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How Typical Lector Praxis Transmits a Pelagian and Protestant Message
New Liturgical Movement - Jan 15, 2018 at 7:00 am When I attended Thomas Aquinas College in California from 1990 to 1994, one of the first things I noticed about their Novus Ordo liturgies — apart from the startling fact that the...
One Count Dismissed In Michigan Female Genital Mutilation Case
The Religion Clause - Jan 15, 2018 at 6:10 am A Detroit (MI) federal district court yesterday dismissed the most serious of seven charges against two doctors indicted for their involvement in alleged female genital mutilation...
Belief In Government Corruption Is Not a "Religious" Belief
The Religion Clause - Jan 15, 2018 at 6:05 am The Daily Sentinel reports that last Thursday a Colorado federal district court jury found Rocky Hutson guilty on multiple fraud charges. Hutson, a member of the sovereign...
Recent Articles and Books of Interest
The Religion Clause - Jan 15, 2018 at 6:00 am From SSRN:
Matthew S. Erie, The Afterlife of Property: Affect, Time, Value, (Legalism: Property and Ownership, edited by Hannah Skoda, Tom Lambert, and Georgy Kantor. Oxford...
All I want for Christmas: Gifts and Virtues
CatholicMom.com - Jan 15, 2018 at 6:00 am Copyright 2018 Marya Hayes. All rights reserved.
We had just finished Christmas shopping, and my husband had just bought some comfy Lululemon tights for me, and matching plaid...
500,000-year-old “picnic site” in Israel surprises archaeologists
Aleteia - Jan 15, 2018 at 6:00 am A trail of garbage indicates that pre-historic people had their favorite meeting spots, too.The discovery of pre-historic “picnic site” or meeting spot next to a highway in Israel...
Bishop outraged by ‘hypocrisy’ of locked churches
Catholic Herald - Jan 15, 2018 at 5:04 am A bishop has criticised Catholic churches that remain locked during the day, and called in them to stay open like their Anglican counterparts. Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth...
Bishop Schneider explains the Kazakh profession of truths on marriage (CNA)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 15, 2018 at 5:01 am Click here for additional coverage of the Kazakh statement, which strongly reaffirmed the traditional teachings of the Catholic Church on marriage and said that the popular...
Barcelona cardinal calls for social cohesion, harmony (CWN)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 15, 2018 at 5:01 am Cardinal Juan José Omella of Barcelona has issued a pastoral letter calling for harmony and social cohesion in Catalonia.
Yeah, he’d been homeless … but he was my friend
Aleteia - Jan 15, 2018 at 5:00 am You don’t know Joe. Even if you did know him, you probably didn’t know the Joe I did.It feels like all I have left from him is some Camel cigarette merchandise I won’t ever use, a...
Cardinal Tobin reflects on women and the Church (America)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 15, 2018 at 4:01 am Cardinal Joseph Tobin was installed as archbishop of Newark in 2017.
Cardinal laments resurgence of terrorism, says Nigerians have lost confidence in government (CWN)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 15, 2018 at 4:01 am Nigeria’s leading prelate told the Italian bishops’ news agency that the “great majority” of Nigerians have lost confidence in the government of President Muhammadu Buhari, who...
Cap set on number of visitors to save the Taj Mahal from wear (AsiaNews)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 15, 2018 at 4:01 am 6.5 million tourists visited the Taj Mahal in 2016; it was built by the Muslim Mughal emperor in the mid-1600s as a mausoleum for his favorite wife.
Pope Francis: It’s a sin if fear makes us hostile to migrants
Catholic Herald - Jan 15, 2018 at 3:39 am Pope Francis has defined hostility and rejection of refugees and migrants as sin, encouraging people to overcome their “fully comprehensible” fears that these new arrivals might “...
The Pope, “I fear a nuclear war, we are at the limit”
Vatican Insider - Jan 15, 2018 at 3:38 am “I fear a nuclear war, we are at the limit. Pope Francis on the flight to Chile gives journalists a shocking and heartbreaking photo taken in Nagasaki after the atomic bomb: it...
A newly-begun journey, an already-written script, and the “unexpected”
Vatican Insider - Jan 15, 2018 at 3:10 am On the eve of Pope Francis’ journey to Chile and Peru, tensions, discontents and even violent acts unleash on the umpteenth apostolic visit of the Bishop of Rome to his home...
A Pope is back to the Moneda after Pinochet’s “balconazo”
Vatican Insider - Jan 15, 2018 at 3:05 am On the morning of Tuesday 16 January, just a few hours away, Pope Francis will cross the threshold of the Moneda presidential palace in Santiago de Chile. President Salvador...
Pope Francis reflects on seeking, encountering, and following Jesus (Zenit)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 15, 2018 at 3:01 am During his January 14 Angelus address (video), Pope Francis reflected on John 1:35-42, the Gospel reading at Sunday Mass.
Papal appointments include appointment of Cardinal Mahony as special envoy (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 15, 2018 at 3:01 am On January 13, Pope Francis appointed three consultors to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints and named Cardinal Roger Mahony as his special envoy to the celebration of the...
Welcome, know, and acknowledge migrants and refugees, Pope urges at Mass (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 15, 2018 at 3:01 am Click here for the video and here for the booklet for Mass for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees (background), celebrated on January 14 in St. Peter’s Basilica.
