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‘The abuse I’ve received has been unreal’: An interview with Stephen Walford
Catholic Herald - Dec 7, 2017 at 6:00 am Stephen Walford was a 20-year-old music student at Bristol University when he experienced what he calls “demonic interference”. He was praying on his own in church one evening in...
NM bishop prays for student victims of school shooting
EWTN - US Latest News - Dec 7, 2017 at 6:00 am Gallup, N.M., Dec 7, 2017 / 06:00 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Two students at Aztec High School in Aztec, N.M., were killed in a shooting Thursday, and the local bishop has prayed for...
Disgraced former Anglican bishop becoming Catholic to ‘live and worship in anonymity’
Catholic Herald - Dec 7, 2017 at 5:38 am An Anglican bishop who was jailed for sexually abusing 18 young men is converting to Catholicism to “live and worship in anonymity”. Peter Ball, who was Bishop of Lewes and of...
Pope encourages Taiwan's Christian leaders to pursue unity
News.va - Dec 7, 2017 at 5:35 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has urged members of the National Council of Churches of Taiwan to continue in their work to educate young generations “in the art of dialogue, so...
Hormonal birth control still increases breast cancer risk, study finds
EWTN - US Latest News - Dec 7, 2017 at 5:21 am Boston, Mass., Dec 7, 2017 / 05:21 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- A recent study out of Denmark shows that women on any kind of hormonal
birth control are susceptible to an increased risk...
Habemus POPEQUAKE – In Stunning Twin Shot, Francis Flips Mexico. And Paris.
Whispers in the Loggia - Dec 7, 2017 at 5:17 am As appointment days go, folks, This. Is. Simply. Beyond.Filling two of global Catholicism's foremost posts in one fell swoop, even before Roman Noon hit this Thursday, the Italian...
Pope Francis names new Archbishops of Mexico City, Paris (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 7, 2017 at 5:12 am Pope Francis accepted the resignations of Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera and Cardinal André Vingt-Trois for reasons of age (both are 75). The new Archbishop of Mexico City is...
Pope receives international Lutheran leaders, calls for renewed efforts to promote Christian unity (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 7, 2017 at 5:12 am “Although the past cannot be changed, the future challenges us: we can no longer refuse to seek and foster greater communion in charity and faith,” Pope Francis told leaders of...
Don’t leave funeral planning until it’s too late
Catholic Herald - Dec 7, 2017 at 4:48 am Like any priest, I spend a good deal of time supporting those who are planning the funeral of their loved ones. All too often, I find, families do not know what their loved ones’...
Jacob Rees-Mogg calls on Education Secretary to drop faith schools cap
Catholic Herald - Dec 7, 2017 at 4:39 am Catholic MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has called on Education Secretary Justine Greening to lift the “damaging” faith school admissions cap. The Conservative politician said the policy...
'Stand for DREAMers,' Catholic Charities urges in advocacy alert (Catholic Charities USA)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 7, 2017 at 4:12 am “DREAMers” would benefit from the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (DREAM Act), first introduced in Congress in 2001. (Click here for a recent USCCB...
Cardinal Cipriani: Peru and Chile will greet Pope Francis with 'lively faith' (CNA)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 7, 2017 at 4:12 am Pope Francis is scheduled to visit the 2 nations from January 15 to 21.
Vatican newspaper highlights international concern about Trump decision on Jerusalem (L'Osservatore Romano)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 7, 2017 at 4:12 am L’Osservatore Romano devoted 2 front-page stories to President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The first story emphasized the Pope’s concern; the...
15,000 victims of euthanasia in Belgium since 2002 legalization (La Croix)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 7, 2017 at 4:12 am According to the article, 19% of victims are mentally ill and thus unable to give their consent. L’Osservatore Romano (12/7 Italian edition) devoted front-page coverage to this...
Canadian government may expand euthanasia to teens, mentally ill (National Catholic Register)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 7, 2017 at 4:12 am Canada enacted a euthanasia law in 2016 after its Supreme Court declared an anti-euthanasia law unconstitutional.
Prelates disappointed by US government's withdrawal from process to develop migration treaty (USCCB)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 7, 2017 at 4:12 am Click here for information about the UN’s global compact on migration.
Narni: Italy's inspiration for the magical realm of C. S. Lewis
EWTN - World Catholic News - Dec 7, 2017 at 4:10 am Narni, Italy, Dec 7, 2017 / 05:04 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
The magical realm of Narnia is the setting of C. S. Lewis' beloved children's book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe....
When the “Reformers” Abandoned the Eucharist
Crisis Magazine - Church - Dec 7, 2017 at 4:10 am
The first lines of Belloc’s 1936 book, The Characters of the Reformation, are these: “The break-up of united western Christendom with the coming of the Reformation was by far the...
Narni: Italy's inspiration for the magical realm of C. S. Lewis
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 7, 2017 at 4:04 am Narni, Italy, Dec 7, 2017 / 03:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The magical realm of Narnia is the setting of C. S. Lewis’ beloved children’s book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe....
Poland Keeps the Lord’s Day Holy
Crisis Magazine - Church - Dec 7, 2017 at 4:00 am
After Polish Catholics lined the country’s 2,000-mile border to pray the “Rosary to the Borders,” Poland made another headline last week: Poland’s Sejm (lower house of Poland’s...
