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Pope Gives Guidebook on How to Live in Holiness
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Nov 23, 2014 at 6:00 pm Pope Francis has given a crash course on how to advance in holiness. Addressing Syro-Malabar Rite Catholics from India in the Vatican this morning, one day after Sunday's...
Report: ISIS terrorist seen on video was once a devout Catholic
The Deacon's Bench - Nov 23, 2014 at 5:41 pm From The Independent: The disturbing face of French “jihadism” has been revealed by a statistical survey and by the most recent, horrific video clip from Isis. The “face” is...
Incarnate Word Academy girls speak about Ferguson
Saint Louis Review - St. Louis News - Nov 23, 2014 at 5:40 pm Thumbnail (for Multimedia Slideshows)
Facing Boko Haram, Nigerians 'storm the heavens with prayers'
Catholic News Agency - General - Nov 23, 2014 at 5:08 pm Jos, Nigeria, Nov 23, 2014 / 04:08 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Boko Haram's expansion has meant murders, forced conversion, and forcible expulsion from homes, causing Catholics in...
So when is it OK for a bishop to call President Barack Obama a 'sodomite'?
GetReligion - Nov 23, 2014 at 4:30 pm
This was certainly the strangest URL anyone sent me this week.
When I saw that an Episcopal bishop had called the president a sodomite I assumed that the problem in this story...
Israel's Cabinet Approves Proposed Basic Law Declaring Israel As A Jewish State
The Religion Clause - Nov 23, 2014 at 3:50 pm The Jerusalem Post reports that Israel's Cabinet today voted 15-6 to approve three proposed versions of the highly controversial "Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the...
Curial reshuffling to take place?
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Nov 23, 2014 at 2:10 pm I have of late not been very happy with Andrea Tornielli, who seems to have jettisoned objectivity. However, at La Stampa he posts that there are perhaps some big changes coming...
Anti-Christian group’s founder arrested
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Nov 23, 2014 at 1:53 pm Via BarbWire:
Homosexual HRC Founder Arrested for Raping 15-Year-Old Boy
et another high profile “gay” activist has been arrested for homosexual assault on a child. This time...
Recent Prisoner Free Exercise Cases
The Religion Clause - Nov 23, 2014 at 1:00 pm In Robbins v. Toole, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 160274 (SD GA, Nov. 14, 2014), Georgia magistrate judge allowed an inmate to proceed with his complaint that he was not being given food...
Pope Francis tells how to bring about Christ's kingdom
EWTN - Vatican News - Nov 23, 2014 at 11:25 am Vatican City, Nov 23, 2014 / 11:48 am (EWTN News/CNA).- On the Feast of Christ the King, during the canonization Mass of six new saints, Pope Francis said that Jesus Christ's...
Pope Francis remembers Cardinal Angelini
News.va - Nov 23, 2014 at 11:25 am
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent a telegram expressing his condolences to the family of Cardinal Fiorenzo Angelini, who died on Saturday, November 22nd, at the age of 98....
Court Enjoins South Carolina's Refusal To Recognize Same-Sex Marriages From Elsewhere
The Religion Clause - Nov 23, 2014 at 11:20 am As previously reported, on Nov. 12 in Wilson v. Condon, a South Carolina federal district court struck down South Carolina's ban on issuing licenses for same-sex marriages....
Scripture, social media and online comments: Post on President Obama quoting the Bible offers a case study
GetReligion - Nov 23, 2014 at 11:05 am Some big websites are cutting comment sections. Social media and trolls are 2 reasons http://t.co/Tm38TifQSk @cnntech pic.twitter.com/hzn3XyMKvH
— CNN (@CNN) November 21, 2014
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Pope Francis tells how to bring about Christ's kingdom
Catholic News Agency - General - Nov 23, 2014 at 10:48 am Vatican City, Nov 23, 2014 / 09:48 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On the Feast of Christ the King, during the canonization Mass of six new saints, Pope Francis said that Jesus Christ’s...
An Advent Chant Workshop and Retreat in Ramona, CA
New Liturgical Movement - Nov 23, 2014 at 10:04 am The church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Ramona, California, will be hosting an Advent Workshop and Retreat on November 29th to help bring in the season of Advent. It will...
Pope to new movements: freedom, charism, communion
News.va - Nov 23, 2014 at 9:40 am (Vatican Radio) Freedom, charism, communion: these were the three focal points of Pope Francis’ remarks to participants in the III World Congress of Ecclesial Movements and New...
Lamb and Tomato Stew with Crispy Potatoes
The Catholic Foodie - Nov 23, 2014 at 8:45 am
Last February I led the first Food Meets Faith pilgrimage to the Holy Land. We were there for 11 days. We spent the first 4 days in the northern region around Nazareth, and the...
Build on the fruit of missionaries, Pope encourages Zambian bishops
EWTN - Vatican News - Nov 23, 2014 at 7:21 am Vatican City, Nov 23, 2014 / 08:01 am (EWTN News/CNA).- In his ad limina address to the bishops of Zambia on Monday, Pope
Francis urged them to continue to build upon the efforts...
Because this never grows old
The Deacon's Bench - Nov 23, 2014 at 7:20 am Happy Solemnity of Christ the King! Everybody dance!
Build on the fruit of missionaries, Pope encourages Zambian bishops
Catholic News Agency - General - Nov 23, 2014 at 7:01 am Vatican City, Nov 23, 2014 / 06:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In his ad limina address to the bishops of Zambia on Monday, Pope Francis urged them to continue to build upon the efforts...
