Gloria.TV News on the 3rd of February 2014

The Killing Continues: At the Sunday Angelus Pope Francis asked that everyone should respect and promote live from the womb to its end on this earth. He encouraged all associations and movements who work to defend life. - At the same time, the German bishops allow that Catholic hospitals kill newly conceived babies in the womb of their mothers with the morning after pill.

Appeal Won: The Glasgow Catholic adoption agency St Margaret’s Children and Family Care Society has won an appeal against a ruling which removed its charitable status as it refused to consider gay adoptions. The chairman of St Margaret’s, last year described the raising of children by homosexuals as “a terrible social experiment”.

Deplorable And Sad: Distribution of Holy Communion is almost everywhere in the Church in a serious, deplorable and sad state according to auxiliary bishop Athanasius Schneider from Kasakhstan who spoke to the German “Kirchliche Umschau”. For Schneider the main problem is communion in the hand because it lacks signs of adoration and sacredness. Schneider has now written a second book about the Eucharist in which he makes an appeal to the Pope and to the bishops.

Apostolate Without Truth: Australian plain clothes Sister of Saint Joseph Lauretta Baker, the former superior general of her ultraliberal Congregation, told the New South Wales Special Commission of Inquiry into abuses that until recently nuns were – quote - ‘‘even further behind the eight ball’’ than other women in the Catholic Church.” About her Congregation Baker said: ‘‘We work in areas that at times make us work in opposition to the doctrine of the church, and it’s a question of doctrine or people. Women choose for people over doctrine. Happily so.’’