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Pakistan: cause opens for beatification of slain government official, Shahbaz Bhatti
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 2, 2016 at 4:32 pm Church officials in Pakistan are collecting testimony for the cause of beatification of Shahbaz Bhatti, the government official who was killed in 2011 because of his support for...
Sister Helen Prejean recounts early years in fight against death penalty
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Mar 2, 2016 at 4:30 pm “They killed a man with fire one night. They strapped him in a wooden chair and pumped electricity through his body until he was dead,” Sister Helen Prejean told an audience in...
Pennsylvania grand jury finds widespread abuse, cover-ups in Allentown diocese
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 2, 2016 at 4:24 pm The attorney general of Pennsylvania has released a scalding report from a grand jury that found evidence of a widespread cover-up of sexual abuse in the Diocese of Allentown....
Cardinal Müller repeats: no change in Church teaching on divorce
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 2, 2016 at 4:17 pm The prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has underlined his stand against any change in Church teaching on marriage and divorce, in a pair of German-language...
Fresh start: Pope calls for integration of divorced into Church life
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Mar 2, 2016 at 4:16 pm Pope’s document on family synods expected by Easter
Europe must recover spiritual roots, Pope tells French visitors
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 2, 2016 at 4:06 pm "Europe is the only continent that can bring some sort of unity to the world," Pope Francis said in a March 2 meeting with a small group of Christian socialists from France.
In a...
The Mount at a Crossroads
Commonweal - Mar 2, 2016 at 3:56 pm The world of Catholic higher education -- and indeed, the worlds of Catholicism, of higher education, and simply the world in general -- got welcome news Monday evening when it...
Court hears oral arguments in challenge to Texas abortion restrictions
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Mar 2, 2016 at 3:55 pm The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in its first abortion case in nine years March 2 in a challenge by Texas abortion clinics to a 2013 state law that requires them to...
The Philosophical Developments That Led to Saint John Paul II’s Theology of the Body
Big C Catholics - Mar 2, 2016 at 3:52 pm Matthew
Coffin
This post examines the principal philosophical developments that led to the Theology of the Body. Major schools
of thought have been greatly oversimplified in order...
Trump praises Planned Parenthood again, slams ‘so-called conservatives’ who disagree
LifeSiteNews - Mar 2, 2016 at 3:52 pm 'Planned Parenthood has done very good work for millions of women,' he said in his Super Tuesday victory speech.
Congresswoman Slams Sale of Aborted Babies at Hearing: “This is the Amazon.com for Baby Parts”
LifeNews.com - Mar 2, 2016 at 3:51 pm During a Congressional hearing today, Representative Diane Black, a nurse of more than 40 years, slammed the sale of aborted baby parts during her question and answer session with...
Pope Francis will hear confessions on Friday at St. Peter's
Catholic News Agency - General - Mar 2, 2016 at 3:46 pm Vatican City, Mar 2, 2016 / 02:46 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The office of Pontifical Liturgical Celebrations has announced that Pope Francis will hear confessions from the faithful at...
I aborted 1200 babies. I regret every single one of them.
LifeSiteNews - Mar 2, 2016 at 3:42 pm How do you make up for the 1,200 dead kids? You can’t.
The Irony Behind the Oscar for Spotlight
Big C Catholics - Mar 2, 2016 at 3:24 pm Phil Lawler, editor of Catholic World News, has an excellent piece in First Things about the Oscar winning movie Spotlight. Separately, [via Catholic Culture] he observes the...
Model Katie Price: I Would Have Had an Abortion Had I Known My Son Would Be Blind
LifeNews.com - Mar 2, 2016 at 3:22 pm After glamour model Katie Price gave birth to her son Harvey at age 23, she learned that he had a series of disabilities: a rare genetic condition called Prader-Willi syndrome,...
Lord Sacks wins Templeton Prize
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 2, 2016 at 3:18 pm Lord Jonathan Sacks, the former Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, has been named as the winner of the 2016 Templeton Prize for "affirming life's spiritual dimension."
Lord ...
Cardinal Pell sets up meeting with abuse victims, as critics call for resignation
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 2, 2016 at 3:10 pm Cardinal George Pell has arranged to meet privately with sex-abuse victims on Thursday, March 3, as he continues to testify before an Australian royal commission investigating the...
SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments In Texas Abortion Regulation Case
The Religion Clause - Mar 2, 2016 at 2:59 pm The U.S. Supreme Court today heard oral arguments in one of the most important abortion cases to reach it in some time, Whole Women's Health v. Hellerstedt. The full transcript...
Australian abuse commission will recall elderly bishop for questioning
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 2, 2016 at 2:58 pm A retired Australian bishop is being recalled to testify before an Australian royal commission on sexual abuse, despite the fact that he is terminally ill.
Bishop Ronald Mulkearns...
Vatican newspaper publishes arguments for allowing women to preach at Mass
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 2, 2016 at 2:53 pm The Vatican newspaper has published essays suggesting that women should be allowed to preach at Mass.
Under existing canon law, only priests and deacons are authorized to preach...
