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Court Strikes Down Mississippi's Ban On Adoption By Same-Sex Couples
The Religion Clause - Apr 1, 2016 at 6:13 am In Campaign for Southern Equality v. Mississippi Department of Human Services, (SD MS, March 31, 2016), a Mississippi federal district court issued a preliminary injunction...
Church’s April feasts and devotions
Communio - Apr 1, 2016 at 6:06 am The Church’s Feasts and Devotions for the Month of April.
Alberta’s bishops refuse to compromise with euthanasia: no ‘safeguards’ will do
LifeSiteNews - Apr 1, 2016 at 6:06 am Any 'practical safeguards' would simply be used to advance the euthanasia cause, the bishops warned.
Israel's High Court Recognizes Conversions Performed Outside of the Chief Rabbinate's Jurisdiction
The Religion Clause - Apr 1, 2016 at 6:05 am Israel's High Court of Justice yesterday dealt another blow to the monopoly power of the country's Chief Rabbinate. The Jerusalem Post reports that the Court, in an 8-1 decision...
Carolina controversy: bathroom bills raise questions of safety, privacy
EWTN - US Latest News - Apr 1, 2016 at 6:01 am Charlotte, N.C., Apr 1, 2016 / 06:01 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- The overturn of a Charlotte, North Carolina ordinance allowing biological males to enter women's restrooms helps offer...
What I Learned about Pride from My Two-Year-Old
CatholicMom.com - Apr 1, 2016 at 6:00 am Photo by Fathromi Ramdlon (2016) via Pixabay, CC0 Public Domain.
Opposites are tricky, but opposites are fun. That’s the opening line to a song on Sounds Like Fun, a children’s...
Papal Theologian-emeritus Card. Cottier dies at 93
News.va - Apr 1, 2016 at 6:00 am
(Vatican Radio) Cardinal Georges Marie Cottier, O.P., Theologian-emeritus of the Papal Household, died during the night between 31 March and 1 April 2016 at Rome’s Agostino...
Federal Agencies Adopt Final Rules On Partnering With Faith-Based Organization
The Religion Clause - Apr 1, 2016 at 6:00 am Following up Notices of Proposed Rulemaking issued last August (see prior posting), yesterday, nine federal agencies published their final regulations implementing Executive Order...
The Resurrection was a pretty good day
Dominicana - Apr 1, 2016 at 5:16 am At the end of a particularly good day, my college friends would refer to it as a “slice of the Glory Cake.” The exact origins of the phrase have been lost to the mists of history...
Why Does Liberalism Have “Favored Groups”?
Crisis Magazine - Church - Apr 1, 2016 at 5:10 am
Two recent developments in the news brought into focus the issue of liberalism and favored demographic groups. One was the not unexpected reaction of Hillary Clinton and others...
Bishop to celebrate Mass for victims of Easter attack in Lahore
Catholic Herald - Apr 1, 2016 at 5:02 am Bishop Declan Lang of Clifton is to celebrate Mass for the victims of the Easter Sunday bombing in Lahore, Pakistan.
The Mass will take place at noon tomorrow at St Nicholas of...
Asceticism: The Alternative to “Hope and Change”
Crisis Magazine - Church - Apr 1, 2016 at 5:00 am
In the midst of Trumpmania and the swooning over Bernie Sanders’ Kentucky Fried Socialism, we see, if not blatant calls for political salvation, at least the expectation of it....
Catholic College Teaches Students About ‘Drag Culture,’ an ‘Artistic Expression’
Catholic Education Daily - Apr 1, 2016 at 4:58 am University of Dayton officials legitimized men dressing as women and performing on stage as “an artistic expression in our culture” in comments to The Cardinal Newman Society...
Daily Gospel Reflection for April 1, 2016
CatholicMom.com - Apr 1, 2016 at 4:30 am
Today’s Gospel: John 21, 1-14
Sometimes life can be confusing, difficult and just plain hard, and we get so absorbed in earthly matters, we forget that Jesus is always here with...
Harvest organs from living euthanasia patients, Dutch researchers propose
Catholic Herald - Apr 1, 2016 at 4:21 am Doctors should be given power to kill patients who wish to die from euthanasia by harvesting their organs for transplants while they are still alive, a team of medical researchers...
Funeral marks Mother Angelica's life as a 'faithful bride' to Jesus
EWTN - US Latest News - Apr 1, 2016 at 4:13 am Birmingham, Ala., Apr 1, 2016 / 04:13 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Mother Angelica's life must be viewed in reference to Jesus, the homilist at her funeral Mass said on Friday.
Mother Angelica: A female powerhouse in a supposedly sexist Church
Catholic News Agency - General - Apr 1, 2016 at 4:01 am Irondale, Ala., Apr 1, 2016 / 03:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- It was September 1987, and Pope John Paul II had just arrived in Los Angeles after traveling around the United States. The...
Mother Angelica: A female powerhouse in a supposedly sexist Church
EWTN - US Latest News - Apr 1, 2016 at 4:01 am Irondale, Ala., Apr 1, 2016 / 04:01 am (EWTN News/CNA).- It was September 1987, and Pope John Paul II had just arrived in Los
Angeles after traveling around the United States. The...
Stop the doom and gloom: the statistics show that converts stay Catholic
Catholic Herald - Apr 1, 2016 at 3:44 am As someone who spends a lot of his time dealing with religious statistics, it seems to be my lot in life to be the bearer of bad news. I guess that’s why I don’t get invited to...
Bethlehem and Lourdes strengthen their connections
Vatican Insider - Apr 1, 2016 at 3:42 am Mrs Bourdeu, for what profound reasons did you want to twin the Marian city of Lourdes with that of Bethlehem, where Christ was born?...
