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Australian state takes a step closer to legalising assisted suicide
Catholic Herald - Oct 20, 2017 at 5:59 am Assisted suicide is coming closer in Australia, as one state parliament voted in favour of it on Friday. After an all-night session in the Legislative Assembly of the state of...
Papal book on the Our Father to be published in November (SIR)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 20, 2017 at 5:10 am The book consists of a conversation between Pope Francis and Father Marco Pozza, an Italian theologian and prison chaplain. The head of the Vatican’s Secretariat for Communication...
‘Same Kind of Different as Me’ a better than average film on faith
Aleteia - Oct 20, 2017 at 5:00 am Despite the over-reaction of the internet, the film is not "culturally insensitive." Based on real people, the characters are who they are.It’s October, that time of the year when...
Bishops and women priest campaigners sign letter supporting Pope Francis
Catholic Herald - Oct 20, 2017 at 4:51 am More than 150 Catholics, including bishops, priests and academics, have launched a statement in support of Pope Francis. The Pro Pope Francis open letter, available in English and...
Yes, the rosary is a weapon – but maybe not the way Rupa Huq thinks
Catholic Herald - Oct 20, 2017 at 4:17 am Two weeks before Ealing Council voted to ban pro-life vigils, the local MP Rupa Huq accused the Good Counsel Network of “weaponising the rosary” as they prayed silently outside...
Background: World Mission Sunday (CWN)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 20, 2017 at 4:10 am On October 22, the Church around the world will commemorate World Mission Sunday. The theme of the Pope’s message for the day is “Mission at the heart of the Christian faith.”
Algeria: Protestants advocate for freedom to worship (World Watch Monitor)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 20, 2017 at 4:10 am The North African nation of 40.3 million is 99% Muslim (predominantly Sunni).
Catalan leader defiant as Spain moves to revoke region's autonomy (Fox News)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 20, 2017 at 4:10 am L’Osservatore Romano (10/20 Italian edition) devoted its most prominent front-page coverage to this story.
Religious-freedom commission condemns Pakistan for sentencing Ahmadis to death for blasphemy (USCIRF)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 20, 2017 at 4:10 am Pakistan, the world’s 6th-most populous nation (202 million people), is over 96% Muslim.
Iraqi forces advance to retake Kurdish-held territory near Mosul (Financial Times)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 20, 2017 at 4:10 am The Chaldean Catholic patriarch pleaded for national unity amid conflict between the Baghdad government and the Kurds.
Saudi Arabia to vet use of Muhammad's sayings to counter extremism (Reuters)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 20, 2017 at 4:10 amVatican hosts conference on disability and catechesis (Vatican Radio)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 20, 2017 at 4:10 am The 3-day conference is hosted by the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization.
US surgical abortion rate drops 25% over 6 years (LifeNews.com)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 20, 2017 at 4:10 am “Abortions dropped from 19.4 abortions per 1,000 women of reproductive age (15 to 44) in 2008 to 14.6 per 1,000 in 2014,” according to the report, with the largest decline among...
FAO leader: Pope is 'one of the few indispensable people in the world' (Vatican Radio)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 20, 2017 at 4:10 am José Graziano da Silva, the Brazilian-American head of the Food and Agricultural Organization, praised the Pontiff after he called for a change in lifestyles to end world hunger.
Commentary: Redefining gender while California burns
Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 20, 2017 at 4:01 am Sacramento, Calif., Oct 20, 2017 / 03:01 am (CNA).- California is still burning.
At this point, 42 people are dead. Some 217,000 acres are devastated. Thousands of homes are...
The Pope: No to hypocrites, those who are “dirty inside” and try to appear virtuous
Vatican Insider - Oct 20, 2017 at 3:59 am Francis, it is known, does not trust Christians with the “face of a devotional picture” who act as if they were holy. They are hypocrites: inside them “everything is dirty”, but...
Daily Gospel Reflection for October 20, 2017
CatholicMom.com - Oct 20, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: Luke 12:1-7
When I read this passage, I immediately thought of the video of persecuted Christians in orange jumpsuits in the Middle East, kneeling on the ground,...
Report: Marie Stopes ‘paid staff bonuses for encouraging women to have abortions’
Catholic Herald - Oct 20, 2017 at 3:29 am One of Britain’s largest abortion providers has been accused of paying bonuses to staff who encourage women to have terminations. Staff at Marie Stopes International felt “...
Pope's weekday Mass homily (10/19): the gift of God's salvation opens the door to all (Vatican Radio)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 20, 2017 at 3:10 am Preaching on Lk. 11:47-54, the Pope warned that “the Pharisees, doctors of the law are not people of the past, even today there are many of them.” He cited the example of “parish...
Episcopal resignations and appointments (10/19) (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 20, 2017 at 3:10 am Pope Francis accepted the resignation of the archbishop of Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago) for reasons of age and appointed the bishop of Barbados as his successor.
