2013-04-29 L’Osservatore Romano The confessional is not a “laundromat” that removes sins. It is not “a torture session” where beatings are inflicted. Confession is indeed a meeting with Jesus when we can feel his tenderness. We must approach the sacrament without tricks or half-truths, but with mildness and cheerfulness, trusting and armed with “blessed shame”, […]
May 3, 2013
By Adelaide Mena Washington D.C., May 2, 2013 / 04:11 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pro-life activists protested outside the clinic of a Washington, D.C., abortionist who admitted during an undercover interview that he “would not help” any infant that survives an attempted abortion procedure. Melissa Ohden, a survivor of an attempted abortion, spoke at the May […]
May 3, 2013
CWN – May 02, 2013 A new undercover investigation by Live Action has produced a videotape in which an Arizona abortionist says that she would not attempt to save the life of a baby who survived a late-term abortion. Abortionist Laura Mercer tells a Live Action reporter, posing as a woman seeking an abortion, that […]
May 3, 2013
Every once in a while, Heaven reaches down to touch the earth. That was clearly the case with architect Antoni Gaudi and his designs for a towering church — now a basilica — called Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain. It has been described by journalists (including 60 Minutes) as one of the most extraordinary architectural […]
May 3, 2013
POPE-CONFIRMATION Apr-29-2013 By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Administering the sacrament of confirmation to 44 people, including two teenagers from the United States and two from Ireland, Pope Francis encouraged them to “swim against the tide; it’s good for the heart.” In a partially improvised homily at Mass April 28 in […]
April 25, 2013
CAPITALS, (SANA)- Archbishop of the Sebastian Roman Orthodox Church, Attallah Hanna, called for exerting all efforts as soon as possible to release Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Aleppo and Iskenderun, Bishop Paul Yazigi, and the Syriac Orthodox Metropolitan of Aleppo, Bishop John Ibrahim who were abducted by the armed terrorist groups in Aleppo. Hanna hailed the […]
April 25, 2013
By Carl Bunderson Washington D.C., Apr 24, 2013 / 05:19 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The recent kidnapping of two Orthodox bishops in Syria has a former diplomat urging the U.S. government to make religious liberty a greater priority in its foreign policy. “U.S. foreign policy with respect to religious freedom consists almost entirely, when it consists […]
May 3, 2013
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