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Attorney General Issues Guidance On Protection of Religious Liberty
The Religion Clause - Oct 7, 2017 at 8:07 pm Yesterday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a 25-page Memorandum (full text) setting out the Justice Department's understanding of the scope of religious liberty protections...
Nanango’s little bush cathedral turns 100 with style
The Catholic Leader - Oct 7, 2017 at 8:00 pm By Michael Crutcher NANANGO’S “little cathedral in the bush” has celebrated its centenary, relishing the good weather that deserted the town on the same day in 1917. Under clear...
Defense Department Drops Training Material References To Southern Poverty Law Center
The Religion Clause - Oct 7, 2017 at 7:44 pm As previously reported, In August a Florida Christian Ministry filed suit against the Southern Poverty Law Center for damages allegedly suffered when the organization was placed...
DOJ Says Title VII Does Not Cover Transgender Discrimination
The Religion Clause - Oct 7, 2017 at 7:26 pm On Oct. 4, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a Memorandum (full text) reversing a prior Justice Department interpretation of the extent to which Title VII of the 1964 Civil...
Cleaning up the lost and found: The Religion Guy rediscovers three journalistic morsels
GetReligion - Oct 7, 2017 at 6:33 pm
You know how it is. A newswriter comes across a really interesting item and sets it aside for a serious second look.
Then the pile of other goodies continues to grow and said...
Assistant Principal – Ryan Catholic College, Kirwan, Townsville
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Survey shows most Americans support celebrating Columbus Day
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Oct 7, 2017 at 3:59 pm A new survey shows that almost six in 10 Americans, or 57 percent, believe that celebrating Columbus Day is a "good idea," while only 29 percent oppose the holiday.
The Breakdown That Led to a Breakthrough
Journey of a Catholic Nerd Writer - Oct 7, 2017 at 3:56 pm This is the first of a (planned) three-part series that I hope to post over the course of the next week.September 28, 2017. That's the day I had my first school-related breakdown...
Boston College Amoris Laetitia Agitprop Workshop and Schrödinger’s Cat
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Oct 7, 2017 at 2:55 pm I wrote about the first installment of coverage of the agitprop workshop going on at Boston College about issues concenring Amoris Laetitia. HERE
It seems to me, having read...
A Prayer to obtain Final Perseverance: Prayer of the Day for Sunday, October 08, 2017
Catholic Online - Featured News - Oct 7, 2017 at 2:35 pm Eternal Father, I humbly adore Thee, and thank Thee for having created me, and for having redeemed me through Jesus Christ. I thank Thee most ...
Daily Readings for Sunday, October 08, 2017
Catholic Online - Featured News - Oct 7, 2017 at 2:35 pm Reading 1: Isaiah 5:1-7, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 80:12-16, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 80:19-20, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 80:9, Gospel: Matthew ...
Battle of the Sexes
Franciscan Media - Oct 7, 2017 at 1:42 pm The early 1970s in all its revanchist sexism, double-knit-fabric garishness and choking cigarette smoke is the setting of the coming-of-age story that is “Battle of the Sexes” (...
Venerable Fulton Sheen on Tolerance
Big C Catholics - Oct 7, 2017 at 1:28 pm "What is tolerance? Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil and a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. But what is more...
Peace and Security: Reflection for the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time
CatholicMom.com - Oct 7, 2017 at 1:00 pm A portion of Hadrian’s Wall in Northumbria, UK. By Mediatus – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link
Readings for October 7, 2017: 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time
A few years ago, I toured...
Good advocacy journalism -- The French daily Liberation on the right to die
GetReligion - Oct 7, 2017 at 1:00 pm
What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, (1711) line 203.
Regular readers of these columns...
Holding on to Hope: The Friendship Project Book Club Chapter 2
CatholicMom.com - Oct 7, 2017 at 10:30 am Welcome to The Friendship Project Book Club! We’re reading The Friendship Project by CatholicMom.com contributors Michele Faehnle and Emily Jaminet!
Hope is such an important...
Pope Leo XIII on the Holy Rosary 2017
New Liturgical Movement - Oct 7, 2017 at 9:00 am For the third year in a row, we commemorate the feast of the Holy Rosary with an excerpt from the writings of Pope Leo XIII. In the course of his Papacy, the fourth longest in...
The Stray: One Dog’s Impact
Lisa Hendey.com - Oct 7, 2017 at 8:30 am Opening wide in theaters this weekend is The Stray, a charming movie based on the true-life story of one family and the dog who helped them change their lives.
Synopsis:
“Pluto”...
The bodies of the Coptic martyrs beheaded by Isis found in Libya
Vatican Insider - Oct 7, 2017 at 7:24 am The Libyan police found the remains of twenty-one Coptic Christians whose throat had been slit by Isis on the Mediterranean coast, in what was one of the most shocking media...
Am I helping the Church be fruitful?
Aleteia - Oct 7, 2017 at 7:00 am This Sunday's Gospel has some harsh words for Church leaders, but what about me?“What will the owner of the vineyard do to those tenants when he comes?” They answered Jesus, “He...
