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5 things you didn’t know about Jackie Kennedy
Aleteia - Aug 24, 2017 at 8:00 am There's more to her than her marriages and fashion sense.Jackie Kennedy, ex-First Lady of the United States, would have turned 88 last July 28. Perhaps her political role took the...
Bishops form new body to address ‘sin of racism’ that ‘afflicts’ nation
Franciscan Media - Aug 24, 2017 at 7:48 am WASHINGTON (CNS) — Saying there is an “urgent need” to address “the sin of racism” in the country and find solutions to it, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has established...
A Summer of Spiritual Renewal
CatholicMom.com - Aug 24, 2017 at 7:30 am Copyright 2017 Pam Spano. All rights reserved.
This summer I was desperate to go on vacation and get away from my daily routine. What I got was a spiritual renewal. The BFF and I...
The Catholic Sister Who Challenged Paul Ryan on CNN
Commonweal - Aug 24, 2017 at 7:21 am The Catholic Sister Who Challenged Paul Ryan on CNN
By John GehringAugust 24, 2017
Earlier this week, Sister Erica Jordan asked House Speaker Paul Ryan a pointed question during a...
Mo. governor right to halt execution, Catholic conference says
EWTN - US Latest News - Aug 24, 2017 at 7:04 am Jefferson City, Mo., Aug 24, 2017 / 07:04 am (EWTN News/CNA).- A governor's decision to stay the imminent execution of a death row inmate following claims of new evidence has...
Mo. governor right to halt execution, Catholic conference says
Catholic News Agency - General - Aug 24, 2017 at 7:04 am Jefferson City, Mo., Aug 24, 2017 / 06:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A governor’s decision to stay the imminent execution of a death row inmate following claims of new evidence has...
4 saints to rival “Saint” Roberto Clemente
Aleteia - Aug 24, 2017 at 7:00 am Did you hear the news about a beatification of the Puerto Rican baseball star?Last week, news spread quickly around secular social media that Pope Francis had confirmed plans to...
Tradition is for the Young (Part 10) : Pontifical Mass in Louisiana
New Liturgical Movement - Aug 24, 2017 at 7:00 am On the feast of Ss Peter and Paul, His Excellency Glen Provost, bishop of Lake Charles, Louisiana, celebrated a Pontifical Mass in the traditional rite in the cathedral of the...
Vatican’s youth synod looks like another assault on the Catholic faith
LifeSiteNews - Aug 24, 2017 at 6:46 am Faithful Catholics must prepare themselves for a new assault on the Church's Tradition.
Liturgical reform is ‘irreversible,’ Pope proclaims
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 24, 2017 at 6:45 am Pope Francis told an Italian audience on August 24 that “we can assert with certainty and magisterial authority that the liturgical reform is irreversible.”
Putin welcomes ‘new dynamic’ in relationship between Catholic, Orthodox churches
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 24, 2017 at 6:30 am Russia’s President Vladimir Putin welcomed a “constructive trust-based dialogue” between his government and the Holy See, as he met on August 23 with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the...
NY Court Invalidates Service of Process on Sabbath, Focusing On Competing Sabbath Times
The Religion Clause - Aug 24, 2017 at 6:20 am New York General Business Law Sec. 13 provides:Whoever maliciously procures any process in a civil action to be served on Saturday, upon any person who keeps Saturday as holy time...
Court Interprets Scope of Food Stamp Fraud For Upcoming FLDS Leader's Trial
The Religion Clause - Aug 24, 2017 at 6:15 am As previously reported, last year eleven leaders and members of the polygamous FLDS Church were indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit food stamp fraud. The indictments...
Cameroon, the death of bishop Balla still surrounded by mystery
Vatican Insider - Aug 24, 2017 at 6:13 am “Our Church is being handed over to the forces of darkness by some false members of this same Church: phony benefactors and so-called sympathizers who want to destroy the Church...
Christian Group Sues Southern Poverty Law Center Over "Hate Group" Label
The Religion Clause - Aug 24, 2017 at 6:10 am The Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based D. James Kennedy Ministries on Tuesday filed suit in an Alabama federal district court against the Southern Poverty Law Center for damages...
The Catholic bohemian who mocked feminists
Catholic Herald - Aug 24, 2017 at 6:10 am Anna Margaret Haycraft (1932-2005), known to her readers as Alice Thomas Ellis, was a journalist, novelist, painter, Catholic polemicist, cookery book writer, fiction editor,...
Why the Vatican has set its sights on Moscow and Beijing
Catholic Herald - Aug 24, 2017 at 6:10 am Cardinal Pietro Parolin has been in Moscow this week, and Russia’s ambassador to the Holy See, Alexander Avdeev, is absolutely delighted. The two nations, he told La Stampa, share...
Artificial wombs could radically change the abortion debate
Catholic Herald - Aug 24, 2017 at 6:10 am In The Dialectic of Sex, published in 1970, the feminist thinker Shulamith Firestone made a case for “ectogenesis” on the basis that it liberated women from “the tyranny of their...
Coach Loses Bid To Pray On 50-Yard Line
The Religion Clause - Aug 24, 2017 at 6:05 am In Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, (9th Cir., Aug. 23, 2017), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court's denial of a preliminary injunction sought...
O QUE É PRECISO PARA SER ABERTO À VIDA (What is necessary to be open to life)
CatholicMom.com - Aug 24, 2017 at 6:00 am Via Flickr (2017), CC BY 2.0
Flávia Ghelardi writes from Brazil in English and Portuguese. Jump to the English version of this post.
Ser aberto à vida significa deixar Deus, em...
