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32 new Swiss Guards are sworn-in in the Vatican
News.va - May 6, 2015 at 9:41 am (Vatican Radio) The sacrifice of one hundred and forty seven Swiss Guards who laid down their lives in defense of Pope Clement VII and the Holy Mother Church during the Sack of...
Abortionist Says His Staff Were Disturbed After Assisting in Dismemberment Abortions
LifeNews.com - May 6, 2015 at 9:38 am When reporting about The Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act, the mainstream media typically refuses to include the law’s definition of what is banned–“the use...
NY Times: Catholicism Undervalues Women
Creative Minority Report - May 6, 2015 at 9:30 am The openly gay writer and very far left Frank Bruni of the New York Times mocked the pope for defending women's right to equal pay by comparing him to "a Pringles vendor sounding...
Sofia Vegara Defends Killing Her Frozen Unborn Children: “Life Or Not Life, There’s a Contract”
LifeNews.com - May 6, 2015 at 9:00 am As LifeNews previously reported, Nick Loeb has filed a lawsuit against Modern Family actress, Sofia Vergara, in an attempt to stop her from destroying a pair of frozen embryos...
Baltimore prays for peace, progress in addressing systemic injustices
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - May 6, 2015 at 8:35 am BALTIMORE — Prayer provides the strength and patience needed to love neighbors and will help Baltimoreans as they addresses the injustices that led to a night of rioting and...
New Zealand’s Lack of Parental Notification for Abortion is Child Abuse
LifeNews.com - May 6, 2015 at 8:34 am Right to Life is opposed to school counsellors and members of the Family Planning Association smuggling young girls under the age of 16 years of age out of school for a secret...
Mental health awareness
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - May 6, 2015 at 8:31 am May is National Mental Health Awareness Month and a good time to consider the need for church outreach to families affected by mental health issues.
Recent statistics issued by...
Salt, Light and Leaven
CatholicMom.com - May 6, 2015 at 8:30 am
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I live in a zone of overlapping radio waves. Two stations, K-Love, Christian radio and National Public Radio, both broadcast at...
Seeking Solidarity: We Are All Refugees
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - May 6, 2015 at 8:25 am
European leaders have been called to act. More than 1,750 people have died this year trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to seek refuge in Europe from their conflict-torn...
German Catholic Church sets new employee policy for divorced and remarried, same sex couples
The Deacon's Bench - May 6, 2015 at 7:55 am Details: Germany’s Roman Catholic Church, an influential voice for reforms prompted by Pope Francis, has decided lay employees who divorce and remarry or form gay civil unions...
Good grief, Los Angeles Times: Site of Texas shooting linked to Muhammad cartoon contest is no 'small town'
GetReligion - May 6, 2015 at 7:54 am When you hear "small town," do you think of Mayberry, U.S.A.?
Or do you think of a sprawling Dallas suburb with a quarter-million residents?
The Los Angeles Times' answer might...
Pope blesses small statue for Maryland family whose daughters died in fire
The Deacon's Bench - May 6, 2015 at 7:41 am From Catholic News Agency: After reading a letter while visiting Rome’s North American Seminary detailing the death of two young girls in a house fire, Pope Francis blessed their...
Leader of Knights of Columbus on Pope’s US Visit, How America Needs Culture of Life
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - May 6, 2015 at 7:35 am Ahead of the Pope’s visit to the United States in September, the Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus says that “America must have a culture of life in its future and that is...
Patriarch Twal: Let us pray at the new shrine of “Our Lady of Lourdes"
Vatican Insider - May 6, 2015 at 7:33 amPope Francis’ Prayer for Jubilee Year of Mercy
News.va - May 6, 2015 at 7:25 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has composed a special prayer for the Jubilee Year of Mercy which will run from 8 December 2015 to 20 November 2016. In the prayer, the Holy Father...
Pope Francis meets the Harlem Globetrotters
News.va - May 6, 2015 at 7:16 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis met on Wednesday with members of the Harlem Globetrotters, the famous basketball team from the United States.
During the encounter, they gave the Holy...
Harlem Globetrotters Meet Pope Francis
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - May 6, 2015 at 7:08 am While in St. Peter's Square for his weekly General Audience this morning, Pope Francis met with members of a famous basketball team from the United States.
According to Vatican...
Cardinal Nichols to celebrate Mass for gay Catholics
Catholic Herald - May 6, 2015 at 7:00 am Cardinal Vincent Nichols will celebrate Mass for gay Catholics on Sunday in central London.
Same-sex attracted Catholics, along with their families, will attend the Mass at Farm...
Priesthood ordinations up 24.7% this year
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - May 6, 2015 at 7:00 am I have in the past mentioned the Opus Bono Sacerdotii which is dedicated to helping priests who are in trouble. This is an organization which deserves support.
That said, I saw...
Priests: souls are crying out for your help
Rorate Coeli - May 6, 2015 at 6:59 am Fr. Brad Sweet says Mass for the Souls. Find Fr Sweet on Twitter, @bradbradsweetThis is our monthly reminder to please enroll Souls of the Rorate Caeli Purgatorial Society. And,...
