10 Killed in Philippines bus bomb, Texas eighth grader slammed to ground for wearing rosary, Two million Iraqis now displaced, Seven dead in Yemen attack and more ..

Pope Francis: 
"Don’t proselytize, instead heal the sick and seek the lost"
CHRISTIAN TODAY

Vatican warns of "digital slum" where online porn, bullying, and abuse lives 
THE TABLET

Holy See releases preparatory document for October 2015 Synod 
ZENIT

Vatican officials visit Sri Lanka to assess the security risks ahead of next month’s papal visit 
SRI LANKA SUNDAY TIMES

Jordan’s Prince El Hassan bin Talal has praised progress in interfaith dialogue following last week’s third Catholic-Muslim Summit 
RADIO VATICANA

Leading Orthodox theologian hopes for "quick progress" towards full Christian unity — One of the leading theologians of the Orthodox world has said that he sees prospects for “quick progress” towards full Christian unity under Pope Francis 
CATHOLIC CULTURE

Modern America: 
Texas eighth grader repeatedly slammed to ground by police after refusing to remove rosary beads at football game
CHRISTIAN POST

Modern America, Take 2 : 
Heads of statues of Joseph and Mary removed from garden of Catholic Convent 
CHARISMA

Modern America, Take 3 : 
Washington florist who declined to make arrangements for gay wedding may lose her business and personal assets
CHRISTIAN POST

Modern America, Take 4: 
Judge rules blood transfusion can be given to son of Jehovah’s Witnesses — (While I do not share the Jehovah’s Witness belief that one should not receive blood transfusions, what we are seeing is 
yet another Christian freedom being removed) 
CHRISTIAN TODAY

Modern America, Take 5: 
New federal LGBT regulations advance "false ideology," and pose "serious threat" to religious freedoms
CATHOLIC CULTURE

Omnibus Bill "disappears" behind "server error" message .. just like Obamare! 
BREITBART

The War on Christmas continues 
CHRISTIAN POST

Three Mexican cartel leaders caught in Texas since October 
BREITBART

President Bush was kept in the dark — President George W. Bush was never briefed by the Central Intelligence Agency on the details of harsh interrogation techniques and secret detention of terror suspects 
NEWSMAX

American teens still joining ISIS — Three American teens, recruited online, have been caught trying to join the Islamic State 
THE WASHINGTON POST

Israeli student stabbed in Brooklyn as attacker shouts 
"Kill the Jews"
YNET

Obamacare economist regrets "stupid voter" remarks — (He 
actually regretted what he said .. or regrets that his remarks were publicized?) 
CBN

Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections has kicked off its work at the Capitol on Tuesday with former Rep. J.C. Watts Jr., R-Okla., declaring its charge to make the federal prison system 
safer, less costly and more humane
RNS

Michael Lindsay on Covenant and Conflict at Gordon College — The college’s president says the issues on campus go deeper than "homosexual practice" 
CHRISTIANITY TODAY

Canadian ethicist advocates "post-birth abortion" for newborns (
Some Canadian and some ethicist! Why don’t these people have the courage to label their proposals truthfully .. such as 
infant murder, rather than couch this wickedness in terms such as "post-natal abortion?") 
LIFE SITE

Common Core has significant conflicts with mission of Catholic schools says education leader 
BREITBART

Mexico City: 
5,000 confessions in one day
CATHOLIC CULTURE

Congress calls for increased sanctions on Hamas allies — (Thank you America. At least
some in congress seem to know what the right thing to do is!)
THE WASHINGTON FREE BEACON

Irish government to accept motion to recognize Palestinian state — (The gross injustice of supporting a state who’s openly declared intention is the elimination of Israel continues as leftist liberalism seeks to destroy our world) 
YNET

The man who may spark a religious war wants Jews to pray alongside Muslims on the Temple Mount — Is his dream a death wish? 
TABLET

Sheikh calls for "slaughter of Jews" on Temple Mount 
BIN

Jew-hating Arab Muslim discovers .. he’s a Jew! 
ISRAEL TODAY

Nothing is true and everything is possible in Putin’s Russia — The post-Soviet, postmodern illiberal kleptocracy as a harbinger and warning bell for the West? 
TABLET

