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Don’t Abort Babies With Down Syndrome: “They Will Bless Your Life More Than You’ll Bless Theirs”
LifeNews.com - Jan 7, 2015 at 9:32 am When Andy and Mercedes Lara began sharing Sunflower Mae’s story, she captured the hearts of thousands. Sunflower has Down syndrome, a chromosomal abnormality that is caused by an...
Appeals Court Holds Hearing Today on Texas Law That Closed Multiple Abortion Clinics
LifeNews.com - Jan 7, 2015 at 9:02 am As NRL News Today reported in December, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments this morning on another challenge to a different...
Books for Sale/1: Latin Ordinary Form
New Liturgical Movement - Jan 7, 2015 at 9:00 am As Shawn Tribe used to do in the old days, I will be putting up for sale a number of books from my liturgical library. If you would like more details on any of the items or more...
Vatican condemns Charlie Hebdo massacre
Catholic Herald - Jan 7, 2015 at 8:47 am The Vatican has condemned today’s massacre at satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris.
Twelve people, including the editor, three cartoonists and two policemen, are known...
Pro-Life Ben Carson to Decide By May if He’ll Seek GOP Nomination for President
LifeNews.com - Jan 7, 2015 at 8:43 am In an interview with NewsMaxTV last week, Dr. Ben Carson said that he will decide by May 1st whether to seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. Dr. Carson is a...
Día de los Reyes Magos (Day of the Magi)
CatholicMom.com - Jan 7, 2015 at 8:30 am “Después de haber nacido Jesús en Belén de Judea, en el tiempo del Rey Herodes, unos magos de Oriente se presentaron en Jerusalén diciendo: ¿dónde está el que ha nacido, el Rey...
Pope Francis Encourages Seattle Univ. President to Provide Witness to Faith for Students
Catholic Education Daily - Jan 7, 2015 at 8:25 am Seattle University President Father Stephen Sundborg, S.J. recently met with Pope Francis in the Vatican. Fr. Sundborg related to the Pope the problem of relativism on campus and...
At least 12 dead as terrorists strike French satirical newspaper 'that lampooned the Prophet Mohammad'
GetReligion - Jan 7, 2015 at 8:24 am Like the rest of America, your GetReligionistas are waking up to news of the terror in France.
UPDATE: The death toll has risen to at least 12 in today's terror attack in Paris:...
Fr. Rutler: “Diaconal preaching is essentially non-liturgical”
The Deacon's Bench - Jan 7, 2015 at 7:56 am A certain deacon, preaching “in the presence of priest,” on Gaudete Sunday. The noted priest offers some thoughts on preaching in Aleteia: Preaching will be inadequate if it is...
Tua Res Agitur: It Concerns You
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 7, 2015 at 7:55 am Here is the latest column from Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska, published in the Southern Nebraska Register. * * *
In the century before Christ was born, the great...
Pope Thanks Circus Performers for 'Creating Beauty'
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 7, 2015 at 7:31 am Pope Francis today affirmed that humanity today has great need of beauty, saying this attribute is often forgotten but that "above all, God is beautiful." The Pope said this at...
Court protects Catholic-owned company from HHS mandate
EWTN - US Latest News - Jan 7, 2015 at 7:17 am Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan 7, 2015 / 07:17 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- The federal government cannot force a Catholic-owned Michigan company to
provide insurance coverage for...
Pope Francis hails motherhood as the 'antidote to individualism'
EWTN - Vatican News - Jan 7, 2015 at 7:15 am Vatican City, Jan 7, 2015 / 07:39 am (EWTN News/CNA).- During his general audience Pope Francis lamented how mothers are often
under-appreciated in their family role, and said...
French Bishops Statement on Terrorist Attack in Paris
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 7, 2015 at 7:08 am Here is the translation of the statement made by the Bishops Conference of France regarding this morning’s terrorist attack at the offices of local newspaper, Charlie Hebdo...
Terrorists Attack French Satirical Magazine
The Religion Clause - Jan 7, 2015 at 7:08 am In a still developing story from France, at least 12 people were killed and 4 others critically wounded today in a terrorist attack by two heavily armed gunmen at the Paris...
Pope Francis' talks about late Salvadorian Archbishop, Oscar Romero (Video)
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 7, 2015 at 7:06 am To view the video click here.
Pope Francis and Mother Teresa
Commonweal - Jan 7, 2015 at 6:47 am On the Solemnity of Mary the Mother of God Pope Francis gave a fine homily, in which he reprised one of Pope Benedict's key themes. Francis said:
Our faith is not an abstract...
Pope Francis hails motherhood as the 'antidote to individualism'
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 7, 2015 at 6:39 am Vatican City, Jan 7, 2015 / 05:39 am (CNA/EWTN News).- During his general audience Pope Francis lamented how mothers are often under-appreciated in their family role, and said...
God Bless, Be Safe, Have Fun!
Dominicana - Jan 7, 2015 at 6:30 am It is not often that parents get to perform official liturgical blessings. One example occurs during the Rite of Baptism. One of the first actions in the Rite of Baptism for...
