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After ISIS: A French priest is helping formerly enslaved and traumatized Yazidis
Aleteia - Oct 15, 2017 at 11:00 pm Father Patrick Desbois, who is documenting genocide and helping Iraqi natives overcome ordeal, will receive Lantos Human Rights Prize.While many Christians in Iraq are trying to...
Globalization, Catholic Style: When art came to the rescue
Aleteia - Oct 15, 2017 at 11:00 pm A visit to the Piazza Navona brings Bernini's glorious image of Christian globalization: the light of Truth, spread to the four corners of the globe.On the 500th anniversary of...
Weinstein and Hollywood’s “open secrets”
Aleteia - Oct 15, 2017 at 11:00 pm Evidence that Hollywood ruins innocence was there for all to see; did we just not want to face it?You could say that the Harvey Weinstein case reveals the dark secret underbelly...
Arm Counting
The Catholic Astronomer - Oct 15, 2017 at 9:22 pm What does the Milky Way look like? Are there two spiral arms like our sister spiral galaxy Andromeda, or four? We cannot exactly get a “bird’s eye” view as the Galaxy is so vast...
Let There Be Light: The Movie Hollywood Won't Make
Big C Catholics - Oct 15, 2017 at 7:10 pm In the golden age of Hollywood, movies extolling heroic virtue and Christian values were commonplace. Films were life affirming, their plots derived from saintly figures, or...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 16/10/17
Catholic Herald - Oct 15, 2017 at 6:01 pm Pope Francis canonised 35 new saints and announced a synod for the Amazon yesterday (Rocco Palmo, full text, full video). A bishop has said that gay couples must be made welcome...
'No science' behind transgender therapy for kids, doctors warn
Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 15, 2017 at 4:57 pm Washington D.C., Oct 15, 2017 / 03:57 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Children who struggle to match their gender identity with their biological sex should not be pushed into transgender...
London Oratory School Schola – USA TOUR – 22-29 October 2017
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Oct 15, 2017 at 4:54 pm Here is a great opportunity, not only to experience a great Catholic boys choir, but also to SUPPORT a great Catholic boys choir!
There are both Masses and concerts. Take note....
Shine Through Me: Prayer of the Day for Monday, October 16, 2017
Catholic Online - Featured News - Oct 15, 2017 at 4:50 pm Dear Jesus, help me to spread Your Fragrance everywhere I go. Penetrate and possess my whole being so utterly that all my life may only be a radiance ...
Daily Readings for Monday, October 16, 2017
Catholic Online - Featured News - Oct 15, 2017 at 4:50 pm Reading 1: Romans 1:1-7, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 98:1-4, Gospel: Luke 11:29-32
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque on the Sacred Heart
Big C Catholics - Oct 15, 2017 at 4:30 pm This divine heart is an abyss filled with all blessings, and into the poor should submerge all their needs. It is an abyss of joy in which all of us can immerse our sorrows. It is...
Recent Prisoner Free Exercise Cases
The Religion Clause - Oct 15, 2017 at 4:27 pm In Entler v. Gregoire, (9th Cir., Oct. 6, 2017), the 9th Circuit held that an inmate who was sanctioned for threatening to sue after he was given a job assignment inconsistent...
St. Marguerite d'Youville, First Native Canadian Saint
Big C Catholics - Oct 15, 2017 at 3:17 pm October 16th, the Church in Canada observes the optional memorial of Saint Marguerite d'Youville, the first native Canadian to be elevated to sainthood. She was born October 15,...
Vatican City court finds former hospital president guilty of corruption
Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 15, 2017 at 2:09 pm Vatican City, Oct 15, 2017 / 01:09 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Vatican City announced Saturday the conclusion of the corruption trial of the former president and treasurer of the Vatican...
Pope Francis: Do not distance yourself from South Sudan
News.va - Oct 15, 2017 at 1:35 pm
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has called on the international community not to forget South Sudan and in particular the serious humanitarian emergency unfolding there.
The Pope...
VIDEO: London Rosary Crusade 2017
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Oct 15, 2017 at 1:31 pm This is a marvelous video sent by a friend in London, who wrote:
Here’s how Fr Tim Finigan described it a couple of years ago.
This occasion must rank as one of the most splendid...
Saint Hedwig of Silesia, Patroness of Poland
Big C Catholics - Oct 15, 2017 at 1:10 pm Optional Memorial - October 16thSaint Hedwig the aunt of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, was married and at early age and raised seven children. When her husband died in 1238, Hedwig...
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Apostle of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Big C Catholics - Oct 15, 2017 at 1:03 pm Optional Memorial - October 16thOccasionally, we get so caught up in the holiness of saints — sometimes to the point of thinking that we could never be like them — that we forget...
Weekend think piece: Guess what? Church and state in Russia have their differences
GetReligion - Oct 15, 2017 at 1:00 pm The priest at our parish in East Tennessee returned the other day from a pilgrimage to Mount Athos, the Greek peninsula that for centuries has been the beating heart of Eastern...
