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Opposition growing to 50 Shades: expected to be most graphic R-rated film in years
LifeSiteNews - Feb 4, 2015 at 4:52 pm Real women 'don’t end up like Anastasia; they often end up in a women’s shelter, on the run for years or dead,' says the National Center on Sexual Exploitation.
Montana Wins Latest Battle to Keep Pro-Life Law Requiring Parental Consent on Abortion
LifeNews.com - Feb 4, 2015 at 4:49 pm In May 2013, Planned Parenthood sued the state of Montana after voters approved a ballot measure that required minor girls to get parental consent prior to an abortion. Remarkably...
ASK FATHER: Do the devout have the hardest deaths?
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 4, 2015 at 4:44 pm From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
I have been unsettled by remarks of a Dr Martin Scurr (Daily Mail 27 Jan 2015) who some years ago served the Jesuits at their HQ in Mayfair and religious...
Polish Archbishop predicts ugly confrontations at Synod: “innovators have not been idle”
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 4, 2015 at 4:29 pm At the blog Witness for Church and Pope I saw this (my emphases):
BREAKING NEWS from POLAND: Archbishop Henryk Hoser: “The Church has betrayed John Paul II…they did not follow his...
This Pastor is Not Afraid to Stand Up and Say: “Abortion is Murder”
LifeNews.com - Feb 4, 2015 at 4:17 pm Some Christians wish they attended a church where the pastor or priest took a more outspoken stance against abortion. While sermons or homilies may touch on pro-life issues from...
Archbishop Romero’s beatification will be soon, Vatican official says
The Catholic Leader - Feb 4, 2015 at 3:59 pm SALVADORAN Archbishop Oscar Romero will be beatified in San Salvador “certainly within the year and not later, but possibly within a few months”, the postulator or chief promoter...
Sullivan's Dish is done
Commonweal - Feb 4, 2015 at 3:48 pm I wasn’t sure I wanted to post on Andrew Sullivan’s announced retirement from blogging until it became clear whether the Daily Dish would go on without him. Today the answer came...
New Washington D.C. Law Will Force Pro-Life Groups, Christian Schools to Fund Abortions
LifeNews.com - Feb 4, 2015 at 3:42 pm A bill enacted under-the-radar days ago in Washington, DC could force all employers in the nation’s capital to cover abortion-on-demand in health plans, including pro-life groups...
Jordan’s Christian churches condemn pilot’s murder, offer prayers
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Feb 4, 2015 at 3:39 pm AMMAN, Jordan — Christian churches in Jordan condemned the Islamic State militants’ killing of First Lt. Muath al-Kasasbeh, a Jordanian pilot who had been held in captivity by the...
San Francisco’s additions to faculty handbook reiterate church teaching
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Feb 4, 2015 at 3:31 pm SAN FRANCISCO — The Archdiocese of San Francisco is proposing three new clauses to contracts for teachers in archdiocesan Catholic high schools to further clarify that Catholic...
EWTN to appeals court: religious freedom at stake in HHS mandate case
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 4, 2015 at 3:20 pm Atlanta, Ga., Feb 4, 2015 / 02:20 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A federal appeals court heard oral arguments Wednesday over whether the EWTN Global Catholic Network should be required to...
Chilling video shows chief of staff affirming that Democratic congressman ‘does not believe in legal protection for females’ in the womb
LifeSiteNews - Feb 4, 2015 at 3:18 pm “Yes, that is correct,” the staffer said when asked if his boss is indifferent to unborn women's rights.
You Want to Be a Better Person?
Saint Louis Catholic - Feb 4, 2015 at 3:11 pm Might I suggest reading the Martyrology each day? It is a good reminder of what the faith costs, and yet also a source of hope and strength. Each day's hour of Prime anticipates...
Euthanasia Activists File Lawsuit to Overturn New York Assisted Suicide Ban
LifeNews.com - Feb 4, 2015 at 3:04 pm Currently, New York law criminalizes assisting suicide as a form of manslaughter but “right to die” advocates are working to change that.
According to the Capital Playbook, a...
Define 'mainstream,' give three examples: Joshua Harris kisses nondenominational evangelicalism good-bye?
GetReligion - Feb 4, 2015 at 3:00 pm
If you have never heard of the book "I Kissed Dating Goodbye," by Joshua Harris, then you probably didn't know any homeschooling parents during the past generation or so. Whether...
Archbishop Romero bore witness to faith that 'would not stay silent,' says postulator for his cause
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 4, 2015 at 2:58 pm It is a "providential coincidence" that the beatification of Archbishop Oscar Romero will take place under the first Latin American Pope, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia told a...
Italian archbishop: abortions caused economic crisis
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 4, 2015 at 2:30 pm An Italian archbishop has said that the country's persistent economic problems can be attributed to the abortions that have ended 6 million lives.
"The law against abortion has...
Outraged Muslim leaders condemn Islamic State after burning of Jordanian pilot
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 4, 2015 at 2:24 pm Some of the world's most prominent Islamic leaders have issued ringing denunciations of the Islamic State (IS) following the release of a video in which a Jordanian pilot was...
“What Have I Done!” Woman Taking Abortion Pill Regrets Her Decision, Could They Save Her Baby?
LifeNews.com - Feb 4, 2015 at 2:24 pm In 2014, a woman known as Jen walked into Assure Pregnancy Clinic in California afraid and confused. Jen was a married college student, with a toddler at home, and pregnant with...
Pope Francis condones beating children
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 4, 2015 at 2:17 pm The catholic Left hangs on every word that the Pope has, might, could utter about global warning and redistribution of wealth. They can’t wait to see the next airplane presser or...
