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Vatican newspaper op-ed raps France, Spain, Austria on immigration
Catholic Culture - World News - Jul 5, 2017 at 12:41 am In a front-page op-ed in the July 5 edition of L’Osservatore Romano, deputy editor Giuseppe Fiorentino criticized France, Spain, and Austria for betraying the ideals of the...
20 million at high risk of famine
Catholic Culture - World News - Jul 5, 2017 at 12:11 am The head of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), José Graziano da Silva, said at a conference in Rome that 20 million people are “severely affected” by a high risk of...
Sunday Soundbite for July 9, 2017
Franciscan Media - Jul 5, 2017 at 12:00 am Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Cycle A
July 09, 2017
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A Song of Mother Teresa, by Brother Isaiah
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Jul 5, 2017 at 12:00 am Today, Matthew Becklo discusses the everlasting effect of Mother Teresa as seen through a new song by Brother Isaiah. Inspired by the saint's insights on prayer, this barefoot...
'When a Christian becomes sad...' Pope Francis' July prayer intention lifts up lost Christians
Catholic Online - Featured News - Jul 5, 2017 at 12:00 am Every month the Pope releases his genuinely special prayer intentions for that current month. With help from the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network of ...
'Dubia' Cardinal Joachim Meisner dies at 83
Catholic Online - Featured News - Jul 5, 2017 at 12:00 am Cardinal Joachim Meisner, archbishop emeritus of Cologne, Germany and one of four cardinals who sent the "dubia" to Pope Francis last year, passed ...
'Christians can no longer fight the flood': Is the Benedict Option the way to go?
Catholic Online - Featured News - Jul 5, 2017 at 12:00 am When Josh and Laura Martin, both converts to the faith, moved their growing family of six from the city of Dallas, Texas to the hills of Oklahoma, ...
Pope's Hospital offers to take dying baby, Charlie Gard - but London Hospital refuses transfer
Catholic Online - Featured News - Jul 5, 2017 at 12:00 am The London hospital where Charlie Gard is living his last days has refused a transfer request from the Pediatric hospital Bambino Gesu in Rome for ...
Incredible! Six-year-old girl MIRACULOUSLY SURVIVES being run over by car
Catholic Online - Featured News - Jul 5, 2017 at 12:00 am A six-year-old girl was run over by a car at a gas station in West Java, India. A crowd of witnesses rushed over to lift the car off of the child.
Netball ‘taking off’ in Queensland with 60 schools competing in QISSN carnival
The Catholic Leader - Jul 4, 2017 at 11:55 pm NETBALL is fast growing into Queensland’s premier women’s sport with more than 700 girls turning up for the toughest competition among secondary schools. The 2017 Queensland...
Arrests of religious believers in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan
Catholic Culture - World News - Jul 4, 2017 at 11:53 pm Forum 18, a news service that documents violations of the right to religious freedom, recently reported on government crackdowns on religious groups in two Asian nations that once...
Josephite novice launches new eBook on Australia’s first saint
The Catholic Leader - Jul 4, 2017 at 11:46 pm THE life of Australia’s first saint, Mary MacKillop has been captured in a new eBook for children. Author Jane Maisey, who is on the “Emmaus Journey” (novitiate) to become a...
Humility: An Unachievable Virtue?
Integrated Catholic Life - Jul 4, 2017 at 11:04 pm “Every one that exalteth himself, shall be humbled; and he that humbleth himself, shall be exalted” (Luke 14:11). Humility is a rather slippery virtue. It’s one of the most...
Daily Reflection—Stay or Go?
Integrated Catholic Life - Jul 4, 2017 at 11:03 pm “And behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus; and when they saw him, they begged him to leave their neighborhood.” (Matthew:8-34). Today’s Gospel reading (Matthew 8:28-34) is...
Daily Catholic Quote — from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Integrated Catholic Life - Jul 4, 2017 at 11:02 pm “Closing our eyes to our neighbour also blinds us to God.” (Pope Benedict XVI, Encyclical — Deus caritas est, 25 December 2005) Please share on social media. Print this entry
Encountering the Word — Ephesians 4:31-32
Integrated Catholic Life - Jul 4, 2017 at 11:01 pm “Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, with all malice, and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in...
The Little Sisters of the Poor – Villa Guadalupe
Aleteia - Jul 4, 2017 at 11:00 pm Photo of the Day - July 5,2017High atop a hill overlooking the Little Sisters of the Poor Mission in Gallup, New Mexico stands a Shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe. The Villa...
Lindisfarne: One of Britain’s oldest churches is discovered on the Holy Island
Aleteia - Jul 4, 2017 at 11:00 pm Dating from around the mid=7th century, it might have been built by the very same founder of Lindisfarne, St. Aidan.Off the coast of Northumberland, in the Holy Island of...
Are there Christian “secrets” reserved for an initiated elite?
Aleteia - Jul 4, 2017 at 11:00 pm Esotericism is contrary to the nature of Christianity.There are nominal “Christians”—more than a few—who practice esotericism and various forms of occultism, but that is not what...
3 Powerful sacramentals to have in your home
Aleteia - Jul 4, 2017 at 11:00 pm These small religious items pack a big spiritual punch that can protect your family.The use of sacramentals is one of the most misunderstood practices in the Catholic Church. They...
