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Abortion Activist Yanks Pro-Life Signs From Students’ Hands and Destroys Them
LifeNews.com - Feb 6, 2015 at 4:58 pm On February 4, 2015, Created Equal’s young pro-life demonstrators were attacked outside Beechcroft High School. Video of the incident reveals a homeowner crossing the street to...
The pastor wants someone else to chant the Exsultet. What can a deacon do?
The Deacon's Bench - Feb 6, 2015 at 4:55 pm I’m sure this situation is more common than we think. On an online forum for deacons, one member wrote: Our music coordinator at my parish assignment told me that the choir will...
ASK FATHER: A revert wonders about validity of previous marriage
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 6, 2015 at 4:40 pm From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
I was Baptized Catholic, but my mother stopped practicing when I was 5. I have been married and divorced in a Protestant ceremony, no priest or deacon...
West Virginia Committee Passes Ban on Abortions After 20 Weeks
LifeNews.com - Feb 6, 2015 at 4:32 pm Last summer, the West Virginia legislature passed a 20-week abortion ban on abortion by overwhelming bipartisan margins.
After its passage, the President of West Virginians For...
Woman Defends Aborting Her Baby: I Wanted to be “Treated as a Human”
LifeNews.com - Feb 6, 2015 at 4:10 pm A 24-year-old woman has shared with the Irish Independent that she traveled from her home in Ireland to west London to obtain an abortion. In Ireland, under the Abortion Act 1967...
Jindal 1. Obama 0.
Creative Minority Report - Feb 6, 2015 at 4:09 pm Presidential hopeful Bobby Jindal scored with a statement on Obama's warning about Christians getting on their "high horse" about condemning violence.NRO:“It was nice of the...
NBC launches investigation of Brian Williams
The Deacon's Bench - Feb 6, 2015 at 4:06 pm From USA TODAY: NBC News confirmed Friday that it’s investigating chief anchor Brian Williams over his now-retracted statement that he was in a helicopter in Iraq that was hit by...
Hospice Needs to Take a Stronger Stance Against Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia
LifeNews.com - Feb 6, 2015 at 3:39 pm Technically, the hospice movement is part of the diverse coalition opposing assisted suicide.
But people would be excused for being unaware of the hospice position since the...
A Different Kind of Valentine
CatholicMom.com - Feb 6, 2015 at 3:30 pm
“Sisters and Friends” (All Rights Reserved)
When my son got in a car accident one of my first instincts was to tell my best friend! She shares most of the important events in my...
To God who gives joy to my youth
Commonweal - Feb 6, 2015 at 3:19 pm Altar servers are in the news once again as a priest in the neighboring Archdiocese of San Francisco has decided to eliminate female altar servers. This follows a recent...
Boy in Coma Starts Breathing After Doctors Declare Him”Brain Dead,” Try to Remove Life Support
LifeNews.com - Feb 6, 2015 at 3:15 pm In another case that reminds the pro-life movement of how some doctors are too hasty to declare patients too far gone, a 12-year-old boy in Texas who was in a coma has started...
Bibi Boehner Boner
Commonweal - Feb 6, 2015 at 3:06 pm The editors have laid out the fundamentals of what's wrong with Majority Leader John Boehner's invitation to PM Benjaming Netanyahu to speak to Congress. And this post from...
Same-sex wedding cakes: Journalistic framing again comes into play
GetReligion - Feb 6, 2015 at 2:54 pm
Here. We. Go. Again.
The culture war of cakes again makes for a sticky headline, this one courtesy of the Los Angeles Times:
Should religion gives businesses an excuse to not...
Pope Francis backs traditional marriage as Slovakia vote looms
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 6, 2015 at 2:41 pm Vatican City, Feb 6, 2015 / 01:41 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- With Slovaks set to hit the polls on tomorrow's referendum on marriage, Pope Francis used this week's general audience as a...
Showers, a barber's booth, toiletry kits and a change of underwear, Vatican bathroom facility opens “for business”
Vatican Insider - Feb 6, 2015 at 2:17 pm‘The Church betrayed John Paul II’ at Synod on the Family: Polish archbishop
LifeSiteNews - Feb 6, 2015 at 2:10 pm 'I tell you most brutally, the Church has betrayed John Paul II,' said Archbishop Henryk Hoser.
The Sword That Pierces the Soul
CatholicMom.com - Feb 6, 2015 at 2:00 pm
“SacredHeartBatoni” by Pompeo Batoni – Own work by Lloydbaltazar (2011-04-12). Licensed under CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
“..and a sword will pierce your own soul too.” (Luke 2:35...
Missouri’s Only Abortion Clinic, Operated by Planned Parenthood, Failed Inspections Twice
LifeNews.com - Feb 6, 2015 at 1:59 pm Since 2004, Planned Parenthood of Missouri has only had a handful of health inspections by government officials. The inspections found filthy conditions including rusty surgical...
Supreme Court ruling could leave Canada with ‘most permissive criteria for assisted suicide in the world’
LifeSiteNews - Feb 6, 2015 at 1:44 pm Life and family leaders are urging Parliament to protect Canada's vulnerable by invoking the 'notwithstanding clause,' which allows Parliament to overrule a court decision.
