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Rorate Masses in New York City
New Liturgical Movement - Dec 5, 2017 at 3:00 pm This year, the Church of the Holy Innocents in New York City is holding 10 Rorate Masses, the Votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary for Advent, during the first part of the holy...
Belgian Red Cross orders offices to remove crucifixes
LifeSiteNews - Dec 5, 2017 at 3:00 pm The organization is 'looking to become more secular.'
No dispensation for this year’s Christmas Mass on Monday
Franciscan Media - Dec 5, 2017 at 2:57 pm WASHINGTON (CNS) — Although Christmas this year is the day after the fourth Sunday of Advent, Catholics looking to count a Sunday evening Mass Dec. 24 for both that Sunday...
Court Allows 13-Year-Old Teen to Abort Her 26-Week-Old Unborn Baby
LifeNews.com - Dec 5, 2017 at 2:56 pm Courts in India are setting new precedents by allowing sexual assault victims to abort their unborn babies past the 20-week abortion limit.
The latest case involves a 13-year-old...
In Nova Scotia, cemeteries tell story of 1917 ship collision, explosion
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Dec 5, 2017 at 2:42 pm The tall, gray and weathered headstone in Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery is carved with 11 names, all from the same family, and with a simple statement at the bottom: "They died...
Christian love for gays goes way beyond mere ‘toleration’: Here’s why
LifeSiteNews - Dec 5, 2017 at 2:41 pm Here's what Christians 'loving' homosexuals really looks like
Philippines, killed a priest-defender of human rights
Vatican Insider - Dec 5, 2017 at 2:35 pm Yet another priest killed in the Catholic Philippines. Yet another priest who has been engaged for decades in battles for social justice in rural areas of the country. The other...
Planned Parenthood HQ Named for Margaret Sanger Injures Black Woman in Botched Abortion
LifeNews.com - Dec 5, 2017 at 2:29 pm For the eighth time this year, an ambulance has transported a woman from the Margaret Sanger Planned Parenthood abortion facility on Margaret Sanger Square in New York to a local...
Court allows travel ban to be implemented as legal challenges continue
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Dec 5, 2017 at 2:28 pm The U.S. Supreme Court said Dec. 4 that President Donald Trump's travel ban restricting entry into the United States by nationals from some countries can be fully implemented...
EU warns Poland not to pass pro-life legislation
LifeSiteNews - Dec 5, 2017 at 2:24 pm The EU has initiated the process for formally rebuking Poland.
One acre lost per second: Winds drive deadly flames in California
Aleteia - Dec 5, 2017 at 2:22 pm Over 1,000 firefighters still battling the blaze. Many evacuees stuck in gridlock.A brushfire which began in Steckel Park, just north of Santa Paula, has been spreading at a rapid...
Newtown and gun violence: One place where the political became personal
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Dec 5, 2017 at 2:17 pm The numbers are inescapable: Dec. 14, 26 dead, five years.
Transcript of Oral Arguments In Masterpiece Cakeshop Is Now Available
The Religion Clause - Dec 5, 2017 at 2:05 pm The transcript (full text) of today's oral arguments in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission is now available. Amy Howe at SCOTUSblog has posted an...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, December 06, 2017
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 5, 2017 at 2:05 pm Reading 1: Isaiah 25:6-10, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 23:1-6, Gospel: Matthew 15:29-37
Everything has its Time: Prayer of the Day for Wednesday, December 06, 2017
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 5, 2017 at 2:05 pm For everything there is a season,
and a time for every matter under heaven:
a time to be born,
and a time to die;
a time to ...
Couple credits anonymous sidewalk counselor with saving their son, now 15, from abortion
LifeSiteNews - Dec 5, 2017 at 2:03 pm 'We will never know your name' but 'it was your prayers that saved our son.'
Trump endorses Roy Moore: ‘We need his vote…on Pro Life’
LifeSiteNews - Dec 5, 2017 at 2:00 pm The president called Moore a 'fighter, and told him, 'Go get ‘em, Roy!'
Croatian archbishop deplores ‘unjust verdicts’ after general’s suicide
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Dec 5, 2017 at 1:53 pm WARSAW, Poland — The president of Croatia’s bishops’ conference condemned “unjust verdicts” at a United Nations war crimes trial, after a jailed general publicly committed suicide...
Working with refugees builds friendships at Oakdale parish
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Dec 5, 2017 at 1:49 pm The family assigned to Guardian Angels was a married couple with six children, ages 9 to 19, from Myanmar, also known as Burma, in southeast Asia. They were also reunited with an...
No dispensation for this year’s Christmas Mass on Monday
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Dec 5, 2017 at 1:46 pm WASHINGTON — Although Christmas this year is the day after the fourth Sunday of Advent, Catholics looking to count a Sunday evening Mass Dec. 24 for both that Sunday obligation...
