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Daily Reflection—Laborers for the Harvest
Integrated Catholic Life - Jul 10, 2017 at 11:03 pm And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every infirmity. When he saw...
Daily Catholic Quote — from St. Faustina
Integrated Catholic Life - Jul 10, 2017 at 11:02 pm “Oh, how great is the goodness of God, greater than we can understand. There are moments and there are mysteries of the divine mercy over which the heavens are astounded. Let our...
Encountering the Word — Proverbs 17:22
Integrated Catholic Life - Jul 10, 2017 at 11:01 pm “A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones.” (Proverbs 17:22) Please share on social media. Print this entry
How can I practice true Christian charity in the face of worldly ideas of love?
Aleteia - Jul 10, 2017 at 11:00 pm There is a mechanism that brings balance to both kindness and truth; without it, our efforts are incomplete.I live in a bustling convent with more than 50 religious sisters. Our...
What does a wise old abbot know about a good love story?
Aleteia - Jul 10, 2017 at 11:00 pm As it turns out, everything!God wants to marry us. St. Benedict shows us what that looks like. My family and I have begun watching Father Michael Gaitley’s excellent DVDs, where...
Why do we want to erase motherhood from our bodies?
Aleteia - Jul 10, 2017 at 11:00 pm Embrace the signs of being a mother. They are a map of a life well-lived.I’ve experienced an unintentional (but awesome) side effect of nearly a year of taekwondo and kickboxing:...
House of Roman army officer discovered underground 1,800 years later
Aleteia - Jul 10, 2017 at 11:00 pm Rome subway construction delayed when workers find ancient homeNew Yorker commuters might be grousing because much-needed repairs at Penn Station are causing delays and...
Want to fall in love? Skip the small talk, says a psychologist
Aleteia - Jul 10, 2017 at 11:00 pm An interesting study provides a tool for deepening our relationships. Given the right circumstances, could any two strangers have a chance of falling in love with each other, or...
Why do monks and nuns wear different colors?
Aleteia - Jul 10, 2017 at 11:00 pm The history and meaning behind the many colors of religious lifeThere is a stereotype, often perpetuated by TV shows and movies, that assumes religious nuns always wear black...
A prayer for Charlie
Aleteia - Jul 10, 2017 at 11:00 pm Photo of the Day: July 11, 2017Connie Yates and Chris Gard, parents of terminally-ill 10-month-old Charlie Gard, pray with a priest from the United States prior to delivering a...
Nun and Nunner: Two “sisters” spreading joy with comedy
Aleteia - Jul 10, 2017 at 11:00 pm Srs. Mary Rose and Maria Stella aren't religious sisters, but they do know how to share holy laughter.When Caitie Beardmore and Michaela Gafke, also known as “Sr. Mary Rose” and “...
Black Catholics at congress urged to ‘listen, learn, think, act and pray’
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Jul 10, 2017 at 10:42 pm More than 2,000 converged on Orlando July 6-9 for the 12th National Black Catholic Congress where speakers — clergy, lay and religious — addressed a variety of topics and concerns...
10th anniv. of Summorum Pontificum : Solemn Mass in Notre-Dame de Paris
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jul 10, 2017 at 10:25 pm I was sent a link to some beautiful photos of a Solemn Mass celebrated in the great Cathedral of Paris, Notre-Dame. HERE A couple of examples:
Source: Before Dismissal of Cardinal Müller, Pope Asked Five Pointed Questions
OnePeterFive - Jul 10, 2017 at 9:19 pm After Cardinal Gerhard Müller, former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, revealed that he had personally spoken by phone with the now-deceased Cardinal...
Don’t send Chaldeans back to persecution in Iraq, advocates plead
Catholic News Agency - General - Jul 10, 2017 at 7:41 pm Detroit, Mich., Jul 10, 2017 / 06:41 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- After a federal judge again halted the deportation of over 1,000 Chaldeans from the U.S., advocates for the detainees...
An Exodus in Search of Orthodoxy
OnePeterFive - Jul 10, 2017 at 7:37 pm It is a cool, dark Montana night in early May as we head west from Bozeman toward the Idaho border. Sheets of rain fall intermittently through our drive as we pull our recently...
REVIEW: Fr. Gerald Murray v. Jesuit homosexualist activist Fr. James Martin
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jul 10, 2017 at 7:34 pm I have some homework for you.
First, read at the National Catholic Reporter the outstanding, comprehensive analysis of what homsexualist activist Jesuit Fr James Martin is...
On Light and Lawyers: A Response to Dr. Edward Peters
OnePeterFive - Jul 10, 2017 at 7:04 pm My article – regarding the dilemma created for Catholic lawyers related to whether or not the local ordinary’s permission is required before seeking a civil divorce – has received...
Your Good News
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jul 10, 2017 at 6:56 pm Do you have some good news to report? We could use some.
Here is some good news… well… it’s also bad news. I guess it depends on your perspective.
One Quarter of Ordinations in...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 11/07/17
Catholic Herald - Jul 10, 2017 at 6:01 pm Iraqi Christians’ future remains uncertain despite the liberation of Mosul, a charity has said. Archbishop Samuel Kleda, president of Cameroon’s bishops’ conference, has insisted...
