by Carl E. Olson | Feb 28, 2020
Readings: • Gen 2:7-9; 3:1-7 • Psa 51:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 17 • Rom 5:12-19 • Matt 4:1-11 “He that seeks not the cross of Christ,” wrote St. John of the Cross, “seeks not the glory […]
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by Theresa | Feb 28, 2020
Growing up, my parents took us to pray the Stations of the Cross every week. Our church used a variety of styles to pray the stations. I’m sure we used the traditional structure most of the time, listening, responding, standing, kneeling, repeating…
Leader: We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you…
All: Because by Your Holy Cross, You have redeemed the World
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by Alex Schadenberg | Feb 28, 2020
Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
Maryland SenateIn 2019, the Maryland assisted suicide bill failed in the Senate by a tie vote of 23 to 23.
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by NCRegister | Feb 28, 2020
By Michael O’Neill | Brother Samuel Mazzuchelli was glad to leave New York City. The 22-year-old Italian Dominican had grown up in the neighborhood around Milan’s great cathedral and had seen Europe’s most beautiful cities…
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by Editor | Feb 28, 2020
Washington D.C., Feb 28, 2020 / 06:00 pm (CNA).- The House of Representatives on Friday blocked an attempt to add legislation to protect infants who survive botched abortion attempts into a bill on e-cigarettes.
On Friday morning, House Republicans led by Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) used a procedural move to force a vote on language protecting abortion survivors taken from a bill that has been blocked from consideration for a year.
Walden’s “motion to recommit” was defeated by a vote of 213 – 195. Only three Democrats voted in support of including Wagner’s language, Reps. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.), Colin Peterson (D-Minn.), and Ben McAdams (D-Utah).
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by Andrew Ehrkamp | @AndrewEhrkamp | Feb 28, 2020
Alberta’s Catholic community is sharing in the anxiety over the UCP government’s 2020 budget.
Thousands marched on the Alberta legislature grounds on Feb. 27 to protest the budget, angered and anxious over what cuts and job losses lay in the province’s future. The budget plan could mean the loss of 1,430 public sector jobs over the next year, with many of those in education and health care.
“We have to send a message that we as Catholics are part of an outstanding publicly funded school system,” said Sandra Haltiner, a teacher at Mother Margaret Mary High School and president of Edmonton Catholic Teachers Local 54.
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by CNA Daily News | Feb 28, 2020
Vancouver, Canada, Feb 28, 2020 / 05:00 pm (CNA).- A hospice in Canada has lost its funding and is being forced to close after refusing to offer and perform medically assisted suicides.
The Irene Thomas Hospice in Delta, British Columbia, will lose $1.5 million in funding and will no longer be permitted to operate as a hospice as of February 25, 2021. Fraser Health Authority, one of the six public health care authorities in the province, announced on Tuesday that it would be ending its relationship with the hospice over its refusal to provide medically assisted deaths to its patients.
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