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Learning about Islam from a Catholic archbishop: “In a way, the Quran is a sacrament, a sign of the presence of God”

The Deacon's Bench - Apr 30, 2015 at 8:55 am
NPR profiles Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, a veteran observer of the Arab world, former nuncio to Cairo and a leading Roman Catholic expert on Islam: Now retired, the archbishop...

Italian Cardinal Canestri dies at 96

The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Apr 30, 2015 at 8:52 am
VATICAN CITY — Italian Cardinal Giovanni Canestri, who attended every session of the Second Vatican Council as a bishop, died April 29 at the age of 96. He died 20 years after...

Pro-Abortion Socialist Bernie Sanders Running for President as a Democrat

LifeNews.com - Apr 30, 2015 at 8:44 am
Bernie Sanders is, by far, one of the most left-wing members of the Senate. After having represented Vermont in Congress for decades, the self-proclaimed Socialist is now seeking...

Pope's Address to Anglican-Catholic Commission

Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Apr 30, 2015 at 8:44 am
Here is the statement given by the Pope on Thursday to the members of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission. * * * Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, 1. It is...

Do more than talk about love

The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Apr 30, 2015 at 8:42 am
It was late in the afternoon when my friend called. She had just been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. The prescribed treatment would be difficult – her days a blur of tests...

Pruning required for good fruit

The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Apr 30, 2015 at 8:39 am
The wine used at Mass this weekend has a long history. Wine making dates back at least 7,000 years to the ancient Greeks. Ancient Romans perfected the vineyard techniques we still...

Thoughts on Large Families

CatholicMom.com - Apr 30, 2015 at 8:30 am
In my experience as a mother of nine children, I have met more condemnation than acceptance and more questions that understanding. Perhaps it is because I do not look like the...

Icing on the cake: Tasty coverage on bakery fined $135,000 in religious freedom vs. gay rights case

GetReligion - Apr 30, 2015 at 8:22 am
Surprise! Wedding cakes — specifically wedding cakes for same-sex couples — are making headlines again. In the past, we've discussed the "frame game" as it relates to how news...

Scottish Parliament Must Reject Deeply-Flawed Bill Legalizing Assisted Suicide

LifeNews.com - Apr 30, 2015 at 8:11 am
A report by MSPs criticising the proposed assisted suicide Bill before Holyrood has been welcomed by campaigners opposing the legislation. The Assisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill,...

Father Nicholas Gruner, RIP

Saint Louis Catholic - Apr 30, 2015 at 7:57 am
Michael Matt says it so well: We have just heard from our good friend, John Vennari of Catholic Family News, that the great Father Nicholas Gruner died suddenly today of apparent...

National Poetry Month: Danielle Chapman

Commonweal - Apr 30, 2015 at 7:57 am
Danielle Chapman is a poet sensitive to life's intensities. Her new collection, Delinquent Palaces, regularly charts the fierceness of sensory experience, how the world, in its...

The Pope's condolences on the death of Cardinal Canestri

News.va - Apr 30, 2015 at 7:52 am
A man of the Church who knew how to “meet others with goodness and gentleness”. Pope Francis remembered Cardinal Giovanni Canestri - who died in Rome on Wednesday afternoon, 29...

A Missa Cantata in Morgantown, West Virginia

New Liturgical Movement - Apr 30, 2015 at 7:44 am
A Missa Cantata that will be celebrated this Friday on the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker in Morgantown, West Virginia, home of West Virginia University, at St. John University...

Pope Francis' prayer intentions for May

News.va - Apr 30, 2015 at 7:43 am
Vatican City, 30 April 2015 (VIS) - The Holy Father's universal prayer intention for May is: “That, rejecting the culture of indifference, we may care for our neighbours who...

The international community must not resign itself to the tragedy of Christians in the Middle East

News.va - Apr 30, 2015 at 7:41 am
Vatican City, 30 April 2015 (VIS) – Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, spoke yesterday at the opening of the Symposium “Christians...

Pope urges Catholics to spread culture of justice and peace

News.va - Apr 30, 2015 at 7:15 am
(Vatican Radio)  Pope Francis on Thursday urged Italian Catholics to spread a culture of justice and peace, support families in difficulties and show solidarity with the world’s...

Small Success, Not Coffee, Not Tea...but Me

CatholicMom.com - Apr 30, 2015 at 7:00 am
When I first became a mom (back in the stone ages before the internet took hold of our lives), I used to visit my aunt in Houston every Tuesday for “Mother’s Day Out.” I planned...
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