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Sacramento bishop leads prayer after northern California shooting
EWTN - US Latest News - Nov 14, 2017 at 4:54 am Baltimore, Md., Nov 14, 2017 / 04:54 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Notifying his fellow bishops of "a terrible shooting" in his diocese,
Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento led them in prayer...
Abortion info required at pro-life centers? Supreme Court takes up case
EWTN - US Latest News - Nov 14, 2017 at 4:45 am Washington D.C., Nov 14, 2017 / 04:45 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- The U.S. Supreme Court has announced that it will consider a California
law that requires pro-life pregnancy centers to...
Pope Francis pens letter to disabled soldier he met in Colombia
Catholic News Agency - General - Nov 14, 2017 at 3:52 am Bogotá, Colombia, Nov 14, 2017 / 02:52 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis sent a handwritten letter to a disabled soldier he met in Colombia this fall, thanking him for a special...
Daily Gospel Reflection for November 14, 2017
CatholicMom.com - Nov 14, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: Luke 17:7-10
I’m leaning against the dryer, keeping the door shut while shoes tumble. Bedbugs have infested my son’s room, the unwanted hitchhikers of a friend who...
800th anniversary of St. Bonaventure's birth (Pontifical Gregorian University)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 14, 2017 at 3:11 am The new prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is taking part in an international conference honoring St. Bonaventure (c. 1217-74), the Seraphic Doctor.
Philippines: Muslim militants desecrate Catholic chapel on Mindanao (UCANews)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 14, 2017 at 3:11 amIn signal vote, USCCB chooses Archbishop Naumann to head pro-life committee (Wall Street Journal)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 14, 2017 at 3:11 am The choice of Archbishop Naumann over Chicago’s Cardinal Blase Cupich, on a closely divided vote, was widely seen as an affirmation of the American bishops’ strong public...
Polish prime minister offers to save St. John Paul II statue after French court orders removal of cross (Catholic Herald)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 14, 2017 at 3:11 amWoman thrown out of Polish church for ‘racism is a sin’ banner
Catholic Herald - Nov 14, 2017 at 3:07 am A protestor was thrown out of a Polish church after unfurling a banner which quoted St John Paul II as saying “racism is a sin”. Gabriela Lazarek was protesting at a Mass in...
Programme of Pope Francis' Apostolic Visit to Peru and Chile released
News.va - Nov 14, 2017 at 2:56 am
(Vatican Radio) The Vatican has released the details of Pope Francis' Apostolic Journey to Peru and Chile, due to take place from the 15th to 22 January 2018.
Please find below...
How Christians are continuing to help hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico
EWTN - US Latest News - Nov 14, 2017 at 2:15 am San Juan, Puerto Rico, Nov 14, 2017 / 02:23 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Seven weeks after Hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico, the majority
of the island is still without power,...
Lebanese prime minister, in Saudi Arabia, denies he's a hostage (Bloomberg)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 14, 2017 at 2:11 am L’Osservatore Romano (11/13-11/14 Italian ed.) devoted front-page coverage to this story.
Central African Republic: tensions flare between Christians, Muslims following explosion at coffee bar (Fides)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 14, 2017 at 2:11 amPax Christi leader weighs in on disarmament, North Korea crisis (Vatican Radio)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 14, 2017 at 2:11 am The Catholic peace organization’s co-president said that “to even threaten to obliterate the North Korean people” is “morally unacceptable, it’s an unconscionable idea.”
Eritrea seen as 'Africa's North Korea' (Omnis Terra)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 14, 2017 at 2:11 am Omnis Terra is published by the Pontifical Mission Societies.
Religious freedom advances in Indonesia as high court recognizes indigenous beliefs (AsiaNews)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 14, 2017 at 2:11 am The largely Muslim nation had previously recognized only Islam, Catholicism, Protestantism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism.
Bishops warn that Kenya 'is now threatened with disintegration and conflict' (Fides)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 14, 2017 at 2:11 am The prelates have organized a National Dialogue Forum to help diffuse political tensions. Kenya is 60% Protestant, 23% Catholic, and 11% Muslim.
Zambian prelates discuss youth leaving Church for Protestantism (Vatican Radio)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 14, 2017 at 2:11 am The nation’s leading prelate spoke of the “trend of young people leaving the Catholic Church in pursuit of the Gospel of prosperity as preached by some Evangelical Pentecostal...
Brazilian Franciscan brother arrested in Zimbabwe, freed (Vatican Radio)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 14, 2017 at 2:11 am Brother Rodrigo Peret spoke out on behalf of Zimbabwe residents who were being forced from their homes and lands because of mining.
