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Different flocks to share pews
The Busy Catholic - Jan 12, 2015 at 11:30 am Annual eight-day event will bring together followers of Christ
Religious leaders meet with Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB, after a
Mass celebrating the ministry of Pope Francis...
How I Pray: A Peek Into My Prayer Routine
Brandon Vogt - Jan 12, 2015 at 11:18 am
My friend Tom McDonald, who blogs over at God and the Machine at Patheos, recently interviewed me for his series on how people pray. Read a part of the interview below and then...
Vatican will prosecute Italian man for repeated stunts on St. Peter's roof
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 12, 2015 at 11:15 am The Vatican has decided to bring criminal charges against an Italian man who has climbed out onto the roof of St. Peter's basilica five times in a bid to call attention to his...
Midwives, second-class: Terminating religious freedom in the UK
LifeSiteNews - Jan 12, 2015 at 11:14 am A new ruling in the UK effectively creates an underclass of health-care providers consisting of those who can't, in good conscience, oversee or prescribe abortions.
Nigerian archbishop seeks worldwide response to terror killings in Africa, too
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 12, 2015 at 11:08 am A Nigerian archbishop has challenged the West to show the same concern for murdered Christians in Africa as for slain journalists in Paris.
Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Jos told...
Baby With Large Tumor on His Chest Saved After Mother Rejects Doctor’s Abortion Advice
LifeNews.com - Jan 12, 2015 at 11:05 am A little baby boy is alive today thanks to his mother’s instinct to not take his life in an abortion even though doctors said he had a large tumor growing on his chest.
Angel...
150 Poles protest outside Canadian embassy to support Mary Wagner
LifeSiteNews - Jan 12, 2015 at 11:02 am 'Mary Wagner's incarceration brings shame to the Canadian government.'
Update on Atlanta fire chief war, as well as journalism -- left and right -- in the age of 'Kellerism'
GetReligion - Jan 12, 2015 at 10:58 am
Long ago, when I was teaching at Denver Seminary in the early 1990s, seminary students and pastors used to ask me this blunt question: Why should I ever risk taking to reporters...
Population control trumps the democratic process in… the world’s largest democracy
LifeSiteNews - Jan 12, 2015 at 10:45 am While India’s national government pays lip-service to human rights, its national government chronically ignores or endorses local population control programs.
In Philippines, spirituality includes warfare against forces of darkness
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Jan 12, 2015 at 10:39 am MANILA, Philippines — In the months leading up to Pope Francis’ visit to the Philippines Jan. 15-19, church leaders emphasized “spiritual preparation,” such as a special prayer...
Pro-Abortion Communists Call for “Revolution” to Counter Protest March for Life
LifeNews.com - Jan 12, 2015 at 10:37 am Sunsara Taylor the head of the pro-choice group, Stop Patriarchy and Carl Dix of the Revolutionary Communist Party are joining together to call for their radical abortion...
Great News Day!...
Commonweal - Jan 12, 2015 at 10:08 am ...for schadenfreud.
NYTimes offers a check-list for most of what went wrong between Mayor de Blasio and the police. Revealing.... And it quotes police sympathetic to the mayor's...
Jessica Was Born at Just Five Months, But It’s Legal to Kill Her in an Abortion
LifeNews.com - Jan 12, 2015 at 10:06 am Republican members of Congress have already introduced a bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks and leading pro-life groups are moving quickly to rally pro-life people around the...
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A deacon writes: “We have learned that being transgender is not synonymous with being homosexual”
The Deacon's Bench - Jan 12, 2015 at 9:39 am You may remember the link I posted several days back, about a Florida deacon who wrote about accepting his LGBT child. Deacon Ray Dever dropped me a cordial and appreciative email...
St Francis and the Pope: Catalysts for change?
Catholic Herald - Jan 12, 2015 at 9:38 am Now that we have Pope Francis (the first) it’s natural for people to write books linking him to his new patron: St Francis of Assisi. Jon M Sweeney has done just this in When St...
How Do You Grow in Faith During Lent? [Feedback Wanted!]
The Catholic Foodie - Jan 12, 2015 at 9:37 am
I know we just exited the Christmas Season and that we are now in Ordinary Time, but I am already starting to think about Lent.
Crazy, I know. A foodie anticipating Lent.
But I’...
Loyola Chicago’s MLK Celebration to Feature Speaker Who Thanked God for Abortion
Catholic Education Daily - Jan 12, 2015 at 9:33 am Loyola University Chicago (LUC), despite its Catholic identity, is set to host a pro-abortion rights journalist, who once thanked God for abortion on television, as the keynote...
EWTN Mini-Series on Marriage to Aid Students, Teachers in Answering Tough Questions
Catholic Education Daily - Jan 12, 2015 at 9:27 am The Cardinal Newman Society spoke to the president of Catholics for the Common Good, an organization that is joining with EWTN to release a TV mini-series dedicated to educating...
Atlanta Mayor Says Shut Up About Religious Discrimination
Creative Minority Report - Jan 12, 2015 at 9:21 am Oh, this clears it all up. Atlanta fire chief, Kelvin Cochran, wrote a book for his Bible study group in which he espoused actual Christian beliefs that included the teaching on...
