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For Candlemas: “Let there be light”
The Deacon's Bench - Feb 2, 2015 at 10:50 am View image | gettyimages.com From my homily for The Presentation of the Lord in 2014: This is a moment for cherishing once more the greatest gift that arrived 40 days ago on...
Sen. Lindsey Graham: So what if the US attorney general is okay with stabbing babies’ heads?
LifeSiteNews - Feb 2, 2015 at 10:38 am The person looking to become the nation’s chief law-enforcement officer is on record fighting to let people stab babies in the back of the head, and not only does Lindsey Graham...
Meatless Friday Monday: Day after Superbowl Edition
Saint Louis Catholic - Feb 2, 2015 at 10:34 am Just had to share this, from a tweet of one Michael D. Fuller.
ASK FATHER: What sort of candles can be blessed at Candlemas?
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 2, 2015 at 10:29 am Here is an oldie question from a reader…
QUAERITUR:
If I bring personal candles to the EF mass on Candlemass, must they be made of beeswax? Can they be entirely made of non-...
Pre-Game with Jesus? Seriously?
Creative Minority Report - Feb 2, 2015 at 10:28 am Yup. This appeared on a college campus. I think a worthy goal is to try to make ourselves more like Jesus, not Jesus more like us. *subhead*Oh my.*subhead*
Abortion Advocacy Internships Promoted by Loyola Marymount Univ. Department
Catholic Education Daily - Feb 2, 2015 at 10:26 am Loyola Marymount University's political science department is promoting internships for an abortion advocacy organization, despite the University's Catholic identity.
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Your Sunday Sermon Notes
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 2, 2015 at 10:24 am Was there a good point or two from the sermon you heard at Mass on Sunday?
Yes, you should be paying attention, even to the extreme of being able to remember what was said on...
15-Year-Old Raped by Family Friend Rejects Abortion, Meets Her Daughter Decades Later
LifeNews.com - Feb 2, 2015 at 10:12 am At the young age of 15, Kathy Anderson was raped by a family friend and became pregnant. She hid the pregnancy from her parents, and because of her petite frame, didn’t show for...
Negative Reactions to Catholic Values at Marquette No Surprise, Says Former Prof
Catholic Education Daily - Feb 2, 2015 at 10:05 am An emeritus professor of philosophy at Marquette University, Dr. Howard Kainz, wrote that the disciplining of Dr. John McAdams was "shameful" and "strange," particularly in light...
7 Reasons Why Your Child Needs a Catholic Pediatrician
CatholicMom.com - Feb 2, 2015 at 10:00 am
7 Reasons Why Your Child Needs a Catholic Pediatrician
I used to believe we should leave medicine to the doctors and faith to the Church. I didn’t really understand that my...
British Parliament May Make UK First Country to Allow Creating Three-Parent Embryos
LifeNews.com - Feb 2, 2015 at 9:58 am Tomorrow MPs in the House of Commons will be asked to vote to make Britain the first country in the world to offer controversial ‘three-parent’ fertility treatments to families...
Report: hundreds of thousands of Germans leaving the Church over taxes
The Deacon's Bench - Feb 2, 2015 at 9:46 am From The Telegraph: Hundreds of thousands of German Christians are formally renouncing their faith and leaving the church in order to escape a controversial change in the tax...
Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz Closes Clinic in Pueblo, Colorado
LifeNews.com - Feb 2, 2015 at 9:34 am Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains (PPRG) runs abortion businesses or abortion referral clinics in Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Wyoming and Utah. Thankfully, however,...
Pregnant mom of 6 with breast cancer who refused abortion just found out she’s cancer-free
LifeSiteNews - Feb 2, 2015 at 9:31 am Things sure are looking up for Heather Choate.
Oklahoma School Under Fire to Teaching Kids Aborting Disabled Babies is Okay
LifeNews.com - Feb 2, 2015 at 9:27 am (LiveActionNews) — How young is too young for kids to debate abortion?
Edmond, Oklahoma is grappling with the question after some students came home with a controversial...
Pope to Lithuanian bishops: Be close to your flock and defend the family
Vatican Insider - Feb 2, 2015 at 9:19 amPope to promote peace during trip to Bosnia-Herzegovina
Catholic Herald - Feb 2, 2015 at 9:16 am In an effort to help bolster a minority Catholic population and encourage dialogue and friendship among once-warring ethnic and religious communities, Pope Francis has announced...
One week after instituting same sex unions, Chile’s Socialist government proposes legalizing abortion
LifeSiteNews - Feb 2, 2015 at 9:15 am The proposed bill would actually require a doctor to commit an abortion even against his conscience if no one else is available and there is an emergency.
Missing a Vocabulary of the Moral Middle
Commonweal - Feb 2, 2015 at 9:12 am Finally free of the imperative of manuscript editing, I actually am reading. Nicholas Carr’s new book, The Glass Cage, is a worthy sequel to The Shallows. The earlier book was a...
Renee Ellmers Calls Pro-Life Groups “Abhorrent and Childish” After She Flip-Flops on 20-Week Abortion Ban
LifeNews.com - Feb 2, 2015 at 9:11 am Congresswoman Reneee Ellmers made herself into a thorn in the side of the pro-life movement when she flip-flopped on her support for a major pro-life bill to ban abortions after...
