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Giant space rock hurtling towards your planet! Fr. Z opines and advises.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Aug 30, 2017 at 12:32 pm Some of my friends in our SMS exchanges will at times long for the big meteor to put us out of our misery.
Today I read at Space.com that there is a big asteroid – hopefully not...
7 Pontifical Universities to offer joint course on Christian vision of ecology
Aleteia - Aug 30, 2017 at 12:17 pm Flowing from calls in Laudato Si', five-year program integrates disciplines to face the "educational challenge"The pontifical universities of Rome are joining together for the...
Roofing Contractor Leaves Job Half Done When He Learns the Building is an Abortion Clinic
LifeNews.com - Aug 30, 2017 at 12:09 pm A contractor has walked off a roofing job at South Wind Women’s Center, an abortion facility in Wichita, Kansas, leaving the installation of a new roof only half completed after...
Marital Intimacy: The Wedding Night is just the Beginning
CatholicMom.com - Aug 30, 2017 at 12:00 pm The day has been perfect. Months of preparation have culminated in an impressive synchronization of decorations, cake, music, photos, and all those special personal touches....
Students vote to ban pro-life speech, say baby pics are an ‘embarrassment’
LifeSiteNews - Aug 30, 2017 at 11:58 am A pro-life group at a New Zealand university says the ban is an 'attempt to punish the exercise of free speech on campus.'
In an age of statue-smashing, Catholics must defend our sacred images
Catholic Herald - Aug 30, 2017 at 11:39 am Let no one doubt that statues are important things. When we pull them down, it means something. Remember the American troops arriving in Baghdad and the fall of Saddam’s statue (...
Thomas More Society Attorney Discusses Abortion Laws on Vocal Point with Jerry Newcomb
Thomas More Society - Aug 30, 2017 at 11:39 am Abortion advocates have managed to get some stringent laws passed in a few states now, most notably California, which force crisis pregnancy centers that provide loving...
Religion News Service offers readers one half of the 'Why did God smite Houston?' story
GetReligion - Aug 30, 2017 at 11:33 am
I got a telephone call yesterday from an Anglican who has had lots of experience dealing with mainstream reporters in the past decade or two. He may or may not call himself an "...
New Movement Wants “Human Rights” for Robots, While Unborn Babies Die in Abortions
LifeNews.com - Aug 30, 2017 at 11:32 am Efforts to expand rights beyond the human realm are ubiquitous and reflect, in my view, a deep misanthropy and a threat to universal human rights.
That includes the movement to...
Bishop apologizes, priest resigns after allowing Hindu procession in Catholic church
LifeSiteNews - Aug 30, 2017 at 11:32 am The priest stepped down as Vicar General of the diocese. The bishop says he's sorry, but Hinduism doesn't need to be 'rebuked.'
Adulterers cannot receive communion: Catholic commentator
LifeSiteNews - Aug 30, 2017 at 11:27 am Al Kresta and Matthew Bunson were puzzled by an archbishop's recent statement in defense of communion for civilly divorced and remarried Catholics.
Catholic Owner Opens Furniture Stores to Hurricane Harvey Homeless in Houston
ChurchPOP - Aug 30, 2017 at 11:22 am Jim McIngvale, owner of Gallery Furniture stores in Houston and nicknamed “Mattress Matt,” is being lauded as a local hero in Houston
The post Catholic Owner Opens Furniture...
Abortion Activists Slam New Bill Banning Abortions on Babies With Down Syndrome
LifeNews.com - Aug 30, 2017 at 11:04 am In light of an extremely troubling August 14 CBS News report documenting that virtually 100% of all babies prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome in Iceland are aborted, I...
A letter to my son as he heads off to college
Aleteia - Aug 30, 2017 at 11:00 am As my heart breaks a little, here's the last-minute advice I gave that I hope he takes to heart.As my son prepares to head off to college and the start of his adult life away from...
Vigil continues at Chinese parish church slated for demolition
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 30, 2017 at 10:59 am Catholics in Changzhi, China, are continuing a vigil outside a church in Wangcun, where local officials have made plans for the demolition of the parish property.
Minnesota judge to weigh competing plans in archdiocesan bankruptcy case
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 30, 2017 at 10:55 am A federal bankruptcy-court judge in Minnesota is weighing two plans for reorganizing the finances of the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis: one plan submitted by the archdiocese...
60 Years of Religious Life
Diocese of Westminster - Aug 30, 2017 at 10:53 am Sister Sarah Smith, a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of St Mary of Namur celebrated 60 years of religious life on Sunday 19th August 2017 at Our Lady and St Thomas of...
Daily Reading for Friday, September 1st, 2017 HD
Catholic Online - Featured News - Aug 30, 2017 at 10:42 am Reading 1, First Thessalonians 4:1-8
1 Finally, brothers, we urge you and appeal to you in the Lord Jesus; we instructed you how to live in the way ...
Teen Vogue normalizes genital herpes as ‘extremely common’
LifeSiteNews - Aug 30, 2017 at 10:42 am The magazine's story about STDs follows several controversial stories on sex in recent issues.
Changing Seasons, Changing Lists
CatholicMom.com - Aug 30, 2017 at 10:30 am Via Pixabay (2016), CC0 Public Domain
I’m sitting out on my patio with a glass of iced tea and a burgeoning to-do list. There’s a lovely breeze, the temperature is just right and...
