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Students for Life Table Saves Baby From Abortion, Student Says Boyfriend Pressured Her to Abort
LifeNews.com - May 7, 2015 at 3:04 pm While I know you can’t be with us right now as we are rushing around from campus to campus hosting events and training leaders before the school year comes to an end, I want to...
Parents outraged as yet another ‘kinky sex’ brochure scandalizes kids at Toronto school
LifeSiteNews - May 7, 2015 at 2:58 pm 'I’m too shocked to be angry, to be quite honest,' said a mom whose daughter brought home the brochure.
Prayer Request
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 7, 2015 at 2:50 pm A reader writes:
I learned this week that my aunt has been diagnosed with cancer. Please pray for her.
Father, hear our prayer for her complete healing in body, soul, and spirit...
Cardinal calls Catholics, Jews to continue building unity through God
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - May 7, 2015 at 2:49 pm NEW YORK — Catholics and Jews risk losing their hard-won interfaith amity if they take ecumenism for granted and fail to pass it along to a new generation of seminarians and laity...
Blind Pregnant Woman Gets to “See” Her Unborn Son and Her Response is Priceless
LifeNews.com - May 7, 2015 at 2:35 pm In Brazil, a blind woman was able to “see” her unborn son thanks to 3D printing technology. 30-year-old Tatiana Guerra is 20-weeks pregnant and never thought she would get the...
Words the world needs to hear
The Deacon's Bench - May 7, 2015 at 2:32 pm They are the words of a 12-year-old Iraqi refugee named Tamara in Ankawa, Iraq, as reported by CNS, and they are beautiful: “ISIS took everything,” she said, “but we still have...
ASK FATHER: Text for 1st Blessing by a new priest (… same as blessing by an old priest)
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - May 7, 2015 at 2:25 pm QUAERITUR:
Every year this comes up. I get questions about the Latin form of blessing to be given by new priests.
There is no need to throw in all sorts of other ingredients as...
Catholic archbishop hosts gay activists at cathedral to help set transgender student policy
LifeSiteNews - May 7, 2015 at 2:22 pm The priest who keynoted the event says the fact that humans are male and female is 'a presumption that not verified in creation.'
Australian archbishop enters not-guilty plea on charge of covering up abuse
Catholic Culture - World News - May 7, 2015 at 2:21 pm Archbishop Philip Wilson of Adelaide, Australia, has entered a plea of not-guilty to charges of covering up evidence of sexual abuse.
The archbishop, who is formally charged with...
Sports competition is healthy, when kept in perspective, Pope says
Catholic Culture - World News - May 7, 2015 at 2:12 pm In a May 7 meeting with members of an Italian sports association, Pope Francis said that athletic competition is healthy as long as it is kept in a balanced perspective.
The Pope...
Kansas City priest, prosecutor clash on 'political motivation' for criminal case against Bishop Finn
Catholic Culture - World News - May 7, 2015 at 2:04 pm After a Missouri priest charged that the criminal case against Bishop Robert Finn had been motivated by politics and publicity, the prosecutor who won the case has shot back,...
Game changer? Study finds premature babies may survive at 22 weeks
The Deacon's Bench - May 7, 2015 at 2:02 pm From The New York Times: A small number of very premature babies are surviving earlier outside the womb than doctors once thought possible, a new study has documented, raising...
Easter Endures
CatholicMom.com - May 7, 2015 at 2:00 pm Easter Egg by Lord Inquisitor (2008), on Flickr.
Easter is not over. We continue to celebrate until Ascension Thursday. May is such a busy month with Communions, weddings,...
The Theology of the Offertory - Part 7.9 - The Uses of Cologne, Utrecht and Liège
New Liturgical Movement - May 7, 2015 at 2:00 pm Having finished with Spain, we move on to Germany in our consideration of the Offertory Rites of the medieval Uses. I have grouped Utrecht and Liège with Cologne, even though they...
Wisconsin Pro-Life Bill Introduced to Ban Abortions After 20 Weeks, Gov. Scott Walker Will Sign It
LifeNews.com - May 7, 2015 at 1:59 pm Wisconsin pro-life state legislator have introduced a pro-life bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks based on the scientific research showing unborn babies feel substantial pain in...
Come to class with one of STA’s best-loved teachers
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - May 7, 2015 at 1:53 pm Dave Ziebarth showed a clip from the movie “Saving Private Ryan” as his third-hour world history class at St. Thomas Academy began a section on World War II.
Leading liberation theologian to speak at Vatican conference
Catholic Culture - World News - May 7, 2015 at 1:53 pm One of the foremost representatives of liberation theology, Father Gustavo Gutierrez, will address a meeting of Caritas International at the Vatican next week.
The Peruvian...
Alumni thankful for brotherhood, leadership, discipline
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - May 7, 2015 at 1:47 pm The Catholic Spirit asked three alumni from different decades what still resonates from their years at St. Thomas Academy.
States forced to foot legal bills for gay activists to tear down their marriage laws: $5 million and growing
LifeSiteNews - May 7, 2015 at 1:46 pm 'It is wrong to reward activists for challenging a validly enacted constitutional amendment,' says Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage.
Virginia’s bishops: “The death penalty does not provide true healing, nor embody the Gospel of Life”
The Deacon's Bench - May 7, 2015 at 1:43 pm This may have escaped your attention yesterday, but it deserves an airing: The following statement on the death penalty was issued by Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde and...
