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EEOC issues religious-discrimination data
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 6, 2015 at 4:23 am The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received 3,549 complaints of workplace discrimination based on religion in fiscal year 2014--down from a high of 4,151 three years...
Pope Sends Condolences to Victims and Families of Taiwan Airways Crash
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Feb 6, 2015 at 4:15 am Of the 58 passengers aboard a TransAsia Airways flight, 31 are dead, 15 wounded and 12 remain missing. This is the tally of the tragic accident that took place on Wednesday in...
Iraq: Christian militia forms to fight Islamic State
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 6, 2015 at 4:05 am A Christian militia of 4,000 men has been formed to retake northern Iraqi territory from the Islamic States, according to a Newsweek report.
"The Assyrians want their land back...
Pope holds video chat with disabled children
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 6, 2015 at 3:46 am Pope Francis took part in a video chat with disabled children on February 5 and emphasized the importance of communication.
"When you communicate, you give the best you have...
Pope Francis backs traditional marriage as Slovakia vote looms
EWTN - Vatican News - Feb 6, 2015 at 3:41 am Vatican City, Feb 6, 2015 / 03:41 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- With Slovaks set to hit the polls on tomorrow's referendum on marriage,
Pope Francis used this week's general audience as a...
Cristina Odone criticises Tristram Hunt’s ‘arrogant and ignorant’ remarks about nuns
Catholic Herald - Feb 6, 2015 at 3:35 am Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt’s comments about nuns on the BBC programme Question Time last night were “arrogant and ignorant”, Cristina Odone has said.
Ms Odone, a...
Catholic Quote of the Day — from St. Maximilian Kolbe
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 6, 2015 at 3:30 am “The most deadly poison of our times is indifference. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore, to praise Him to the greatest...
Awaiting an ecology encyclical, everyone wants Pope Francis' support
EWTN - Vatican News - Feb 6, 2015 at 3:30 am Vatican City, Feb 6, 2015 / 04:08 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
In view of the much anticipated encyclical on ecology, countries, agencies, and even industries are seeking papal support in...
Indian government apologises for denying visas to Vatican officials
Catholic Herald - Feb 6, 2015 at 3:17 am The Indian government has apologised to a senior Church official for refusing visas to two Vatican officials travelling to address a meeting of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of...
Awaiting an ecology encyclical, everyone wants Pope Francis' support
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 6, 2015 at 3:08 am Vatican City, Feb 6, 2015 / 02:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In view of the much anticipated encyclical on ecology, countries, agencies, and even industries are seeking papal support in...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 06/02/15
Catholic Herald - Feb 6, 2015 at 2:56 am Pope Francis confessed that he’s a “dinosaur” with computers when he took part in a Google Hangout with disabled children yesterday (short video, full video).
The Indian...
Pope's Address to Prefects of Several Italian Cities
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Feb 6, 2015 at 2:36 am Pope Francis received in audience -- in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Vatican Palace --, the Prefects of several Italian cities, and delivered the following address...
Archbishop Attacked for Defending Mission of Catholic Schools
Crisis Magazine - Church - Feb 6, 2015 at 2:10 am
In an attempt to undermine the right of Catholic K-12 schools to “hire (and fire) for mission” the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle recently claimed that while the...
Aristotle and the God of Creation
Crisis Magazine - Church - Feb 6, 2015 at 2:00 am
“Heraclitus once said that ‘Nature loves to hide.’ Not from Aristotle. He writes as though nature is living next door and running a taverna.” This summary judgment—at once...
I have two left feet
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Feb 6, 2015 at 1:49 am …but have always wished I could dance as I have always wished I could play a musical instrument. I think a trained and gifted dancer is one of the most beautiful sights in the...
Bill Doino on Pius XII and the Jews
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Feb 6, 2015 at 1:46 am He writes:
In the new issue of Nuovo Storia Contemporanea-one of Italy’s leading journals–see link below–Antonello Carvigiani has an important essay on the latest research...
Archbishop Edoardo Menichelli: a talented preacher and soon-to-be cardinal
EWTN - World Catholic News - Feb 6, 2015 at 1:35 am Ancona, Italy, Feb 6, 2015 / 02:04 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
When he learned in January Pope Francis would make him a cardinal, Archbishop Edoardo Menichelli of Ancona-Osimo did not...
"Praise the Lord, who heals the brokenhearted": Readings for the Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time
The Sacred Page - Feb 6, 2015 at 1:34 am This Sunday the lectionary has us pick up where we left off in the Gospel of Mark last Sunday. Last week we heard about how Jesus' ministry was characterized by "authority"/"power...
Interesting piece on the Church in Asia
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Feb 6, 2015 at 1:33 am Tricia Bolle sends along a piece with a lot of Catholic input from her that ran in a mostly Protestant publication that focuses on educating people about Christianity in China to...
