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How to make your internet enemies disappear
Aleteia - Mar 30, 2017 at 11:00 pm We have to keep in mind how maddeningly ineffective language can be as a way of conveying ideas.I don’t know a single person who spends time rubbing his hands together and...
Take me out to the movies! 4 inspirational baseball films
Aleteia - Mar 30, 2017 at 11:00 pm Baseball's opening day is April 3—celebrate with these family friendly grand slams from Hollywood. Batter up! Sure, spring just sprang a few days ago, but no matter: The Boys of...
What do C.S. Lewis, Warren Beatty and Jerry Seinfeld have in common?
Aleteia - Mar 30, 2017 at 11:00 pm Hint: They (and many other men) were all over 40 when they took a very big step.Katrina, I’d like your honest opinion about my situation. Would you consider it normal that I am 43...
Tim Gautreaux’s ‘Signals’ finds holiness in the ordinary
Aleteia - Mar 30, 2017 at 11:00 pm Catholic fiction is rising again, and Flannery O'Connor's influence is in quiet evidence.Like so many of his characters, Tim Gautreaux (The Missing, The Clearing) labors under the...
Carmel Cole celebrated for 50 years of church organ playing
The Catholic Leader - Mar 30, 2017 at 9:00 pm CARMEL Cole never expected any reward for 50 years of service playing the church organ. However, the 77-year-old organist was honoured at a Mass and community celebration at The...
Cardinal bewails continued atrocities in Syria
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 30, 2017 at 8:30 pm The apostolic nuncio in Syria, Cardinal Mario Zenari, decried continued atrocities in the war-torn nation.
Venezuela: vandalism at cardinal’s residence during pro-government rally
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 30, 2017 at 8:21 pm The walls of the archbishop’s palace in Venezuela’s capital were sprayed with graffiti during a large pro-government rally.
Report: persecution of Christians in China rose in 2016
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 30, 2017 at 8:06 pm As it pursued a policy of “Sinicization” of churches, the Chinese government’s persecution of Christians increased in 2016, according to a report recently published by the China...
Irish bishop: continue work of European unity
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 30, 2017 at 7:49 pm Bishop Noel Treanor of Down & Connor recently issued a statement for the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, the first milestone on the path to the current European Union.
Egypt: police defuse bomb in church
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 30, 2017 at 7:29 pm Egyptian police defused a bomb found inside a Coptic church in Tanta, a city of 420,000.
Theme announced for papal trip to Egypt
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 30, 2017 at 7:20 pm Bishop Emmanuel Bishay, the Coptic Catholic bishop of Luxor, has announced that “the Pope of peace in Egypt” is the motto of Pope Francis’s upcoming apostolic journey to Cairo.
Catholics' mission in immigration debate: avoid false divides
Catholic News Agency - General - Mar 30, 2017 at 7:09 pm Louisville, Ky., Mar 30, 2017 / 06:09 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- As immigration debate continues under the Trump administration, one bishop has stressed the need for Catholics to make...
Saints of the Old Testament: St. Amos, prophet
Rorate Coeli - Mar 30, 2017 at 7:01 pm The Call of Amos
by the unknown illustrator of Petrus Comestor's "Bible Historiale," France, 1372
As the month of March draws to a close, the traditional Roman Martyrology...
Gorsuch nomination rumble underscores need for religion writers to understand Constitutional law
GetReligion - Mar 30, 2017 at 6:40 pm Religion reporters need to be knowledgeable on Constitutional law because U.S. federal courts continually handle newsworthy church-and-state dust ups. That is underscored by the...
UK High Court Rejects Challenge to Law Banning Assisted Suicide
LifeNews.com - Mar 30, 2017 at 6:04 pm Great news: The UK High Court decided to dismiss a request by Noel Conway to hear his challenge of the assisted suicide law.
The High Court decided that it is the role of...
Hollyn brings Hip-Hop to Christian music
Aleteia - Mar 30, 2017 at 6:00 pm “Alone” explores the loss of faith in the secular world.“I can be a little punk sometimes.” This is the attitude that Hollyn brings to her new style of Christian pop. “Alone,” off...
Carrie Lam, the (Catholic) “Dragon Lady” in Hong Kong
Vatican Insider - Mar 30, 2017 at 5:55 pm Carrie Lam seems to have a shabby and reserved appearance. Yet since last Sunday, for the local English speaking newspapers she has become the “dragon lady” of Hong Kong, the “...
"A Pastoral Priority" – For Lent, "The Light Is On"... or Is It?
Whispers in the Loggia - Mar 30, 2017 at 5:54 pm Along with Friday fish-fries, the weekly Stations and giving up something (or doing something more), recent years have brought a new tradition of Lent: the Pope going into...
Even the LA Times Thinks the Charges Against Pro-Life Advocate David Daleiden are Bogus
LifeNews.com - Mar 30, 2017 at 5:53 pm What ever the Los Angeles Times’ position on abortion may be, the newspaper editorial board believes in freedom of the press for the citizen journalists whose undercover videos...
Missouri House Passes Bill to Overturn St. Louis 'Abortion Sanctuary' Ordinance
Saint Louis Catholic - Mar 30, 2017 at 5:41 pm I often feel very blessed to live in Missouri-- a state with some semblance of decent government, (relative) freedom, natural beauty, decent people, and common sense. This week...
