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Ukranian archeparchy in Philadelphia gets a new auxiliary bishop
EWTN - Vatican News - Aug 8, 2017 at 6:46 am Vatican City, Aug 8, 2017 / 06:46 am (EWTN News/CNA).- On Tuesday it was announced that Pope Francis has named Fr. Andriy
Rabiy, who has a background in child protection, as an...
Ukranian archeparchy in Philadelphia gets a new auxiliary bishop
Catholic News Agency - General - Aug 8, 2017 at 6:45 am Vatican City, Aug 8, 2017 / 05:45 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Tuesday it was announced that Pope Francis has named Fr. Andriy Rabiy, who has a background in child protection, as an...
Sainthood cause launched for young Filipino Jesuit, who offered life for students
Aleteia - Aug 8, 2017 at 6:30 am Brother Richie Fernando's death may be one of the first examples of Pope Francis' new criteria for canonizationOne of the newest causes for canonization to be introduced under...
Could 'British values' anti-extremism push jeopardize Catholics?
EWTN - World Catholic News - Aug 8, 2017 at 6:01 am Lourdes, France, Aug 8, 2017 / 06:01 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- A government proposal in the United Kingdom to set up an anti-extremism
commission could unjustly affect faithful...
Feels like home to me
CatholicMom.com - Aug 8, 2017 at 6:00 am
“It feels like home to meIt feels like home to meIt feels like I’m all the way back whereI come fromIt feels like home to meIt feels like home to meFeels like I’m all the way...
Case Remanded For Determination of Whether Church Is Hierarchical
The Religion Clause - Aug 8, 2017 at 6:00 am In Slagle v. Church of the First Born of Tennessee, (TN App., Aug. 7, 2017), a case involving a dispute over control of church property after a split among church members, a...
In predominantly Catholic Guam, clergy sex abuse lawsuits near 100-mark
EWTN - World Catholic News - Aug 8, 2017 at 5:55 am Hagatna, Guam, Aug 8, 2017 / 05:55 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Nearly 100 lawsuits have accused Catholic clergy in Guam of sex abuse
over a 50 year timespan, alleging assault,...
Vatican group considers excommunicating Mafia members
Catholic Herald - Aug 8, 2017 at 5:10 am A Vatican consultation group is to consider initiatives to bolster the fight against corruption and organised crime, including looking at the possibility of excommunicating...
Richard Wilbur’s ‘Apology’ attempts to articulate the inexpressible
Aleteia - Aug 8, 2017 at 5:00 am These images would just be pictures, if not for the second stanza, which shows us why the poet has even brought them up.Apology A word sticks in the wind’s throat; A wind-launch...
In wake of Civilta Cattolica piece, Evangelicals seek papal chat
EWTN - US Latest News - Aug 8, 2017 at 4:56 am Washington D.C., Aug 8, 2017 / 04:56 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Some U.S. evangelical Christian leaders want to talk with Pope Francis
about a prominent Jesuit-run journal's essay on...
Ale named in honour of seminarians who were mistaken for stag party
Catholic Herald - Aug 8, 2017 at 4:48 am A Welsh pub that initially turned away a group of seminarians after mistaking them for a stag party has named a beer in their honour. The City Arms pub in Cardiff has rebranded “...
Evangelical Trump supporters want meeting with Pope Francis over Civiltà Cattolica article
Catholic Herald - Aug 8, 2017 at 4:32 am Evangelical supporters of President Donald Trump on Monday requested a meeting with Pope Francis over a recent critical article in a Vatican-vetted journal. Johnnie Moore, a...
Let’s show High Church Anglicans they’re welcome in the Ordinariate
Catholic Herald - Aug 8, 2017 at 4:28 am On holiday last week in west Wales, we chanced on an Anglican church in Milford Haven. I say “Anglican” because although it didn’t call itself a Catholic church on the notice...
Philadelphia just got a group of young Carmelite nuns
Catholic News Agency - General - Aug 8, 2017 at 4:01 am Philadelphia, Pa., Aug 8, 2017 / 03:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The archdiocese of Philadelphia voiced joy and gratitude for 10 young Discalced Carmelite nuns and a new chaplain who...
Philadelphia just got a group of young Carmelite nuns
EWTN - US Latest News - Aug 8, 2017 at 4:01 am Philadelphia, Pa., Aug 8, 2017 / 04:01 am (EWTN News/CNA).- The archdiocese of Philadelphia voiced joy and gratitude for 10 young Discalced Carmelite nuns and a new chaplain who...
Daily Gospel Reflection for August 8, 2017 - St. Dominic
CatholicMom.com - Aug 8, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: Matthew 14:22-36 – St. Dominic
Oh, boy. This Gospel reading always makes me want to crawl under the pew, saying “Not me! Certainly, I’m not like Peter!”
Let’s be...
There Is a Crack in Everything, That’s How the Light Gets In.
Aleteia - Aug 8, 2017 at 3:00 am Leonard Cohen
Pope ‘saddened’ by shooting in Nigerian church
Catholic Herald - Aug 8, 2017 at 2:58 am Pope Francis sent his condolences to the victims and survivors of a deadly shooting that occurred during Mass on August 6 at a parish in Nigeria. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican...
75th anniversary of martyrdom of St. Edith Stein
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 8, 2017 at 1:44 am August 9 marks the 75th anniversary of martyrdom of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), the German Jewish philosopher who converted to Catholicism and became a...
Why the Feast of St. Dominic is not actually the Dominicans' biggest feast day
EWTN - Vatican News - Aug 8, 2017 at 1:38 am Vatican City, Aug 8, 2017 / 01:38 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Tuesday marks the Feast Day of St. Dominic, the 13th century priest known for founding the Order of Preachers, commonly...
