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Upcoming Jubilee events: veneration of relics of Padre Pio, commissioning of Missionaries of Mercy
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 29, 2016 at 4:40 pm Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the president of the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization, outlined two important initiatives for the Jubilee Year of Mercy during a Vatican...
A Method to His Madness?
Commonweal - Jan 29, 2016 at 4:39 pm Last’s night’s Republican primary debate in Iowa offered a glimpse of what might have been: a nomination contest without Donald Trump. Yes, the candidates still gave the...
What on Earth Does "Fell Pregnant" Mean Anyway?
Creative Minority Report - Jan 29, 2016 at 4:37 pm OK. This term confuses me. I'm reading an article about a barmaid who was fired for being pregnant and the article said:Barmaid who fell pregnant told to leave before becoming '...
Pope: Remember the spiritual as much as the corporal works of mercy
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 29, 2016 at 4:33 pm Vatican City, Jan 29, 2016 / 03:33 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Speaking to the plenary assembly of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on Friday, Pope Francis spoke of the...
Supreme Court to hear oral arguments in HHS mandate cases March 23
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Jan 29, 2016 at 4:31 pm WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court Jan. 29 announced that it will hear oral arguments March 23 in seven pending appeals in lawsuits brought by several Catholic and other faith-...
Safeguarding doctrine is a work of mercy, Pope says in address to CDF
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 29, 2016 at 4:26 pm In a January 29 meeting with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), Pope Francis remarked that the Congregation's work involves spiritual works of mercy, which are...
WDTPRS – 4th Ordinary Sunday: Billy loves bugs
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 29, 2016 at 4:15 pm Today’s Collect prayer was not in the post-Tridentine editions of the Missale Romanum but it does have its origin in the ancient Veronese Sacramentary.
Were you to hear this...
Saints and sinners: Pope Francis distinguishes between sin and corruption
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 29, 2016 at 4:07 pm Vatican City, Jan 29, 2016 / 03:07 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The saints were also sinners, Pope Francis emphasized during his homily at the Santa Marta residence chapel on Friday...
Planned Parenthood Caught Violating Same Law Against Organ Sales David Daleiden Was Indicted Over
LifeNews.com - Jan 29, 2016 at 4:05 pm Just days after a Texas grand jury ignored evidence of Planned Parenthood selling aborted babies’ body parts and indited whistle blower David Daleiden instead, a pro-life group...
Another press perplexity: So who speaks for Muslims in the United States?
GetReligion - Jan 29, 2016 at 4:00 pm
The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations is an awkwardly but accurately named alliance formed in 1955 to give the nation’s variegated Jews a united...
Little Sisters Go Before Supreme Court on Wednesday of Holy Week
Aleteia - Jan 29, 2016 at 3:14 pm While Christians prepare to enter the Holy Week triduum—Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday—recalling Christ’s trial before Pontius Pilate, attorneys representing the...
Book tells story of married former Episcopal priests now Catholic priests
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Jan 29, 2016 at 2:59 pm In “Keeping the Vow,” author Father D. Paul Sullins, a sociologist and a former Episcopal priest, presents his research on a tiny but fascinating subcategory of American Catholic...
Student: Gay-straight alliances are NOT a safe place for me
LifeSiteNews - Jan 29, 2016 at 2:40 pm I am shamed by others because I uphold that it is a biological reality that a male and a female can have a baby together, and that because of that, not all “marriages” are equal.
D.A. Who Indicted Pro-Lifers Has Extensive Relationship With Attorney for Late-Term Abortionist
LifeNews.com - Jan 29, 2016 at 2:38 pm Since her office indicted pro-life advocates acting as undercover journalists to catch Planned Parenthood selling the body parts of aborted babies, Harris County District Attorney...
After backlash, Archbishop Nienstedt to leave Michigan parish
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Jan 29, 2016 at 2:32 pm ST. PAUL, Minn. — Following complaints by some Catholics and leaders of an organization for victims of clergy sexual abuse, Archbishop John C. Nienstedt is leaving a temporary...
New documents prove Planned Parenthood profited from selling aborted body parts: pro-life group
LifeSiteNews - Jan 29, 2016 at 2:26 pm Their actions are 'completely outside the letter and spirit of Texas' law, David Daleiden said.
More details announced for papal-related events in Diocese of El Paso
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Jan 29, 2016 at 2:15 pm PHOENIX — Details about road closures, possible delays at border crossings and a celebration on the U.S. side are surfacing as El Paso, Texas, prepares for the pope’s upcoming...
NARAL Threatens Pro-Life Rand Paul: “Keep Saying S— Like That and You’re Gonna Get Punched”
LifeNews.com - Jan 29, 2016 at 2:10 pm Leading pro-abortion group NARAL threatened pro-life Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul after he said that abortion should always be illegal in last night’s GOP...
Why Ted Cruz is Dangerous: Econ Edition
Commonweal - Jan 29, 2016 at 2:00 pm It’s obvious that our presidential campaigns too often focus on non-substantive issues. It is amazing that so little attention is paid to the explicit tax plans offered by the...
Faith Fest at University of Dayton features Tenth Avenue North!
CatholicMom.com - Jan 29, 2016 at 2:00 pm Get your tickets today to see 7 University of Dayton artists and multiple Dove award winning Tenth Avenue North for Faith Fest!
“You are more than the choices that you’ve made,...
