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As remote Peruvian town changes, so do Christmas celebrations
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Dec 30, 2014 at 10:49 am SANTA RITA DE CASTILLA, Peru — It took all morning to build Bethlehem on Christmas Eve.
Children return home after caroling on Christmas in Santa Rita de Castilla, a small...
Murdered pastoral workers; it is Mexico’s annus horribilis
Vatican Insider - Dec 30, 2014 at 10:36 amMan who tried to kill John Paul II takes flowers to his tomb
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Dec 30, 2014 at 10:29 am VATICAN CITY — Exactly 31 years after St. John Paul II personally forgave him for shooting and trying to assassinate him, Mehmet Ali Agca returned to the Vatican with a bunch of...
The War For The Church Is Real
Creative Minority Report - Dec 30, 2014 at 10:27 am There is no shortage of people who will tell you that everything is hunky-dory in the Church and that the recent synod is just the somewhat ugly business of tasty sausage making...
Deacons: don’t forget to chant the date of Easter this Sunday
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 30, 2014 at 10:17 am Photo: Rosalind Chan Consider this your warm-up for the Exsultet. A lot of places don’t do this chant anymore; a visiting priest who heard me do it last January was amazed. “I’...
Ring in 2015 with these four pro-life resolutions!
LifeSiteNews - Dec 30, 2014 at 10:16 am A new year is coming and many are thinking about resolutions and new starts. I’m thinking about what my pro-life resolutions will be.
New UST-Houston Program to Integrate Catholic Mission
Catholic Education Daily - Dec 30, 2014 at 10:14 am The degree will reportedly form students to become managers and analysts at all governmental levels, prepare them to serve as leaders in both public service and non-profit...
Black Sheriff Says if Black Lives Mattered They’d Protest at Abortion Clinics
LifeNews.com - Dec 30, 2014 at 10:00 am CNN’s Poppy Harlow interviewed Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke about the recent protests that some in the Black Community have sparked after the police related deaths of Michael...
"For some reason, we have allowed the malcontent to assume moral prestige."
Saint Louis Catholic - Dec 30, 2014 at 9:54 am Please indulge me, as we come to the end of another calendar year, to borrow rather extensively from a much better writer than myself, on the subject of gratitude and its...
Office Promoting Schools’ Catholic Identity Takes First Steps in San Francisco Archdiocese
Catholic Education Daily - Dec 30, 2014 at 9:49 am High school administrators in the Archdiocese of San Francisco recently met to discuss the new Office of Catholic Identity Assessment that is set to begin in the new year,...
Abortionist Who Sold Abortion Pills to Women Who Weren’t Pregnant Loses License
LifeNews.com - Dec 30, 2014 at 9:39 am Oklahoma abortionist Nareshkumar Gandalal “Naresh” Patel has lost his medical license after the state attorney general brought charges related to his selling the abortion drug to...
Ladies: we deserve better than hormonal birth control
LifeSiteNews - Dec 30, 2014 at 9:18 am I used birth control for 15 years. Now I'm basically waiting to get breast cancer.
Nebraska native, Marquette provost, named next president of Creighton University
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Dec 30, 2014 at 9:09 am OMAHA, Neb. — Jesuit Fr. Daniel Hendrickson, an associate provost of academic initiatives at Marquette University in Milwaukee and a member of Creighton University’s board of...
A Book for those Interested in the Evangelization of the Culture
New Liturgical Movement - Dec 30, 2014 at 9:06 am The Spiritual History of English by Andrew Thornton-Norris
What makes a piece of literature or art Christian? Some would say just the content, that is, what is said; others would...
German bishops pushing hard to overturn the Church’s doctrine
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 30, 2014 at 9:05 am Over at The Spectator, Damian Thompson has a good summary piece. He recaps what happened at the last Synod of Bishop, where controversy over the Kasper proposals about Communion...
Pope Francis' prayer intentions for January
News.va - Dec 30, 2014 at 9:04 am Vatican City, 30 December 2014 (VIS) – The Holy Father's universal prayer intention for January 2015 is: “That those from diverse religious traditions and all people of good will...
7 Ways Abortion Advocates Avoided Discussions in 2014 By Talking About Genitals Instead
LifeNews.com - Dec 30, 2014 at 9:03 am Ah, 2014, we are sad to see you go. You’ve really thrown abortion advocates on their heels.
After all, they lost their number one cheerleader, Wendy Davis, during the 2014...
Bible app reports the most popular verses of 2014
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 30, 2014 at 8:47 am From Huffington Post: The Bible App has been downloaded more than 162 million times, according to the app’s creator, YouVersion. And unlike the print version of the immensely...
CNN Names Brittany Maynard an “Extraordinary Person” in 2014 Because She Killed Herself
LifeNews.com - Dec 30, 2014 at 8:41 am The media’s worship of the euthanasia movement is really becoming evident. CNN has named Brittany Maynard one of its “11 Extraordinary People of 2014.”
From the story:
Her example...
All Concerned Catholics Together in 2015 - beginning with George Weigel
Rorate Coeli - Dec 30, 2014 at 8:40 am Traditional Catholics have had their disagreements with George Weigel over the years - and will continue to do so. But first things first: and in the January 2015 issue of First...
