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Twelve Other Forms of Marian Piety - Edward Looney, Ignitum Today

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Lawrence C. McClarey: Requiescat In Pace - Donald R. McClarey JD, The American Catholic

Give Me Your Tired, Poor, but Not Your Homeschoolers – Joseph Knippenberg, First Things

Women: The Infallible Barometer - P. D. Yoko, Catholic Stand

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OKLAHOMA CITY — Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City traveled to Moore today to give his support and prayers to those devastated by the tornado that swept through the town May 20.

“I feel, as the archbishop, as a shepherd, I need to be there,” Archbishop Coakley told Catholic News Agency while on his way to the suburb of Oklahoma City on May 21.

“I'm not sure …there's anything very practical I can do when I arrive, other than to show my pastoral concern and support and give the assurance of my prayers to those who are indeed suffering.”

He added, “People are in such shock right now, we just want to accompany them in their suffering at this point.”

The tornado, which was...READ MORE

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. — Some 4,400 undergraduate and graduate students received degrees from Boston College on a balmy Monday, while a group of pro-lifers peacefully protested the Catholic university’s choice of Irish Prime Minster Enda Kenny as commencement speaker.

The protesters, who numbered about 60, gathered just off campus with prayers, signs, banners, bag pipes, drums and words to voice their opinion prior to May 20 commencement exercises in Alumni Stadium.

“Ireland is literally at the threshold of something terrible if Enda Kenny and his government do not rescind [the government’s plan to allow abortion] — if this law is enacted, we’re going down the wrong road,” said John...READ MORE

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis sent special condolences to those parents who lost their children in a tornado in Oklahoma.

“I am close to the families of all who died in the Oklahoma tornado, especially those who lost young children,” the Pope said on his Twitter account on May 21.

“Join me in praying for them,” he added.

Pope Francis also tweeted the same message in Spanish.

Earlier in the day, during his morning Mass in the Vatican, the Pope personally added a prayer intention for the tornado victims and those who are missing, especially the children.

The death toll keeps changing, as more are recovered following the tornado that hit the southern Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on...READ MORE

WASHINGTON — Catholic writer and professor Anne Hendershott wanted the public to know that Obamacare funds abortions.

So she wrote a series of articles critical of the Affordable Care Act in March of 2010.

In May of that year, the IRS called.

Hendershott finds herself among an emerging class of taxpayers who believe they were targets of special scrutiny and intimidation by the Internal Revenue Service for political reasons.

The federal government’s tax-collection agency apologized on May 10 for targeting groups with “tea party” and/or “patriot” in their names, but growing numbers of Catholics claim they were also singled out for pro-life activities.

The IRS didn’t tell...READ MORE

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Marriage Prep Classes Don’t Teach You How to Fight - Leticia Adams, Catholic Stand

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Why a Kid Can Demolish Materialism - Stacy Trasancos PhD

My Retirement From Blogging, New Chapter for NLM – Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement

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WASHINGTON — Rep. Trent Franks, R- Ariz., has vowed to expand the D.C. Pain-Capable Unborn Protection Act to the whole country, outlawing the abortion of unborn infants that can feel pain, or unborn children more than 20 weeks old.

“Knowingly subjecting our innocent unborn children to dismemberment in the womb, particularly when they have developed to the point that they can feel excruciating pain every terrible moment leading up to their undeserved deaths, belies everything America was called to be,” Franks said in a statement. “This is not who we are.”

The bill was reintroduced on May 17, following its initial introduction in 2012. The original version of the legislation only...READ MORE

PORTLAND, Ore. — The recent production of stem cells from cloned human embryos has prompted a researcher to consider the need for scientists to take other disciplines into account before engaging their work.

“Scientists ... do not consider bioethical issues to be issues at all; they don’t see the bioethical argument or any philosophical argument,” Massimo Bionaz, assistant professor of animal sciences at Oregon State University, told Catholic News Agency May 17.

The May issue of the journal Cell included a paper from scientists at Oregon Health and Science University announcing they have produced embryonic stem cells by transferring the DNA of a human skin cell into a human egg to...READ MORE