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Catholic layman arrested for Goa desecrations
Catholic Culture - World News - Jul 19, 2017 at 1:41 am A 54-year-old Catholic layman has been arrested for the desecration of a Catholic cemetery and the destruction of at least 11 crosses in the past month.
Redcliffe woman diagnosed with rare disorder writes book on accepting people with a disability
The Catholic Leader - Jul 19, 2017 at 1:30 am GRETTA Kennedy was never expected to walk or talk so writing her debut children’s book was no small feat. Ms Kennedy was born with the congenital disorder of glycosylation type 1a...
Church leaders in China remain open to dialogue with Vatican
EWTN - World Catholic News - Jul 19, 2017 at 1:08 am Fuzhou, China, Jul 19, 2017 / 01:08 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- As the Catholic Church in China journeys toward a normalized relationship with the Holy See, one priest in dialogue with...
Maronites to commemorate Eastern martyrs
Catholic Culture - World News - Jul 19, 2017 at 1:01 am The Maronite Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic church in full communion with the Holy See, will commemorate a Day of the Martyrs of the Eastern Churches on July 31.
Bishops plea for two priests abducted in DRC
Catholic News Agency - General - Jul 19, 2017 at 1:01 am Butembo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Jul 19, 2017 / 12:01 am (CNA).- Gunmen have abducted two Catholic priests in the Democratic Republic of Congo, prompting the country’s...
Bishops plea for two priests abducted in DRC
EWTN - World Catholic News - Jul 19, 2017 at 1:01 am , Jul 19, 2017 / 01:01 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Gunmen have abducted two Catholic priests in the Democratic Republic of
Congo, prompting the country's bishops to plead that the...
Austria: majority of altar servers are girls
Catholic Culture - World News - Jul 19, 2017 at 12:46 am Nearly a quarter century after the practice of female altar servers became licit, 55% of Austria’s 45,000 altar servers are girls, according to statistics published by the...
Townsville Mercy Sisters blessed with golden years
The Catholic Leader - Jul 19, 2017 at 12:33 am THREE women religious from regional Queensland who entered the convent of the Mercy Sisters 50 years ago reunited to mark their golden jubilees. Mercy Sisters Carmel Ruddick,...
Immigration: USCCB renews support for DACA
Catholic Culture - World News - Jul 19, 2017 at 12:31 am The chairman of the US bishops’ Committee on Migration called on the Trump administration not to end a 2012 program that grants work authorization and a reprieve from deportation...
Central Australia’s Arrernte people can now read the Bible in their own language
The Catholic Leader - Jul 19, 2017 at 12:29 am ABOUT 5000 central Australian Aborigines are now able to read the Bible in their own Arrernte language. “It’s a project that has taken more than twenty-five years,” Divine Word...
Austen Ivereigh, liberal ex-editor of The Bitter Pill, attacks Fr. Z on Twitter
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jul 19, 2017 at 12:01 am Spotted on Twitter:
Soooo… Fr. Z is an RC integralist who prays like an evangelical fundamentalist.
Ivereigh used to be the editor of a magazine. He has clearly allowed his...
Sharing the Word for July 19, 2017
Franciscan Media - Jul 19, 2017 at 12:00 am Wednesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time
July 19, 2017
Daily Reading from the USCCB: Exodus 3:1-6, 9-12
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Why We So Desperately Need Community
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Jul 19, 2017 at 12:00 am Chris Hazell explains today how when we become part of the community, and through our communion, we are able to draw others from their own aloneness into the union that we...
Does Facebook hate Catholics? Facebook is shutting down, censoring Catholic websites
Catholic Online - Featured News - Jul 19, 2017 at 12:00 am Facebook censored over a dozen popular Catholic pages on Monday, including several with millions of followers. No explanation was given for why the ...
Gruesome case of mass child abuse reveals 547 boys victimized at choir school
Catholic Online - Featured News - Jul 19, 2017 at 12:00 am A gruesome report out of Germany reveals at least 547 boys were sexually abused by a clerical pedophile ring at a 1,000-year-old German Catholic ...
President Trump is working hard compared to his predecessors, so why are Republicans betraying him?
Catholic Online - Featured News - Jul 19, 2017 at 12:00 am Americans are baffled. Why is it that Republicans, despite controlling the House, Senate and presidency, cannot pass their agenda. Healthcare, ...
Two Catholic priests kidnapped after violent attack by 10 assailants
Catholic Online - Featured News - Jul 19, 2017 at 12:00 am Two Catholic priests were abducted in the Democratic Republic of Congo Sunday night.
South African officials turning blind eye to human trafficking, bishops’ spokesman says
Catholic Culture - World News - Jul 18, 2017 at 11:43 pm The priest who serves as the South African bishops’ liaison to parliament said that the nation’s culture of corruption allows human trafficking to go unpunished.
New Philippine bishops’ president viewed as more open to dialogue with government
Catholic Culture - World News - Jul 18, 2017 at 11:24 pm The Philippine bishops have elected Archbishop Romulo Valles of Davao to a two-year term as president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines.
All Banned Catholic Facebook Restored by Facebook Across Languages
ChurchPOP - Jul 18, 2017 at 11:22 pm It now appears that all previously banned Catholic Facebook pages have been restored by Facebook. Large English-language Catholic pages like Father Rocky,
The post All Banned...
