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Planned Parenthood Social Media Question About Dating Massively Backfires
LifeNews.com - Aug 30, 2017 at 3:33 pm The abortion chain Planned Parenthood did not get the answers it hoped to a dating question it asked yesterday on Twitter.
Looking for positive responses from its supporters,...
Homily for the Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 3, 2017, Year A
Big C Catholics - Aug 30, 2017 at 3:22 pm Fr. René J. Butler, M.S.Provincial Superior, La Salette Missionaries of North AmericaHartford, Connecticut(Click here for today’s readings)In the 1932 edition of the Rule of a...
REPORT CARD: Notre Dame Hires Obama Chief of Staff, Rallies Secularized Catholic Universities; Catholic School Deems Catholic Art ‘Offensive’
Catholic Education Daily - Aug 30, 2017 at 3:16 pm Notre Dame hires Obama’s pro-choice chief of staff
The University of Notre Dame has named Denis McDonough, former chief of staff to President Barack Obama, as an executive fellow...
Creators of “Abortion Comedy” Don’t Realize There is Nothing Funny About Killing an Unborn Baby
LifeNews.com - Aug 30, 2017 at 3:12 pm Some topics are so sensitive that comedians won’t touch them, but the killing of unborn babies is no longer one of them.
One considered taboo, abortion has become the centerpiece...
Argentine pastoral letter: 'Accompaniment' in marriage must be faithful
Catholic News Agency - General - Aug 30, 2017 at 3:10 pm San Luis, Argentina, Aug 30, 2017 / 02:10 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A pastoral letter on Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation Amoris laetitia by Bishop Pedro Daniel Martinez Perea of...
Francis and Bartholomew: May God help us save His creation
Vatican Insider - Aug 30, 2017 at 3:00 pm The earth was entrusted to us by the Creator as a sublime gift. But the “morally decaying scenario” that marks the world’s history has manifested itself also in our “insatiable...
Flying over Florence on a drone
Aleteia - Aug 30, 2017 at 2:48 pm Tour the cradle of the Italian Renaissance, from above.Those who have had the fortune to be born in Florence, the cradle of the Italian Renaissance, are quite familiar with Giotto...
OSV's top reads — August 28
OSV Daily Take - Aug 30, 2017 at 2:47 pm 1. Polyamory and the American mainstream (News Analysis, Sept. 3-9) 2. Our Lady brings ‘Good Help’ to Wisconsin (Feature, Aug. 27-Sept. 2) 3. Virginia priest, former KKK member...
Seeking Tradition: We Cannot Give What We Do Not Have
OnePeterFive - Aug 30, 2017 at 2:40 pm As many have recently noted, there is a deficit not in the deposit of faith, but in our access to it. Take, for example, Aaron Seng’s recent article “Exiting ‘SquishyChurch,” Eric...
Transgender celeb damages LGBT credibility for military service: liberal writer
LifeSiteNews - Aug 30, 2017 at 2:30 pm The New York Times ran a opinion piece denouncing Bradley Manning.
Daily Readings for Thursday, August 31, 2017
Catholic Online - Featured News - Aug 30, 2017 at 2:10 pm Reading 1: 1 Thessalonians 3:7-13, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 90:12-14, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 90:17, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 90:3-4, Gospel: ...
Prayer of Spouses for Each Other: Prayer of the Day for Thursday, August 31, 2017
Catholic Online - Featured News - Aug 30, 2017 at 2:10 pm Lord Jesus, grant that I and my spouse may have a true and understanding love for each other. Grant that we may both be filled with faith and trust. ...
How to resist the growing trend of using drugs to get ahead
Aleteia - Aug 30, 2017 at 2:00 pm Women must re-focus on their whole selves, body, mind ... and soul.It seems that the burgeoning American trend of women using drugs — legal and illegal — to get ahead at work and...
Real Racism: Michigan’s Population is 14% African-American, But 50% of Babies Killed in Abortions are Black
LifeNews.com - Aug 30, 2017 at 1:56 pm Yesterday Right to Life of Michigan visited three pregnancy centers located in Detroit to award them a total of $8,970 in grants.
The grants represent a step towards increasing...
Prayers, aid offered amid floods as Texas parishes grapple with Harvey
Franciscan Media - Aug 30, 2017 at 1:51 pm
HOUSTON (CNS) — The 200-home community of McDade Estates down the road from Sacred Heart Parish had just hours to evacuate Aug. 27. City officials knocked door-to-door, alerting...
Pastor Fights Nation Trying to Abort Every Baby With Down Syndrome: “It’s The Most Godless Country in Europe”
LifeNews.com - Aug 30, 2017 at 1:41 pm While Americans watched in shock as a CBS News report detailed the near-100 percent abortion rate for unborn babies with Down syndrome in Iceland, people in Iceland were...
Globular Clusters and Black Holes
The Catholic Astronomer - Aug 30, 2017 at 1:39 pm Keeping up with an interest amongst VFO readers, we turn now to a discussion on globular clusters. These dense concentrations of about a million stars all in rapid orbit about...
Brazilian bishops offer moral ‘excuses’ for adulterous unions based on Amoris Laetitia
LifeSiteNews - Aug 30, 2017 at 1:39 pm Exceptions for divorced and illicitly remarried Catholics to receive the sacraments are spelled out in new guidelines.
Feast of Saints Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus
Big C Catholics - Aug 30, 2017 at 1:04 pm Feast Day - August 31stIn the latest edition of the Roman Martyrology, the Church has coupled the feast of Saints Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, the two holy men who took the...
Fox News Hires Pro-Abortion “Conservative” Tomi Lahren, Who Was Fired From The Blaze
LifeNews.com - Aug 30, 2017 at 12:54 pm So-called conservative talking head Tomi Lahren will join Fox News as a contributor — offering her views on Sean Hannity’s show after she was fired from The Blaze in part because...
