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PHOTOS: Pontifical Mass at the Throne – 13 Oct 2017 – @MadisonDiocese
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Oct 14, 2017 at 9:49 pm On Friday 13 October, we had a Pontifical Mass at the Throne with the Extraordinary Ordinary of Madison, His Excellency Most Reverend Robert C. Morlino at the little church of St...
Good Sams leadership to focus on people at the margins
The Catholic Leader - Oct 14, 2017 at 9:05 pm THE newly-elected leader of the Good Samaritan Sisters has spoken out about the growing threat of conflict between the United States and North Korea. Sr Patty Fawkner, elected...
New Delhi Reacts To Diwali Fireworks Ban
The Religion Clause - Oct 14, 2017 at 8:57 pm Today's New York Times reports on the impact in New Delhi of a ruling by India's Supreme Court reinstating a ban, motivated by environmental concerns, on the sale of fireworks in...
Trump Addresses Values Voter Summit
The Religion Clause - Oct 14, 2017 at 8:31 pm Yesterday, President Trump gave a 30-minute address (full text) to the 2017 Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., becoming the first sitting President to address the annual...
House of Representatives Ban On Secular Invocations Is Constitutional
The Religion Clause - Oct 14, 2017 at 8:07 pm In Barker v. Conroy, (D DC, Oct. 11, 2017), the D.C. federal district court rejected challenges to rules of the U.S. House of Representatives which do not allow an atheist to...
Court Rejects Challenges To Policies Protecting Muslim Women Booking Photos
The Religion Clause - Oct 14, 2017 at 7:37 pm In Schlussel v. City of Dearborn Heights, (ED MI, Oct. 11, 2017), a Michigan federal district court rejected various challenges by a journalist to a partial denial of her state...
Ecclesiastical Abstention Requires Dismissal of Suit Over Student's Forced Withdrawal From High School
The Religion Clause - Oct 14, 2017 at 6:52 pm In In re the Episcopal School of Dallas, Inc., (TX App, Oct. 11, 2017), a Texas state appellate court held that the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine applies to a faith-based...
WDTPRS 19th Sunday after Pentecost: SECRET – saving and healing
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Oct 14, 2017 at 6:44 pm Today’s Secret for the 19th Sunday after Pentecost was in ancient versions of the Gelasian Sacramentary, such as the 8th c. Gellonensis. I don’t think it survived the scissors of...
Quarter-mile long Fatima rosary procession graces St. Paul
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Oct 14, 2017 at 6:07 pm A quarter-mile long sea of people carrying candles and praying in procession filled half of John Ireland Boulevard between the State Capitol and the Cathedral of St. Paul in St....
A Synod for the indigenous peoples of South America
Vatican Insider - Oct 14, 2017 at 5:28 pm At the Angelus Francis announces “a special assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region, which will take place in Rome in October 2019". At the end of the...
WDTPRS – 28th Ordinary Sunday: “God crowns His merits in us”
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Oct 14, 2017 at 5:23 pm The elegant Collect for the 28th Ordinary Sunday has been used for centuries on the 16th Sunday after Pentecost according to the traditional Roman calendar. This is a lovely...
In India, schoolkids say Virgin Mary appeared amid scent of jasmine
Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 14, 2017 at 5:01 pm Kochi, India, Oct 14, 2017 / 04:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Both Hindu and Catholic schoolchildren in India claim to have witnessed an apparition of Christ and several appearances of...
Pope sends video-message to pilgrims in Fatima for end of Centenary celebrations
News.va - Oct 14, 2017 at 2:27 pm
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis sent a video-message to pilgrims gathered in Fatima to mark the closing of the Centenary of the Fatima Apparitions.
“Never be afraid, God is...
Prayer to St. Jude for Desperate Situations
Big C Catholics - Oct 14, 2017 at 1:46 pm Most holy Apostle, Saint Jude, faithful servant and friend of Jesus, the Church honors and invokes you universally as the patron of difficult cases, of things despaired of and...
Saint Teresa of Ávila’s Vision of Hell
Big C Catholics - Oct 14, 2017 at 1:04 pm A Carmelite nun who left her cloister at Avila and set up a reformed Carmelite Order Saint Teresa of Ávila endured much suffering with a joyful heart. She experienced spiritual...
The Sneakiest of the 7 Deadly Sins: Reflection for the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time
CatholicMom.com - Oct 14, 2017 at 1:00 pm
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Readings for October 15, 2017: 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time
At age 16, life was about rock ‘n roll. If my own band was not performing on...
St. Teresa of Ávila, Virgin and Doctor of the Church
Big C Catholics - Oct 14, 2017 at 1:00 pm (In 2017, this feast is superseded by the Sunday liturgy.)Memorial - October 15thSaint Teresa of Ávila, (1515-1582) also called St. Teresa of Jesus, is a 16th century Spanish...
Pope to declare 35 new saints on Sunday
News.va - Oct 14, 2017 at 12:29 pm (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis will declare 33 martyrs and 2 others from Brazil, Mexico, Spain and Italy, as the Catholic Church’s new saints on Sunday at a Canonization Mass in...
Pope to attend high-level forum on 60 years of EU
News.va - Oct 14, 2017 at 12:29 pm
(Vatican Radio) A high-level forum of dialogue to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the “Treaty of Rome”, that established the European Community, will take place in the...
Catholics 'clutch' rosaries in Poland? Journalists should pay attention to details in worship
GetReligion - Oct 14, 2017 at 11:22 am
The big issue in this week's "Crossroads" podcast (click here to tune that in) was a question raised in my recent post about coverage of a remarkable religious rite that took...
