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The Swiss Disease
Commonweal - Mar 1, 2016 at 9:54 am What is it about music boxes that is so captivating? Do any of you out there share this predilection of mine?
This morning my daughter, who just turned ten, dug from the avalanche...
Proposed euthanasia regime would be ‘most extreme in the world’: Canadian MP
LifeSiteNews - Mar 1, 2016 at 9:35 am The 'Liberal report' has 'absolutely no protection for the vulnerable,' warns Brad Trost.
Infanticide: Doctors at This University are Killing Babies Born With Disabilities and It’s Totally Legal
LifeNews.com - Mar 1, 2016 at 9:30 am Doctors at the Groningen University Medical Center commit infanticide.
If a baby is born with serious disabilities–and the death doctors conclude they will have an “unlivable life...
Ordination is call to service, says new Bishop Tighe
OSV Daily Take - Mar 1, 2016 at 9:28 am VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In the presence of family, bishops and priests from Ireland and colleagues from the Vatican, Irish Msgr. Paul Tighe was ordained a bishop Feb. 27 by Cardinal...
For 'Mercy Friday' initiative, pope visits young addicts at rehab center
OSV Daily Take - Mar 1, 2016 at 9:13 am VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In the second of his "Mercy Friday" gestures, Pope Francis spent two hours with a group of young adults at a Catholic-run residential drug rehabilitation...
Abortion Clinic Closes After Owner Doesn’t Tell Landlord He Planned to Abort Babies
LifeNews.com - Mar 1, 2016 at 8:45 am A second abortion clinic in Georgia closed this week after being accused of hiding its abortion business from the landlord and allowing staff to do medical procedures without a...
Mary’s Meals to begin feeding Syrian refugee children in Lebanon
Catholic Herald - Mar 1, 2016 at 8:36 am Global child hunger charity Mary’s Meals is set to launch its first-ever school feeding programme in the Middle East.
In an initial pilot, funded by players of the People’s...
Actress Amy Brenneman: “I Have Never, Not Once” Regretted Aborting My Baby
LifeNews.com - Mar 1, 2016 at 8:35 am Anxious to drown out the voices of pro-lifers in the days just before the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a major abortion case, abortion activists have been publicizing...
Brittany Maynard’s widower lobbies New York pols to legalize euthanasia
LifeSiteNews - Mar 1, 2016 at 8:33 am 'The impact she had ... she was the star,' the husband of the late Brittany Maynard said. 'I'm just doing what I can.'
‘Telemed abortions’ coming to Maine
LifeSiteNews - Mar 1, 2016 at 8:33 am Critics call the process dangerous and irresponsible, 'bloodier' than a surgical abortion.
Cluttered House, Cluttered Spirit
CatholicMom.com - Mar 1, 2016 at 8:30 am
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I’m in the midst of the 40-days-40-bags Lenten challenge that many people are doing this year. You get rid...
It's true: Red and blue Americans literally don't know basic (religion) facts about each other
GetReligion - Mar 1, 2016 at 8:25 am Parson me, while I dig into my deep file of GetReligion guilt. In this case, for a week or so I have been trying to decide how to write a post about a Washington Post political...
Canadian Medical Association decries plan to force doctors into euthanasia referrals
LifeSiteNews - Mar 1, 2016 at 8:20 am The CMA is 'very disappointed' about last week's Parliamentary report.
Pope: forgive like God, who “forgets” sins
Vatican Insider - Mar 1, 2016 at 8:14 am Especially during Lent, we must be prepared to accept God’s forgiveness; but also to forgive, in turn, like God - that is, “forgetting” the faults of others, letting go of wrongs...
Central African archbishop: President has ‘real chance’ of restoring peace
Catholic Herald - Mar 1, 2016 at 8:04 am The head of the Central African Republic bishops’ conference said the country’s new president has a “real chance” of restoring peace and paid tribute to Pope Francis for helping...
For ‘Mercy Friday’ initiative, Pope visits young drug addicts at rehab centre
Catholic Herald - Mar 1, 2016 at 7:54 am In the second of his ‘Mercy Friday’ gestures, Pope Francis spent two hours with a group of young adults at a Catholic-run residential drug rehabilitation centre.
To the complete...
Vatican releases Pope’s Lenten schedule
Catholic Herald - Mar 1, 2016 at 7:42 am The Vatican has released Pope Francis’ liturgical schedule for March and April, including Holy Week and Easter.
The Pope’s schedule includes a penitential celebration and a...
Reminder: Rorate Caeli Purgatorial Society
Rorate Coeli - Mar 1, 2016 at 7:27 am This is our monthly reminder to please enroll Souls of the Rorate Caeli Purgatorial Society. We now stand at 71 priests saying weekly or monthly traditional Latin Masses for the...
Pell questioned about moving a serial pedophile priest
Vatican Insider - Mar 1, 2016 at 7:07 am Cardinal George Pell was questioned about the movement, from parish to parish, of a serial pedophile priest, Gerald Ridsdale, during the time when the current prefect of the...
Why Mercy Makes Us Uncomfortable
CatholicMom.com - Mar 1, 2016 at 7:00 am
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In his second Encyclical, Dives in Misericordia, Saint John Paul II highlighted the fact that we had forgotten the theme of mercy...
