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[Video] My 3-Year-Old Son Saying Mass on Easter
Brandon Vogt - Mar 29, 2016 at 7:49 am When our family arrived home after Mass on Easter Sunday, our three-year-old son Augustine announced that he wanted to say Mass himself.
(Partly because he’s pious, partly because...
Closing of Canada’s religious freedom office could spell trouble for human rights
Catholic News Agency - General - Mar 29, 2016 at 7:44 am Quebec City, Canada, Mar 29, 2016 / 06:44 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Canada’s decision to defund its Office of Religious Freedom will harm the country’s ability to defend religious...
Church leaders: Denial about Bosnian war crimes must end
Catholic Herald - Mar 29, 2016 at 7:40 am Church leaders in Bosnia-Herzegovina said a 40-year sentence against former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, convicted of genocide and nine other charges, will not secure...
Papal condolences following terrorist attack in Iraq
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 29, 2016 at 7:30 am Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, has sent a message of condolence in the Holy Father’s name following an ISIS suicide bombing at a soccer game in ...
So what cause brought the Rev. Larry Russell Dawson (with a gun) to the U.S. Capitol?
GetReligion - Mar 29, 2016 at 7:16 am So here are the basics about that tense drama that unfolded yesterday at the U.S. Capitol, in which a protestor pulled a gun and was shot by police.
The protestor was an African-...
Catholic leaders reflect on life and work of EWTN founder Mother Angelica
Catholic Herald - Mar 29, 2016 at 7:02 am Mother Angelica “reflected the Gospel commission to go forth and make disciples of all nations” said Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, president of the US bishops’...
March Adoremus Bulletin
New Liturgical Movement - Mar 29, 2016 at 7:00 am The latest edition of the Adoremus Bulletin is now out, you can read it online here.This is a particular rich (and attractively designed issue). The Adoremus Bulletin does now...
Mercy’s the word in wake of Pakistan attack
Vatican Insider - Mar 29, 2016 at 6:30 am Many of them were faithful who had attended the Easter liturgy in the two nearby churches of the Assemblies of God, a Pentecostal community that also runs a student college in...
Israel permits young Gaza Christians to celebrate Easter in Jerusalem
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 29, 2016 at 6:24 am For the first time in eight years, Israeli officials have permitted Christians from the Palestinian territory of Gaza who are under the age of 35 to travel to Jerusalem for ...
Suit Challenges Pennsylvania City's Abortion Clinic Buffer Zone
The Religion Clause - Mar 29, 2016 at 6:20 am Last week, three women who regularly act as pro-life "sidewalk counselors" outside two abortion clinics filed suit in a Pennsylvania federal district court challenging the...
Arbitration Clause In Mosque's By-Laws Covers Misappropriation Claims
The Religion Clause - Mar 29, 2016 at 6:20 am In Matahen v. Sehwail, (NJ App., March 24, 2016), members of a local mosque sued claiming that defendants (also members of the mosque) misused the mosque's credit card for...
Bangladesh Court Throws Out Petition Seeking To End Islam As State Religion
The Religion Clause - Mar 29, 2016 at 6:10 am As reported by Voice of America, yesterday a 3-judge panel of Bangladesh's High Court rejected on procedural grounds a controversial petition filed 28-years ago seeking to...
Middle East patriarchs plead for peace in the region
Catholic Herald - Mar 29, 2016 at 6:09 am Catholic patriarchs of the Middle East, in their Easter messages, pleaded for peace and urged their faithful to regard the risen Christ as a sign of hope.
Lebanese Cardinal...
Wedding Chapel That Objects To Performing Same-Sex Ceremonies Lacks Standing For Most of Its Challenges
The Religion Clause - Mar 29, 2016 at 6:05 am In 2014, two Christian ministers and their wedding chapel known as the Hitching Post brought suit in an Idaho federal district court to enjoin the city of Coeur d'Alene from...
Holy Tunic displayed in France for veneration of faithful
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 29, 2016 at 6:02 am The Holy Tunic of Christ, a relic venerated in Argenteuil, France, since the Middle Ages, has been displayed for the veneration of the faithful at the Basilica of Saint Denys....
From the Archives: A God with Toes
CatholicMom.com - Mar 29, 2016 at 6:00 am
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To understand the truth of the Incarnation – that the immortal God, in the Person of Jesus Christ, became a man – we have the...
Suit Challenges North Carolina's Anti-Transgender Law
The Religion Clause - Mar 29, 2016 at 6:00 am The ACLU, Equality North Carolina and three individuals yesterday filed a federal lawsuit challenging a statute enacted last week in North Carolina which bars transgender...
Pope asks Pakistan government to ensure safety of Christians
Franciscan Media - Mar 29, 2016 at 6:00 am VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis appealed to the government of Pakistan to take steps to ensure the safety of the country's Christians and other minorities the day after a...
Boston U. alum murdered in Congo was martyr, says Assumptionist
Franciscan Media - Mar 29, 2016 at 6:00 am WORCESTER, Mass. (CNS) -- A Congolese priest serving in the U.S. said he believes his colleague, a Boston University alumnus gunned down in Congo, was "a martyr of the truth."...
The Power of the Resurrection
Dominicana - Mar 29, 2016 at 5:43 am For many people, Easter is just another holiday, differentiated merely by its pastel color scheme, chocolate bunnies, and Easter egg hunts. But in the Church’s liturgy we are...
