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UNICEF to Support Scholas, Pope Francis Initiative to Connect, Educate and Inspire Adolescents

Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Apr 22, 2015 at 7:00 pm
Here below is a press release, issued by Scholas Occurrentes and UNICEF Tuesday, detailing their new collaboration:  *** His Holiness Pope Francis and UNICEF Executive Director...

Back when churches were churches: some stunning examples in Pennsylvania

The Deacon's Bench - Apr 22, 2015 at 6:28 pm
In the days before someone decided that the interior of every church needed to resemble a rec room, with a façade that paid tribute to the Kwik-E-Mart, folks built sacred houses...

St. Joe's socks Cor Jesu in brief rivalry

Saint Louis Review - St. Louis News - Apr 22, 2015 at 6:02 pm
Joseph Kennyjkenny@archstl.org | twitter: @josephkenny2 St. Joseph's Academy won its April 22 soccer game against Cor Jesu Academy 1-0, but...

Nigerian bishops declare homosexual unions harm society and undermine life

LifeSiteNews - Apr 22, 2015 at 5:06 pm
"It also harms the innocence of children, degrades marriage and family life and destabilizes society, now and in the future," the bishops stated.

She Hated Her Mother Until She Learned the Extraordinary Thing She Did for Her

LifeNews.com - Apr 22, 2015 at 5:01 pm
Randy Alcorn, the author of Why ProLife? recently received an e-mail from a young woman, Mayra, who told him about becoming a Christian and her adoption after being touched by his...

Catholic students remember Anzacs in Gallipoli

The Catholic Leader - Apr 22, 2015 at 5:00 pm
PRIVATE Thomas Frederick Murray, a bomb thrower for the 1st Battalion in Gallipoli, died in the trenches only three days into the Battle of Lone Pine.One hundred years later,...

Praying the Sorrowful Mysteries

CatholicMom.com - Apr 22, 2015 at 5:00 pm
Photo: rosary in hand_red by jclk8888 (2013) via Morguefile With the month dedicated to Our Lady fast approaching, I’d like to share some meditation topics that I’ve found...

Deciding not to have children

Commonweal - Apr 22, 2015 at 4:48 pm
How to read a collection of essays on the “childless by choice” called Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed? You could take the title as an accurate indicator of what’s inside,...

Boko Haram violence spreads into Cameroon, bishop reports

Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 22, 2015 at 4:42 pm
Boko Haram, the Islamic movement that has conducted a campaign of terror through Nigeria, is also wreaking havoc in Cameroon, a bishop has told Aid to the Church in Need. Bishop...

Eight US Catholic colleges plan commencement honors for anti-Catholic figures

Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 22, 2015 at 4:35 pm
The Cardinal Newman Society (CNS) has found eight cases in which American Catholic colleges and universities plan commencement honors for public speakers who have taken clear...

Italian court: sex-change operation does not annul marriage

Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 22, 2015 at 4:29 pm
An Italian court has ruled that a sex-change operation does not make a marriage invalid, but noted that the ruling does not suggest legal approval of same-sex marriage. The odd...

House will act to protect D.C. residents’ religious freedom on abortion—but not on gay ‘rights’

LifeSiteNews - Apr 22, 2015 at 4:27 pm
“Eleanor Holmes Norton would like to portray this as the U.S. Congress vs. the D.C. people when in fact this is the D.C. government against the religious and moral freedoms of D.C...

Jewish Pro-Life Group Efrat Saves 35,000 Babies From Abortion

LifeNews.com - Apr 22, 2015 at 4:25 pm
(LiveActionNews) — Yesterday I met a Jewish pro-life man who shared great news with me. He told me of an organization called EFRAT that has helped save 35,000 children from...

Longtime Chicago barber made Cardinal George laugh and look good

The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Apr 22, 2015 at 4:23 pm
CHICAGO — Alfredo Fricano is probably one of the only people who could get away with telling Cardinal Francis E. George he looked like a “bum.” Alfredo Fricano, barber of...

New film dramatizes Irish woman’s work with Vietnamese orphans

The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Apr 22, 2015 at 4:19 pm
WASHINGTON  — “Noble,” which will debut on 150 screens nationwide May 8, tells the story of an Irish woman with an indomitable spirit. It took another Irish woman with the same...

Father Turns His Son With Down Syndrome Into a Flying Superhero and His Pictures Go Viral

LifeNews.com - Apr 22, 2015 at 3:51 pm
We already knew that children with Down syndrome are spectacular. But one Utah dad is using his photography skills to drive home the message that there is no limit to what people...

Revving Motor City's front-page engines with a pistol-packing priest and concealed-carry Catholics

GetReligion - Apr 22, 2015 at 3:47 pm
When a Catholic priest urges parishioners to pack heat and asks a woman afraid of guns, "Well, how do you feel about rape?" it's probably no surprise when he makes the front page...

Most Muslims reject religious violence, Pontifical Council says, advocating more dialogue

Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 22, 2015 at 3:34 pm
The need for dialogue with Islam is greater today than ever before, the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue proclaimed in a statement released on April 22. The...

Are you confused about the Loretta Lynch/human trafficking deal? Here’s what happened

LifeSiteNews - Apr 22, 2015 at 3:33 pm
Pro-life protections designed to keep U.S. taxpayers from underwriting abortion will not be extended to a new pot of money. But a pro-abortion activist will have her vote before...
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