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Speaker tells Vatican conference: Reducing population is best solution to climate ‘crisis’
LifeSiteNews - Nov 16, 2017 at 7:59 am In an exclusive interview, a leading Vatican bishop defends the presence of contraception promoters on Pontifical Academies.
Daily Reading for Saturday, November 18th, 2017 HD
Catholic Online - Featured News - Nov 16, 2017 at 7:53 am Reading 1, Wisdom 18:14-16; 19:6-9
14 When peaceful silence lay over all, and night had run the half of her swift course,
15 down from the heavens, ...
Council votes 33-1 to ban pro-life vigil attended by bishop
Catholic Herald - Nov 16, 2017 at 7:36 am Portsmouth city council has become the second local authority in Britain to vote in favour of banning pro-life vigils outside an abortion clinic. The motion, for the council to “...
Souls Guided Safely Past Hell
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November offers a unique spirituality in the prayers for the deceased. In the northern hemisphere we experience the dormancy of nature, a...
Pope addresses end-of-life issues
News.va - Nov 16, 2017 at 7:26 am (Vatican Radio) When faced with the new challenges that arise with regard to “end-of-life” issues, “the categorical imperative is to never abandon the sick.” In a letter to...
‘Papal’ Lamborghini gift to be auctioned off for charity
Franciscan Media - Nov 16, 2017 at 7:01 am VATICAN CITY (CNS) — While a Lamborghini would make a stylish popemobile, Pope Francis has decided to auction off the one he was given by the Italian automaker to aid several...
Solanus Casey: The humble “doorkeeper” priest who will fill a football stadium on Saturday
Aleteia - Nov 16, 2017 at 7:00 am This will be the largest Catholic event to take place in Detroit since St. John Paul II visited there in 1987. On November 18, 2017, a great event will take place at Ford Field in...
EF Solemn Mass to be Offered at National Catholic Youth Conference on Friday
New Liturgical Movement - Nov 16, 2017 at 7:00 am Every two years, over 25,000 young people attend the National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC), which for the past three years has been held in Indianapolis at Lucas Oil Stadium...
House passes contentious tax plan despite bishops' warnings
EWTN - US Latest News - Nov 16, 2017 at 6:37 am Washington D.C., Nov 16, 2017 / 06:37 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a major tax reform bill, which had drawn caution from the U.S. bishops,...
Another profession closed to Christians?
Catholic Herald - Nov 16, 2017 at 6:10 am Felix Ngole is a Christian who was thrown off a social work course at Sheffield University because he wrote on Facebook in 2015 that he supported the Kentucky registrar who had...
We’ve nothing to fear from Freud
Catholic Herald - Nov 16, 2017 at 6:10 am ‘Is Freud Dead?” asked Time magazine on its front cover in November 1993. I was an undergraduate student in psychology in Canada at the time when this cover assaulted my plans to...
The unlikely champions of married priests
Catholic Herald - Nov 16, 2017 at 6:10 am Charles Kingsley, the author of The Water-Babies, was a notorious baiter of papists. He viewed celibacy in our clergy, and that of John Henry Newman in particular, as a mark of...
OSCE Holds Hearings On Religious Freedom Violations
The Religion Clause - Nov 16, 2017 at 6:05 am The U.S. Helsinki Commission (the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) yesterday held a briefing at the Russell Senate Office Building on Religious Freedom...
Grasping God's Unseen Hand in a Technological Age
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Sr. Margaret continues her series on desert spirituality, sharing snippets of her book...
Scientists conduct first procedure to permanently change a person’s DNA
Aleteia - Nov 16, 2017 at 6:00 am Man with Hunter's syndrome undergoes injection of billions of copies of a corrective gene.Jerome Lejeune was the first to recognize that Down syndrome was caused by an extra copy...
USCIRF Says State Department Is Late In Designating "Countries of Particular Concern"
The Religion Clause - Nov 16, 2017 at 6:00 am The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom issued a press release on Tuesday criticizing the State Department for failing to meet the statutory deadline for...
'Resilience, resistance, and persistence' is theme of annual mainline Protestant ecumenical gathering (National Council of Churches)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 16, 2017 at 5:11 amPapal message to UN climate change conference (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 16, 2017 at 5:11 am Climate change is “one of the most worrying phenomena our humanity is experiencing,” Pope Francis said in a message to the UN climate conference in Bonn. The Pope warned against 4...
FBI requests Planned Parenthood documents, signaling possible investigation (National Catholic Register)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 16, 2017 at 5:11 amFBI: 62 anti-Catholic hate crimes in 2016 (FBI)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 16, 2017 at 5:11 am Click here for a summary of 2016 hate crime statistics.