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Female feticide (in India and America): The stories that The Atlantic didn't cover
GetReligion - May 19, 2016 at 2:33 pm
Every so often, there comes an article that so misses the forest for the trees, you get whiplash when your eyes jerk back to re-read it. Such is The Atlantic’s recent piece: “...
Prayer Request
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 19, 2016 at 2:30 pm A reader writes: At 230 CST my mom has her brain scans. Please say a quick prayer with me at that time for her. Father, hear our prayer for an accurate diagnosis and for complete...
Supreme Court plaintiffs claim discrimination after Catholic cemetery rejects pro-gay headstone
LifeSiteNews - May 19, 2016 at 2:29 pm The plaintiffs who won the Obergefell v. Hodges case are now setting their sights on the Catholic Church.
St. Bernardine of Siena: Saint of the Day for Friday, May 20, 2016
Catholic Online - Featured News - May 19, 2016 at 2:25 pm In the year 1400, a young man came to the door of the largest hospital in Siena. A plague was raging through the city so horrible that as many as ...
Daily Readings for Friday, May 20, 2016
Catholic Online - Featured News - May 19, 2016 at 2:25 pm Reading 1: James 5:9-12, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 103:8-12, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 103:1-4, Gospel: Mark 10:1-12
Prayer to My Guardian Angel: Prayer of the Day for Friday, May 20, 2016
Catholic Online - Featured News - May 19, 2016 at 2:25 pm Angel of God's light,
whom God sends as a companion for me on earth,
protect me from the snares of the devil,
and help me to walk always as a ...
Indian Foreign Minister: Fr. Tom is safe, soon to be released
Catholic News Agency - General - May 19, 2016 at 2:23 pm New Dehli, India, May 19, 2016 / 01:23 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Fr. Tom Uznunnalil, the Indian Salesian priest kidnapped by extremists in March is alive and close to being released,...
Facebook Criticized for Changing Patricia Heaton’s “Celebrate Life” Message to “Anti-Abortion”
LifeNews.com - May 19, 2016 at 2:21 pm Facebook’s pro-abortion bias is showing again.
After denying that it was censoring conservative news last week, Facebook proved once again that it does spin the top news of the...
Simply unfit for office
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 19, 2016 at 2:15 pm The Party of Personal Responsibility, having absolutely nothing left in its empty head, is reduced to one strategy and one only as it tries to size up Trump and Hillary: “She’s...
Another Broken Egg Cafe Opens in Mandeville, LA
The Catholic Foodie - May 19, 2016 at 2:11 pm
Another Broken Egg Café® is Coming Home
Bigger, Better Breakfast and Lunch Foodie Cafe Opens May 23 in Mandeville
New Orleans, La. – One of the Northshore’s favorite and most...
Doctors are Calling Patients Like Her “Brain Dead,” But It Turns Out That’s False
LifeNews.com - May 19, 2016 at 2:11 pm Few topics intrigue me more than why “trends” develop, or, better put, why “givens” that have gone essentially unchallenged suddenly begin to lose their authority.
We’ve written...
Our Blessed Mother
CatholicMom.com - May 19, 2016 at 2:00 pm
Photo by Deanna Bartalini. All rights reserved.
May is the month traditionally set aside for us to honor the Blessed Mother. The Blessed Mother is not only Jesus’ mother; she is...
Daily Reading for Saturday, May 21st, 2016 HD
Catholic Online - Featured News - May 19, 2016 at 1:50 pm Reading 1, James 5:13-20
13 Any one of you who is in trouble should pray; anyone in good spirits should sing a psalm.
14 Any one of you who is ill ...
Kerknet – the portal website of the Catholic Church in Flanders – attacks Ordinatio sacerdotalis
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - May 19, 2016 at 1:48 pm How do you say Fishwrap in Flemish?
My first thought was, this antic trumpery would not have been attempted in the pontificates of St. John Paul II or Benedict XVI.
A Belgian ...
Brazilian churches change Sunday practices due to swine flu outbreak
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - May 19, 2016 at 1:47 pm SAO PAULO — Due to the swine flu outbreak in several parts of Brazil, parishes all over the country have adopted changes in liturgical practices. These changes include suspending...
If death penalty returns…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 19, 2016 at 1:33 pm …Filipino bishop volunteers to die.. “But he’s innocent,” says the death penalty zealot. So what? You’ve never had a problem with all the other innocent people (roughly four...
Colleagues: Archbishop Hebda a pastor through and through
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - May 19, 2016 at 1:32 pm Humble. Down to earth. Intelligent. Funny. Prayerful.
Talk to anyone who’s worked with Archbishop Bernard Hebda, and they’re likely to use one of those words to describe him. As a...
Pope Francis, traditionalists and the path of ‘Amoris Laetitia’
OSV Daily Take - May 19, 2016 at 1:31 pm Two recent interviews, Pope Francis’ May 9 conversation with the French Catholic journal La Croix and traditionalist Bishop Bernard Fellay’s May 13 comments to National Catholic...
Catholic high school students use robots to explore cave’s waterways
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - May 19, 2016 at 1:28 pm LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A group of students from an all-girls Catholic high school in Louisville has been exploring Mammoth Cave National Park’s underground waterways this school year...
Those who exploit for cheap labor are bloodsucking leeches, pope says
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - May 19, 2016 at 1:27 pm Human traffickers and unjust business owners who become wealthy by exploiting others for cheap labor commit a mortal sin, Pope Francis said at his morning Mass.
