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Summer tomatoes and fresh eggs, dinner-style
Aleteia - Jul 5, 2017 at 8:00 am This quick comfort recipe is perfect for Friday night ... or any night of the week. Ah, the tomato. That go-to fruit full of vitamin C (yes, tell your kids it really is a fruit,...
Greg Laurie goes Southern Baptist and newsrooms in Southern California are clueless
GetReligion - Jul 5, 2017 at 8:00 am I can’t say I’ve ever heard the Rev. Greg Laurie preach, but the evangelist is certainly a heavyweight in some circles. Which is why I was surprised to hear he was moving from...
CRS Photo of the Month: Freedom comes in many colors
CatholicMom.com - Jul 5, 2017 at 7:30 am
Photo by Michael Stulman/Catholic Relief Services. Used with permission. All rights reserved.
Red, white and blue are the colors of independence this month in the United States....
Jacob Rees-Mogg has chosen an excellent Catholic name for his newborn son
Catholic Herald - Jul 5, 2017 at 7:07 am As well as congratulating Mr and Mrs Rees-Mogg on adding to their brood, we might also applaud them on the name chosen for the bairn. He is baby number six, and therefore called...
For the New Cathedral, Un Nuevo Obispo – At Long Last, Zarama Nabs Raleigh Seat
Whispers in the Loggia - Jul 5, 2017 at 7:03 am For all the twists and turns (and loops) of an eventful vacancy in Eastern North Carolina's 59-county fold, the nod still falls to the long-tipped frontrunner: at Roman Noon on...
WATCH: Grandson of royals and future saints recalls their faith lessons
Aleteia - Jul 5, 2017 at 7:00 am What must it be like to see such a shining example in your own family of what marriage "basically, basically" is?Archduke Rudolf of Austria visited Croatia in May on the feast of...
Renaissance Butter Knives Inscribed with Chant Score for Grace!
New Liturgical Movement - Jul 5, 2017 at 7:00 am How about this as a way to encourage the family to pray grace beautifully? The photograph comes from a review of and exhibition of Renaissance Devotionals in Cambridge, Mass....
Blessing God
Communio - Jul 5, 2017 at 6:26 am I think if you asked many people what it means to “bless God” an adequate answer would be lacking. Probably for no other reason than it is not a subject we hear preached on at...
Cardinal Joachim Meisner, one of four 'dubia’ cardinals, dies at age 83
Catholic News Agency - General - Jul 5, 2017 at 6:25 am Bad Füssing, Germany, Jul 5, 2017 / 05:25 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Cardinal Joachim Meisner, archbishop emeritus of Cologne, Germany and one of four cardinals who sent the "dubia" to...
Pope Francis: Hunger caused by ‘indifference of many, selfishness of a few’
Franciscan Media - Jul 5, 2017 at 6:24 am VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The international community must not remain resigned to the plight of those suffering hunger and malnutrition, which is often caused by indifference and...
Pope welcomes news portal designed for European migrants
Catholic Culture - World News - Jul 5, 2017 at 6:18 am Pope Francis has applauded the launch of a news portal designed to provide information for migrants in Europe.
Cardinal Joachim Meisner, one of four 'dubia' cardinals, dies at age 83
EWTN - World Catholic News - Jul 5, 2017 at 6:15 am BAD FÜSSING, Germany, Jul 5, 2017 / 06:15 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Cardinal Joachim Meisner, archbishop emeritus of Cologne, Germany and one of four cardinals who sent the "dubia" to...
EU Ban On State Economic Subsidies Invalidates Some Applications of Tax Exemption Treaty with Vatican
The Religion Clause - Jul 5, 2017 at 6:05 am Article 107(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union prohibits EU states from granting aid that "distorts or threatens to distort competition [between Member...
Syria’s Assad meets with Melkite Patriarch, seeks Christian support for national unity
Catholic Culture - World News - Jul 5, 2017 at 6:01 am Syria’s President Bashar al Assad met on July 4 with the newly elected Melkite Catholic Patriarch Youssef Absi and a delegation from the Melkite Synod.
An Open Book: July 2017
CatholicMom.com - Jul 5, 2017 at 6:00 am
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The mystery of icon-preserving bees
Aleteia - Jul 5, 2017 at 6:00 am In Greece, a pious beekeeper has a habit of putting icons in his beehives. The icons bless the bees ... and the bees protect the icons.For a decade, a beekeeper named Sidoros...
European Court Upholds Defamation Judgment For False Charges of Anti-Muslim Statements
The Religion Clause - Jul 5, 2017 at 6:00 am In Case of Medzlis Islamske Zajednice Brcko and Others v. Bosnia and Herzegovina, (ECHR, June 27, 2017), the European Court of Human Rights Grand Chamber by a vote of 11-6 held...
UK officials resist diplomatic pressure to allow treatment of Charlie Gard
Catholic Culture - World News - Jul 5, 2017 at 5:43 am Despite diplomatic pressure, officials at London’s Greater Ormond Street Hospital say that they cannot allow 10-month-old Charlie Gard to be moved to another hospital in Rome or...
German Cardinal Meisner, one of four who submitted dubia, dead at 83
Catholic Culture - World News - Jul 5, 2017 at 5:29 am Cardinal Joachim Meisner, the retired Archbishop of Cologne, died on July 5 at the age of 83.
