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Meet the Only Nun Sentenced to Death by a Nazi Court
Aleteia - Apr 11, 2016 at 11:00 pm Sister Maria Restituta began Lent of 1942 under arrest. She was taken on Ash Wednesday. Her crime: “hanging crucifixes.” She was sentenced to death. The following year, on Tuesday...
One Is the Loneliest Number…Especially at Mass
Aleteia - Apr 11, 2016 at 11:00 pm Dear Crescat, I find it too painful to go to church some Sundays. I’m 42, never married and have no kids. Every Sunday morning, when I’m sitting alone in church surrounded by...
Writing Worship Songs Without Forgetting Whom You’re Worshipping
Aleteia - Apr 11, 2016 at 11:00 pm “I don’t just want songs to fill a record. I want to hear from heaven. I want to write your heart.” It’s a challenge every artist faces: How do you perform the same song night in...
Happy Birthday, Beverly Cleary
Commonweal - Apr 11, 2016 at 8:53 pm The author Beverly Cleary—whose fiction for children introduced the world to Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, Ralph S. Mouse, and many other well-loved characters—celebrates her...
Bulldozed for a shopping mall? What might happen to these Church ruins
Catholic News Agency - General - Apr 11, 2016 at 7:13 pm Gaza City, Apr 11, 2016 / 06:13 pm (CNA).- Newly uncovered ancient ruins of Byzantine-era church are threatened by the construction of a commercial shopping mall in Gaza, with...
Book Reviews: Handed Down, Saints Who Battled Satan, Messy & Foolish
The Curt Jester - Apr 11, 2016 at 5:57 pm Handed Down: The Catholic Faith of the Early Christians by Jim Papandrea. Published by Catholic Answers Press.
There are plenty of Catholic apologetic books showing the falseness...
My Son Was Conceived in Rape, But That Doesn’t Negate His Value or Humanity
LifeNews.com - Apr 11, 2016 at 5:41 pm We live in a country of equivocation. “I’m a vegetarian — but I eat chicken.” “I’ve been completely faithful — except for that one weekend in Vegas.” Or, “I am pro-life —...
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf Threatens to Veto Bill to Ban Dismemberment Abortions
LifeNews.com - Apr 11, 2016 at 5:02 pm Abortion activists in Pennsylvania are putting up a fight against a new bill to ban painful late-term abortions and gruesome dismemberment abortion procedures in the state....
Europe Council charges Italy with discrimination because few doctors perform abortions
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 11, 2016 at 4:58 pm The Council of Europe has complained that Italian women face "significant difficulty" in finding abortion providers, and therefore the country is violating women's ...
55-Year-Old Grandmother Becomes the Oldest Mother of Triplets
LifeNews.com - Apr 11, 2016 at 4:51 pm Sharon Cutts was already a mother of four grown children and a grandmother when she gave birth to triplets in March.
The Daily Mail reports the 55-year-old grandmother has been...
Italian bishops conference spokesman decries TV appearance by son of Mafia boss
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 11, 2016 at 4:51 pm The secretary-general of the Italian bishops' conference has vowed that he will never appear on a television show that featured an interview with the son of a convicted Mafia ...
Card. Burke’s reaction to #AmorisLaetitia !
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Apr 11, 2016 at 4:50 pm The National Catholic Register has His Eminence Raymond Card. Burke’s reaction to the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris laetitia.
Here is a key bit with my emphases:
[T]he...
A Brief Word on Cardinal Burke's Response
Saint Louis Catholic - Apr 11, 2016 at 4:48 pm I don't have time at the moment to give anything like my comprehensive thoughts on the statement given by Cardinal Burke in response to the sexhortation, but I did want to make...
Another reaction to #Amoris laetitia – “The cowardice and hubris of Pope Francis” (Hang on tight!)
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Apr 11, 2016 at 4:44 pm Reactions to Amoris laetitia, the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation (I’m getting tired of typing that out), are mixed between cloying gushes and frustrated contempt.
The...
Will turkey scouting pay off?
Catholic Hot Dish - Apr 11, 2016 at 4:32 pm We all hear about the importance of scouting in preparing for a hunt. I learned firsthand during a trip down to two adjoining properties I will turkey hunt near Red Wing when...
Bishop praises Little Sisters for ‘courageous witness’ in mandate fight
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Apr 11, 2016 at 4:22 pm NOTRE DAME, Ind. — A standing ovation in a packed Basilica of the Sacred Heart at the University of Notre Dame greeted the Little Sisters of the Poor who were on campus April 9 to...
Judge: Pro-Life Group Can Expose How Stericycle Disposes of Babies Planned Parenthood Aborts
LifeNews.com - Apr 11, 2016 at 4:17 pm A disposal company that works with Planned Parenthood failed to stop a pro-life group from exposing its connection to the abortion industry this week.
The pro-life group Created...
Life Advocacy Group Defeats Speech Injunction Attempt By Planned Parenthood Waste Disposal Company
Thomas More Society - Apr 11, 2016 at 4:10 pm Thomas More Society Delivers Created Equal Victory Against Stericycle’s Corporate “Bullying”
The Thomas More Society, a national non-profit law firm, delivered a win for pro-...
Pope Francis: “Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide are a Threat to Families Worldwide”
LifeNews.com - Apr 11, 2016 at 3:50 pm Pope Francis once again proves himself to be a powerful pro-life voice with his latest apostolic exhortation, Amoris Laetitia, Latin for the “Joy of Love.”
Showing that he has his...
Pope: “Do I Look Those Who Ask Me for Help in the Face?”
Aleteia - Apr 11, 2016 at 3:47 pm “Am I able to look into the face of those who ask me for help?” This is the question Pope Francis put to the over 40,000 faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square for this Saturday’...
