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Thousand of tango dancers to mark Pope’s birthday with flashmob
Catholic Herald - Dec 3, 2014 at 9:16 am Thousands of tango dancers will celebrate Pope Francis’s 78th birthday with a flash mob later this month, according to the Catholic News Agency.
The organisers have promoted the...
One of the aims of reform of the Roman Curia – weaken it.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 3, 2014 at 9:15 am One of the things I have been saying all along is one aim during the present pontificate is the reduction of the number of Cardinal Prefects and Presidents (and therefore...
Pregnant Women Shouldn’t be Fired Just Because They’re Having a Baby and Not Aborting
LifeNews.com - Dec 3, 2014 at 9:14 am On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear a landmark appeal testing the effectiveness of the 1978 federal Pregnancy Discrimination Act. In Young v. United Parcel Service, the...
Catholics protest after fire in New Delhi church
Catholic Herald - Dec 3, 2014 at 9:09 am Police in New Delhi have launched a special investigation into a fire that broke out in a Catholic church on Monday morning, following protests by priests, nuns and parishioners....
Cardinal Parolin on importance of UK-Holy See relations
News.va - Dec 3, 2014 at 9:04 am (Vatican Radio) Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin presides on Wednesday at a special Mass in the Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls to mark the 100th...
Texas bishops argue death-row inmate too mentally ill to be executed
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Dec 3, 2014 at 9:02 am AUSTIN, Texas — Appealing to Gov. Rick Perry “as a man of deep Christian values,” the Texas Catholic Conference urged him to stay the Dec. 3 execution of Scott Louis Panetti and...
Catholic Universities Must Work to Form Catholic Scholars, Says Notre Dame Alumnus
Catholic Education Daily - Dec 3, 2014 at 9:00 am A recent graduate from the University of Notre Dame wrote a piece for Ethika Politika in which he posited that “Catholic scholars must not simply be found, but formed” in order to...
Texas Pro-Life Group Wants to Completely De-Fund Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz
LifeNews.com - Dec 3, 2014 at 8:56 am On Monday a Texas pro-abortion publication lamented about the recent news that the Texas Alliance for Life plans to take away more money from Planned Parenthood in the 2015...
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St. Louis Areopagus - Archdiocesan Blog - Dec 3, 2014 at 8:41 am8 Unbelievably Heartbreaking Quotes From Women Who Aborted Their Own Babies
LifeNews.com - Dec 3, 2014 at 8:39 am (LiveActionNews) — We as a society are constantly bombarded with the pro-choice rhetoric that abortion is sometimes necessary. We also hear the words of post-abortive women like...
High Hopes
CatholicMom.com - Dec 3, 2014 at 8:30 am
The season of Advent is upon us and I have some very high hopes it will be spiritually fruitful. It has been a difficult six months and every time I think the difficulty has...
Religious freedom is "top human rights priority" for UK government
News.va - Dec 3, 2014 at 8:30 am (Vatican Radio) A special Mass takes place in the Rome Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls on Wednesday evening marking the 100th anniversary of the re-establishment of...
How much did the Jesuits influence Shakespeare?
Catholic Herald - Dec 3, 2014 at 8:27 am Imagine the unexpected discovery of anonymous 16th century play which is at once moving, inspiring, many-faceted, entertaining, funny, tear-jerking, scholarly, streetwise,...
Britain’s vanishing nativity play: “It reflects a nation too embarrassed to face up to its Christian heritage”
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 3, 2014 at 8:22 am In Great Britain, a longstanding tradition is becoming utterly unrecognizable. From The BBC: The traditional school nativity play is under pressure to modernize the story and...
The pope and the Parliament: Perceptive piece by New York Times
GetReligion - Dec 3, 2014 at 8:00 am Maybe I'm getting soft. Or maybe I'm just easily satisfied these days when an article shows any depth. But I'm really impressed with the blend of range, focus and perceptiveness...
St Bakhita, pray for us
Catholic Herald - Dec 3, 2014 at 7:54 am The Holy Father and several other world religious leaders have recently signed a common declaration against slavery.
You might think this is a case of shutting the door long...
Christendom, Augustine Institute Profs Team Up for Book on ‘Renewal of Catholic History’
Catholic Education Daily - Dec 3, 2014 at 7:48 am The Past as Pilgrim: Narrative, Tradition and the Renewal of Catholic History, by Christendom’s Dr. Christopher Shannon and Dr. Christopher Blum of the Augustine Institute,...
Pope Francis prays for more fruitful dialogue after trip to Turkey
EWTN - Vatican News - Dec 3, 2014 at 7:10 am Vatican City, Dec 3, 2014 / 07:35 am (EWTN News/CNA).- In his weekly general audience Pope Francis recalled the activities of
his recent trip to Turkey, and prayed that the visit...
