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UNESCO recognizes Tomb of the Patriarchs as Palestinian heritage site
Catholic Culture - World News - Jul 10, 2017 at 6:43 am The UN’s Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has recognized the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron as a World Heritage Site, approving a request by the...
Egypt after Pope Francis’ visit
Vatican Insider - Jul 10, 2017 at 6:41 am “The billboard picture prepared for Pope Francis’s trip to Cairo shows the pontiff with the pyramids in the background next to a flying dove, symbol of peace. After the visit,...
Cameroon’s bishops insist Bishop Balla was murder victim, not suicide
Catholic Culture - World News - Jul 10, 2017 at 6:41 am The Catholic bishops of Cameroon insist that Bishop Jean-Marie Benoit Balla of Bafia was “brutally assassinated,” rejected the conclusions of an autopsy that found “no trace of...
Cardinal Müller questions manner of his dismissal, see divisions within Church
Catholic Culture - World News - Jul 10, 2017 at 6:26 am Cardinal Gerhard Müller has criticized the way in which Pope Francis dismissed him as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, while continuing to insist that he...
Cardinal Pell arrives in Australia to face legal charges
Catholic Culture - World News - Jul 10, 2017 at 6:10 am Cardinal George Pell has arrived in Australia to answer charges of sexual abuse.
Court Issues Detailed Instructions For Church board election
The Religion Clause - Jul 10, 2017 at 6:05 am In Rock Church, Inc. v. Bristulf, (NY Cty. Sup. Ct., June 28, 2017), a New York trial court ordered a special meeting for an election of a church board of trustees, setting out...
A Whodunit by a Lady Who Would Know
CatholicMom.com - Jul 10, 2017 at 6:00 am
I don’t read fiction. Usually. Getting wrapped up in a gripping novel that I can’t put down is time away from my life as a Catholic writer and from the stacks of nonfiction books...
Recent Articles of Interest
The Religion Clause - Jul 10, 2017 at 6:00 am From SSRN:
Andrew Koppelman, How Could Religious Liberty Be a Human Right?, (Int. J. Const. Law, Forthcoming).
Yitshak Cohen, Metahalakhic Principles in R. Meir Simcha Hacohen of...
Archbishop Stack: lottery funders do not understand the purpose of a Catholic church
Catholic Herald - Jul 10, 2017 at 4:32 am The people in charge of giving grants to churches to preserve, repair and refurbish buildings don’t understand the purpose of a Catholic church, according to the bishop in charge...
Ordained a priest, former Manchester United footballer's goal is Christ
EWTN - World Catholic News - Jul 10, 2017 at 4:30 am Dublin, Ireland, Jul 10, 2017 / 04:30 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
Former Irish soccer pro Philip Mulryne was ordained a priest of the Order of Preachers, or Dominicans, on Saturday.
Daily Gospel Reflection for July 10, 2017
CatholicMom.com - Jul 10, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: Matthew 9:18-26
But we are told of meek obedience. No one mentions courage…
Aren’t there annunciations of one sort or another in most lives.Annunciation by Denise...
Turn yourself round like a piece of clay and say to the Lord: I am clay and you, Lord, the potter. Make of me what you will.
Aleteia - Jul 10, 2017 at 3:00 am St. John of Avila
Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa is a prolife heroine
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jul 10, 2017 at 2:27 am …and she speaks the truth fearlessly to both sides of the Culture Wars.
Pope Francis Awaiting Final Approval of Internet Troll…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jul 10, 2017 at 2:21 am …before Promulgating Encyclical. I love Eye of the Tiber.
Liturgy Amidst the Challenges of Modern Culture
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jul 10, 2017 at 2:15 am
I offer this reflection for the tenth anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI’s Summorum Pontificum, which occurred on July 7, which provided greater access to the traditional Latin...
Do We Have to Like the Saints?
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jul 10, 2017 at 2:10 am
A few days ago, I was at a graduation party for the son of a good friend. We were there to celebrate a fine young man raised by thoughtful and serious Catholics, and most of the...
Marriage is Right at the Heart of New Testament Theology
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jul 10, 2017 at 2:04 am You cannot understand John if you don’t understand that the relationship of the Groom and the Bride is right at the core of his thinking about Jesus and the Church. Bishop Robert...
The Philosophy of Book Buying
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jul 10, 2017 at 2:00 am
For some considerable time I have been living, as regards books, with the minimum of comfort and decency—with, in fact, the bare necessaries of life, such necessaries being, in...
Vatican letter to bishops urges vigilance on valid matter for the Holy Eucharist
Catholic Culture - World News - Jul 10, 2017 at 1:48 am At the Pope’s request, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has urged the world’s bishops to “watch over the quality of the bread and wine to...
Papal condolences following apartment collapse in Italy
Catholic Culture - World News - Jul 10, 2017 at 1:24 am Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, has sent a message of condolence in Pope Francis’s name following a deadly collapse of an apartment block in Torre...
