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Judge OK's Spanking Child
Creative Minority Report - Jul 28, 2014 at 1:34 pm I guess I'm kinda' pro-choice on spanking. I have never had to do it but I'm not against doing it. I'm not for child abuse. Some might say any physical striking of a child is...
How Fishwrap celebrates Episcopalian “ordination” of women.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jul 28, 2014 at 1:10 pm Preliminary comments. Priests are for sacrifice. Sacrifice requires priesthood. If you don’t have sacrifice, you don’t need priests. You can have ministers, instead. ...
Doctors Told Her Mom to Have an Abortion and Now She’s Smiling on National Television
LifeNews.com - Jul 28, 2014 at 12:56 pm Last week, Congress gave this sweet little girl a standing ovation and now she is on national television smiling happily.
When she was pregnant with her daughter Abigail Rose...
Speakers: Using native languages in prayer, song helps preserve culture
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Jul 28, 2014 at 12:55 pm FARGO, N.D. — Native American Catholics are being urged to become language “warriors” and to help preserve their culture in liturgy and song.
Navajo Vince Redhouse plays a...
“Anyone talking about a priest shortage is talking nonsense”
The Deacon's Bench - Jul 28, 2014 at 12:48 pm Those are the words of Rockville Centre’s Bishop William Murphy, quoted in this article from Newsday: The steady drop in the number of Catholic priests on Long Island and across...
Interior Freedom in the Summer
CatholicMom.com - Jul 28, 2014 at 12:30 pm I’d never heard of Jacques Philippe until January, when my sweet friend from Canada sent me a gift in the mail.
“Here is a little book I’ve enjoyed of late and thought you might...
The Day My Mom Told My Siblings and Me She Had an Abortion
LifeNews.com - Jul 28, 2014 at 12:27 pm Stand True recently published a story about a mom telling her children about her past abortion. Today we are sharing that story from one of her daughters about the day she found...
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Commonweal - Jul 28, 2014 at 12:14 pm The Italian journalist Vittorio Messori has made a career of interviewing popes. So it's no surprise that he was recently asked to comment on another one of Eugenio Scalfari's...
Pope has casual Q&A with priests of Caserta
News.va - Jul 28, 2014 at 12:01 pm (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis met with the priests of the Diocese of Caserta on his visit there on Saturday afternoon. The Pope engaged in a question-and-answer period with the...
Christendom Summer Program for High Schoolers a Success, Says College
Catholic Education Daily - Jul 28, 2014 at 12:01 pm Tom McFadden, who runs ECSP and serves as vice president of enrollment for Christendom, described the program as a success and said that students "are blown away by the depth of...
Obama Nominates “Religious Freedom” Ambassador Who Called Protecting Hobby Lobby “Deeply Troubling”
LifeNews.com - Jul 28, 2014 at 11:54 am President Barack Obama has nominated a new “Religious Freedom Ambassador,” but his nominee opposes protecting the religious freedoms of the owners of Hobby Lobby, who don’t want...
IVF, cloning, and related topics…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jul 28, 2014 at 11:35 am …are under discussion over at the Register.
New Business Degrees Launched at University of St. Thomas in Houston
Catholic Education Daily - Jul 28, 2014 at 11:35 am University of St. Thomas (UST) in Houston, Tex., recently announced its newest degree programs: a bachelor's and a master's in International Business.
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Way to go, Strat!
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jul 28, 2014 at 11:27 am A beautiful and fitting end to a good man’s life: Stratford Caldecott will be buried beside his hero J.R.R. Tolkien.
Wrap The Clap! Time To End Clapping At Mass (And Flamenco Dancing)
Creative Minority Report - Jul 28, 2014 at 11:26 am You know how Sharia law calls for the hands of theives to be chopped off? Yeah, well my kids know that a similar penalty will be lovingly applied by their father if I ever catch...
New Spanish pilgrimage traces St. Teresa of Avila's life
EWTN - World Catholic News - Jul 28, 2014 at 11:26 am Madrid, Spain, Jul 28, 2014 / 11:26 am (EWTN News).- The most important places in the life of St. Teresa of Avila are featured on a new pilgrimage route created as part of the...
The Atlantic: What happened to all those Catholic rites?
GetReligion - Jul 28, 2014 at 11:22 am Long-time GetReligion readers, do you remember that typology that a wise, older priest — a veteran of life inside the DC Beltway — gave me a few years ago that proposed that there...
Planned Parenthood, ACLU Bankroll Effort to Stop Pro-Life Amendment 1 in Tennessee
LifeNews.com - Jul 28, 2014 at 11:13 am Tennesseans will be asked to vote in 2014 on an amendment to the Tennessee Constitution which would give the Volunteer State a chance to pass important pro-life legislation saving...
St. John XXIII doesn’t like it when you clap in church. So STOP it! (VIDEO)
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jul 28, 2014 at 11:10 am Joseph Card. Ratzinger – now Benedict XVI – wrote in his Spirit of the Liturgy:
“Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign...
Bishop Davies: Lourdes shrine a light amid war, death
Catholic News Agency - General - Jul 28, 2014 at 11:02 am Lourdes, France, Jul 28, 2014 / 10:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- This weekend, shortly before today's centenary of the beginning of World War I, an English bishop has said that the...
