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Benedict XVI’s words for Card. Meisner’s funeral

What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jul 15, 2017 at 5:17 pm
Benedict XVI sent a message for the funeral of the late Joachim Card. Meisner, emeritus of Cologne.  For the German, HERE His words include: Was mich an den letzten Gesprächen mit...

Holy Homebrew: Catholic priest wins brewing's highest honor

Catholic News Agency - General - Jul 15, 2017 at 5:02 pm
Fort Worth, Texas, Jul 15, 2017 / 04:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Long blessed by Catholics as a “healthful drink for mankind,” one Texas priest has managed to take beer to new heights...

Croatian Catholics and Serbian Orthodox are still divided about Cardinal Stepinac

Aleteia - Jul 15, 2017 at 4:40 pm
Allegations concerning Blessed Alojzije Stepanic's attitude toward Nazism remain unconfirmed but troubling.Croatian Catholics and Serbian Orthodox still remain divided on the...

Benedict XVI: "Francis = Capsizing Boat"

Rorate Coeli - Jul 15, 2017 at 3:01 pm
From the 2-page written homage (German original) by Pope Emeritus Benedict read today in Cologne for the Requiem of Cardinal Meisner: "Shepherds who can resist the Dictatorship of...

A Parent's Prayer for Their Children: Prayer of the Day for Sunday, July 16, 2017

Catholic Online - Featured News - Jul 15, 2017 at 2:25 pm
O Father of mankind, who hast given unto me these my children, and committed them to my charge to bring them up for Thee, and to prepare them ...

Daily Readings for Sunday, July 16, 2017

Catholic Online - Featured News - Jul 15, 2017 at 2:25 pm
Reading 1: Isaiah 55:10-11, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 65:10-14, Gospel: Matthew 13:1-23, Reading 2: Romans 8:18-23

The Key Truth About Marriage Hidden in the Word “Matrimony”

ChurchPOP - Jul 15, 2017 at 2:15 pm
Our culture is deeply confused about what marriage is. Same-sex “marriage” is the latest manifestation of this problem, but the confusion is The post The Key Truth About Marriage...

BREAKING: Pope Benedict XVI says Church is ‘on the verge of capsizing’

LifeSiteNews - Jul 15, 2017 at 2:15 pm
Pope Benedict's incredible message at the funeral of dubia Cardinal Meisner

Jim Carrey sounds like somebody who has experienced anguish and grace

Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jul 15, 2017 at 1:01 pm
God bless him as he tries to follow the light Christ sends him. His theology is not perfect, no. But he seem to me to be somebody who is at Openness to Christ (to use Weddellian...

Reflection for the 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time: The Double Message of the Parable of the Sower and the Seed

CatholicMom.com - Jul 15, 2017 at 12:30 pm
Via Pixabay (2015), CC0 Public Domain     Readings for July 16, 2017: 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time Reflection on #Sunday #Gospel by @dritaly: view this parable from two different...

St. Bonaventure’s Prayer to Our Lord

Big C Catholics - Jul 15, 2017 at 12:07 pm
Pierce, O most sweet Lord Jesus, my inmost soul with the most joyous and healthful wound of Thy love, and with true, calm and most holy apostolic charity, that my soul may ever...

Hilarious, but also significant

Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jul 15, 2017 at 11:49 am
That a major corporation is willing to put its logo on a criticism of this oaf’s swinish behavior is a rather remarkable bit of corporate courage.

Passing of sociologist Peter Berger provokes nostalgia about religion news coverage

GetReligion - Jul 15, 2017 at 11:00 am
Boston University’s iconoclastic sociologist Peter Berger, who died June 27 at age 88, was one of those doubly valuable stars of the religion beat, both as a provider of pertinent...

Jesuit Fr. Spadaro’s ‘Apologia pro nugis suis’

What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jul 15, 2017 at 10:35 am
Jesuit Fr Antonio Spadaro must be feeling the heat resulting from his poorly conceived anti-American hit piece in Civiltà Cattolica (now aka Inciviltà cattolica) HERE. He gave an...

Some Good News: His Hermeneuticalness is back in the saddle again

What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jul 15, 2017 at 10:16 am
Sometimes I post “good news” posts.  We all need good new for a change, right? One piece of good news gets special notice today. My good friend Fr. Tim Finigan. PP of Margate, is...

WOMAN: Purity and Human Dignity

CatholicMom.com - Jul 15, 2017 at 9:00 am
Courtesy of Shalom World TV. All rights reserved. Used with permission. “Woman: Strong Faith, True Beauty” opened its first season on Shalom World TV in Fall 2016. The series is...

Pope Francis on Openness to Life

The Sacred Page - Jul 15, 2017 at 8:56 am
Lost in the many of the discussions of the post-synodal exhortation Amoris Laetitia has been Pope Francis' clear re-affirmation of the Church's traditional teaching on the...

St Bonaventure

Communio - Jul 15, 2017 at 7:06 am
“An anonymous papal notary composed a eulogy to Bonaventure which gives us a conclusive portrait of this great Saint and excellent theologian. ‘A good, affable, devout and...

Chile hopes Pope Francis' visit will bring a 'revolution of tenderness'

EWTN - World Catholic News - Jul 15, 2017 at 7:04 am
Rome, Italy, Jul 15, 2017 / 07:04 am (EWTN News/CNA).- The head of communications for Pope Francis' upcoming visit to Chile said the country is in a period of social unrest, but...

Chile hopes Pope Francis' visit will bring a 'revolution of tenderness'

Catholic News Agency - General - Jul 15, 2017 at 7:04 am
Rome, Italy, Jul 15, 2017 / 06:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The head of communications for Pope Francis’ upcoming visit to Chile said the country is in a period of social unrest, but...
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