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British Plastic Banknotes Raise Problems For Vegans
The Religion Clause - Nov 30, 2016 at 6:05 am In Britain, vegans and vegetarians are protesting the country's new currency. According to The Independent yesterday, the new £5 notes printed on polymer rather than paper...
What Do You Seek? An Excerpt from "Answering the Questions of Jesus"
CatholicMom.com - Nov 30, 2016 at 6:00 am In Answering the Questions of Jesus, EWTN host and Franciscan Friar Fr Andrew Apostoli reflects on each of the questions asked by Jesus and gently guides you into a deeper...
Muslim Lawyers' Groups Strategize Over Trump Administration
The Religion Clause - Nov 30, 2016 at 6:00 am National Law Journal reported Monday that Muslim lawyers' groups around the country are planning ahead for the issues that may arise in the Trump administration, saying in part:"...
Majestic Lecture by Prof. Roberto de Mattei: "Resistance and Fidelity to the Church in times of crisis"
Rorate Coeli - Nov 30, 2016 at 5:05 am "Resistance and Fidelity to the Church in times of crisis"
Prof. Roberto de Mattei
From a conference given in Florence -
October 2, 2016
1.The...
Vatican foundation exploring pros, cons of new technologies
EWTN - Vatican News - Nov 30, 2016 at 5:04 am Vatican City, Nov 30, 2016 / 05:04 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Alongside the various technological advances booming throughout the world, the digital age has also brought with it...
Pope Francis offers prayer, condolences after Colombia plane crash
EWTN - Vatican News - Nov 30, 2016 at 4:57 am Vatican City, Nov 30, 2016 / 04:57 am (EWTN News/CNA).- After a plane crash in Colombia claimed the lives of 71 people,
including the majority of Brazil's up and coming Brazil's...
Sulpicians celebrate 225 years of training priests
Catholic Herald - Nov 30, 2016 at 4:42 am In October 1791, five men began studies for the priesthood at the first seminary in the United States, just a couple years after the Diocese of Baltimore was established as the...
Daily Gospel Reflection for November 30, 2016 - St. Andrew
CatholicMom.com - Nov 30, 2016 at 4:30 am
Today’s Gospel: Matthew 4, 18-22 – St. Andrew
The Scripture verse is a simple call to priesthood and religious life: “Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.” It is an...
Dutch doctor performs euthanasia of struggling alcoholic
Catholic Herald - Nov 30, 2016 at 4:27 am A doctor in the Netherlands has performed the euthanasia of an alcoholic who claimed his addiction had turned his life into a “cocktail” of misery.
In possibly the first...
Vatican foundation exploring pros, cons of new technologies
Catholic News Agency - General - Nov 30, 2016 at 4:04 am Vatican City, Nov 30, 2016 / 03:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Alongside the various technological advances booming throughout the world, the digital age has also brought with it...
Thief who vandalised Liverpool cathedral is jailed
Catholic Herald - Nov 30, 2016 at 3:58 am A thief who caused thousands of pounds worth of damage to Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathedral when he smashed statues, stole money and urinated on the floor has been jailed...
Pope Francis offers prayer, condolences after Colombia plane crash
Catholic News Agency - General - Nov 30, 2016 at 3:57 am Vatican City, Nov 30, 2016 / 02:57 am (CNA/EWTN News).- After a plane crash in Colombia claimed the lives of 71 people, including the majority of Brazil’s up and coming Brazil's...
Thousands pack Chapeco cathedral to mourn plane crash victims
Catholic Herald - Nov 30, 2016 at 3:17 am Thousands squeezed into Chapeco’s cathedral yesterday and even more packed a stadium to mourn the death of 71 people in a plane crash, 19 of them members of the Chapecoense club...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 30/11/16
Catholic Herald - Nov 30, 2016 at 3:07 am The first Vatican trial of a prelate accused of abuse is reportedly underway.
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church has formally rejected the conclusions of the Pan-Orthodox Council....
Pope Francis offers prayers and solidarity in wake of Colombia plane crash
Catholic Herald - Nov 30, 2016 at 2:59 am Pope Francis has sent a message of condolence following a plane crash that left 71 people dead, including members of the Brazilian football team.
The team, Chapecoense, were...
The “Concern”
Crisis Magazine - Church - Nov 30, 2016 at 2:10 am
A relative recently wrote an e-mail to me in which he made the following off-handed comment: “What do you think of the pope’s recent course change on abortion?” Now, unless I...
A Seventeenth Century Trump?
Crisis Magazine - Church - Nov 30, 2016 at 2:00 am
Democrats are outraged. From their perspective, the worst human has assumed the highest office in the land. Trump is allegedly so bad, there have even been suggestions that the...
In Pakistan, 13 sentenced over lynching of Christian couple
EWTN - World Catholic News - Nov 30, 2016 at 1:49 am Lahore, Pakistan, Nov 30, 2016 / 01:49 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Five men in Pakistan's Punjab province were sentenced to death last week for their leading role in the November 2014...
The Dumbest Schism in the Church…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Nov 30, 2016 at 1:12 am …is the schism between prolife and social justice Catholics. Your pope is modeling for us how to be a consistent Catholic. Let’s just do that.
The post The Dumbest Schism in the...
A reader wrote me on November 14
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Nov 30, 2016 at 1:10 am But because I am a lazy slob, I am only now getting around to replying, to my shame. She sez: You have been writing quite a bit about people who are “anti-abortion but not pro-...