"Kowtowing to Moscow is bad ecumenism" — George Weigel
FIRST THINGS

Mark Gordon’s 
"A Different Kind of Battlefield" looks at a recently released survey of active service members and finds some alarming signs. 
"Suicide is now the leading cause of death among active duty personnel, exceeding both accidents and combat. Currently, one active-duty service member a day commits suicide, and when that lens is widened to include all veterans, both active and separated, the daily figure swells to 22 per day."
ALETEIA

Mark Stricherz’s piece on 
"DC Catholic Schools" highlights the continued agenda to control Christianity in America. “The major concern here is the local government stepping into Church schools and telling them how to run their schools and what the balance has to be for their faith and to exist in the District of Columbia,” says Mark Trammell, an attorney for the Liberty Counsel. 
ALETEIA

Prince Charles condemns Islamic State violence as "blasphemy" — The Prince of Wales has described the persecution of Christians in Iraq as 
"blasphemy" on the part of the Islamist militant group Islamic State (Well done, Charles!) 
CHRISTIAN TODAYCATHOLIC HERALDTHE TABLET

British families going without food is an "everyday reality," says Bishop of Middlesbrough — (As I regularly mention—for we need to be prepared—the US and the UK may be facing a future economic crisis which will plunge "ordinary" households into levels of poverty unknown since World War II.) 
CATHOLIC HERALD

Former Archbishop Rowan Williams wades into EU withdrawal debate — Leaving the EU would leave Britain “dangerously dependent” on bankers, argues former Archbishop of Canterbury. (A man who in the minds of many was probably the worst Archbishop of Canterbury in modern history, is now trying to sell us his pro-European agenda on a matter he knows little about. His understanding of what is now the "EU" and his "fears" over our withdrawal from this plague are so far removed from fact that his comments, as so often, beggar belief! Anyone with a modicum of concern for Britain and its future would make the effort to investigate what is 
actually at stake by further integration with EU political agenda)  
DAILY TELEGRAPH

"Benefits system unfit for purpose and force families into poverty" — Archbishop of Glasgow 
THE TABLET

Catholic university appoints Cherie Blair as law professor — (
Seriously?) 
THE TABLET

Lost Britain: 
Advocates of sin and pornography to simulate sex acts
outside Westminster Abbey
ITV

The 12,000 strong army of foreign criminals living in Britain 
DAILY MAIL

Statement by the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference to mark International Human Rights Day, 10 December 2014 
ICBC

Unexpected row over Jim Murphy’s Catholic faith — The religious faith of Scottish Labour leadership candidate Jim Murphy has become central to an extraordinary row between the Free Church of Scotland and the Scottish Secular Society. (Would you kindly leave the man’s faith alone?) 
HERALD SCOTLAND

Let’s say farewell to France: France accused of "totalitarian secularism" after nativity scene removal
 CHRISTIAN TODAY

Curia responds to Malta teacher’s union protests over proposed Church school employment requirements 
TIMES OF MALTA

7 killed in Yemeni attack — At least seven Yemeni soldiers were killed and nine others wounded after suicide car bomb attacks on a military base in the city of Seyoun in southern Yemen 
CNN

ISIS trains 10 year olds to use assault rifles, then sends them to Iraq and Syria to kill 
CHRISTIAN POSTGOSPEL HERALD

ISIS encroaching on Jordan — Fears for Middle East stability 
CBN

Muslims murder 10 innocent commuters in bus bombing in southern Philippines 
IOL

Anti-Pornography groups host annual day of prayer to fight against sexual exploitation 
CHRISTIAN POST

Killing a pregnant woman would be double murder under New Jersey bill — (And so it should be but it does make one wonder at the incongruity of a nation which licences abortion on the one hand while attempting to recognize "unborn" life on the other!) 
LIFE SITE

Motherhood can be beautiful when Christ is at the Center of the family 
CHRISTIAN NEWS

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Angelina Jolie dropped to her knees and prayed for a miracle during filming of "Unbroken," says Louis Zamperini’s daughter 
BCN

Family Guy airs controversial Jesus episode, 
"The 2,000-year-old virgin"
CHRISTIAN TODAY

World’s smallest Bible released 
CHRISTIAN TODAY

Facebook developing artificial intelligence assistant that will monitor everything you do on the social network 
DAILY MAIL

Mark Stricherz’s piece on 
"DC Catholic Schools" reveals yet another assault against Christianity in America. What we need to be mindful of is this; that if the "relative" freedoms the Church and Christians now possess are allowed to be taken away, the chances of their restoration in the prevailing political tide are less than slim.