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Pope Draws 3 Lessons From Saint He Canonized Today in Colombo
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 13, 2015 at 6:00 pm Pope Francis today pointed to three lessons to be taken from the Church's newest canonized saint, Joseph Vaz, a missionary to Sri Lanka. The Pope spoke of St. Joseph Vaz during...
Cardinal Ranjith's Address Giving Thanks to Pope Francis
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 13, 2015 at 6:00 pm Here is the text of a speech given this morning by Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, archbishop of Colombo, in gratitude to the Holy Father. He addressed these words at the end of the...
Vatican Officials Asks Filipino Faithful to Use Images of Christ, Not Pope
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 13, 2015 at 6:00 pm ‘Use images of Christ, not the Pope,’ is the message Vatican officials have been trying to send faithful in the Philippines, who eagerly await Pope Francis, who arrive in their...
Pope's Telegram to Italian President Giorgio Napolitano
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 13, 2015 at 6:00 pm Here is the Vatican-provided translation of the Holy Father's telegram to Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, who announced his resignation today in Rome. * * *
To His...
Chaldean Patriarchate Denies Approving Emigration of Iraqi Christians
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 13, 2015 at 6:00 pm While the path of emigration is always a personal decision and will not be judged, it cannot be justified by referring to approvals the Church never made. So says the...
More Than 10,000 Children, Teens in Senegal for Annual Pilgrimage
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 13, 2015 at 6:00 pm More than 10,000 children and teens have gathered in Senegal for an annual pilgrimage aimed at promoting missionary service to disadvantaged children. In the capital of the...
Fox News’ Brent Baier, actor Gary Sinise cancel on Catholic group after gay gripes
LifeSiteNews - Jan 13, 2015 at 5:56 pm Baier pulled out 'due to the controversy surrounding some editorial stances in [Legatus'] magazine,' says FOX News.
United States is Funding Sterilization Camps Targeting Women in India
LifeNews.com - Jan 13, 2015 at 5:00 pm Women’s wombs are inflated with bicycle pumps. Some are paid as little as 600 rupees – about $10 – to be sterilized.
Some see – and feel – doctors pull shreds of their organs...
Learning to Forget through Your Prayerful Imagination
CatholicMom.com - Jan 13, 2015 at 5:00 pm Learn to forget? Seems to me I have to first learn how to remember! Those of us past a certain age know that feeling well. So do young mothers, workaholics, and anyone else who is...
Kentucky Senate Passes Pro-Life Bill to Inform Women of Abortion Risks, Alternatives
LifeNews.com - Jan 13, 2015 at 4:46 pm The Kentucky Senate passed an informed consent bill that will require a meeting between the pregnant woman and the abortionist at least 24-hours before an abortion takes place....
The Way This Expectant Mom Told Her Husband She’s Pregnant is Priceless
LifeNews.com - Jan 13, 2015 at 4:29 pm Jessica was keeping a big secret from her husband, Michael; she was pregnant and hadn’t told him yet. She wanted to make the announcement special so she brought him to a photo...
Killed for Kidding
Commonweal - Jan 13, 2015 at 4:23 pm In the current New Yorker, Adam Gopnik has a thoughtful piece about last week's massacre at the offices of Charlie Hebdo. He provides some useful history, makes some important...
Pope's Homily at Canonization of St. Joseph Vaz
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 13, 2015 at 4:10 pm Here is the text of the homily Pope Francis gave today in Colombo, Sri Lanka, at the canonization Mass of St. Joseph Vaz. * * *
“All the ends of the earth will see the...
Planned Parenthood Blames Obamacare for Closing Clinic, Contraception Mandate Meant Fewer Customers
LifeNews.com - Jan 13, 2015 at 4:06 pm An ironic twist of fate has occurred, Planned Parenthood which lobbied heavily for the Affordable Care Act, is now blaming the ObamaCare monstrosity for the closure of a Michigan...
European bishops should work together to renew missionary zeal, Pope says
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 13, 2015 at 4:02 pm Pope Francis has sent a message of greetings to representatives of the doctrinal commissions of the European bishops' conferences, who are meeting this week in Esztergom, Hungary...
Big question in the background: What is terrorism’s long-term impact on world Islam?
GetReligion - Jan 13, 2015 at 4:00 pm The news media are understandably consumed with Muslim terrorists’ deadly attacks on a satirical weekly’s office and a Jewish grocery in Paris. Europeans are soul-searching over...
Lesbian mayor who subpoenaed Houston pastors’ sermons seeks to deny them a jury trial in referendum dispute
LifeSiteNews - Jan 13, 2015 at 3:43 pm 'What we have asked for all along is to simply let the people decide' on the city's 'gay rights' ordinance, says Pastor Steve Riggle.
Writing Atrocity
Commonweal - Jan 13, 2015 at 3:41 pm In Thirty Girls, the novelist Susan Minot has set herself several tasks, all of them difficult. First, she wants to imagine the seemingly unimaginable: what it must feel like for...
Black Feminist Tasha Fierce Brags: I Just Had an Abortion and Don’t Regret It
LifeNews.com - Jan 13, 2015 at 3:36 pm In a recent article on Ebony online, Tasha Fierce openly shared that she had an abortion last month. Fierce describes herself as an African American feminist who writes on race,...
