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Scottish bishops seek dialogue on government's bid to ease abortion laws (Catholic Herald)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 21, 2017 at 3:11 am The Catholic bishops of Scotland have asked political leaders for “renewed discussions” on abortion policy, noting that since a majority of the Scottish people do not support...
Latvian Cardinal Pujats: Amoris Laetitia must be clarified (Infocatholica )
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 21, 2017 at 3:11 am Cardinal Janis Pujats, the retired Archbishop of Riga, Latvia, told an interviewer that “it is necessary to clarify “Amoris Laetitia. The cardinal said that the document the text...
15 dead, 5 hurt in stampede for food aid in Morocco (New York Daily News)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 21, 2017 at 3:11 am L’Osservatore Romano (11/20-11/21 Italian ed.) devoted front-page coverage to this story.
German bishops hold conference on abuse of minors (Deutsche Bischofskonferenz)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 21, 2017 at 3:11 am The conference, entitled “Irritated Systems,” featured speakers who called for continued vigilance in addressing the sexual abuse of minors. Father Hans Zollner, president of the...
Words of the Holy Father before lunch with the poor on the 1st World Day of the Poor (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 21, 2017 at 3:11 am The Pope dined with 1,500 poor persons on November 19.
Efforts to form new German government fail as talks between Merkel, others collapse (Bloomberg)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 21, 2017 at 3:11 am L’Osservatore Romano (11/20-11/21 Italian ed.) devoted front-page coverage to this story.
Church leaders in Zimbabwe call for interim government, fair elections (Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 21, 2017 at 3:11 am As the military takes control from 93-year-old strongman Robert Mugabe, a spokesman for the bishops’ conference called for respect for human rights and “free and fair elections.”
Time to Reassert the Church’s Spiritual Role
Crisis Magazine - Church - Nov 21, 2017 at 3:00 am
Poor old Philippo Argenti languishes in the fifth circle of his Inferno, among those condemned for the sin of wrath. He treads water in the Styx, jostling with other damned souls...
Beauty Is At the Heart of True Conservatism
Crisis Magazine - Church - Nov 21, 2017 at 2:50 am
What is the point of contemporary conservatism? Whatever one thinks of the victory of Donald Trump to the presidency, he is not a conservative of any expected kind. But he has...
Murder on the Orient Express and the Theology of Murder
Crisis Magazine - Church - Nov 21, 2017 at 2:45 am
Et voilà. The cold corpse lay in Compartment #2 of the Orient Express, stabbed twelve times, no murder weapon, no obvious motive, victim’s pistol ready under the pillow, door...
Internet was ‘never meant for children’, says bishop
Catholic Herald - Nov 21, 2017 at 2:42 am A bishop has warned that the internet poses “multiple dangers” to children, given its origins as a “system developed for adults”. John Sherrington, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster...
China, Vatican use 'diplomacy of art' to foster relations
EWTN - Vatican News - Nov 21, 2017 at 2:00 am Vatican City, Nov 21, 2017 / 02:00 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Relations with mainland China have long been an interest for the Holy See, and the Vatican Museums have now partnered with...
Dominican Compline App
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Nov 21, 2017 at 1:56 am This is extremely cool: For a little over a year, Preachingfriars.org, the preaching apostolate of the Dominican Studium in St. Louis, Missouri (for the Provinces of St. Albert...
Compare and Contrast: Christianism vs. the Gospel
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Nov 21, 2017 at 1:48 am Christianism is a false gospel of violent, faithless, misogynous, white spite that believe only in earthly power but uses Christian forms and imagery to seduce the faithful away...
'The good Lord has guided me well': 113-year-old nun reflects on blessings
EWTN - World Catholic News - Nov 21, 2017 at 1:35 am Marseilles, France, Nov 21, 2017 / 02:08 am (EWTN News/CNA).- At age 113, Sister André is one of the oldest religious sisters in the world.
'The good Lord has guided me well': 113-year-old nun reflects on blessings
Catholic News Agency - General - Nov 21, 2017 at 1:08 am Marseille, France, Nov 21, 2017 / 12:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- At age 113, Sister André is one of the oldest religious sisters in the world.
According to French newspaper Le...
“Well, actually, Jesus…”
Dominicana - Nov 21, 2017 at 1:00 am Often when I read Scripture, I find myself thinking about my friend Jacob. The reason is not that I see Jacob reflected in the sacred page: I don’t see his silhouette masked...
Diplomacy of art, exchange of works between the Vatican and Beijing
Vatican Insider - Nov 21, 2017 at 1:00 am For the first time, forty works of the Chinese collections of the Vatican Museums will be exhibited in China, while forty works of the Chinese state collections will be exhibited...
Iraqi couple studying in Brisbane to run hospital for people recovering from ISIS invasion
The Catholic Leader - Nov 21, 2017 at 12:30 am ONLY a year ago, Saveen Oghana and Ban Isaqi, an Iraqi couple, were busy building their careers – one as a medical doctor, the other a dentist – but now they’re in Brisbane...
