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French National Assembly approves bill outlawing some pro-life websites
Catholic Herald - Dec 2, 2016 at 8:53 am The French National Assembly has voted to approve a bill that would outlaw some pro-life websites.
The Socialist government wants to criminalise sites which it says “exert...
Listen to God for guidance to build a better world, Pope tells students
Catholic Herald - Dec 2, 2016 at 8:43 am Upholding the truth and moral values isn’t easy, especially for young people, Pope Francis has said.
“But with God’s help and with the sincere will to do good, every obstacle can...
A New Beginning
CatholicMom.com - Dec 2, 2016 at 8:30 am
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As Advent begins, so does the new Church year. It is a time of anticipation, reflection and expectation. As in the Old Testament, we are...
Anti-Christian violence is now too common to attract the headlines
Catholic Herald - Dec 2, 2016 at 8:27 am This magazine has reported on the latest outbreak of anti-Christian violence in Egypt. This is something that obviously concerns the Catholic Herald, but it should concern others...
HGTV responds to LGBT ‘witch hunt’ against Chip and Joanna Gaines
LifeSiteNews - Dec 2, 2016 at 8:20 am Chip also alludes to the situation on Twitter.
Priest-historian: 75 years later, Pearl Harbor ‘such a powerful event’
Franciscan Media - Dec 2, 2016 at 8:17 am A ship is seen sinking during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941. A Catholic military chaplain and historian says the attack on Pearl Harbor, even 75 years later,...
Immaculate Conception Novena 2016 | Day 4
Big C Catholics - Dec 2, 2016 at 8:16 am December 2, 2016Today we pray for purity; the purity of our bodies, that we may treat them as temples of the Holy Spirit; the purity of our minds, that we may have holy thoughts;...
Silent sanctuaries full of stories: The Post Gazette chronicles Pittsburgh's golden era
GetReligion - Dec 2, 2016 at 8:10 am
Recently I stumbled upon a collection of photos and prose about my old stomping grounds in western Pennsylvania.
Few places shone with the lights of a thousand churches like...
Pope receives US Secretary of State John Kerry during farewell visit
Vatican Insider - Dec 2, 2016 at 8:04 am This morning the Pope received the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, during a farewell visit to the Apostolic Palace....
Nun killed in Democratic Republic of Congo
EWTN - World Catholic News - Dec 2, 2016 at 8:02 am Rome, Italy, Dec 2, 2016 / 08:02 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
A nun in the Democratic Republic of
Congo was murdered earlier this week by unknown suspects in an
apparent robbery, the...
George Weigel on Our Need for the Real Thomas More
Big C Catholics - Dec 2, 2016 at 7:59 am Catholics for whom the faith is non-negotiable may feel with Mr. Trump's election that their precariously beleaguered religious liberty was given a much need reprieve. Prior to...
St. Francis Xavier HD
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 2, 2016 at 7:55 am St. Francis Xavier��� was born in the Kingdom of Navarre on April 7, 1506.
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He studied at the University of Paris, where he met Peter Favre and ...
France’s socialist gvmt votes to criminalize pro-life websites
LifeSiteNews - Dec 2, 2016 at 7:44 am The bill 'is totally against freedom of expression,' said one opposition MP.
Pope to Piarists: evangelizing pedagogy
News.va - Dec 2, 2016 at 7:22 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent a Message to mark the Calasanctian Jubilee Year – a special Jubilee marking the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Pious Schools, which...
Pope approves martyrdom of American priest shot dead in Guatemala
Catholic Herald - Dec 2, 2016 at 7:21 am Pope Francis has recognised the martyrdom of Fr Stanley Rother of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, making him the first martyr born in the United States.
The Vatican made the...
Pope approves decrees for causes for canonization
News.va - Dec 2, 2016 at 7:16 am (Vatican Radio) On 1 December, the Holy Father Pope Francis received in audience Cardinal Angelo Amato, S.D.B., Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.
In the course...
The Promise of Advent: Wait for It!
Franciscan Media - Dec 2, 2016 at 7:08 am “Wait for it….”
Barney Stinson, the Neil Patrick Harris character on the television series How I Met Your Mother, said it 40 times and turned it into an oft-repeated, popular...
Nun killed in Democratic Republic of Congo
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 2, 2016 at 7:02 am Rome, Italy, Dec 2, 2016 / 06:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A nun in the Democratic Republic of Congo was murdered earlier this week by unknown suspects in an apparent robbery, the...
Meatless Friday: Ember Day Tarts
CatholicMom.com - Dec 2, 2016 at 7:00 am
Ah, Ember Days: yet another ancient Catholic tradition that likely would be lost if not for the internet! While nobody seems quite sure about how the actual phrase developed in...
Book Notice: St. Thomas Aquinas's Commentary on Job
New Liturgical Movement - Dec 2, 2016 at 7:00 am Back in November 2013, I offered NLM readers an update on the progress of the Aquinas Institute's massive project of producing a first-ever complete bilingual (Latin/English)...
