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Abortion Activist Assaults Pro-Life Advocate, Screams “This Is Not Violence”
LifeNews.com - May 18, 2016 at 8:35 am Violence against pro-life advocates appears to be increasing across the country. The Ohio-based group Created Equal reports one of its leaders was the latest victim of assault...
South Carolina Passes Fetal Pain Law, Limiting Abortion to 19 Weeks
Creative Minority Report - May 18, 2016 at 8:32 am South Carolina passed a bill yesterday prohibiting abortion to 19 weeks. They're the 17th state to limit abortion after five months citing the unborn child’s ability to feel pain...
ASK FATHER: “Maximized” priest returns to duties after marriage and divorce
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - May 18, 2016 at 8:31 am From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
Maximized priest returning to priestly duties
Our new parochial vicar (NO parish) is a priest who was married, divorced, and is now “returning to...
Deliver Us, Lord, From Our Desire to Rank
CatholicMom.com - May 18, 2016 at 8:30 am
Photo via Pixabay (2014), CCO. Text added in Canva.
Editor’s note: For the past few months, our CatholicMom.com community has journeyed with the Tighe family as they received,...
Abortion as Birth Control, Report Shows Half of Women Having Abortions are Already Mothers
LifeNews.com - May 18, 2016 at 8:28 am A new British government report points to evidence that more older women are relying on abortion as a method of birth control.
The Telegraph reports women in their 30s and 40s are...
#NEVERTRUMP religion hook 2.0: Washington Post ignores this 'holy ghost' once again
GetReligion - May 18, 2016 at 8:20 am
Every now and the your GetReligionistas have online conversations about how to handle certain puzzling situations that keep coming up in our work.
Here is a thorny one: What...
The Inner Life of the Most Holy Trinity is an Exchange of Persons
Big C Catholics - May 18, 2016 at 8:02 am By Matthew Coffin
The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity is May 22nd. The Divine Family that is God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit is the central mystery of...
EXCLUSIVE: Cardinal Burke says Pope’s exhortation must be read ‘critically’
LifeSiteNews - May 18, 2016 at 8:00 am Some passages of Amoris Laetitia ‘are reflections of the Holy Father, but they are not magisterium,’ the cardinal says.
Why the Church has some good news for Guardian readers
Catholic Herald - May 18, 2016 at 7:49 am About a year ago, I wrote a Herald column on Humanae Vitae (like most of my columns, it’s not available online; what better bait could there be to subscribe?).
In it, I pointed...
Nigerian bishop: Muslims must rescue themselves from extremists
Catholic Herald - May 18, 2016 at 7:04 am Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of Sokoto, Nigeria, said Islam “has to rescue itself from extremists.”
The bishop made the comments in an interview with Catholic New York during a...
Resist 'ideological colonization', Cardinal Sarah urges at prayer breakfast
EWTN - US Latest News - May 18, 2016 at 7:02 am Washington D.C., May 18, 2016 / 07:02 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Speaking in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, Cardinal Robert Sarah enjoined
Catholics to resist "ideological colonization"...
Resist 'ideological colonization', Cardinal Sarah urges at prayer breakfast
Catholic News Agency - General - May 18, 2016 at 7:02 am Washington D.C., May 18, 2016 / 06:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Speaking in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, Cardinal Robert Sarah enjoined Catholics to resist “ideological colonization”...
Gallery: The 15 Women Farmers You Need to Meet
CatholicMom.com - May 18, 2016 at 7:00 am Catholic Relief Services works with women farmers around the world. Even against everything—climate change, scarce resources and difficult financial circumstances—these women...
Why I wouldn’t want to be a female deacon
Catholic Herald - May 18, 2016 at 6:53 am “Mary, why wouldn’t you become a deacon? It seems like the only logical next step for a woman like yourself who spends so much time availing yourself of the sacraments, why not...
Pope greets Ukrainian children at Wednesday audience
News.va - May 18, 2016 at 6:41 am (Vatican Radio) During this week’s general audience, Pope Francis extended a special greeting to a group of children from Ukraine, who had been brought to the Vatican by the...
Francis: To ignore the poor is to despise God
Vatican Insider - May 18, 2016 at 6:21 am “To ignore God is to despise God” because if I do not open my heart to the poor, that door remains closed to God too and this is terrible”. Pope Francis said this at the General...
Do away with those monks. Signed: Viceroy Graziani
Vatican Insider - May 18, 2016 at 6:15 am It was the biggest massacre of Christian monks ever to be seen in African history. Even bigger than the one carried out in this very same place by the Ottomans, in July 1531. It...
Australian Agency Refuses to Approve Trademark For "McKosher"
The Religion Clause - May 18, 2016 at 6:15 am Australia's ABC News reported last week that the Australian Trademark Office has refused to approve an application to trademark the name "McKosher" because of the danger of...
"Philly Jesus" Says Trespassing Charge Reflects Religious Discrimination
The Religion Clause - May 18, 2016 at 6:10 am Recovered drug addict Michael Grant who is well known as "Philly Jesus" in Center City Philadelphia is defending against defiant trespassing and disorderly conduct charges by...
Pope Francis: ‘To ignore the poor is to despise God’
News.va - May 18, 2016 at 6:10 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis says that to ignore the poor is to despise God and that the Lord’s mercy for us is tightly connected to our own mercy for others.
Speaking on...
