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Alabama Chief Justice: I won’t recognize gay ‘marriage’ despite federal court ruling
LifeSiteNews - Jan 28, 2015 at 6:08 pm The state’s governor has pledged to keep defending the state’s marriage laws from federal interference.
A tale of two cakes: Colorado's far-reaching religious freedom fight
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 28, 2015 at 6:02 pm Denver, Colo., Jan 28, 2015 / 05:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The battleground for religious freedom is currently the soft, frosted tops of cakes in Colorado.
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Man Stabs Pregnant Ex-Girlfriend Five Times Because She Wouldn’t Abort, Baby Survives
LifeNews.com - Jan 28, 2015 at 6:01 pm In 2014, LifeNews reported that Nicholas Leaning tried to kill his unborn child by stabbing his 34-week pregnant girlfriend, Lauren Oliver, five times in the abdomen. Oliver was...
Iraq Bishop To Speak at UK Parliament
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 28, 2015 at 6:00 pm An Archbishop from Kurdish northern Iraq grappling with the influx of more than 120,000 Christians fleeing ISIS is to come to London to plead their cause. Archbishop Bashar...
Pope's Visit With Abandoned Children "An Enormous Surprise"
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 28, 2015 at 6:00 pm “I would like the genuine joy that the children expressed to him not make one forget the scandal of evil that strikes them every day,” explained Father Matthieu Dauchez. The...
Pope's Morning Homily: 'We Cannot Privatize Salvation'
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 28, 2015 at 6:00 pm "The privatization of salvation is the wrong path." These were the words of Pope Francis during his morning homily at Casa Santa Marta today. According to Vatican Radio, the...
Pope Francis Makes Changes to Pallium Investiture Ceremony
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 28, 2015 at 6:00 pm Msgr. Guido Marini, the Master of Pontifical Liturgical Celebrations, announced that Pope Francis has modified the ceremony of investiture of the Pallium which takes place on the...
Msgr. Robert J. Vitillo's Address to the UNHCR
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 28, 2015 at 6:00 pm Here is the address given by Msgr. Robert J. Vitillo, head of Caritas Internationalis' Delegation to the UN in Geneva at the launch of the Inter-Agency Central African Republic...
The Legacy of Catholic Education
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 28, 2015 at 6:00 pm Here is the latest column by Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska, reprinted from the Southern Nebraska Register. --
Franciscan missionaries first arrived in Florida more...
Preaching Another Christ: Synod Against the Family 2015
Saint Louis Catholic - Jan 28, 2015 at 5:29 pm A tip of the hat to the Dyspeptic Mutterings blog, for the scriptural citation relevant to the upcoming Synod:2 Corinthians 11: 3-43 But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by...
China Sees 13 Million Abortions a Year, 91% Percent of Pregnant Teens Have Abortions
LifeNews.com - Jan 28, 2015 at 5:27 pm According to China’s National Health and Family Commission, 13 million abortions occur in their country each year. The United States, by comparison, reports that there are one...
Four-Year-Old Calls 911 and Saves Her Pregnant Mom’s Life After a Seizure
LifeNews.com - Jan 28, 2015 at 5:11 pm In Michigan, a four-year-old girl is being called a hero for calling 911 after her pregnant mother fell down from a seizure. Calise’s mother, Centerria Manning, suffers from...
Poverty stems from unjust economic system, not big families, pope says
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Jan 28, 2015 at 4:56 pm Families who have lots of children do not cause poverty, Pope Francis said.
Pope changes another tradition: each new archbishop will receive pallium in his own archdiocese
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 28, 2015 at 4:54 pm Pope Francis has decided that each newly appointed metropolitan archbishop should be formally vested with the pallium at a ceremony in his own archdiocese, rather than the...
Baby Boy Was Born Without Eyes, But His Parents Love Him Just as Much
LifeNews.com - Jan 28, 2015 at 4:48 pm Had some parents known about his condition before he was born, they may had considered an abortion. But little 3-month-old Richie Lopez’s parents had no idea that their son would...
U.S. & World News briefs – January 29, 2015
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Jan 28, 2015 at 4:48 pm U.S. House aims to restrict taxpayer funding of abortion
Pope signs sainthood cause decree for U.S.-born priest
Eastern Christian leaders plea: help for refugees, end support for terrorism
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 28, 2015 at 4:31 pm Leaders of the Eastern Christian community met in Bkerke, Lebanon on January 27, and released a joint statement urging international support for the Christian refugees in the...
Forming Catholic identity core to former Catholic Charities USA head’s new UST
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Jan 28, 2015 at 4:23 pm On Feb. 2, Father Larry Snyder will return to the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis to take the helm as vice president of the Office for Mission at the University of St....
50 things you should probably know about 50 Shades of Grey
LifeSiteNews - Jan 28, 2015 at 4:22 pm Hopefully you’ve already decided by now that Fifty Shades of Grey isn’t worth your time, but if not, here's some things you should know.
Pope decides Pallium will be given to Metropolitan Archbishops in home Dioceses
Vatican Insider - Jan 28, 2015 at 4:22 pm
