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Pope Francis greets Chinese pilgrims in St Peter's Square
News.va - May 6, 2015 at 6:53 am
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis greeted a group of pilgrims from the Chinese diocese of Wenzhou on Wednesday, who were present in St. Peter’s Square for the weekly General Audience...
“Men and women who have the courage to get married are a precious resource”
Vatican Insider - May 6, 2015 at 6:44 amMad Men
Dominicana - May 6, 2015 at 6:30 am Hear me, heathens and wizards And serpents of sin! All your dastardly doings are past, For a holy endeavor is now to begin And virtue shall triumph at last! Thus says Don Quixote...
Sen. Blumenthal Says Guns "Threatens" Social Justice
Creative Minority Report - May 6, 2015 at 6:29 am Sen. Richard Blumenthal says that the proliferation of guns and gun violence are among the “most insidious” threats to “social justice” and it “threatens the very fabric of our...
Pro Se Plaintiff Asks Court To Declare Homosexuality A Sin
The Religion Clause - May 6, 2015 at 6:19 am As reported by the Lincoln Journal Star, a 66-year old Nebraska woman last week filed a 7-page handwritten complaint (full text) captioned Sylvia Ann Driskell, Ambassador for...
Catholic World Report Interview with Dom Alcuin Reid on Sacra Liturgia 2015
New Liturgical Movement - May 6, 2015 at 6:17 am Catholic World Report has posted an interview with Dom Alcuin Reid about the Sacra Liturgia Conference to be held from June 1-4 in New York City. Here are a few excerpts; you can...
Suit Claims Drug Treatment Center Uses Scientology Rituals
The Religion Clause - May 6, 2015 at 6:10 am Yesterday's Santa Cruz Sentinel reports on a lawsuit filed last month in a California federal district court against Narconon drug rehabilitation centers (and related entities)...
6th Circuit Rejects Free Exercise Claim By Christian Militia Member Over Seizure of Bibles
The Religion Clause - May 6, 2015 at 6:09 am In Meeks v. Larsen, (6th Cir., May 5, 2015), the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the civil rights complaints brought by a Michigan militia group against federal law...
A Bit of Humor On A Serious Topic...
The Religion Clause - May 6, 2015 at 6:01 am For those who have been promising themselves that they will listen to the full Supreme Court oral arguments in Obergefell v. Hodges, the same-sex marriage cases argued last week,...
Banking on Loaves and Fishes
CatholicMom.com - May 6, 2015 at 6:00 am
The Miracle of Loaves and Fishes. Lambert Lombard (1505/1506–1566) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Some of our biggest dreams live in tiny spaces. I look at my own and...
Baltimore prays for progress in addressing injustices
Franciscan Media - May 6, 2015 at 6:00 am BALTIMORE (CNS) -- 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...
Pope signs decrees in causes for Blessed Serra and others
Franciscan Media - May 6, 2015 at 6:00 am
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Although he already has said he will canonize
Blessed Junipero Serra in Washington in September, Pope Francis formally
approved a sentence by members of...
Highlights of the German Bishops' Official Documents for the "Family Synod"
Rorate Coeli - May 6, 2015 at 5:53 am Rome, Open City - and German nicetiesYes, as part of their ongoing propaganda effort, the German Episcopal Conference (yes, Germany, the nation of almost non-existent priestly...
13 sainthood causes advance
Catholic Culture - World News - May 6, 2015 at 5:43 am In an audience with the prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints on May 5, Pope Francis cleared the way for the canonization of three blesseds.
The Pope officially...
Parolin on the Popes of Vatican II
News.va - May 6, 2015 at 5:41 am (Vatican Radio) The Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin on Tuesday attended a conference at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome on the occasion of the first...
Papua New Guinea – The Ultimate Periphery
News.va - May 6, 2015 at 5:41 am (Vatican Radio) Radio is the most popular form of communication in Papua New Guinea, and recently a group of Catholic communicators held a workshop on the island to help train...
'Drinking with the Saints' – new book encourages Catholic fellowship, good spirits
Catholic News Agency - General - May 6, 2015 at 5:25 am Waco, Texas, May 6, 2015 / 04:25 am (CNA).- “I should like a great lake of beer for the King of Kings. I should like the angels of Heaven to be drinking it through time eternal...
Vatican recognizes martyrdoms of missionary, lay catechist in communist Laos
EWTN - Vatican News - May 6, 2015 at 5:24 am Vatican City, May 6, 2015 / 05:24 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- During a private audience on Tuesday, Pope Francis advanced the causes
of canonization of 12 potential saints, two of whom...
Parish priest plans to set up a chapel in city’s shopping area
Catholic Herald - May 6, 2015 at 5:23 am A parish priest in Brighton plans to set up a chapel in one of the city’s main shopping streets as a “place of outreach”.
Fr Ray Blake of St Mary Magdalen’s in Upper North Street...
