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Pakistan's religious minorities underrepresented in legislative bodies (AsiaNews)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 1, 2017 at 5:12 am Pakistan, the world’s 6th-most populous nation (202 million people), is 96% Muslim.
Pope tells Bangladesh bishops to make laity a priority, especially youth
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 1, 2017 at 5:01 am Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dec 1, 2017 / 04:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Friday Pope Francis met with the bishops of Bangladesh, urging them to be close to the laity, especially young...
Your RORATE MASSES
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 1, 2017 at 4:43 am Some of you have written asking about “Rorate Masses” during Advent.
This is a beautiful custom whereby Mass is celebrated illuminated only by candlelight. They are usually before...
Senior bank official ‘sacked and escorted out of the Vatican’
Catholic Herald - Dec 1, 2017 at 4:41 am The deputy director of the Institute for Religious Works (IOR), commonly known as the Vatican bank, was removed from his position and escorted out of the Vatican on Monday. Giulio...
Ireland awaits word on abortion law options (OSV Newsweekly)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 1, 2017 at 4:12 am Michael Kelly of The Irish Catholic writes that “it looks increasingly likely that the choice out before the people [in a referendum] may be the option of abortion on demand or...
Chile: former First Lady speaks out against papal visit (BioBioChile)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 1, 2017 at 4:12 am The report comes from Bio Bio, one of Chile’s 15 regions. Marta Larraechea criticized Pope Francis for his support of a bishop accused of concealing cases of clerical abuse. The...
Large iceberg breaks free from glacier in southern Chile (Reuters)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 1, 2017 at 4:12 am L’Osservatore Romano (Italian edition) devoted front-page coverage to this story. In its report, the Vatican newspaper cited “experts” who attributed the incident to the “...
Zambian bishop laments rise in spouse murders (AMECEA)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 1, 2017 at 4:12 am The African nation of 15.5 million is 75% Protestant and 20% Catholic.
Australia: same-sex marriage bill expected to pass Senate; conscience-protection amendments defeated (The Guardian)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 1, 2017 at 4:12 am The defeated amendments would have prevented “discrimination based on a person’s beliefs about marriage,” prevented “charities being stripped of charitable status,” and allowed “...
“Be closer to the lay faithful. Recognize and value them. And help the poor more”
Vatican Insider - Dec 1, 2017 at 3:53 am “The Catholic community in Bangladesh can be proud of its history of service to the poor “Yet, in light of the present refugee crisis, we see how much more needs to be done”. It...
Near-accident, electricity pole hanging over the pope-mobile
Vatican Insider - Dec 1, 2017 at 3:30 am Unexpected surprises are always around the corner, yet even this time everything went well. An electricity pole was about to fall on Francis’ pope-mobile, as documented by the...
US joins Africans to put parental rights back in UN sex ed policy (C-FAM)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 1, 2017 at 3:12 amHoly See urges UN member states to receive and protect migrants (Vatican Radio)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 1, 2017 at 3:12 amUkrainian Orthodox leader claims Catholics violently confiscated churches (Moscow Patriarchate)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 1, 2017 at 3:12 am In an annual report delivered at an Orthodox bishops’ meeting in Moscow, Metropolitan Onufriy, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), alleged that “...
Russia rejects US call to cut ties with North Korea (Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 1, 2017 at 3:12 am L’Osservatore Romano (12/1 Italian edition) devoted front-page coverage to this story.
Supporting pro-independence movements violates Church teaching, says Spanish cardinal
Catholic Herald - Dec 1, 2017 at 3:12 am Less than one month before elections in Catalonia, a Spanish cardinal said Catholics everywhere are violating church teaching if they support pro-independence movements. “In...
Leading Russian Orthodox official critiques documents of 2016 pan-Orthodox council (Moscow Patriarchate)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 1, 2017 at 3:12 am The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church took place in Crete in 2016. Five of the 15 Orthodox churches, including the Russian Orthodox Church, did not participate....
We should seek not so much to pray, but to become prayer.
Aleteia - Dec 1, 2017 at 3:00 am St. Francis of Assisi
PICTURES: Pope Francis ordains 16 men to the priesthood in Bangladesh
Catholic Herald - Dec 1, 2017 at 2:43 am Ordaining 16 new priests in Bangladesh, Pope Francis kept to his practice of using the formal ritual homily for the occasion. But, as often happens, he also felt a need to speak...
Do the Bishops Want Us to Continue Subsidizing Porn?
Crisis Magazine - Church - Dec 1, 2017 at 2:10 am
No, the bishops do not want us to subsidize porn usage on the Internet but that is the reality of a position agreed to by a committee of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops on...
