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ASK FATHER: Salvation “outside” the Church
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 5, 2015 at 3:51 pm From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
To begin, I want to let you know how much I enjoy reading your blog – Thank you. I have always struggled with the teaching of “Extra ecclesiam nulla...
Little Miracle Baby Survives Abortion at 26 Weeks
LifeNews.com - Feb 5, 2015 at 3:44 pm A baby boy who survived a botched late-term abortion procedure is now being dubbed a “little miracle” by the judge who handed him over to the custody of his father’s family. Baby...
Kiribati's president meets with Pontiff
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 5, 2015 at 3:41 pm Pope Francis met on February 5 with President Anote Tong of the little Pacific island republic of Kiribati.
A brief Vatican statement released after the meeting indicated that the...
Reports of priest slain by Islamic State in Mosul are false, archbishop says
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 5, 2015 at 3:39 pm Reports that a Catholic priest was killed in Mosul by the Islamic State are inaccurate, the Chaldean Catholic Patriarchate has announced.
Archbishop Amel Shamon Nona, who fled...
President Delivers Important Address To National Prayer Breakfast
The Religion Clause - Feb 5, 2015 at 3:36 pm President Obama delivered an important address (full text) at today's annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. First, in a gesture defying China's objections, the...
President Obama cites 'terrible deeds' of Christian history in address to National Prayer Breakfast
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 5, 2015 at 3:34 pm Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast on February 5, President Barack Obama lamented that through history "people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ."
Insisting...
Arizona Closing in on Catholic Radio: Your Help Needed!
CatholicMom.com - Feb 5, 2015 at 3:30 pm Editor’s note: We’re thrilled to spread the good news about an important project taking place in Payson, Arizona. CatholicMom.com’s own Deacon Tom Fox is at the helm of an...
Bobby Jindal urges GOP’s 2016 presidential candidates to ‘stand up’ for the unborn
LifeSiteNews - Feb 5, 2015 at 3:26 pm 'I think as that conservatives, we can stand up for everything we believe in,' Jindal told LifeSiteNews.
Pro-Life Film Asks Powerful Question: If You’ve Never Met Someone, Do They Still Exist?
LifeNews.com - Feb 5, 2015 at 3:19 pm If you’ve never met someone, do they still exist? This is the premise of the short film, “If I Can’t See It,” released last week by Angelic Films in partnership with Stand True...
Archbishop Romero's witness a 'slap in the face' to self-centered society
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 5, 2015 at 3:15 pm Vatican City, Feb 5, 2015 / 02:15 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the postulator of Archbishop Oscar Romero's cause for beatification, said the martyr's life was...
Chicago archdiocese faces 'public nuisance' charge in new type of sex-abuse lawsuit
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 5, 2015 at 3:11 pm The Archdiocese of Chicago faces a new lawsuit charging that Church officials caused a public nuisance by failing to take action against priests who abused minors.
The lawsuit...
Pope Francis to Address a Joint Session of the U.S. Congress
News.va - Feb 5, 2015 at 3:06 pm
The Holy See Press Office has confirmed that Pope Francis
will address a Joint Session of the United States Congress on 24 September 2015
during his pastoral visit to the U.S....
Senate hearing looks at ways to address issue of ‘modern slavery’
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Feb 5, 2015 at 3:00 pm WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations said Feb. 4 that “most Americans would be stunned to know that slavery still exists in this world.”
An...
Daily Beast tells of ex-gay Michael Glatze's conversion -- but to what?
GetReligion - Feb 5, 2015 at 3:00 pm
Michael Glatze was gay. Really, really gay. The Daily Beast wants to settle that firmly before looking at a film on his life.
At least before dropping the bomb on Glatze's...
Dismemberment Abortions: The Baby’s “Head is Crushed and Extracted in Pieces”
LifeNews.com - Feb 5, 2015 at 2:53 pm Not long ago, Americans from both sides of the aisle came together to protect unborn children from the unspeakable cruelty of partial-birth abortion. Many are still unable to...
More young Christians reportedly turning away from artificial birth control
The Deacon's Bench - Feb 5, 2015 at 2:30 pm From Al Jazeera: Jessica Wilson got married five months before she graduated from an evangelical college in 2010. Because she believed that sex is reserved for marriage, it wasn’...
House Speaker Boehner announces Pope Francis will address Congress
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Feb 5, 2015 at 2:29 pm WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, announced Feb. 5 that Pope Francis will address a joint meeting of Congress Sept. 24.
The pontiff’s “historic visit” would make...
At Last! Pope Francis Calls for Restoration of Traditional Rite of Confirmation
Saint Louis Catholic - Feb 5, 2015 at 2:21 pm Because I have been critical at times of some of the past off-the-cuff statements of the Holy Father, I wanted to be among the first to congratulate His Holiness for endorsing a...
“He Was Dead for 45 Minutes:” Doctors Stunned by Teen Boy’s Recovery
LifeNews.com - Feb 5, 2015 at 2:20 pm A teenager has shocked doctors by recovering from what they thought was certain death. The whole episode has one physician calling what happened to 14-year-old John Smith a “...
Christian bakers fined up to $150,000 for refusing to bake same-sex ‘wedding’ cake
LifeSiteNews - Feb 5, 2015 at 2:03 pm The owners of Oregon's Sweet Cakes by Melissa were found guilty of discrimination.
