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Did St. Therese of Lisieux send roses to Pope Francis in Mexico?
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 17, 2016 at 7:11 am Mexico City, Mexico, Feb 17, 2016 / 06:11 am (CNA).- When Pope Francis made a surprise stop at a cloistered monastery Sunday morning, he received a gift from the nuns who live...
CRS Rice Bowl: Involve Your Whole Parish this Lent
CatholicMom.com - Feb 17, 2016 at 7:00 am The season of Lent is a time to pray, fast and give alms as we reflect on how Christ calls us to return to him. CRS Rice Bowl, a Lenten faith formation program from Catholic...
Fr. Samuel Weber’s “Propers of the Mass”: An Interview with Dr. Peter Kwasniewski by Roseanne Sullivan
New Liturgical Movement - Feb 17, 2016 at 7:00 am This interview was originally published in the Homiletic and Pastoral Review, as part of an article by Roseanne Sullivan titled “Propers of the Mass Versus the Four-Hymn Sandwich...
Can we please stop patronising St John Paul II?
Catholic Herald - Feb 17, 2016 at 6:22 am As you all know we are now into the second week of the season of Lent but another season is upon us as well. It is the season where a special group of journalists, flood our news...
EEOC Releases Data On Complaints Received
The Religion Clause - Feb 17, 2016 at 6:15 am The EEOC last week released its Fiscal Year 2015 Enforcement and Litigation Data. In fiscal 2015, the agency received 89,385 charges of workplace discrimination. Of those, only 3...
Lombardi: Pope in Mexico "messenger of mercy, peace"
News.va - Feb 17, 2016 at 6:15 am (Vatican Radio) On the last day of his pastoral visit to Mexico, Pope Francis on Wednesday visits inmates at a prison in Ciudad Juarez on the U.S.-Mexico border. Before heading...
Muslim Technician Sues Charging Employment Discrimination
The Religion Clause - Feb 17, 2016 at 6:10 am CAIR-Michigan this week announced the filing of a religious discrimination lawsuit in federal district court against an Indiana-based healthcare technology management organization...
Oklahoma Supreme Court Upholds Voucher Plan Over Blaine Amendment Objections
The Religion Clause - Feb 17, 2016 at 6:05 am In Oliver v. Hofmeister, (OK Sup. Ct., Feb. 16, 2016), the Oklahoma Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the state's voucher program that permits children with...
Full text: Pope’s homily to Mexican clergy and religious
Catholic Herald - Feb 17, 2016 at 6:03 am There is a saying which goes “tell me how you pray, and I will tell you how you live; tell me how you live and I will tell you how you pray. Because showing me how you pray, I...
Pope Francis Receives 10 Things Pope Francis Wants You to Know about the Family from Author
CatholicMom.com - Feb 17, 2016 at 6:00 am
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Pope Francis took some time Feb. 12 to peruse 10 Things Pope Francis Wants You to Know About the...
RFRA Excuses Amish Defendant From Being Photographed During Pre-Release Processing
The Religion Clause - Feb 17, 2016 at 6:00 am In United States v. Girod, (ED KY, Dec. 30, 2015), a Kentucky federal magistrate judge, accepting a federal RFRA claim, allowed an Amish criminal defendant to be processed for pre...
Pope urges Mexicans to stay strong amid drugs violence
Catholic Herald - Feb 17, 2016 at 5:46 am The devil loves Christians — especially priests and nuns — who are resigned to the violence and corruption around them, Pope Francis said. Celebrating Mass on February 16 at a...
Papal condolences following death of former UN secretary-general
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 17, 2016 at 5:18 am Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, has sent a telegram of condolence in Pope Francis’s name following the death of Boutros ...
Lenten Liberation
Dominicana - Feb 17, 2016 at 5:17 am Liberated. Independent. Self-sufficient. Free-spirited. Uninhibited. Such adjectives have become high praise in a modern world fascinated with freedom, the paramount virtue...
Blasphemy bill withdrawn in Georgia
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 17, 2016 at 5:06 am A lawmaker in the Caucasus nation of Georgia has withdrawn his proposal to ban “insults to religious feelings,” the New York-based EurasiaNet news service reported.
The ...
Jesus calls us to be disciples, not hitmen, pope tells youth
Franciscan Media - Feb 17, 2016 at 5:00 am MORELIA, Mexico (CNS) --Jesus never sends anyone out as a hitman, dealing in death, but calls Christians to be his disciples and friends, Pope Francis told Mexico's youth.
"Today...
Abuse expert: Bishops must watch 'Spotlight'
Franciscan Media - Feb 17, 2016 at 5:00 am ROME (CNS) -- Every bishop and cardinal must watch the film "Spotlight," so they realize reporting abuse -- not silence -- will save the church, said the Vatican's former chief...
Orissa survivors meet, express solidarity with Middle East's Christians
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 17, 2016 at 4:50 am One hundred survivors of the 2008 anti-Christian persecution in the eastern Indian state of Odisha (then known as Orissa) met recently in the Kandhamal district under the auspices...
Books blog: Speaking out against abortion must go hand in hand with loving care
Catholic Herald - Feb 17, 2016 at 4:48 am Recently my grandson, who is in his second year reading history at Trinity College, Oxford, invited me to Formal Hall on a Friday night. It was a typical college hall, with long...
Amid protests, Bosnia's judiciary upholds hijab ban
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 17, 2016 at 4:35 am Amid protests across Bosnia and Herzegovina, the nation’s high court has upheld a ban on the wearing of the hijab in the nation’s legal institutions.
The ban, announced in ...
