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Pro-Life Group Sues Over City's Enforcement of Sign Ordinance
The Religion Clause - Nov 21, 2017 at 6:00 am A suit was filed last week in a North Carolina federal district court by an anti-abortion group which contends that the city of Charlotte acted unconstitutionally when it applied...
Tips from a local: What Cardinal Bo recommends for Pope’s visit to Burma
Catholic News Agency - General - Nov 21, 2017 at 6:00 am Vatican City, Nov 21, 2017 / 05:00 am (CNA).- To prepare for Pope Francis’ trip to Burma, Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, the first and sole Burmese cardinal in the Church’s history,...
Prelates urge Congress to fund UN climate-change body (USCCB)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 21, 2017 at 5:11 am The chairmen of 2 US bishops’ committees called on Congress to allocate $10 million to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Trump releases updated short list of potential Supreme Court nominees (Politico)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 21, 2017 at 5:11 amBangladesh: waiting for Pope Francis, Catholics recall St. John Paul's 1986 visit (AsiaNews)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 21, 2017 at 5:11 amUS bishops' official calls for solidarity with persecuted Christians (To Go Forth)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 21, 2017 at 5:11 amFilipinos go red in solidarity with persecuted Christians (UCANews)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 21, 2017 at 5:11 amKazakhstan: Church has created 26 health care centers (Fides)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 21, 2017 at 5:11 am The nation of 18.4 million is 70% Muslim and 26% Christian (primarily Russian Orthodox).
English judge applauds man who stole drugs, killed suicidal father
EWTN - World Catholic News - Nov 21, 2017 at 4:25 am London, England, Nov 21, 2017 / 05:01 am (EWTN News/CNA).- An English chemist charged with murder for the 2015 killing of his 85-year-old father, who wished to die, was freed on...
Pope names Brazilian cardinal as relator general of Youth Synod
Catholic Herald - Nov 21, 2017 at 4:14 am Pope Francis has chosen Brazil’s Cardinal Sergio da Rocha to serve as relator general of next year’s Synod of Bishops on youth. The nomination of the 58-year-old Archbishop of...
Northern Ireland: Catholic, Protestant leaders call for end to paramilitary attacks (Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 21, 2017 at 4:11 amPapal audiences (11/20) (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 21, 2017 at 4:11 am Pope Francis received the Hungarian bishops, who were in Rome for their ad limina visit, as well as the directors and staff of the Central Directorate for Road and Railway Police...
In visit to Romania, Vatican 'foreign minister' recalls European values (Zenit)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 21, 2017 at 4:11 am Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican’s Secretary for Relations with States, spent 3 days in Romania. The nation of 21.6 million is 82% Orthodox, 6% Protestant, and 5% Catholic.
Catholic eco-activists frustrated that US left behind at Bonn conference (America)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 21, 2017 at 4:11 am COP23, the 2017 UN Climate Change Conference, took place from November 6 to 18 in Bonn.
Vatican conference on work and development (Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 21, 2017 at 4:11 am The conference is entitled “From Populorum Progressio to Laudato si’. Work and the movement of workers at the center of integral, sustainable and fraternal human development....
Pope writes preface for book on the diaconate (Vatican Radio)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 21, 2017 at 4:11 am In his preface, Pope Francis called upon permanent deacons to look to St. Francis of Assisi as their example in their service to the poor. In a 2016 address, the Pope seemed less...
Resignations and appointments (11/20) (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 21, 2017 at 4:11 am Pope Francis appointed 2 new bishops in Argentina.
English judge applauds man who stole drugs, killed suicidal father
Catholic News Agency - General - Nov 21, 2017 at 4:01 am London, England, Nov 21, 2017 / 03:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- An English chemist charged with murder for the 2015 killing of his 85-year-old father, who wished to die, was freed on...
Wojtyla, the “Islamist” invasion and those words spoken to Bush Jr.
Vatican Insider - Nov 21, 2017 at 3:54 am Saint John Paul II was a mystic, “he dialogued” with Our Lady and had prophetic visions. One of these visions has to do with the future of Europe and a potential “Islamist...
A Christmas book that’s just far too cynical
Catholic Herald - Nov 21, 2017 at 3:20 am The first reading at Mass on Sunday was very striking; at least, it struck a kind of sympathetic fear in my heart. It was from the first book of Maccabees and described a...
