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General Audience: Pope focuses on role of father in family life
News.va - Jan 28, 2015 at 5:10 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis called on fathers to be present in the lives of their children pointing out that the absence of a ‘father figure’ can have grave consequences....
Lindsey Graham: I’ll make it easier to have a late-term abortion after rape in the Senate version of the 20-week bill
LifeSiteNews - Jan 28, 2015 at 5:10 am The senator and possible 2016 presidential candidate says he will remove a rape reporting provision that caused Rep. Renee Ellmers to withdraw her support for the Pain Capable...
U.S. Bishops Welcome Supreme Court Decision on Lethal Injection Protocols
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 28, 2015 at 5:04 am The chairs of the Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development and Committee on Pro-life Activities welcomed the U.S. Supreme Court’s January 23 announcement that it would...
Daily Gospel Reflection for January 28, 2015
CatholicMom.com - Jan 28, 2015 at 5:00 am
Today’s Gospel: Mark 4:1-20
Memorial of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the Church
Two things strike me as I read this gospel. One, Jesus explains this parable to the...
Polls reveal declining support for abortion in U.S.
Franciscan Media - Jan 28, 2015 at 5:00 am A Jan. 21 report from the National Right to Life Committee and new poll results show that abortion is increasingly unpopular in the United States, but also that the number of...
Catholics mark 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
Catholic Herald - Jan 28, 2015 at 4:59 am Catholic leaders joined in commemorations of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp yesterday.
“When we ask how God was present in the hell of...
After killing 20-week abortion ban, Congresswoman Walorski receives ovation at 2015 March for Life
LifeSiteNews - Jan 28, 2015 at 4:55 am Rep. Jackie Walorski helped kill the vote on the 20-week abortion ban. Why was she being applauded at the March for Life less than 24 hours later?
Bishop defends CCHD-funded group
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 28, 2015 at 4:47 am A New Mexico bishop has come to the defense of Comunidades en Acción y de Fé (CAFé), a faith-based organization that, at his recommendation, receives funding from the US bishops'...
Cause of St Thérèse of Lisieux’s sister is opened
Catholic Herald - Jan 28, 2015 at 4:16 am A French bishop has officially opened the beatification Cause of Léonie Martin, the sister of St Thérèse of Lisieux.
Bishop Jean-Claude Boulanger of Bayeux-Lisieux opened the...
Who's entering religious life these days?
EWTN - US Latest News - Jan 28, 2015 at 4:14 am Washington D.C., Jan 28, 2015 / 04:14 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- U.S. Catholics are being encouraged to get to know local religious
communities, as a new study offers insight into the...
Teachers Can Awaken Students to Love of Christ, Says Homilist at Annual CUA Mass
Catholic Education Daily - Jan 28, 2015 at 4:12 am The Catholic University of America (CUA) in Washington, D.C., recently held its annual community-wide Mass in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas and in celebration of National Catholic...
Faithful Catholic College Students Joined Tens of Thousands in West Coast Walk for Life
Catholic Education Daily - Jan 28, 2015 at 4:10 am The Walk for Life is the largest pro-life demonstration in the Western United States, second in the nation to only the National March for Life in Washington, D.C., and draws large...
California judges barred from work with Boy Scouts
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 28, 2015 at 4:03 am The California Supreme Court has voted to bar state judges from joining nonprofit youth organizations that discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation.
"Although the court's...
Group of Mothers Offering Prayerful Support to College Kids Continues to Grow
Catholic Education Daily - Jan 28, 2015 at 4:01 am A group founded last year to help mothers give faith-filled support to their sons and daughters in college has been growing rapidly, a representative of the group “Mothers of...
Ivory Coast's bishops lament ritual sacrifice of children
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 28, 2015 at 3:53 am Declaring that their nation is "sick at a spiritual and moral level," the bishops of Ivory Coast denounced the ritual sacrifice of children.
A report from the Reuters news agency...
Chiara Lubich: A Life Dedicated to Peace and Dialogue
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 28, 2015 at 3:46 am This afternooon’s celebration in the Cathedral of Frascati marks a great feast. Following the celebration of Vespers, Bishop Raffaello Martinelli will open the process of the...
Malawian bishops commit to new media in spreading the Gospel
EWTN - World Catholic News - Jan 28, 2015 at 3:35 am Lilongwe, Malawi, Jan 28, 2015 / 04:04 am (EWTN News/CNA).- A national symposium of Catholic communicators set out to explore
pathways in new media to build unity in Malawi and to...
Needed: A New Church Policy toward Islam [Pt. 1]
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jan 28, 2015 at 3:35 am
In a speech to Egypt’s top Islamic authorities, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi called for a “religious revolution.” Why? Because he believes that Islam has problems: “That corpus...
Cardinal welcomes House passage of pro-life legislation
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 28, 2015 at 3:31 am Cardinal Seán O'Malley of Boston, chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities, has welcomed the House of Representatives'...
Workaholic fathers are turning children into ‘orphans’, says Francis
Catholic Herald - Jan 28, 2015 at 3:31 am Many children today are effectively orphans because their fathers are absorbed with work and do not play with them, Pope Francis has said.
Speaking at his customary Wednesday...
