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Out to Destroy the Pro-Life Movement
Crisis Magazine - Church - Nov 25, 2016 at 5:50 am
When the Supreme Court imposed abortion on the country in 1973, the New York Times announced that the issue was at long-last decided, settled, put away for good.
As a kind of...
The Prophetic Voice of Four Cardinals
Crisis Magazine - Church - Nov 25, 2016 at 5:35 am
“We cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.” ∼ St. Paul
Out of “deep pastoral concern,” four cardinals of the Holy Roman Catholic Church, His Eminence...
Pope sends letter to indigenous Australians
News.va - Nov 25, 2016 at 5:02 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent a letter on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of St John Paul II’s words to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Alice Springs...
Why the next House minority leader will be a pro-abortion Catholic
Catholic News Agency - General - Nov 25, 2016 at 4:59 am Washington D.C., Nov 25, 2016 / 03:59 am (CNA).- When the Democratic Party makes its decisions about leadership at the end of the month, the House Minority Leader will be a self-...
Catholic CEO behind Corona leaves £2m to every person in his home village
Catholic Herald - Nov 25, 2016 at 4:32 am Beer businessman and Catholic philanthropist Antonino Fernández has left £2 million to every person in the Spanish village he grew up in.
Antonino Fernández, who died in August...
Daily Gospel Reflection for November 25, 2016
CatholicMom.com - Nov 25, 2016 at 4:30 am
Today’s Gospel: Luke 21, 29-33
In today’s Gospel, Jesus shares with his disciples the parable of the fig tree. After several passages about the future persecutions and the second...
In discussion with Jesuits, Pope speaks on ‘rigid’ seminarians, corrupt politicians
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 25, 2016 at 3:54 am Pope Francis lamented the decline of idealism in politics, and the “rigidity” that he finds in many seminarians, in an exchange with participants in the 36th General Congregation...
Archbishop laments ‘absolute disregard for life’ as man is shot dead during Mass
Catholic Herald - Nov 25, 2016 at 3:39 am A man has been killed as he attended a Mass in Colombia on Tuesday evening.
The parishioner – Fernando Padilla, 35 – was shot by a gunman as he attended a packed Mass at Santa...
Christmas tree arrives in St. Peter’s Square
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 25, 2016 at 3:17 am The Christmas tree that will stand this year in St. Peter’s Square, an 80-foot red spruce from Trento in northern Italy, has arrived in Rome.
Italy, Vatican explore joint diplomatic efforts
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 25, 2016 at 3:11 am Italian foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni met on November 24 with his Vatican counterpart, archbishop Richard Gallagher, the Secretary for Relations with States, to discuss joint...
Police subdue hammer-wielding man in Roman church
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 25, 2016 at 3:07 am Police in Rome stopped a man who approached the altar of St. Ignatius Loyola church flourishing a hammer on November 23.
Morning Catholic must-reads: 25/11/16
Catholic Herald - Nov 25, 2016 at 3:06 am The Rwandan government has demanded a apology from the Vatican for Catholics’ role in the 1994 genocide.
Some six million Christians have reportedly emigrated from the Middle East...
Former Irish president wants to use canon law to change the Church
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 25, 2016 at 3:02 am Former Irish President Mary McAleese says that she wants to change the structure of the Catholic Church, because the hierarchy is “not serving its purpose.”
Venezuelan opposition says government has stalled Vatican-mediated crisis talks
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 25, 2016 at 2:57 am Venezuela’s political opposition has blamed the government of President Nicolas Maduro for an impasse in negotiations designed to end the country’s political crisis.
Bishop Schneider praises ‘prophetic’ action of four cardinals who submitted dubia
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 25, 2016 at 2:43 am Bishop Athanasius Schneider has issued an open letter praising the “prophetic voice” of the four cardinals who have submitted dubia seeking clarification of Amoris Laetitia.
Manhunt begins in France after woman is killed at care home for priests and nuns
Catholic Herald - Nov 25, 2016 at 2:36 am French police are searching for a masked gunman suspected of stabbing an elderly woman to death in a retirement home for Catholic missionaries in southern France, authorities have...
Rwandan government says Vatican must apologize for Church role in 1994 massacres
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 25, 2016 at 2:30 am After the Catholic bishops of Rwanda issued an apology for the role played by Catholics in the genocidal massacres of 1994, the country’s government said that the statement was...
Isolation is the enemy of community, Pope says
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 25, 2016 at 2:24 am “It is isolation that harms, not sharing,” Pope Francis said in a video message to participants in the 6th festival of the Social Doctrine of the Church.
Misericordia et Misera underlines key theme of Pope Francis, says Cardinal Nichols
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 25, 2016 at 2:19 am England’s leading Catholic prelate says that Misericordia et Misera, the apostolic letter released by Pope Francis at the close of the Year of Mercy, “reinforces the fundamental...
Pope laments scourge of drug abuse
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 25, 2016 at 12:33 am At Pope Francis’s request, he Pontifical Academy of Sciences hosted a two-day workshop on November 23-24 devoted to “narcotics: problems and solutions of this global issue.”
