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The Pope baptises thirty-three infants in the Sistine Chapel
News.va - Jan 12, 2015 at 8:00 am
Vatican City, 11 January 2014 (VIS) – This morning in the Sistine Chapel the Holy Father presided at a Eucharistic celebration during which he baptised thirty-three children of...
Angelus: deafness to the voice of the Holy Spirit leads to muteness in evangelisation
News.va - Jan 12, 2015 at 8:00 am
Vatican City, 11 January 2014 (VIS) – The feast of the Baptism of the Lord concludes the season of the Nativity and the Pope, during the Angelus at midday today, commenting on...
Meeting of the presidents of the European Episcopal Conferences
News.va - Jan 12, 2015 at 7:59 am
Vatican City, 10 January 2014 (VIS) – The presidents of the European Episcopal Conferences and the superiors of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith will meet from 13...
Vatican sending millions to west Africa to fight Ebola
Catholic Herald - Jan 12, 2015 at 7:53 am The Vatican is sending money to Catholic dioceses and agencies in west Africa to help fight the spread of Ebola.
The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace announced this week...
An artistic awakening in the Muslim world would be of benefit to us all
Catholic Herald - Jan 12, 2015 at 7:04 am Over at the Guardian, Canon Giles Fraser has written an article, which, seemingly alone in the acres of commentary about the Charlie Hebdo massacre, examines some of the...
Pope: “Int’l community must take concrete steps for peace
News.va - Jan 12, 2015 at 7:00 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has called on the international community to take concrete steps to bring about peace and to protect all those who are victims of war and persecution...
Whole Food and Human Wellness
Dominicana - Jan 12, 2015 at 6:30 am Eating organic, dining at farm-to-table restaurants, drinking coffee made from shade-grown beans (freely traded), farmers markets, shopping at Whole Foods or other organic grocery...
The Drought Is Over – Pope Taps Prodigal Son as NOLA Aux.
Whispers in the Loggia - Jan 12, 2015 at 6:29 am Black Church, it's been a long wait... and now, finally, it's over.Eight years and a month since the US' three million African-American Catholics – a community larger than the...
Pope Francis: Paris attacks the result of a ‘deviant form of religion’
Catholic Herald - Jan 12, 2015 at 6:20 am In response to the Islamist terror attacks in Paris last week Pope Francis has criticised “deviant forms of religion”.
In his ‘state of the world’ address to the diplomatic corps...
Dismissal of Atlanta Fire Chief Over Anti-Gay Book Riles Religious Conservatives
The Religion Clause - Jan 12, 2015 at 6:20 am As reported by GA Voice, last week Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed dismissed Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran for publishing a book reflecting Cochran's anti-gay views, without discussing the...
Expanding Protestant Churches Face New Opposition From Chinese Government
The Religion Clause - Jan 12, 2015 at 6:15 am Yesterday's Christian Science Monitor carried a long story on the rapid growth of Protestantism in China and the government's new moves to crack down on official as well as...
Polish priest to lead Holy See's UN mission in Vienna
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 12, 2015 at 6:12 am Pope Francis has named Msgr. Janusz Urbanczyk, a Polish priest ordained in 1992, as the Holy See's representative at UN offices in Vienna.
Msgr. Urbanczyk previously work in the...
Consideration of Church's Location In Redistricting Does Not Violate Establishment Clause
The Religion Clause - Jan 12, 2015 at 6:10 am Harris v. City of Texarkana, (WD AR, Jan. 9, 2015), is a challenge to the drawing of ward boundary lines in a city for election purposes after the 2010 census. While most of the...
Pope Francis baptizes 33 children at the Sistine Chapel (Video)
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 12, 2015 at 6:05 am To view the video click here
Supreme Court Will Hear Arguments Today On Church's Challenge To Sign Ordinance
The Religion Clause - Jan 12, 2015 at 6:05 am The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this morning in Reed v. Town of Gilbert. (Argument calendar.) In the case, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1...
Pope to Diplomatic Corps: Religious fundamentalism turns God into an ideological pretext (Video)
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 12, 2015 at 6:04 am To view the video click here
Pope's Angelus: Sin only brings failure and misery to life (Video)
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 12, 2015 at 6:02 am To view the video click here
Recent Articles of Interest
The Religion Clause - Jan 12, 2015 at 6:00 am From SSRN:
Marc Helbling & Richard Traunmüller, How State Support of Religion Shapes Attitudes Toward Muslim Immigrants. New Evidence from a Subnational Comparison, (January 6...
Pope Francis to set off for Sri Lanka and the Philippines
Catholic Herald - Jan 12, 2015 at 5:39 am Pope Francis is to depart for Sri Lanka and the Philippines this evening, marking the first trip by a pope to south Asia in 15 years.
He will be welcomed in Sri Lanka tomorrow...
