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House hearing on Planned Parenthood set for next Wednesday
LifeSiteNews - Feb 24, 2016 at 6:09 pm The House Select Panel on Infant Lives has scheduled its first hearing.
Lands’ End Apologizes for Promoting Abortion Activist Gloria Steinem
LifeNews.com - Feb 24, 2016 at 5:33 pm The Land’s End clothing company has issued an apology for promoting abortion activists Gloria Steinem in a new interview spread featured in the latest version of its catalog....
Yet another turning point in the search for Hollywood’s Christian market?
GetReligion - Feb 24, 2016 at 5:30 pm Highly secularized showbiz moguls suddenly realized that religion could pay off when Mel Gibson’s 2004 movie “The Passion of the Christ” posted $370 million in box office. That...
Woman Complains Running Abortion Clinic is Hard: “We Want to be Treated Like Other Businesses”
LifeNews.com - Feb 24, 2016 at 5:02 pm In a new Bloomberg piece sympathetic to abortion, abortion clinic owners decried how difficult pro-lifers are making it for them to do business.
Bloomberg reporter Meaghan Winter...
Jordan: the undiscovered Holy Land
CatholicMom.com - Feb 24, 2016 at 5:00 pm You may be surprised to learn that the Holy Land—as a geographic term describing sites associated with the Bible and Jesus—encompasses not one, but five countries: modern day...
St. Kate’s president to take helm at Milwaukee college
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Feb 24, 2016 at 4:58 pm After announcing last fall her plans to resign as president of St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Sister Andrea Lee has accepted the position as president of Alverno College in...
Catholic education staff say action will protect the next generation
The Catholic Leader - Feb 24, 2016 at 4:53 pm CATHOLIC education staff member Ian Hughes is worried the next generation of the sector’s educators will not last five years under the present workload and wages.Mr Hughes is a...
Little Sisters of the Poor the public face of fight against HHS mandate
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Feb 24, 2016 at 4:39 pm Visuals often are much easier to grasp than a complicated thicket of issues. That may be why the Little Sisters of the Poor have become the public face of Zubik v. Burwell, which...
God’s mercy always open
The Catholic Leader - Feb 24, 2016 at 4:30 pm JIM Townsend never thought he could be shown mercy. He was a troubled youth with no discipline. The son of an abusive father and a chronically ill mother, Jim had a criminal...
February’s Blog of Note: A Catholic Mom in Hawaii
Big C Catholics - Feb 24, 2016 at 4:24 pm February’s blog of note, A Catholic Mom in Hawaii, has long been a fixture in the Catholic blogosphere. It is the creation of wife, mother, pro-life advocate, Hawaiian, and...
Appeals Court Allows Louisiana Law to take Effect That May Close Three Out of Four Abortion Clinics
LifeNews.com - Feb 24, 2016 at 4:24 pm In a victory for pro-life advocates in Louisiana, a federal appeals court has overturned a block a federal judge put in place to stop a new law from taking effect that may close...
Planned Parenthood Thanks Trump
Creative Minority Report - Feb 24, 2016 at 4:16 pm Now I know that the Trumpists (is that what we call them) will say that Planned Parenthood is so scared of Donald that they're employing some liberal fu or reverse psychology by...
New Taxpayer-Funded App Pushes Birth Control and Sex Education on Teenagers
LifeNews.com - Feb 24, 2016 at 3:44 pm A new taxpayer-funded app in Pennsylvania is sending teens to abortion clinics for questions about sex and reproductive health.
The Philadelphia-based group AccessMatters,...
Islamic leader: how can US Christians explain support for same-sex marriage?
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 24, 2016 at 3:34 pm The leader of Egypt's Al Azhar University has asked how Christian leaders who accept same-sex marriage will explain that position to Jesus Christ.
Speaking in Indonesia, ...
Knights of Columbus, In Defense of Christians mount genocide petition
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Feb 24, 2016 at 3:26 pm WASHINGTON — As a mid-March deadline approached for U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to make a decision on whether to make a declaration of genocide in the Middle East, the...
Federal appeals court sides with pro-life group against Ohio’s ‘truth commission’ law
LifeSiteNews - Feb 24, 2016 at 3:26 pm 'Today is our final victory against the law that chilled our free speech,' the group said.
An Interesting Fact About Today’s Lenten Station
New Liturgical Movement - Feb 24, 2016 at 3:11 pm Several years ago, I read a very interesting book called Mourning into Joy: Music, Raphael, and Saint Cecilia, by Thomas Connolly. (Yale Univ. Press, 1995). The principal subject...
Alabama Muslims: Feature on converts doesn't ask many (or any) follow-up questions
GetReligion - Feb 24, 2016 at 3:01 pm
Confession time: I used to write stories almost as wide-eyed as yesterday's feature on Muslim converts in Alabama.
I wrote up Muslim criticisms of Christianity. I retold their...
Belgian bishops report $4.4 million paid to abuse victims
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 24, 2016 at 2:55 pm The Catholic bishops of Belgium have paid almost €4 million ($4.4 million) to abuse victims, a new report has shown.
The report from the Belgian bishops' Commission for the ...
Filipino archbishop: Madonna concert could be occasion of sin
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 24, 2016 at 2:52 pm A Catholic archbishop in the Philippines has warned his people not to attend a Madonna concert in Manila, saying that her "suggestive" performances could have a corrupt moral ...
