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Suit Over Mosque Settlement Remanded To State Court
The Religion Clause - Dec 4, 2017 at 6:05 am Litigation over site plan approval for construction of a mosque in Bernards Township, New Jersey continues. In May, the Township reached settlements with the Islamic Society of...
Mexican-born priest appointed auxiliary bishop of Brownsville
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 4, 2017 at 6:01 am Vatican City, Dec 4, 2017 / 05:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Monday the Vatican announced Pope Francis' appointment of Oratorian Fr. Mario Alberto Aviles as auxiliary bishop of the...
Archaeologists find elaborate 1,500-year-old Georgian Christian mosaic in Israel
Aleteia - Dec 4, 2017 at 6:00 am The discovery is linked to Peter of Iberia, a Georgian prince who made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the 5th century.During the excavation of the ancient city of Ashdod-Yam in...
Acts of Mercy and Saving the Environment
The Catholic Astronomer - Dec 4, 2017 at 6:00 am
(This is a reworking of a piece did for The Catholic Astronomer that appeared in The Interfaith Observer on September 15, 2017. Click here for the piece and a number of other...
Your Soul, the Devil, and You
CatholicMom.com - Dec 4, 2017 at 6:00 am I have been Catholic all of my life. Perhaps not a terribly informed Catholic, but I went to a Catholic school and Mass every week. As I hit high school, I became more involved...
Recent Articles of Interest
The Religion Clause - Dec 4, 2017 at 6:00 am From SSRN:
Ronald Niezen, Power Through Testimony: Reframing Residential Schools in the Age of Reconciliation (Foreword), (March 2017, ISBN: 978-0774833899).
Katherine M. Franke...
Will the Court Overturn Bad Precedents?
Crisis Magazine - Church - Dec 4, 2017 at 5:25 am
In his recent book, Nixon’s White House Wars, Patrick J. Buchanan writes about how most of Richard Nixon’s Supreme Court nominees—Buchanan was an aide to Nixon—did not turn out...
Progressive Politicians Two-Faced Over Due Process Rights
Crisis Magazine - Church - Dec 4, 2017 at 5:20 am
For nearly a decade, progressive politicians like Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) helped to create a culture that has denied due process protections to college students accused...
10 Christmas Stories Every Father Should Read to His Children
Crisis Magazine - Church - Dec 4, 2017 at 5:15 am
When St. Nick drives his miniature sleigh full of toys drawn by eight tiny reindeer to the snowy housetop, and drops to the sooty hearth below, the paterfamilias is bidden to...
Tuesday is Justice Anthony Kennedy Day!!! Oh Wait, That's Every Day
Creative Minority Report - Dec 4, 2017 at 5:15 am Tuesday is the day the entire country bows its head and grovels in front of the great Anthony Kennedy, the black robed overlord of all things legal. Ladies and gentleman, it is...
Pope Francis: Message for the World Day of Prayer for Vocations (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 4, 2017 at 5:12 am “Listening, discerning, and living the call of Lord” is the title of the Pontiff’s message for the 2018 World Day of Prayer for Vocations, which the Church will commemorate on the...
Pope pays homage to Mary after journey to Myanmar, Bangladesh (Vatican Radio)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 4, 2017 at 5:12 amPeru to withdraw Its 'gender Ideology' school curriculum (National Catholic Register)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 4, 2017 at 5:12 amHer father sneered, “What can a woman do?”
Aleteia - Dec 4, 2017 at 5:00 am Mother Xavier Ross' whole life and legacy is a fine response to that question.As the Civil War approached, 1850s Kansas was center-stage for the brewing conflict. Pro-slavery and...
How Our Lady helps on the frontline of Europe’s migrant crisis
Catholic Herald - Dec 4, 2017 at 4:56 am In Douglas Murray’s book, The Strange Death of Europe, there is only a brief reference to the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa. Murray informs us that “These eight dry square...
Resignations and appointments (12/2) (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 4, 2017 at 4:12 am Pope Francis accepted the resignations of bishops in the Netherlands and the Central African Republic for reasons of age and appointed a successor to the latter.
Columnists defend Pope Francis on Rohingya, St. John Paul's teaching on women (Wall Street Journal)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 4, 2017 at 4:12 am In separate Wall Street Journal columns, Princeton University’s Robert George defended Pope Francis’s prudence in addressing the persecution of Rohingya Muslims, and Peggy Noonan...
Holy See, at UN panel discussion, emphasizes importance of Christians, other minorities in post-ISIS Iraq (Holy See Mission)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 4, 2017 at 4:12 am “ISIS is on the verge of military defeat, but unless those displaced from the Nineveh Plains can return, ISIS will have succeeded in its ideological objective to eliminate...
Pope challenges Latin American politicians to serve the common good (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 4, 2017 at 4:12 am “How much we are in need of a good and noble politics, and its protagonists, here in Latin America,” the Pope said in a video message to a conference of Latin American Catholics...
