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Encountering the Word — Daniel 3:57-58 (NAB)
Integrated Catholic Life - Jun 4, 2017 at 11:01 pm “Bless the Lord, all you works of the Lord, praise and exalt him above all forever. Angels of the Lord, bless the Lord, praise and exalt him above all forever.” (Daniel 3:57-58...
Do I believe in the resurrection of the dead?
Aleteia - Jun 4, 2017 at 11:00 pm Our eternity isn’t to be spent in a perpetual, out-of-body experience.“I believe in the resurrection of the dead.” I have prayed those words an uncountable number of times, during...
Relationship secrets from successful ice skating couples
Aleteia - Jun 4, 2017 at 11:00 pm On and off the ice, figure skaters know what it takes to make a strong team.A figure skating partnership can be the stuff of legend — for good or ill. Skating fans are still...
ISIS made her a sex slave, freedom made her an activist
Aleteia - Jun 4, 2017 at 11:00 pm Nadia Murad urges the international community to help the Yazidis.Nadia Murad was 21 years old when she was abducted by Islamic State and held as a sex slave. Thomson Reuters...
The surprisingly deep spiritual meaning behind “Ordinary Time”
Aleteia - Jun 4, 2017 at 11:00 pm The term appears to be generic, but actually highlights its spiritual focus.After Pentecost the Church resumes what is now called the season of “Ordinary Time.” But what does that...
4 Reasons to go into debt for Catholic college
Aleteia - Jun 4, 2017 at 11:00 pm If the average debt is about (or less than) a car payment, here's why it might be worth the loans.Don’t get me wrong: Getting way over your head in college debt is a really bad...
The day I almost died in childbirth
Aleteia - Jun 4, 2017 at 11:00 pm American women die are dying at increasingly higher rates than those in other countries. Here's how we can change that.I almost died the last time I gave birth. If it weren’t for...
Not your average Pentecost Sunday
Aleteia - Jun 4, 2017 at 11:00 pm Photo of the Day, June 5, 2017On Whitsun Sunday (Pentecost) pilgrims wearing traditional Andalusian costume process with “trolleys” (pushcarts) during the annual pilgrimage in...
Humanitarian Corridors, Sant’Egidio welcomes the most desperate in Europe
Vatican Insider - Jun 4, 2017 at 10:00 pm According to Sant’Egidio, “It started like a drop in the sea”. But after a year and three months, the humanitarian corridors have welcomed more refugees than 14 EU states.February...
A Priest Found Blasphemous Graffiti on His Church & His Reaction Is Going Viral
ChurchPOP - Jun 4, 2017 at 8:23 pm Last week, a priest in Italy discovered something terrible: someone had sprayed blasphemous pro-abortion graffiti on his church. The graffiti read: “Free
The post A Priest Found...
The effect of lay participation on the souls of priests
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jun 4, 2017 at 7:02 pm
Today during Mass I was struck hard with something, which reinforced a observation I read recently in an email. In effect, the priestly writer said that priests, who are under...
Recent Prisoner Free Exercise Cases
The Religion Clause - Jun 4, 2017 at 6:40 pm In Ruffin v. Hinkley, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 81827 (D ME, May 30, 2017), a Maine federal magistrate judge recommended that a Muslim inmate's complaint that he was served pork on 3...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 05/06/17
Catholic Herald - Jun 4, 2017 at 6:01 pm Catholics make a mistake when they “become Christians of the ‘right’ or the ‘left’, before being on the side of Jesus”, the Pope said at Mass on Pentecost Sunday (full text, full...
Pentecost Mass: “Without forgiveness there is no Church”
Vatican Insider - Jun 4, 2017 at 5:17 pm "According to God’s will, a union that is not uniformity, but unity in difference," affirms the Pope who on Pentecost Sunday celebrates Mass sided by cardinals, bishops, and...
How ISIS genocide victims still face discrimination in Kurdistan
Catholic News Agency - General - Jun 4, 2017 at 5:02 pm Washington D.C., Jun 4, 2017 / 04:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- After the Islamic State ravaged large parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014, religious minorities targeted for genocide fled...
Triple baptism for Chinese Australia family at Easter
The Catholic Leader - Jun 4, 2017 at 4:30 pm THREE generations of one family are in a state of joy after completing a long journey to becoming Catholic. Patricia Leung, her daughter Joanna Leung and her daughter Alexandra...
Pentecost 2017
New Liturgical Movement - Jun 4, 2017 at 4:00 pm Veni, Sancte Spiritus, reple tuorum corda fidelium, et tui amoris in eis ignem accende: qui per diversitatem linguarum cunctarum, gentes in unitatem fidei congregasti, alleluia,...
Free Copy of My First Novel?! Yep!
Journey of a Catholic Nerd Writer - Jun 4, 2017 at 3:18 pm Photo credit: Danica Clark Photography.Happy Pentecost, everyone!!Just a quick blog post to let y'all know that the Kindle version of my first novel -- Will and Lina: When Two...
The Prayer for Controlling Anger: Prayer of the Day for Monday, June 05, 2017
Catholic Online - Featured News - Jun 4, 2017 at 3:00 pm O Lord, must I fear Your wrath?
Retribution is Yours by right!
May I never dishonour Your Divinity,
My soul seeking to maintain Your love. ...
St. Boniface of Mainz: Saint of the Day for Monday, June 05, 2017
Catholic Online - Featured News - Jun 4, 2017 at 3:00 pm Winfrith had expected to return to England from Friesland (in what is now Holland) in triumph. He had left the land where he was a respected scholar, ...
