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Republican Vetoes Religious Freedom Bill
Creative Minority Report - Mar 28, 2016 at 2:47 pm Bucking under to media pressure and threatened boycotts from the NFL and the NBA, Republican Georgia Governor Nathan Deal has vetoed religious freedom legislation. The media keep...
RIP Mother Angelica: Some media were more prepared for this big story than others
GetReligion - Mar 28, 2016 at 2:44 pm
Mother Angelica probably appreciated the fact that she died yesterday -- Easter Sunday. A few savvy folks in the secular media who knew of her fame and quickly posted stories...
Canadian Group for Physician Assistants Wants to Force Members to Assist Suicides
LifeNews.com - Mar 28, 2016 at 2:41 pm How radical is Canada’s pending euthanasia scourge likely to become? Beyond anything I would have predicted even a year ago.
No place in the world that permits active lethal...
St. Mary's mourns
New Liturgical Movement - Mar 28, 2016 at 2:23 pm The Parish of St. Mary's, Norwalk (CT), marked Good Friday with the renewal of a long-standing tradition: the procession of the dead Christ through the streets with Our Lady of...
The Spiritual Legacy of Mother Angelica
Aleteia - Mar 28, 2016 at 2:16 pm Mother Angelica, one of the most significant figures in the post-conciliar Catholic Church in America, has died after a fourteen-year struggle with the after effects of a stroke....
Satanists Defend Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic From Pro-Lifers on Good Friday
LifeNews.com - Mar 28, 2016 at 2:15 pm Pro-life Christians who were praying peacefully outside of a Michigan abortion clinic on Good Friday faced mockery as they remembered Jesus’ death on the cross.
The Pro-Life...
Freedom of speech gets bumpy ride on U.S. college campuses
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Mar 28, 2016 at 2:11 pm College campuses, once considered bastions of free expression, have been erring so much on the side of caution and fear of offending others that many say they are stifling free...
The spiritual legacy of Mother Angelica
OSV Daily Take - Mar 28, 2016 at 2:11 pm Mother Angelica, one of the most significant figures in the post-conciliar Catholic Church in America, has died after a 14-year struggle with the after effects of a stroke. I can...
Abortion Activist Complains: This is the Main Reason Why Women Don’t Get Late-Term Abortions
LifeNews.com - Mar 28, 2016 at 2:05 pm Ann Furedi comments on late-term abortions and women’s reluctance to get them [1]:
“Many women, who would have few qualms about opting for a pregnancy to be terminated in its...
Judge Strikes Down Alabama Pro-Life Law That Would Close Four of Five Abortion Clinics
LifeNews.com - Mar 28, 2016 at 12:49 pm An Alabama judge sided with abortion clinics Friday and overturned a law requiring that they have hospital admitting privileges for emergency situations.
U.S. District Judge Mryon...
100 Years of Dominicana!
Dominicana - Mar 28, 2016 at 12:36 pm This is a banner year for the Dominican Order. We are celebrating 800 years of the Order of Preachers! Visit our provincial jubilee website and our worldwide jubilee website for...
Brutally Raped by a Relative, I Never Considered Abortion. She’s Not the Rapist’s Baby, She’s Mine
LifeNews.com - Mar 28, 2016 at 12:34 pm As a first generation immigrant from the Caribbean islands, life really came at me fast. In November 2010, at 17 years old, after a lifetime of physical and emotional abuse at the...
Buona Pasquetta!
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Mar 28, 2016 at 12:12 pm It is Easter Monday. In Rome and all over Italy, everything is pretty much closed up for what they call “Pasquetta” (Little Easter) and also “Lunedì dell’Angelo” (Angel Monday),...
Christians ‘facing genocide’ in Pakistan, human rights activists claim
Catholic Herald - Mar 28, 2016 at 12:01 pm Christians in Pakistan are facing genocide at the hands of Islamist extremists, human rights activists have claimed after a suicide bomb in a children’s park killed more than 70...
Baby Who Screamed for an Hour While Left to Die After Botched Abortion Causes Global Outrage
LifeNews.com - Mar 28, 2016 at 11:52 am A newborn baby’s death after a botched abortion in Poland has sparked global outrage and renewed calls for protections for babies in the European nation.
Last week, The Global...
Did these 10 prayers really change the world?
Catholic Hot Dish - Mar 28, 2016 at 11:51 am Throughout the centuries believers of every faith tradition have appealed to God or gods for help when human means fail.
But is there such a thing as divine intervention in...
Pregnant Mom Diagnosed With Terminal Cancer at 28 Weeks Delays Treatment to Save Her Baby’s Life
LifeNews.com - Mar 28, 2016 at 11:35 am Stories about how little respect current laws give unborn babies are all too common. Reminders that some women fight for their unborn babies, and put them even before themselves,...
Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Easter [Divine Mercy Sunday] April 3, 2016, Year C
Big C Catholics - Mar 28, 2016 at 11:30 am Fr. Charles Irvin
Senior Priest
Diocese of Lansing
(Click here for today’s readings)
There’s a lot of skepticism in our world these days. We are skeptical about the war in Iraq:...
From the Archives: Five Ideas to Celebrate the Easter Season
CatholicMom.com - Mar 28, 2016 at 11:30 am
This Easter, plan on going for your own Emmaus walk. Photo via geograph.org.uk.
“O Death, where is your sting? O Hell, where is your victory? Christ is risen, and you are...
There is no confirmation that Fr. Tom Uzhunnalil was crucified on Good Friday
Catholic News Agency - General - Mar 28, 2016 at 11:24 am Aden, Yemen, Mar 28, 2016 / 10:24 am (CNA).- Reports claiming that a kidnapped priest in Yemen was crucified over the weekend are likely false and irresponsible, the local bishop...
