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Catholicity is normal for the Church
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 18, 2016 at 11:47 am Periodically, I get told that “Christianity is a white religion”. Certainly, some expressions of it here in the US give that impression as they prostitute themselves for a man...
Margaret Sanger and the Zika virus
LifeSiteNews - May 18, 2016 at 11:38 am Planned Parenthood has chosen to use the tragic circumstances that surround the Zika virus to market its deadly eugenic message. Margaret Sanger would be proud!
Nancy Pelosi: Investigating Planned Parenthood is ‘un-American’
LifeSiteNews - May 18, 2016 at 11:26 am Republicans are acting in ways 'not seen on Capitol Hill since the days of Joseph McCarthy,' she said.
509 Unborn Babies are Killed Every Day as Abortion Increases in the UK
LifeNews.com - May 18, 2016 at 11:25 am The latest abortion figures show that on average, 509 unborn babies were killed by abortion every single day in 2015 in England and Wales alone.
The figures released today by the...
GOP National Security Leaders United Against Trump
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 18, 2016 at 11:24 am …in March. His vision of American influence and power in the world is wildly inconsistent and unmoored in principle. He swings from isolationism to military adventurism within the...
'I believe I've seen an obit for a Chihuahua that was longer,' reader says of story on major church's closing
GetReligion - May 18, 2016 at 11:05 am
So, according to a headline from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a "major Presbyterian church" closed:
Major Presbyterian Church near Tucker closes its doors https://t.co/...
Living Your Vocation When You Feel Quite Vocation-less
CatholicMom.com - May 18, 2016 at 11:00 am
Photo via Pixabay (2014), CC0 Public Domain.
One of the biggest questions of today, particularly for youth and young adults is: What do I do with my life? For us Catholics, this...
Pentecost Mass on the Chartres Pilgrimage
New Liturgical Movement - May 18, 2016 at 11:00 am The annual Chartres Pilgrimage, which our founding editor Shawn Tribe wrote about earlier this week, departs from Notre-Dame de Paris on Saturday, the vigil of Pentecost, and...
Notre Dame’s moral equivalency award
LifeSiteNews - May 18, 2016 at 11:00 am The lesson of Notre Dame’s moral equivalency award is that Catholic social and moral teachings mean nothing to our society.
Mine clearance begins at site of Christ's Baptism
Catholic Culture - World News - May 18, 2016 at 10:35 am Israeli authorities report that land mines will be cleared away from the area around the site where Jesus was baptized.
The region of Qasr al-Yahud, on the west bank of the Jordan...
Mexican bishop calls for compassion for people growing poppies
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - May 18, 2016 at 10:31 am MEXICO CITY — A Catholic bishop in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero has called for compassion toward the impoverished populations harvesting opium poppies out of necessity,...
Priest kidnapped in Yemen is alive, negotiations underway for his release
Catholic Culture - World News - May 18, 2016 at 10:30 am The Indian-born Salesian priest who was kidnapped in Yemen in early March is alive and well, and efforts are underway to secure his release, the AsiaNews service reports.
Father...
Pregnant Teenager Stabbed to Death, Had Just Found Out She Was Having a Girl
LifeNews.com - May 18, 2016 at 10:26 am An 18-year-old Oregon woman who was pregnant with her first child was stabbed to death on Monday in her home, according to local news reports.
Charreen Stanford was five months...
Chicago Archdiocese announces new parental leave policy to start July 1
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - May 18, 2016 at 10:26 am CHICAGO — The Archdiocese of Chicago will begin offering 12 weeks of paid parental leave to its staff beginning July 1.
The new policy is open to fathers and mothers who just had...
Notre Dame honors pro-abortion Joe Biden despite pro-life protests
LifeSiteNews - May 18, 2016 at 10:24 am Pro-life protesters believe the Catholic university has 'turn[ed] their backs on' the unborn.
SSPX leader optimistic about accord with Vatican
Catholic Culture - World News - May 18, 2016 at 10:22 am Bishop Bernard Fellay, the leader of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), expressed optimism about the prospects for achieving an accord with the Vatican in a lengthy...
Cardinal Sarah warns American audience against 'demonic ideology' that endangers family, faith
Catholic Culture - World News - May 18, 2016 at 10:15 am Cardinal Robert Sarah issued a dramatic warning against the breakdown of morality in a May 17 address to the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC.
"In ...
Music teacher: A young Bernard ‘always laughing’
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - May 18, 2016 at 10:09 am Sister Maureen O’Brien admits that when she learned of Archbishop Bernard Hebda’s appointment to the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, she thought, “Oh, no. Poor Bernie.”
“...
A Reader Writes about Rene Girard and Donald Trump
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 18, 2016 at 10:09 am I’ll just post the note without comment as I thought it perceptive and wise: Good evening Mark, Regarding your recent piece titled ‘’Voting to Support a Lesser Evil vs. Voting to...
Pope Francis: “To Ignore the Poor Is to Despise God!”
Aleteia - May 18, 2016 at 10:09 am VATICAN CITY — “To ignore the poor is to despise God,” Pope Francis said at today’s Wednesday general audience, as he turned to the parable of the rich man and Lazarus in his...
