2016-09-30T16:03:14-04:00

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Details:  A federal judge is temporarily exempting Hobby Lobby Inc. from a provision in the new federal health care law that requires it to offer insurance coverage for the morning-after pill and similar birth control or face steep fines. After hearing brief arguments Friday, U.S. District Judge Joe Heaton issued a preliminary injunction for the Oklahoma arts and crafts chain. The judge stayed the case until Oct. 1 to give the federal government time to consider an appeal. The Christian owners of Hobby Lobby and the... Read more

2016-09-30T16:03:14-04:00

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The following e-mail arrived today from a priest: Hello Deacon Greg. We do not know each other, but I stumbled upon your website today. I am asking, please, that you pray for me and give my name to others who have a ministry of prayer. I am a 51-year-old priest and have terrible terrible mental health issues. Greg, I am pretty desperate. I have sought out loads of help over the years and have honestly tried to get better but... Read more

2016-09-30T16:03:15-04:00

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You can’t make this stuff up. Just watch. Read more

2016-09-30T16:03:15-04:00

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From his father this morning: It looks like no surgery, and Thom will go straight to a fixed halo. Docs are optimistic that pressure on spinal cord will reduce on its own. Lungs almost back to normal, so probably will start weaning from breathing tube today. That’s esp. good news, as Thomas cannot talk with tubing in, but does not yet have enough hand control to sign (Thom knows ASL from his sister Meg, of course). He is regaining sensation in... Read more

2016-09-30T16:03:15-04:00

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Well, the Anglicans have their musical quirks—and so, it seems, do we Catholics. From HuffPo:  The Rev. Bruno Maggioni is making a name for himself in Italy, but it’s not for his rousing sermons. Maggioni has begun to garner quite the following for his wedding theatrics, singing and dancing his way through ceremonies in the Italian town of Limbiate, north of Milan. During a wedding this week, the singing priest belted out 1980s pop song “Mamma Maria” from Italian group Ricchi e Poveri. In... Read more

2016-09-30T16:03:15-04:00

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At about 10 a.m. ET, Ed Peters posted the following on his Facebook page, with a brief update on his son, Thomas Peters:  Please continue your prayers for Thom. Docs are assessing range of motion issues today and need to decide about treating his neck injury. His temperature is returning to normal and his lungs look better which is good news! I can scarcely imagine how difficult it must be for a young healthy man who is used to engaging... Read more

2015-03-13T16:41:55-04:00

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The Catholic Messenger this week has write-ups about the 14 newly ordained deacons in the Diocese of Davenport. There’s full coverage of the ordination itself — and reflections from the new deacons, including this from Deacon Bob Glaser: “I had two siblings and two in-laws in their 80s. I was worried about them getting here. I broke into tears when I saw them … I’m feeling terribly blessed.” For the past week he’d been wondering whether he was worthy of... Read more

2016-09-30T16:03:15-04:00

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Robert Moynihan describes a “joyful encounter” in the Domus Santa Marta: This morning, as the hot July sun was just beginning to rise over Rome, something extraordinary happened. Wearing a bicycle helmet and black-and-purple bicycle gloves, a black-haired young man from Porto Alegre, Brazil — the country where the Pope will meet next week with hundreds of thousands of young people for World Youth Day — rode his bicycle through the Sant’Uffizio gate of the Vatican and, with the approval... Read more

2013-07-18T05:31:12-04:00

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The Catholic Messenger this week has write-ups about the 14 newly ordained deacons in the Diocese of Davenport. There’s full coverage of the ordination itself — and reflections from the new deacons, including this from Deacon Bob Glaser: “I had two siblings and two in-laws in their 80s. I was worried about them getting here. I broke into tears when I saw them … I’m feeling terribly blessed.” For the past week he’d been wondering whether he was worthy of... Read more

2016-09-30T16:03:15-04:00

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Watch what happens when people ask this guy for money. Read more

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