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El Paso bishop: what happens to the 192,000 US citizen children of Salvadoran TPS parents? (The Hill)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 8, 2018 at 5:01 am Temporary Protected Status (TPS) “is a temporary, renewable, and statutorily authorized immigration status that allows individuals to remain and work lawfully in the US during a...
Nine Days of Prayer for Family Unity with Venerable Patrick Peyton: Day Eight
CatholicMom.com - Jan 8, 2018 at 5:00 am Image courtesy of Holy Cross Family Ministries. All rights reserved. Used with permission.
Join us in a #novena of thanksgiving in honor of #rosarypriest Venerable Patrick Peyton....
Claiming my feminine priesthood started early
Aleteia - Jan 8, 2018 at 5:00 am My mother wasn't sure if I was doing something sinful, but she told me to cut it out, anyway, because “girls can’t be priests.”Many decades ago, after post-blizzard snowplows left...
“Defending the right to life, freedom and physical integrity of every human person”
Vatican Insider - Jan 8, 2018 at 4:58 am For the Holy See, “to speak of human rights means above all to restate the centrality of the human person, willed and created by God in his image and likeness”. Pope Francis...
USCCB president issues message for National Migration Week (USCCB)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 8, 2018 at 4:01 am The theme of the US bishops’ National Migration Week 2018 is “Many Journeys, One Family.”
Pennsylvania court requires Amish couple to connect property to sewer system with electric pump (Religion Clause)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 8, 2018 at 4:01 amFewer teens are having sex as declines in risky behaviors continue (Washington Post)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 8, 2018 at 4:01 am2017 in review: a look back at the year that was (National Catholic Register)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 8, 2018 at 4:01 amCould Iranian protests bring religious freedom for Christians? (Catholic World Report)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 8, 2018 at 4:01 amPope Francis' conversations with the Jesuits in Myanmar and Bangladesh (La Civiltà Cattolica)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 8, 2018 at 4:01 am The Pope recalled that in 1974, he encountered “so-called ‘Discalced Jesuits,’ who wanted a rigid, almost cloistered observance of the rules. A contrary reform, against the spirit...
Diocese suspends ‘sign of peace’ to due flu outbreak
Catholic Herald - Jan 8, 2018 at 3:04 am A diocese in Northern Ireland has asked Catholics not to exchange the sign of peace during Mass due to a surge in flu cases. The Diocese of Down and Connor has also told priests...
New archbishop of Paris seen as vigorous pro-life advocate (National Catholic Register)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 8, 2018 at 3:01 am John Grondelski, the author of this article, is former associate dean of the School of Theology at Seton Hall University.
Egypt: Coptic Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas in new cathedral amid tight security (Voice of America)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 8, 2018 at 3:01 am Egypt’s president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, attended the first sacred liturgy in the new Coptic Orthodox cathedral, located east of Cairo. The Coptic Orthodox Church (background)...
Pope's focus on human rights, migration, ecology in 'State of the World' address (CWN)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 8, 2018 at 3:01 am Pope Francis subtly criticized the policies of the Trump administration, protested against “ideological colonization,” and renewed his appeals for acceptance of migrants and...
Jakarta archdiocese declares 2018 as 'year of unity' (UCANews)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 8, 2018 at 3:01 am Amid divisions in Indonesian society, Archbishop Ignatius Suharyo has introduced an image of Our Lady of All Ethnicities. The nation of 261 million is 87% Muslim, 7% Protestant,...
USCCB's top lobbyist trades political realm for parish catechesis (Crux)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 8, 2018 at 3:01 am Jayd Henricks, the US bishops’ chief lobbyist for the past 6 years, will work for the Augustine Institute.
Repression in DR Congo: 5 dead, 134 churches surrounded, 6 priests arrested on 12/31 (Fides)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 8, 2018 at 3:01 am Fides reports on the scope of government repression as lay Catholics helped lead pro-democracy protests on December 31. The nation’s bishops have denounced the attacks on...
Vatican official see progress in relations with Russian Orthodox Church (Vatican News)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 8, 2018 at 3:01 am Father Hyacinthe Destivelle, OP, is an official of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.
Report: at least 23 attacks on Christians in India during Christmas season (Fides)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 8, 2018 at 3:01 am Cardinal Baselios Cleemis, president of the bishops’ conference, said that “the trust of Indian Christians in the government is coming to an end.” A Protestant pastor observed, “...
No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.
Aleteia - Jan 8, 2018 at 3:00 am St Augustine
