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Meatless Friday: Italian Vegetable Stew (Ciambotta)
CatholicMom.com - Nov 10, 2017 at 7:30 am
Italian Vegetable Stew (Ciambotta, or Giambotta)
I love one-pot cooking, especially when healthy meets creative inside a Dutch oven or soup pot! Ciambotta, a rich and hearty...
Pope condemns possession of nuclear weapons in shift from church’s acceptance of deterrence
Vatican Insider - Nov 10, 2017 at 7:14 am Pope Francis has openly denounced the continuing possession of nuclear weapons by various world governments, in what appears to be a departure from the Roman Catholic Church’s...
Pope Francis: Despite naysayers, there's hope for a nuke-free world
EWTN - Vatican News - Nov 10, 2017 at 7:10 am Vatican City, Nov 10, 2017 / 07:18 am (EWTN News/CNA).- In a key speech on the global effort to eradicate nuclear arms, Pope
Francis called the weapons immoral and said they...
Proposed tax bill has 'unconscionable' flaws, US bishops say
EWTN - US Latest News - Nov 10, 2017 at 7:02 am Washington D.C., Nov 10, 2017 / 07:02 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Proposed tax legislation under consideration in Congress needs many changes to avoid further harming the poor, the U.S....
Driving home the loneliness of my Dad’s journey
Aleteia - Nov 10, 2017 at 7:00 am How simple it would have been to just have picked up the phone and been there for him.My father had a blue Mustang. He bought it the first year of what would be 13 years of cancer...
Why Does the Modern Age Need the Mass of the Ages? An Interview with Peter Kwasniewski by Roseanne T. Sullivan
New Liturgical Movement - Nov 10, 2017 at 7:00 am Our thanks go once again to Roseanne T. Sullivan, this time for sharing with us her interview with our own Dr Peter Kwasniewski, concerning his recent book.RTS: In your new book...
Worsening natural disasters prompt greater awareness of climate change
Franciscan Media - Nov 10, 2017 at 6:23 am WASHINGTON (CNS) — Elizabeth Disco-Shearer, CEO of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul-USA’s Disaster Services Corp., has become a road warrior.
Since Sept. 3, Disco-Shearer has...
Pope Francis: Despite naysayers, there's hope for a nuke-free world
Catholic News Agency - General - Nov 10, 2017 at 6:18 am Vatican City, Nov 10, 2017 / 05:18 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In a key speech on the global effort to eradicate nuclear arms, Pope Francis called the weapons immoral and said they...
NY Voters Approve Kiryas Joel Becoming Separate Town
The Religion Clause - Nov 10, 2017 at 6:15 am JTA reports on Tuesday's election results in the town of Monroe, New York where voters by over an 80% majority approved a proposal that will allow the Village of Kiryas Joel to...
Judge Says Suit Charging Campus Anti-Semitism Should be Refiled With Focus On Current Situation
The Religion Clause - Nov 10, 2017 at 6:10 am Jewish News of Northern California reports that after a 57-minute pretrial hearing in Mandel v. Board of Trustees of the California State University, federal district court Judge...
9th Circuit Hears Oral Arguments In School Board Invocation Case
The Religion Clause - Nov 10, 2017 at 6:05 am Yesterday the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments (video of full oral arguments) in Freedom From Religion foundation v. Chino Unified School District. In the...
This African-American musician makes it his mission to befriend the KKK
Aleteia - Nov 10, 2017 at 6:00 am Daryl Davis collects robes of former Klansmen whom he convinced to quit the group.The imperial wizard is the top national leader of the Ku Klux Klan. That position was once held...
Book Notes: The Peace of Christmas
CatholicMom.com - Nov 10, 2017 at 6:00 am
The peace of Christmas: oh, yes, please. Bring on all the peace. I don’t know about you, but as Christmas nears, I feel far more frantic than peaceful.
Diane Houdek might as well...
Missouri Offers State Employees Health Policies That Exclude Abortion, Contraception, Sterilization
The Religion Clause - Nov 10, 2017 at 6:00 am As previously reported, last year a Missouri federal district court in Wieland v. HHS enjoined the federal government from enforcing the Affordable Care Act against a state...
Stop calling bishops ‘spineless nerds and sycophantic half-wits’, Irish priests told
Catholic Herald - Nov 10, 2017 at 5:30 am Irish priests should stop calling their bishops “spineless nerds and sycophantic half-wits”, a former abbot has said. Dom Mark Patrick Hederman, retired Abbot of Glenstal, told a...
Pro-lifers outside clinic gave me strength to keep my baby, mother tells MPs
Catholic Herald - Nov 10, 2017 at 5:13 am Parliament has heard of how a woman changed her mind about having an abortion thanks to the kindness of pro-lifers outside the clinic. Sir Edward Leigh, the Conservative MP, read...
Archbishop Chaput speaks on Amoris Laetitia and the nature of mercy (Archdiocese of Philadelphia)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 10, 2017 at 5:11 am “As with all papal documents regarding faith and morals, if any confusion exists in a text, it must be interpreted consistent with the magisterium of previous popes,” the...
Local churches reassess security in wake of Sutherland Springs shooting (KPRC-TV)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 10, 2017 at 5:11 am “We have to be realistic about the reality of evil in the world,” said a Houston priest.
EU, African bishops issue statement ahead of EU-African Union summit (COMECE)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 10, 2017 at 5:11 am Youth “face new, wayward ideologies regarding culture, the sanctity of human life, marriage and the family, and loss of spirituality in a world where a materialistic culture is...
