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Canada proclaims annual day honoring Pope John Paul II amidst secularist opposition
LifeSiteNews - Jan 7, 2015 at 10:57 am Canada will now honor the late pope and Catholic saint every April 2.
Parish to learn about stewarding God's gifts
The Busy Catholic - Jan 7, 2015 at 10:54 am Conference to be held, aptly, at Good Shepherd Church
Julie Kenny
An upcoming conference will teach parishes to take their pulse and see how well they are doing when it comes to...
Can journalists be careful with Charlie Hebdo attack coverage, while still citing key facts?
GetReligion - Jan 7, 2015 at 10:50 am So what is the lede here? The bloody attacks on the headquarters of the Charlie Hebdo magazine certainly deserve careful coverage, including the religion angles that simply cannot...
North Dakota Abortion Biz Loses Bid to Overturn Law Stopping Dangerous Abortion Pill
LifeNews.com - Jan 7, 2015 at 10:47 am The sole abortion business in North Dakota lost its effort to overturn a pro-life law targeting the dangerous RU 486 abortion pill that has killed dozens of women worldwide and...
Africa’s “Catholic moment”
The Deacon's Bench - Jan 7, 2015 at 10:47 am From George Weigel via The Pilot: According to an old Vatican aphorism, “We think in centuries here.” Viewed through that long-distance lens, the most important Catholic event of...
The Holy See expresses gratitude to local Churches in Africa fighting Ebola
News.va - Jan 7, 2015 at 10:39 am (Vatican Radio) In a document entitled, "The enhanced commitment of the Catholic Church in combating the spread of Ebola," The Holy See has expressed its appreciation to local...
Internal e-mails on gay project show Ottawa Catholic schools worried more about media than students: critic
LifeSiteNews - Jan 7, 2015 at 10:39 am Twenty-three pages of emails obtained in a Freedom of Information request show the board’s panic amidst national media coverage about its handling of a student 'gay rights'...
Five Things To Remember On Jan. 7
USCCB Media Blog - Jan 7, 2015 at 10:38 am 1. Pope Francis said today that "Mothers are the strongest antidote to the spread of selfish individualism."
2. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, spoke...
Cardinal Tagle on visit of Pope Francis to Philippines
News.va - Jan 7, 2015 at 10:32 am (Vatican Radio) Ahead of the journey of Pope Francis to the Philippines later this month, the Archbishop of Manila, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, spoke with Vatican Radio about his...
Extreme liberals, feminists and Church secularizers demand halt to criticism of Pope Francis
LifeSiteNews - Jan 7, 2015 at 10:32 am Catholic liberals launched an open letter and petition after Italy's most senior Vatican specialist raised some concern about the pope.
Upcoming papal voyage highlights Pope's concern for Asia
News.va - Jan 7, 2015 at 10:32 am (Vatican Radio) At a press conference in the Vatican on Wednesday, Father Federico Lombardi, SJ, the head of the Holy See Press Office, spoke about the significance of Pope...
For the record: First Things - "He is an ideologue and a meddlesome egoist."
Rorate Coeli - Jan 7, 2015 at 10:22 am Well... when you've lost First Things, you've lost mainstream American Catholicism.
... It was a portentous image. Press toads hopped to their keyboards to correct the evidence of...
Woman 30 Weeks Pregnant Traveled From U.K. to U.S. to Have Abortion Yesterday
LifeNews.com - Jan 7, 2015 at 10:20 am The pro-life community from all across the world came together in prayer and action in an attempt to help a divided family from the United Kingdom who traveled to the United...
ASK FATHER: Priest invites people to stand around altar during consecration
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 7, 2015 at 10:13 am From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
Today [actually a while back at the time of this posting] the associate pastor, a newly ordained priest, asked us, since there were fewer people than...
Catholic University Announces Joint Campus in Rome with Australian Catholic University
Catholic Education Daily - Jan 7, 2015 at 10:10 am The Catholic University of America and the Australian Catholic University recently formed a partnership to establish a new joint Rome Center, according to a CUA news release. The...
At the General Audience Francis cites Romero and the death squads
Vatican Insider - Jan 7, 2015 at 9:59 amCourt Rules Obama Can’t Force Company to Comply With HHS Mandate and Fund Abortions
LifeNews.com - Jan 7, 2015 at 9:50 am The Thomas More Society has won permanent protection for Autocam Medical, LLC, protecting its religious freedom to decline to provide abortion or contraceptive group insurance...
Vatican, French bishops decry terror attack in Paris
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 7, 2015 at 9:48 am Both the Vatican and the French bishops' conference have issued statements condemning a terrorist attack on a Parisian publication.
The attack by Islamic terrorists on the office...
The Church and society depends on mothers, says Pope
Catholic Herald - Jan 7, 2015 at 9:35 am Mothers are indispensable to society and the church, showing the world what it means to generously give oneself for others, to respect life and to display tenderness and moral...
Parish slated for closure now a place where people weep during Mass
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 7, 2015 at 9:33 am At Ship of Fools you find a “review” of an experience of Holy Mass at a parish in England where the Extraordinary Form is celebrated. The parish was threatened with closure but it...
