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  • St. Joseph of Leonissa
    Joseph of Leonissa, OFM Cap.;  was the third of eight children born at Leonessa (Italy) on January 8, 1556.At baptism he was given the name Eufranio.Impressed by the example of Matthew Silvestri, who had left the medical profession to embrace the Capuchin life and whose holiness was evident, Eufranio was inspired to become a Capuchin.  After overcoming famil […]

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On Obama’s Unwinnable Battle Against Religious Liberty

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What a crazy week it has been, between the Obamacare/HHS mandate, over 150 bishops speaking out against it , and the battle between Susan G. Komen and Planned Parenthood. A great many people are visiting this site today because of my comments on the Komen situation — my most recent thoughts on that can be found here (ongoing updates can be found at my twitter page @AmericanPapist — the story is very fast moving and complex). But I don’t want to lose track of the “bigger” story – Obama’s war against religious liberty in this country and the Catholic effort to win this war definitively. Peggy Noonan calls this a “battle the President can’t win” in her syndicated column today for the Wall Street Journal and says “President Obama just may have lost the election” because, in going after the religious liberty of Catholics, he has “awakened a sleeping giant”: If [Catholics] stay strong and fight, they will win. This is in fact a potentially unifying moment for American Catholics, long split left, right and center. Catholic conservatives will immediately and fully oppose the administration’s decision. But Catholic liberals, who feel embarrassed and undercut, have also come out in opposition. …

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English bishops to distribute 1 million ‘faith cards’

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The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales has printed one million “faith cards” for distribution to the faithful. “It’s an idea that we had to remind people that they are ……

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First Friday: US Catholics asked to fast, reflect on climate change

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The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is asking Catholics to “fast” on Friday, February 3, by limiting their food spending to the allotment on the USDA Modified Thrifty ……

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White House: ‘no constitutional rights issues’ with birth control mandate

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by Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, February 1, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The White House has dismissed the nationwide uproar by Catholic bishops and faithful opposing the administration’s birth control mandate, claiming there are no “constitutional rights issues” with the new health insurer rules. White House… …

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South African bishops lament 15 years of legalized abortion

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Writing on behalf of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Buti Tlhagale of Johannesburg has issued a statement lamenting the fifteenth anniversary of the ……

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Zambia: bishops oppose government, UN on Rwandan refugees

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The bishops of Zambia are opposing efforts by the nation’s government and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to repatriate Rwandan refugees. “Zambia has always been an ……

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‘ACT NOW’: abortion lobby jumps to defend birth control mandate as groundswell of opposition rises

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by Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, January 31, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As a formidable tide of Christian opposition began rising this week, including at least 115 U.S. bishops, the nation’s leading abortion lobby is leaping to defend the Obama administration order that will force religious institutions to provide free… …

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Leading Southern Baptist backs bishops on contraception mandate

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The president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary says that he supports the United States bishops’ opposition to the Obama administration’s contraception-coverage mandate. “You at ……

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US bishops continue to speak out against contraceptive mandate

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More than 100 American bishops have denounced the Obama administration’s decision to require coverage of contraceptives in all health-care plans, with no exemption for Catholic ……

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Indian bishops to discuss ‘population explosion,’ persecution of Christians

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When India’s bishops meet in Bangalore during the first week in February, they will discuss “the role of the Church for a better India.” While India has only 18.6 million Catholics–fewer ……

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Obamacares Great Gift: Clarification

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Recently we have learned that under Obamacare-that is, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act-employer insurance plans must provide free non-medical contraception, abortifacients, and sterilization for their employees. Free is as affordable as it gets; for an accountability-spurning culture, its just the right price, indeed. Let us pay nothing in order to beget nothing and, says this government, let us force those interfering churchy” institutions-who keep insisting that there is something worth contemplating beyond ourselves-to pick up the tab, for good measure. There is an odd we are nothing” philosophy behind this HHS decision and the Secretary who made it, and the President who supports it-a chilling promise of emptiness where tomorrow should be. Humanity, cajoled away from fertility and trained in sterility, is being weaned from those thoughts that travel beyond the present moment; we are self-interested beyond reason, and thus profoundly bored; condom-strangled, tube-snipped, and detached from the essential materials of reproduction either through artificial means or artificial equivalencies, our vision of the future is as limited as a pay-telescopes viewer: tick, tick, tick and then a resolute click!, and it is gone. With the administrations decision, the covert culture of death has finally made a truly overt move against the culture of life. On one side, there is cheering. …

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Poland: Catholic station denied space on digital TV

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Poland’s bishops have lamented a decision by the National Broadcasting Council to deny Trwam, a popular Catholic television station, the opportunity to broadcast on digital TV. “The ……

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Bishops speak out against HHS mandate

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Requesting prayer and action from the lay faithful, bishops nationwide continued to speak out against the Obama administration’s mandate that requires religious agencies to offer ……

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Politics & Government

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World Over – 01-26-12 -Terry Jeffrey, Anthony Picarello & Deirdre McQuade with Raymond Arroyo

Terry Jeffrey, editor in chief of CNSNews.com, on the 2012 presidential election and the role of the Catholic and evangelical vote in the upcoming election.

Anthony Picarello and Deirdre McQuade of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on the growing encroachment on religious liberty in the U.S. and the new Obama Administration mandate requiring that Catholic institutions carry free contraceptive health coverage.

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Homily 2012-01-26 – Fr Mitch Pacwa SJ – Saints Timothy and Titus – Bishops

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