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Bill to aid victims of child pornography passes Senate Judiciary Committee (National Catholic Register)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 16, 2018 at 3:01 am The Amy, Vicky, and Andy Child Pornography Victim Assistance Act of 2017 (S.2152) is sponsored by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT).
Faith lifts the soul, hope supports it, experience says it must, and love says…let it be!
Aleteia - Jan 16, 2018 at 3:00 am Elizabeth Ann Seton
Award to pro-abortion politician a matter of protocol, Vatican says
EWTN - Vatican News - Jan 16, 2018 at 3:00 am Vatican City, Jan 16, 2018 / 03:00 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- The conferral of the Vatican's Order of St. Gregory the Great to Dutch
politician and pro-abortion activist Liliane Ploumen...
Pope lands in Chile amid heightened security
Catholic Herald - Jan 16, 2018 at 2:54 am Pope Francis arrived in Santiago, the first stop on a seven-day, six-city visit to Peru and Chile. Arriving in Santiago after more than 15 hours in the air, Pope Francis was...
On the Strange Function of Absolutes
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jan 16, 2018 at 2:10 am
Most people today “absolutely” maintain that they do not hold or live by “absolutes.” They live by their desires and choices, which are readily changeable. No one is much...
Papal telegram to Italy's president (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 16, 2018 at 2:01 am The telegram to President Sergio Mattarella was sent as the Pope departed for Chile and Peru.
Papal audiences (1/14) (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 16, 2018 at 2:01 am The Pontiff received Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun, SDB, the retired bishop of Hong Kong.
Sustainability is key theme of papal trip, says spokesman for Church in Chile (Vatican News)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 16, 2018 at 2:01 am Father Felipe Herrera, spokesman of the National Commission for the Apostolic Visit, said that
“we have prepared a series of documents that aim to inspire sustainability:...
Pope Francis arrives in Chile (Vatican News)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 16, 2018 at 2:01 am Pope Francis’s apostolic journey to Chile and Peru, the 22nd foreign trip of his pontificate, concludes on January 22. As is customary, the Pope prayed at the Basilica of Santa...
4 churches attacked in Chile ahead of Pope's visit; protestors occupy apostolic nunciature (Vatican News)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 16, 2018 at 2:01 am Homemade firebombs caused minor damage to three churches; a bomb was defused at a fourth church. Anarchists led by a former presidential candidate briefly occupied the nunciature.
Death Toll from Baghdad twin attack rises to 36 (EFE)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 16, 2018 at 2:01 am L’Osservatore Romano (1/15-1/16 Italian edition) devoted front-page coverage to this story.
Two Koreas may march under unification flag for Winter Olympics opening (The Straits Times)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 16, 2018 at 2:01 am L’Osservatore Romano (1/14 Italian edition) devoted front-page coverage to this story.
Abbas calls Oslo Accords dead and blasts US (New York Times)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 16, 2018 at 2:01 am Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signed the Oslo Accords in 1993 and 1995. L’Osservatore Romano (1/15-1/16 Italian edition) devoted front-page coverage to this...
African Union, African UN envoys demand Trump apology (CNN)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 16, 2018 at 2:01 am L’Osservatore Romano (1/14 Italian edition) devoted front-page coverage to this story.
Homeless Jesus statue finally finds a resting place
The Catholic Leader - Jan 16, 2018 at 2:00 am AFTER nearly two years of ideas, discussions and negotiations, the Homeless Jesus statue that was commissioned for the Year of Mercy in 2016 has finally found a home in the...
The Universe We Think In (Versus the One We Think Up)
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jan 16, 2018 at 2:00 am
Jean Louis de Lolme, writing in 1784 of the “omnipotence” of the British legislature—and by implication of the modern state—remarks that “parliament can do everything, except...
Stephen Binz has a cool bunch of Bible Studies available
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 16, 2018 at 1:35 am Check them out here. Discipleship is a call to go inward, to experience an ever-deepening encounter with Jesus Christ, and a call to go outward, to witness the good news to others...
Conservatives’ Stupidest Cause Célèbre
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 16, 2018 at 1:13 am Matthew Walther talks sense about a Christianist Panic du Jour that has long ago passed its sell-by date: “It does not occur to them that the causes they defend, such as the...
Moments of Light
Dominicana - Jan 16, 2018 at 1:00 am Do you ever have moments when you just know—in a way you did not before—that something you do all the time or a way you think about things is a bit off or wrong? Perhaps you often...
Florida lawmakers consider mandatory ‘marriage prep’ guide
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 16, 2018 at 1:00 am Tallahassee, Fla., Jan 16, 2018 / 12:00 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A bill presented to the Florida House of Representatives on Jan. 8 would require couples to review a state-published “...