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Can Ireland rediscover its faith – as I did?
Catholic Herald - Mar 30, 2017 at 6:20 am When I think of my country and its relationship with Catholicism, I think of it, in what I hope is appropriate humility, as being about 25 years behind on the path I have...
A year to look backwards
Catholic Herald - Mar 30, 2017 at 6:20 am The anniversary is the columnist’s reliable friend. Nothing in the news today worthy of comment? How about the news of 10, 50 or 100 years ago? At this distance only the...
Why Ireland needs more Rome, not less
Catholic Herald - Mar 30, 2017 at 6:20 am Pope Francis is due to visit Ireland in August 2018. His trip will probably include a historic journey north of the border. But what he is likely to find is that Irish Catholicism...
Cardinal Nichols to take four imams to meet the Pope
Catholic Herald - Mar 30, 2017 at 6:18 am Cardinal Nichols is due to travel to Rome with four imams next week for an audience with the Pope.
The meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday when, after an audience with...
Pope: God promises the ‘impossible,’ asks people hope against all hope
Franciscan Media - Mar 30, 2017 at 6:08 am VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Hope is not built on people’s predictions, assurances or line of reasoning, Pope Francis said.
Real Christian hope “is not based on our word, but on God’s...
Hawaii Federal District Court Converts TRO Against Travel Ban To Preliminary Injunction
The Religion Clause - Mar 30, 2017 at 6:05 am Yesterday a Hawaii federal district court granted the state of Hawaii's motion to convert its prior temporary restraining order against President Trump's second travel ban...
High Schooler Sues Over School's Transgender Policy
The Religion Clause - Mar 30, 2017 at 6:00 am A suit was filed last week in a Pennsylvania federal district court on behalf of a high school student who contends that his privacy rights, as well as his rights under Title IX,...
Book Review: A Catholic Guide to Dating after Divorce
CatholicMom.com - Mar 30, 2017 at 6:00 am
I wish that Lisa Duffy’s book, The Catholic Guide to Dating after Divorce, was available to me when I went through my divorce thirty years ago. It will now be my go-to when...
March for Life in Peru turns into aid for flood victims
Aleteia - Mar 30, 2017 at 6:00 am Volunteers, gathered for pro-life march, collect and distribute food and water instead.There’s more than one way to affirm the sanctity of life, and pro-life activists in flood-...
The Priesthood of the Transgendered
Crisis Magazine - Church - Mar 30, 2017 at 4:45 am
There was always something Disneyesque about the 1980s preachers of the prosperity gospel. Of course there was no corpus on their cross, but that sacrilege had been achieved by...
“No to false idols, only God loves us as a father, he always awaits us”
Vatican Insider - Mar 30, 2017 at 4:41 am God loves His people, despite their infidelity. Pope Francis points out at this morning’s Mass, March 30, 2017, in Casa Santa Marta. As reported by Vatican Radio, during his...
The Abuse of Science Leads to Liberal Social Engineering
Crisis Magazine - Church - Mar 30, 2017 at 4:41 am
A couple of months ago I commented on how modern ways of thinking make it hard to understand human life. I didn’t say so specifically, but a big part of the problem has to do...
Pence casts tiebreaking vote as Senate advances pro-life measure
EWTN - US Latest News - Mar 30, 2017 at 4:27 am Washington D.C., Mar 30, 2017 / 04:27 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Vice President Mike Pence cast the deciding vote in the Senate Thursday
to advance a measure allowing states to once...
New Catholic head of the UN visits the world’s biggest camp for Syrian refugees
Catholic Herald - Mar 30, 2017 at 4:21 am As the UN secretary-general visited the world’s biggest camp for Syrian refugees in late March, he made an impassioned plea: stop Syria’s devastating war.
“I want to make a strong...
Don't believe in hell? You haven't seen Syria lately, cardinal says
EWTN - World Catholic News - Mar 30, 2017 at 4:02 am Rome, Italy, Mar 30, 2017 / 04:02 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Six years after the start of the Civil War, Syria's apostolic nuncio
said that the country is in a "bloodbath" – a situation...
Archbishop Gomez: English wasn't America's first language
Catholic News Agency - General - Mar 30, 2017 at 4:02 am Washington D.C., Mar 30, 2017 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In recent months, national debates over immigration and deportation have reached a fever pitch in the wake of President...
Archbishop Gomez: English wasn't America's first language
EWTN - US Latest News - Mar 30, 2017 at 4:02 am Washington D.C., Mar 30, 2017 / 04:02 am (EWTN News/CNA).- In recent months, national debates over immigration and deportation have
reached a fever pitch in the wake of President...
Banksy: Where politics and kitsch meet
Aleteia - Mar 30, 2017 at 4:00 am Photo of the Day: March 30, 2017BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK – MARCH 15, 2017: A painting depicting Jesus Christ with a weapon’s laser red dot on his forehead and US military drones is...
Mourners fill cathedral for Cardinal Keeler
Catholic Herald - Mar 30, 2017 at 3:48 am Mourners from near and far, and all walks of life, filled the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland on Tuesday for the funeral Mass of Cardinal William H Keeler, 14th archbishop...
Daily Gospel Reflection for March 30, 2017
CatholicMom.com - Mar 30, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: John 5:31-47
These words from Jesus are hard to hear. Like those in the passage, I, too, am seeking Him – is it possible that He is speaking these words to me? He...
