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China is Kidnapping People and Harvesting Their Organs While They are Still Alive
LifeNews.com - Sep 22, 2016 at 8:55 am Human rights abuses are rampant under China’s Communist Party.
Women in their seventh, eight or even ninth month of pregnancy are being forcibly taken from their homes and...
Daily Reading for Saturday, September 24th, 2016 HD
Catholic Online - Featured News - Sep 22, 2016 at 8:54 am Reading 1, Ecclesiastes 11:9--12:8
9 Do not wrangle about something that does not concern you, do not interfere in the quarrels of sinners.
10 My ...
APA researcher explodes myth: Gays aren’t ‘born that way’
LifeSiteNews - Sep 22, 2016 at 8:42 am The American Psychological Association Handbook of Sexuality and Psychology describes sexual orientation as 'fluid' and changeable.
The Secret to Freedom: Stand Still But Don’t Look Back
CatholicMom.com - Sep 22, 2016 at 8:30 am Photo via Flickr (2012), CC-By-SA 2.0.
I want to shout out a secret to authentic interior freedom, a secret which will go against every fiber of your being. The answer to every...
The life of Howard E. Butt, Jr.: What do most readers think 'evangelist' really means?
GetReligion - Sep 22, 2016 at 8:20 am As many GetReligion readers may know, I grew up in Texas. One of the unfortunate side effects of my heritage is that I know more than my share of jokes about the family that built...
Amoris Laetitia does not allow Communion for remarried, says Bishop of Phoenix
Catholic Herald - Sep 22, 2016 at 8:10 am Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix, Arizona, has said the divorced and remarried cannot receive Communion, and that the teaching of St John Paul II and Benedict XVI still stands....
Faith-Based Recovery Home Loses Challenges To Fire Code Enforcement
The Religion Clause - Sep 22, 2016 at 8:04 am In Affordable Recovery Housing v. City of Blue Island, (ND IL, Sept. 21, 2016), an Illinois federal district court in a 40-page opinion dismissed a claim under RLUIPA and its...
Hundreds rally against Wynne’s radical sex ed at Queen’s Park, blast Patrick Brown’s flip-flop
LifeSiteNews - Sep 22, 2016 at 7:53 am A crowd of close to 500 people turned out to protest Ontario's sex-ed curriculum and demand parental rights.
Wounded Healer
Franciscan Media - Sep 22, 2016 at 7:52 am Image: (c) totalpics fotosearch.com
Have you ever read a book that changed your life? I have read many that influenced me in important ways. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird...
Pope to journalists: truth and respect for human dignity
News.va - Sep 22, 2016 at 7:11 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Thursday met with the Italian National Council of the Order of Journalists, telling them that truth, professionalism and respect for human dignity...
Pope Francis: Vanity is osteoporosis of the soul
News.va - Sep 22, 2016 at 7:11 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis contrasted the anxiety that comes from the Holy Spirit and the anxiety that comes from a dirty conscience. During his homily during the daily Mass at...
Mysterious deaths of mentally ill draw concern from South Africa bishops
Catholic News Agency - General - Sep 22, 2016 at 7:01 am Johannesburg, South Africa, Sep 22, 2016 / 06:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The unexplained deaths of three dozen mentally ill patients in a South African province show the need for...
Mysterious deaths of mentally ill draw concern from South Africa bishops
EWTN - World Catholic News - Sep 22, 2016 at 7:01 am Johannesburg, South Africa, Sep 22, 2016 / 07:01 am (EWTN News/CNA).- The unexplained deaths of three dozen mentally ill patients in a South African province show the need for...
Small Success: When the Light Doesn't Want to Shine
CatholicMom.com - Sep 22, 2016 at 7:00 am
I didn’t want to write Small Success Thursday today. I did the dishes, I organized my papers, cleaned out the email box, and wondered, why couldn’t I summon my naturally sunny...
Thomas Merton on the Liturgical Reform
New Liturgical Movement - Sep 22, 2016 at 7:00 am The Religion and Ethics section of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s website has posted a very interesting article by Gregory K Hillis, an Associate Professor of Theology...
Could Pope Francis become the first ‘Eastern pope’?
OSV Daily Take - Sep 22, 2016 at 6:46 am In the wake of the Second Vatican Council, a 1968 Hollywood film about a fictional pontificate has captivated the attention of Church-watchers ever since. Based on Morris West’s...
Updates from Gaza: a day-by-day support through many projects
Vatican Insider - Sep 22, 2016 at 6:45 am Sami El-Yousef, you are the Regional Director of CNEWA – Pontifical Mission in Jerusalem. Could you tell us more about the history of this organization and its present-day action...
University: a Catholic survival guide
Catholic Herald - Sep 22, 2016 at 6:15 am The night I graduated from Harvard, my family held a small gathering at our favourite little restaurant in Cambridge. When it came time for the toast, I expected my family and...
Tug of war over Amoris
Catholic Herald - Sep 22, 2016 at 6:15 am When Pope Francis published Amoris Laetitia five months ago, I predicted that the discussion of the document and its implications for Catholic teaching on marriage and the family...
China’s evil secret
Catholic Herald - Sep 22, 2016 at 6:15 am This article contains details which some readers may find disturbing
‘The scalpel cut into the chest and blood gushed out,” recalled an unnamed policeman in Shenyang, China. “At...
