Latest News
Kazakhstan: lawmakers may increase restrictions on religious freedom (Forum 18)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 12, 2017 at 12:10 am The nation of 18.4 million is 70% Muslim and 26% Christian (primarily Russian Orthodox).
Togo bishop decries violent civil strife (Fides)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 12, 2017 at 12:10 am The African nation of 7.8 million is 29% Christian and 20% Muslim, with 51% retaining indigenous beliefs.
Friends remember Father Walter Ciszek (National Catholic Register)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 12, 2017 at 12:10 am The American Jesuit, who died in 1984, was imprisoned in the Soviet Union for 15 years.
Profile of Algerian Christian imprisoned for insulting Islam on social media (World Watch Monitor)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 12, 2017 at 12:10 am40 million papal Twitter followers in 9 languages (Vatican Radio)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 12, 2017 at 12:10 amCaritas alarm: child trafficking in northeast India (Fides)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 12, 2017 at 12:10 amHouse committee holds hearings on US government and international religious freedom (Subcommittee on National Security)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 12, 2017 at 12:10 am “Advancing religious freedom successfully in our foreign policy can help the victims of religious persecution abroad and increase the security of the American people,” said Thomas...
Holy See, Japan mark 75 years of diplomatic relations ? (Vatican Radio)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 12, 2017 at 12:10 am'A Christian Strategy' (First Things)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 12, 2017 at 12:10 am Adrian Vermeule, a Harvard law professor, writes that “neither statism nor libertarianism can be blessed as a fully and finally Catholic form of politics, for Catholics must be...
Sharing the Word for October 12, 2017
Franciscan Media - Oct 12, 2017 at 12:00 am Thursday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time
October 12, 2017
Daily Reading from the USCCB: Malachi 3:13-20b
https://www.franciscanmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/...
Does Modern Secularism Have a Memory Problem?
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Oct 12, 2017 at 12:00 am We often hear the adage that religion has caused numerous wars and has a history of bad actions in the name of beliefs. However, today Fredric Heidemann asks, does secularism, who...
Episcopal resignations and appointments (10/11) (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 11, 2017 at 11:10 pm Pope Francis accepted the resignation of an Indonesian bishop accused of improprieties, appointed an apostolic administrator in his place, and appointed a bishop to a Brazilian...
Full text of Pope's 10/11 general audience on vigilant expectation (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 11, 2017 at 11:10 pm At the conclusion of the audience, the Pope recalled that October 13 is the anniversary of the last Fatima apparition and encouraged the faithful to pray the Rosary for peace...
US bishops to meet November 13-14 in Baltimore (USCCB)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 11, 2017 at 11:10 pm The agenda includes an address from Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, a report from the bishops’ working group on immigration, and the centennial anniversary of the USCCB’s predecessor...
In Las Vegas, the pastoral toll of a mass shooting (OSV Newsweekly)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 11, 2017 at 11:10 pmPapal audiences (10/11) (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 11, 2017 at 11:10 pm In separate audiences, the Pontiff received priests of the Taiwan-based Congregation of Disciples of the Lord and participants in a meeting organized by the Pontifical Council...
Why do we fold our hands during prayer?
Aleteia - Oct 11, 2017 at 11:00 pm It is an ancient tradition with deep symbolism.Many can remember being taught by religious sisters how to pray with folded hands, though sometimes the instruction was lost in kid...
The Church in the Far East
Aleteia - Oct 11, 2017 at 11:00 pm Photo of the Day: October 12, 2017A young Japanese girl is greeted by Pope Francis as pilgrims and clergy from the Far East arrive on the eve of the Holy Mass for the Centenary of...
Did you know the 1st apparition of the Blessed Mother was an act of bilocation?
Aleteia - Oct 11, 2017 at 11:00 pm It took place while she was still on earth, prior to her assumption into heaven, in 40 A.D.Only a few years after Jesus’ death and resurrection, in the year 40, the very first...
Christ’s latest disguise: A poncho and an umbrella
Aleteia - Oct 11, 2017 at 11:00 pm How my encounter with an extraordinary stranger taught me about Christ's love and humility in a completely unexpected way.I could tell from the water dripping down the inside of...
