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Pope Appeals for 'Negotiated Solution' to Middle East Conflicts
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 29, 2015 at 6:00 pm Pope Francis called for a "negotiated solution" to assist those suffering from persecution and violence in Syria and Iraq. The Holy Father made his appeal during an audience with...
Woman Tells of Horrific Abortion: “No Way What They Are Doing is Humane”
LifeNews.com - Jan 29, 2015 at 5:57 pm North Carolina has assigned investigators to the Hallmark Women’s Center in Fayetteville, the place where abortionist Malana Moshesh works. Moshesh has been reported for a...
More evidence for the traditional family: Scripture, social science, and human flourishing
LifeSiteNews - Jan 29, 2015 at 5:57 pm Based on a huge sampling of the social science data, it is fair to say that the family as defined by Scripture has been proven to be best, if we judge it by its effects on the...
Assisted living centers defeat HHS mandate in court
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 29, 2015 at 5:56 pm Denver, Colo., Jan 29, 2015 / 04:56 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A federal court has permanently barred the Obama administration from enforcing the federal contraception mandate against...
Pope says palliums will be given to new archbishops at home – not Rome
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 29, 2015 at 5:35 pm Vatican City, Jan 29, 2015 / 04:35 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- As a sign of “synodality” with local churches, Pope Francis has decided that new metropolitan archbishops will officially...
North Carolina Health Department Allowed Abortion Clinics to Write Their Own Rules
LifeNews.com - Jan 29, 2015 at 5:31 pm Legislators in North Carolina did the right thing in July 2013 when they voted to raise the quality standards for abortion clinics in the state.
The hand-wringing response from...
Woman Faces Murder Charge After Leaving Newborn in Garage to Freeze to Death
LifeNews.com - Jan 29, 2015 at 5:12 pm Angela Marie Alexie, a 24-year-old homeless woman, is charged with giving birth to a baby boy, leaving him in an unheated uninsulated, wood-sided garage in Eastpointe, Michigan,...
A Complete Divorce from Reality
Saint Louis Catholic - Jan 29, 2015 at 5:10 pm I want to thank Pewsitter, for without that fine Catholic central clearinghouse site, I would not have read the two posts I link below. My usual rule is not to give Mark Shea any...
Last Call to Win Books a-Plenty in This Week’s Giveaway
CatholicMom.com - Jan 29, 2015 at 5:00 pm Thanks to our sponsors this week: Aquinas and More, Franciscan Media, Our Sunday Visitor, Sophia Institute Press, TAN Books, and Word Among Us Press.
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Parents Sue After They Aborted Baby Test Showed Would be Disabled, The Test Was Wrong
LifeNews.com - Jan 29, 2015 at 4:42 pm The pro-life movement is all-too-familiar with offensive wrongful birth lawsuits — but here’s something very different.
The wrongful birth suit is brought by the parents of a sick...
Egypt's new government allows Christians to build new churches, ending years of opposition
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 29, 2015 at 4:33 pm Egyptian Christians have seen notable gains under the government of President Abd al-Sisi, the spokesman for the country's bishops tells the AsiaNews service.
Father Rafic Greiche...
Eager start for Izak and Mason
The Catholic Leader - Jan 29, 2015 at 4:30 pm By Emilie Ng SCHOOL may not start until 8.30am weekdays, but twins Izak and Mason Ford were ready for their first school day at Clairvaux MacKillop College, Upper Mt Gravatt, by 5...
Newest Catholic school takes innovative learning approach
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Jan 29, 2015 at 4:24 pm Adopting the STREAM curriculum was a crucial component in the creation of Frassati, a regional Catholic school serving the White Bear Lake area and its two parishes, St. Mary of...
Circumcision: When, how, who, what, why? And what about secular laws?
GetReligion - Jan 29, 2015 at 4:20 pm
JOHN ASKS:
When did circumcision start and how was God involved? How did its use evolve to today’s practice?
THE RELIGION GUY ANSWERS:
In the Jewish faith, ritual circumcision of...
Catholic organizations react to governor’s budget proposal
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Jan 29, 2015 at 4:17 pm Two Catholic entities paying close attention to the state legislature see elements in Gov. Mark Dayton’s budget proposal that could aid their missions in promoting just and...
Fostering Young Vocations (Part 2)
New Liturgical Movement - Jan 29, 2015 at 4:14 pm Yesterday I posted an old photograph of a young boy dressed as a priest and playing at saying Mass, with another boy acting as his server. I had originally thought to contrast it...
Does Francis like being Pope? A behind-the-scenes chat in the Philippines
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 29, 2015 at 4:12 pm Manila, Philippines, Jan 29, 2015 / 03:12 pm (CNA).- During his pastoral visit to the Philippines Jan. 15-19, Pope Francis held an unscheduled meeting at the Apostolic Nunciature...
New Texas Budget Could Cut Funding From Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz
LifeNews.com - Jan 29, 2015 at 4:10 pm The Planned Parenthood Texas abortion business has been having a rough couple of years.
First, in 2013, they had to pay $4.23 million dollars to Texas after they were found to...
Prophecy may be in your future
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Jan 29, 2015 at 4:07 pm Did you ever think that you might like to be a prophet and predict the future? Actually, prophecy in the Scriptures was not so much about predicting the future as predicting what...
Archbishop Cordileone launches effort to promote Catholic identity in San Francisco archdiocesan high schools
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 29, 2015 at 4:06 pm Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco is undertaking a study to determine how well archdiocesan high schools promote the Catholic faith.
"We hear stories of children...
