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Your job is to give voice to the suffering, Pope tells new ambassadors
EWTN - Vatican News - May 19, 2016 at 8:40 am Vatican City, May 19, 2016 / 08:40 am (EWTN News).-
As six new ambassadors to the Holy See presented Pope Francis with their credentials, the pontiff stressed that as...
Editorial | All the voices of faith
Saint Louis Review - Viewpoints - May 19, 2016 at 8:38 am They just can't wait to share their faith: The men and women in the Lay Formation Program of the Archdiocese of St. Louis have spent three years learning about the treasures of...
Women deacons? Deaconesses? The context on a complex topic
Saint Louis Review - St. Louis News - May 19, 2016 at 8:36 am Jennifer Brinker | jbrinker@archstl.org | twitter: @jenniferbrinker
In a meeting with the heads of religious communities, Pope Francis agreed he would set up a commission...
Grandmas for Abortion: New Group of Grannies Encourages Women to Abort Their Babies
LifeNews.com - May 19, 2016 at 8:34 am In an often cited 2012 interview, the former president of the radical pro-abortion group NARAL lamented that the pro-life movement was attracting so many young people, while the...
A Call Which Confounds the Wise
CatholicMom.com - May 19, 2016 at 8:30 am Mother And Child by Mary Cassatt, 1889 via Wikiart.org, Public Domain.
A call to motherhood which confounds the wise,
which confounds the mentality of Western Society.
I too was...
Clergy appointments for May 19, 2016
Saint Louis Review - St. Louis News - May 19, 2016 at 8:30 am Deacon Delfin S. Leonardo, a permanent deacon, while continuing to assist the pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Clayton, and the chaplain at Mercy Hospital St. Louis, is also...
Mirror-image time again: So Hillary Clinton went to church and won some endorsements?
GetReligion - May 19, 2016 at 8:15 am
It is time for another mirror-image journalism case study here at GetReligion. The URL for this one came from a friend of this blog who is a church-state issues professional in...
Archdiocese of Chicago: Cupich introduces paid family leave
Vatican Insider - May 19, 2016 at 7:23 am The promotion of family life begins with the policies towards employees of diocesan offices. The Archbishop of Chicago, Blaise Cupich is a firm believer of this. When he returned...
Church in China: The real situation and inaccuracies in the media
Vatican Insider - May 19, 2016 at 7:20 am “My opinion reflects that of priests living in China. They distinguish between the government’s religious policy and the Christian faith. The government demands the “independence...
Small Success: Progress, Not Perfection
CatholicMom.com - May 19, 2016 at 7:00 am
Where did the week go?
I’ll tell you where, into business central! This week, we had an end of the school year musical. It was fun and I sat in the back with three of my...
Proposed RFRA Amendment Would Bar Its Use To Discriminate or Injure 3rd Parties
The Religion Clause - May 19, 2016 at 6:26 am Yesterday two members of the U.S. House of Representatives, Joe Kennedy III and Bobby Scott, announced the introduction of the Do No Harm Act (full text). The bill would amend the...
Ryan Appoints 2 USCIRF Members
The Religion Clause - May 19, 2016 at 6:20 am In a press release yesterday, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom announced that on May 13, House Speaker Paul Ryan reappointed Villanova University faculty...
Colombia Court Ends Municipal Council Invocations
The Religion Clause - May 19, 2016 at 6:15 am Fox News Latino reports that on May 10 a trial court judge in Cartagena, Colombia ordered a stop to invocations at the beginning of Municipal Council meetings and events of other...
Students at Catholic Seattle Univ. Confused About Gender
Catholic Education Daily - May 19, 2016 at 6:12 am Several students at Seattle University, a Jesuit Catholic institution, expressed confusion about the differences between men and women in a recently released video, seeming to buy...
Students at Catholic College Call Gender a ‘Social Construct’
Catholic Education Daily - May 19, 2016 at 6:12 am Several students at Seattle University, a Jesuit Catholic institution, expressed confusion about the differences between men and women in a recently released video, seeming to buy...
Nevada Trial Court Rejects State Constitutional Challenge To School Choice Law
The Religion Clause - May 19, 2016 at 6:10 am In Duncan v. Sate of Nevada, (NV Dist. Ct., May 18, 2016), a Nevada state trial court judge dismissed state constitutional challenges to Nevada's new Educational Savings Account...
In Christ our longing to become one with God found its answer
Catholic Herald - May 19, 2016 at 6:08 am ‘When I see the heavens, the work of your hands, the moon and the stars which you arranged, what is man that you should keep him in mind, mortal man that you should care for him...
A Christian response to Europe’s crisis
Catholic Herald - May 19, 2016 at 6:08 am These are troubling times. Europe is apparently on the verge of meltdown. Unable to withstand the heat caused by the growing friction between the European Union and its member...
Blessed are the bloggers
Catholic Herald - May 19, 2016 at 6:08 am On a May morning eight years ago, I emerged from the Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls, my forehead shiny with water and oil, and my stomach empty but for the body and blood...
6th Circuit Remands RLUIPA "Equal Terms" Zoning Challenge
The Religion Clause - May 19, 2016 at 6:05 am In Tree of Life Christian Schools v. City of Upper Arlington, (6th Cir., May 18, 2016), the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision reversed and remanded in a RLUIPA...
