Catholic News Headlines Mar. 14, 2010

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Church to celebrate feast of patron of Ireland, Nigeria and snakes – CNA STAFF, Mar 14, 2010 / 05:16 am ( CNA ).- On Wednesday, March 17, the Church, along with the rest of the world, will celebrate the feast of St. Patrick of Ireland.

Experience of mercy key to real relationship with God, says Pope Benedict – Vatican City, Mar 14, 2010 / 01:21 pm ( CNA ).- Presiding over the mid-day Angelus prayer in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI reflected on the day’s

Miami Archdiocese announces collaboration with Haitian clergy in quake relief – Miami, Fla., Mar 14, 2010 / 07:23 am ( CNA ).- In the aftermath of the disastrous January earthquake in Haiti, the Archdiocese of Miami has announced pastoral

Planned Parenthood distributes sexually explicit brochures at Girl Scout meeting – New York City, N.Y., Mar 14, 2010 / 05:47 pm ( CNA ).- Early this week, the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts hosted a panel in which Planned Parenthood

Rhode Island woman who survived earthquake in Haiti says crisis still ‘not over’ – Providence, R.I., Mar 14, 2010 / 01:53 pm ( CNA ).- Watching news reports of the 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Chile on Saturday, Nicole Jean-Gilles was drawn

South Carolina cathedral gets new steeple after nearly a century – Charleston, S.C., Mar 14, 2010 / 04:00 pm ( CNA ).- The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist added another landmark to the Holy City on March 8 when its new steeple and

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Official from Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Talks about Abuse – In a candid interview, Msgr. Charles Scicluna talks about the handling of abuse cases by the Vatican.

Vatican Responds to Sexual Abuse Allegations in Europe: A Clear Route Through Stormy Waters – ‘Despite the storm, the Church clearly sees the route she must follow, under the sure and rigorous …

Catholic Online > Politics

11th Hour Health Care Alert: Maddow is Mad, NOW is Nasty. Stupak Stands Strong. – ‘Every day, from Rachel Maddow to the Daily Kos, it keeps coming. Does it bother me? Sure. Does it change …

Dems to Stupak: More Abortions- Fewer Babies – Lower Gov’ t Costs – Congressman Bart Stupak threated with ethics complaints for opposing health care bill.

Thugs in Washington – All stops are being pulled to ram their health care legislation through – no matter how much the American public …

CBCP News – Diocesan News

Cebu archdiocese supports Vote God campaign – CEBU, March 14, 2010—The Archdiocese of Cebu has expressed their full support for the Vote God campaign that was launched through the initiative of the Circles for

Creative Minority Report

Cindy Sheehan Can’t Speak at Church – You remember Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war activist. Well, she was scheduled to appear April 9 at St. John the Evangelist Church hall in Scranton to speak with Pax Christi

Faith and Family Live!

Pi Day – Rebecca Teti: | Today is Pi Day, when Math nerds around the world celebrate their favorite Mathematical constant. It’s also Einstein’s birthday, so a big day for Science

Purple Mountain Majesty – Rebecca Teti: a photo for the Lord’s day | Bearded vulture in the Pyrenees

Kresta In The Afternoon

Outrageous Statement of the Day – Pelosi: “We Have to Pass the Bill So That You Can Find Out What Is In It” – Really doesn’t require much explanation.

Should the World Set the Agenda? – In 1968, the World Council of Churches, meeting in Uppsala, Sweden adopted as its official slogan ,” The World Sets the Agenda “. It was the heyday of the ecumenical

New Liturgical Movement

Laetare Sunday – (Photo: Scott Smith Photography ) Rejoice, O Jerusalem: and come together all you that love her: rejoice with joy, you that have been in sorrow…

Solemn Mass (Usus Antiquior) in the Pantheon Commemorates Giovanna of Savoy – It was widely reported on various sites that a Solemn Mass in the usus antiquior was to be offered in the Basilica of S. Maria ad Martyres (i.e. the Roman Pantheon) on

Stational Churches of Lent: Fourth Sunday in Lent (Laetare Sunday) – Station: S. Croce in Gerusalemme ( Image source ) ( Image source ) From Blessed Ildefonso Schuster’s The Sacramentary : Ever since the time of St. Helen, a large portion

Steve Ray

My Friend the Bishop with One Kidney – Msgr. Seitz in the middle next to me New US bishop donated kidney to parishioner A parish priest who recently donated a kidney to a parishioner has been named an

The Anchoress

Cardinal DiNardo at Baptist U – I can’t remember where I came upon this video -it might have been from First Things’ Evangel blog – but I like it a lot, and I think y’all will, too: Daniel Cardinal

I do love this commercial

The Father Scanning the Horizon – While he was still a long way of, his father caught sight of him, and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him and kissed him. – Luke 15:20 “The

The Splendor of the Church

Jewish Historian Saul Friedländer Defended Venerable Pope Pius XII – His Holiness, Venerable Pope Pius XII ******* Jewish historian: Pius XII was not ‘Hitler’s Pope’ Rome, Italy, March 8 (CNA) .- In comments to the newspaper, “Le Point,”

Ordination Photos of My Former Student in Philosophy, Rev. Fr. Aljim Tuazon of the Archdiocese of San Fernando, Pampanga – The newly ordained Rev. Fr. Alvin Tuazon with his ordaining prelate His Excellency, The Most Rev. Paciano Aniceto, D.D. the Archbishop of San Fernando, Pampanga. With

What Does The Prayer Really Say?

“Tolerance goes both ways, Boulder” – We have been following the controversy in Boulder, CO where a homosexual activst lesbian “couple” attempted to force a child (sadly) in their care into a Catholic school

Catholic Health Ass. supports pro-abortion Senate bill – From Serviam: Sister Carol Keehan, the uber-compensated (over $850K a year) President of the Catholic Health Association, broke with the USCCB and Pro Life groups and

Getting my German on for Saturday Night – I have a guest for the weekend and so I made something a bigger more expansive than I would were I on my own. Three large pork chops were delivered by the aforementioned

Interview with the CDF’s “prosecutor” of priests who commit “graviora delicta” – Sandro Magister has on his site today an English text of an interview with Msgr. Charles Scicluna, an official of the CDF, who handles the cases of priests who commit

To those who desire to accomodate – “If the Church were to accommodate herself to the world in any way that would entail a turning away from the Cross, this would not lead to a renewal of the Church, but

WDTPRS – 4th Sunday of Lent – Prayer over the people (2002MR) – During Lent, I have been including the Oratio super populum now restored in the 2002MR.  The priest says this, or will when he uses Latin, after the Post communio.  It

WDTPRS – 4th Sunday of Lent (Laetare) – COLLECT (2002MR) – The nickname Laetare originated from the first word of the Introit chant for the today’s Mass, “Rejoice!”   On Laetare Sunday there is a slight relaxation of Lent’s

WSJ: A different tone of coverage about the German scandal – You know that the MSM is clicking and smacking their spittle-flecked chops at the chance to bite at the Pope. The Times and the NYT and AP are good examples of twisted