religion Clause - Dec 9, 2016 at 6:10 am In Perez v. Paragon Contractors Corp., (D UT, Dec. 6, 2016), a Utah federal district court held that a construction company which had previously been enjoined from using child...
BBC admits it underestimated the Church’s opposition to Hitler
Catholic Herald - Dec 9, 2016 at 6:01 am The BBC’s internal watchdog has found that a programme wrongly accused the Catholic Church of “silence” about the Holocaust.
After Pope Francis’s visit to Auschwitz in July, BBC...
Church Lacks Standing In Recall Petition Counterclaim
The Religion Clause - Dec 9, 2016 at 6:00 am In City of El Paso, Texas v. Tom Brown Ministries, (TX App., Dec. 7, 2016), a Texas state appeals court dismissed on standing grounds a counterclaim by a church that had been...
Music That Moves Us: My Savior in Me
CatholicMom.com - Dec 9, 2016 at 6:00 am
A Faith Sharing Reflection featuring the music of Catholic singer songwriter: Dana Catherine
I’m just another chapter in this story, another expression of your Glory ~ Dana...
Daily Gospel Reflection for December 9, 2016
CatholicMom.com - Dec 9, 2016 at 4:30 am
Today’s Gospel: Matthew 11, 16-19
Our entire life we’re told not to compare ourselves to other people – particularly groups of other people – but we proceed to do so anyway,...
Sofia Vergara is being sued by her own frozen embryos
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 9, 2016 at 4:02 am New York City, N.Y., Dec 9, 2016 / 03:02 am (CNA).- Emma and Isabella are suing their mother, Sofia Vergara, according to court documents obtained by the New York Post.
Emma and...
The Pope criticises young admirers of the Old Mass. I think I know who he means
Catholic Herald - Dec 9, 2016 at 3:37 am Pope Francis’s remarks on the “rigidity” of some attendees of the Extraordinary Form have sparked a great deal of comment. While much of this has been lighthearted – I have...
Mary shows what good comes from wholehearted ‘yes’ to God, says Pope
Catholic Herald - Dec 9, 2016 at 2:41 am Although she was just a humble young woman from a small town, Mary’s total “yes” to God was “the most important ‘yes’ of history” and overturned Adam and Eve’s prideful “no”,...
Donald Trump and the Canary in the LGBT Coal Mine
Crisis Magazine - Church - Dec 9, 2016 at 2:10 am
As Donald Trump begins to staff his administration, his appointees should understand how deeply the ideologically-driven LGBTs have burrowed into permanent jobs in the permanent...
Five Untruths About the New Fetal Remains Rules
Crisis Magazine - Church - Dec 9, 2016 at 2:00 am
The state of Texas recently enacted a set of rules pertaining to the handling and disposing of fetal remains. The new rules require that healthcare facilities dispose of fetal...
Texas law will make it easier to retrieve miscarried babies for burial
EWTN - US Latest News - Dec 9, 2016 at 1:54 am Austin, Texas, Dec 9, 2016 / 01:54 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- A regulation in Texas going into effect this month gives mothers and families the right to know about their child's burial...
As Vatican lights Christmas tree, Pope reflects on Nativity scene
EWTN - Vatican News - Dec 9, 2016 at 1:20 am Vatican City, Dec 9, 2016 / 01:20 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- As Christmas approaches, the Nativity scenes found in churches and homes
around the world bid us to make room for Jesus...
In Venezuela, bishops condemn murder of 12 youths by government agents
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 9, 2016 at 1:08 am Caracas, Venezuela, Dec 9, 2016 / 12:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Venezuelan bishops' justice and peace commission on Tuesday repudiated the murders of 12 young men by an operation...
Association approved for female Vatican employees
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 9, 2016 at 12:33 am The Vatican has approved its first association for women employees.
New bishop of Rockville Centre named
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 9, 2016 at 12:24 am Pope Francis has name Bishop John Barres of Allentown as the bishop of Rockville Centre, NY, one of the United States’ ten most populous dioceses.
Cardinal Dziwisz retires; successor named
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 9, 2016 at 12:12 am Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz as archbishop of Kraków for reasons of age.
ADVENTCAzT 13: Regem venturum Dominum * Venite adoremus.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 9, 2016 at 12:01 am Here is ADVENTCAzT 13, for Friday of the 2nd Week of Advent.
Today features a something priests have recited daily for a looooong time.
These 5 minute offerings, to help you...
