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CNN Trashes John Kasich for Signing Bill to Defund Planned Parenthood: “Insulting to Women”
LifeNews.com - Feb 23, 2016 at 8:43 am As GOP presidential candidate and Ohio Governor John Kasich appeared as a guest on Monday’s The Situation Room, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer pressed him to apologize for “insulting”...
Something to Keep You Going This Lent
Saint Louis Catholic - Feb 23, 2016 at 8:32 am A difficult Lent for me, personally, this year. Fuzzy goals, little focus, very small victories, laziness, and an unidentifiable yearning for something. Wait, that's every day of...
On Suffering While Being Faithful
CatholicMom.com - Feb 23, 2016 at 8:30 am
By Håkan Svensson (Xauxa) – Own work, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1289551
“Dear Lord, if this is how You treat Your friends, it is no wonder You...
Dear New York Times editors: Did Harper Lee's faith have anything to do with her art?
GetReligion - Feb 23, 2016 at 8:30 am If you know anything about the South, then you know that there are, literally, United Methodist churches everywhere you go in the Bible Belt.
You also know that United Methodist...
Optional Memorial of Saint Polycarp of Smyrna
Big C Catholics - Feb 23, 2016 at 8:15 am Saint Polycarp of Smyrna, was converted to Christianity by Saint John the Apostle. He is the last known person to have seen the apostles face-to-face. He was a friend of St....
What a. Surprise?
Saint Louis Catholic - Feb 23, 2016 at 8:03 am FBI issued this statement at the news:
Alberta University Forcing Pro-Life Club to Fork Over $17,500
Creative Minority Report - Feb 23, 2016 at 7:58 am A pro-life club at the University of Alberta is demanding that a pro-life club pony up $17,500 for the right to hold an event on campus.You see, what the campus is saying is that...
Theological and pastoral perspectives, a decade after "Deus caritas est"
News.va - Feb 23, 2016 at 7:45 am Vatican City, 23 February 2016 (VIS) – An international conference entitled "Love will never end. Prospects ten years on from the Encyclical Deus caritas est" will be held on...
“Christianity is not a ‘religion of mere talk,’ God is real”
Vatican Insider - Feb 23, 2016 at 7:14 am Living by doing what is good, not just talking and telling about it: that kind of Christianity is not a “religion of mere talk,” hypocritical and vain - but it is real and...
Obama's plan to close Guantanamo echoes call of US bishops
EWTN - US Latest News - Feb 23, 2016 at 7:08 am Washington D.C., Feb 23, 2016 / 07:08 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- U.S. President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday his intent to close the
Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, a...
US bishops’ Rome college to honor Vatican ambassador Vigano, estate lawyer
Vatican Insider - Feb 23, 2016 at 6:45 am The U.S. bishops’ seminary in Rome will honor the Vatican’s ambassador to the U.S., Archbishop Carlo Vigano, at an annual honors banquet in April....
Pope Francis: God is real, too many Christians are fake
News.va - Feb 23, 2016 at 6:35 am
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Tuesday morning described Christianity as a religion that by its very nature must act for good, not a “religion of saying” made of hypocrisy and...
Single-Sex Dorms, Culture of Chastity Needed to Discern Marriage in College, Say Notre Dame Students
Catholic Education Daily - Feb 23, 2016 at 6:30 am Part of the joy of attending a Catholic college is the opportunity to discern a possible call to marriage and family life, but students at the University of Notre Dame told The...
The reorganisation of Vatican communications should include ending in-flight papal press conferences
Catholic Herald - Feb 23, 2016 at 6:26 am The Vatican is reorganising its communications structures, you may have heard. As part of this Fr Federico Lombardi, the Papal spokesman, will be leaving his job at Vatican Radio...
Religious Beliefs of Presidential Candidates Continue To Be Focus of Interest
The Religion Clause - Feb 23, 2016 at 6:05 am International Business Times yesterday reviewed the religious faiths of each of the remaining candidates in the Republican and Democratic races for President of the United States...
Tech Talk: Praying it Forward
CatholicMom.com - Feb 23, 2016 at 6:00 am
St. John LaLande is a small Catholic school in Missouri that started a Praying it Forward Campaign to see how far the power of prayer can travel. A 5th grade student wrote a...
Advocacy Organization Launches New Name and Website
The Religion Clause - Feb 23, 2016 at 6:00 am The religious freedom advocacy organization Liberty Institute announced last week that it has changed its name to First Liberty Institute. The change is intended to emphasize the...
Settlement between Missouri diocese, parish employee fired after same-sex marriage
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 23, 2016 at 5:33 am The Diocese of Kansas City – St. Joseph has agreed to an undisclosed settlement with a woman who was dismissed from her position as her parish’s coordinator of social ministry ...
Apostolic Faith
Dominicana - Feb 23, 2016 at 5:30 am In the Nicene Creed we confess belief in “One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.” When we say that the Church is Apostolic we affirm not only that the Church was Apostolic in...
Saint Polycarp
Communio - Feb 23, 2016 at 5:26 am Bishop of Smyrna (Asia Minor), Polycarp was martyred between 155 and 167. Aside from an epistle he wrote to the Philippians and a letter addressed to him by Ignatius of Antioch,...