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Zoning For "Houses of Worship" Does Not Include Homeless Services Site
The Religion Clause - Feb 16, 2016 at 6:05 am The Albany Times-Union reports that a New York state trial court judge last week overruled the Albany Board of Zoning Appeals decision that would have allowed the non-profit group...
Family Games: Rolling America and Rory's Story Cubes
CatholicMom.com - Feb 16, 2016 at 6:00 am There’s something about dice in a game that enhance the value in my book. For starters, it makes the game feel more tactile and hands on. There’s no feeling in a game like picking...
Jehovah's Witnesses In Puerto Rico Win Access To Additional Gated Communities To Proselytize
The Religion Clause - Feb 16, 2016 at 6:00 am In 2013, a Puerto Rico federal district court, in a case on remand from the 1st Circuit, ordered neighborhood homeowners' associations (urbanizations) that operate gated...
Coptic bishops mark anniversary of Libya beheadings
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 16, 2016 at 5:37 am Numerous Coptic Orthodox bishops and clergy gathered in Samalut, Egypt, on February 16 to mark the anniversary of the beheading of 21 Christians who had been abducted by the...
WATCH: Pope Francis Tenderly Blesses a Special Child with Severe Deformities
Aleteia - Feb 16, 2016 at 5:33 am MEXICO — At Pope Francis’ meeting with families in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico on Monday evening, one special boy in the front row caught the Pope’ s attention. Visibly moved by the...
Comfortable Silence
Dominicana - Feb 16, 2016 at 5:30 am From time to time, you may encounter the young gent with the nervous tic of over-talking. He’s the one who finds himself surrounded by too many bodies, talking to too many ears,...
Portugal's parliament overrides presidential veto of abortion, adoption bills
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 16, 2016 at 5:12 am Overriding vetoes by President Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Portuguese lawmakers passed bills that legalized adoption by same-sex couples, ended copayments for abortions, and ended ...
Full text: Pope’s homily at Mass for indigenous Mexicans
Catholic Herald - Feb 16, 2016 at 5:08 am ‘Li smantal Kajvaltike toj lek’ – The law of the Lord is perfect; it revives the soul. Thus begins the psalm we have just heard. The law of the Lord is perfect and the psalmist...
Holy See to Security Council: 'UN Charter key to international peace and security'
News.va - Feb 16, 2016 at 5:08 am (Vatican Radio) Msgr. Simon Kassas, First Secretary of the Holy See's Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations, spoke on Monday to the UN Security Council on "The Respect...
Cardinal Ravasi calls for Dialogue with Freemasonry - Excerpts
Rorate Coeli - Feb 16, 2016 at 5:04 am Dear Brother Masons Over and above our different identities, there is no lack of common values: a sense of community, charitable work and the fight against materialism.Gianfranco...
El Paso Diocese gets ready for rendezvous with Pope Francis
Franciscan Media - Feb 16, 2016 at 5:00 am EL PASO, Texas (CNS) -- Two days before Pope Francis' main event in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, the Diocese of El Paso was coordinating the final touches to its own two main papal...
In Mexico, pope warns against diminishing importance of family
Franciscan Media - Feb 16, 2016 at 5:00 am SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico (CNS) -- Pope Francis warned against moves to diminish the importance of the family, peppering his talk with anecdotes and off-the-cuff remarks...
‘Your lands have been stolen,’ Pope tells Mexico’s indigenous people
Catholic Herald - Feb 16, 2016 at 4:40 am Paying homage to the culture and ancient wisdom of Mexico’s indigenous people, Pope Francis urged them to hold on to hope and condemned those who exploit their people and their...
Daily Gospel Reflection for February 16, 2016
CatholicMom.com - Feb 16, 2016 at 4:30 am
Today’s Gospel: Matthew 6, 7-15
I have an M.O., a behavior pattern, which drives me to protect myself. It shows its ugly head in assorted scenarios, but it materializes in a...
Nigerian cardinal: Boko Haram members are our �kith and kin'
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 16, 2016 at 4:11 am Nigeria’s leading prelate has praised the government’s efforts to combat corruption, according to the Abuja-based Daily Trust.
Addressing his brother bishops on February ...
Russian patriarch: meeting with Pope was of great historical significance
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 16, 2016 at 4:00 am Two days after he met with Pope Francis, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow described their encounter as “an event of great significance for the history of Christendom.”
Preaching ...
BBC documentary on St John Paul II features ‘no great revelation’, says Vatican
Catholic Herald - Feb 16, 2016 at 3:45 am The Vatican has said a BBC documentary that claimed to uncover an “intense” relationship between St John Paul II and a married Polish philosophers contained “no great revelation...
Italian PM rebukes cardinal in civil-union debate
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 16, 2016 at 3:42 am The president of the Italian Episcopal Conference has requested that senators be permitted to cast their vote on pending civil-union legislation secretly, as allowed by senate ...
What Would Our Ancestors Think of Us?
Crisis Magazine - Church - Feb 16, 2016 at 3:30 am
What is the worst thing about living near an open sewer? It is not that you sicken at the stench of it every time you leave your front door. It is that the noisome vapors are so...
The Dangers of Contemporary “Authoritarianism”
Crisis Magazine - Church - Feb 16, 2016 at 3:25 am
Matthew MacWilliams, in a January 17 post on Politico, expatiated on the “one weird trait that predicts whether you are a Trump supporter … authoritarianism.”
The author relates...
