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Beauty will save the world – Gaudi's basilica inspires conversions
Catholic News Agency - General - Apr 30, 2015 at 5:02 am Barcelona, Spain, Apr 30, 2015 / 04:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Though the renowned Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi died nearly 90 years ago and his best-known work remains under...
Pope: history and service, two traits of Christian identity
News.va - Apr 30, 2015 at 5:00 am (Vatican Radio) “History and service.” In his homily on Thursday morning, Pope Francis spoke about these “two traits of Christian identity.”
Beginning with “history,” Pope Francis...
Cardinal Sandri: "Indifference and Inaction" on Middle East "a scandal"
News.va - Apr 30, 2015 at 5:00 am (Vatican Radio) The centuries-old coexistence of Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Middle East is experiencing a “true and real dismantling”, according to Cardinal Leonardo...
Daily Gospel Reflection for April 30, 2015
CatholicMom.com - Apr 30, 2015 at 5:00 am
Today’s Gospel: John 13:16-20
Optional Memorial of Saint Pius V, Pope
Christ loved us and gave himself to those around him unconditionally, knowing full well that he would be...
International community's indifference to Mideast Christians is reminiscent of Pilate, says prelate
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 30, 2015 at 4:57 am Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, the Prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, lamented the indifference of the international community to the fate of the Middle East's ...
ISIS demands $23 million for release of Assyrian Christians
Catholic Herald - Apr 30, 2015 at 4:43 am An Assyrian bishop has confirmed that negotiations with ISIS have stalled after the group demanded $23 million (£15 million) in return for the release of 230 Christian hostages....
Vatican climate-change conference calls for �rapid world transformation' to renewable, low-carbon energy
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 30, 2015 at 4:40 am Participants in an April 28 Vatican workshop on climate change have issued a final statement.
Scientists, religious leaders, and business and political figures, including the UN...
Hundreds to process through York in honour of Reformation martyrs
Catholic Herald - Apr 30, 2015 at 4:34 am About 200 pilgrims are expected to fill the streets of York on Saturday in honour of St Margaret Clitherow and the York martyrs.
The pilgrimage will begin with traditional Latin...
Cardinal Canestri dies at 96
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 30, 2015 at 4:27 am Cardinal Giovanni Canestri, who served as archbishop of Genoa from 1987 to 1995, has died at the age of 96.
Born in 1918, Cardinal Canestri was ordained a priest of the Diocese of...
Action urged on pro-life legislation
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 30, 2015 at 4:02 am The National Committee for a Human Life Amendment (NCHLA), which works closely with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on legislative matters, is calling upon pro-...
Saints of the week: The 40 Martyrs of England and Wales
Catholic Herald - Apr 30, 2015 at 4:00 am Today Christian martyrdom is as widespread as it was in the first century, but thankfully it is unknown in the West. This was not the case four centuries ago, when Christians...
The battle Britain’s Christians need to fight
Catholic Herald - Apr 30, 2015 at 4:00 am The steeples are all still there: the architectural jewel of most English villages and British townscapes. But the churches beneath them are often empty. They are served by vicars...
Always the smartest man in the room
Catholic Herald - Apr 30, 2015 at 4:00 am The death of Cardinal Francis George of Chicago was marked by headlines calling him both the “American Wojtyła” and the “American Ratzinger”. The former because he was a diocesan...
Art Review: The forgotten American who matched Rubens
Catholic Herald - Apr 30, 2015 at 4:00 am Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends
National Portrait Gallery, until May 25
It is one of the curious things in history, and in life, that certain personalities who have all...
‘Tony Blair doesn’t deserve the treatment he’s getting’
Catholic Herald - Apr 30, 2015 at 4:00 am There is a touching scene at the start of Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor’s newly published memoir, An English Spring. It’s June 1999, 12 days before the much-loved Cardinal Basil...
The Acts of the Apostles describe the early Church as something more than mere words
Catholic Herald - Apr 30, 2015 at 4:00 am It is to the glory of my Father that you should bear much fruit, and then you will be my disciples.” The power of the Resurrection, the continuing life of our Risen Lord, is...
Book review: Faith, family and a good skirmish
Catholic Herald - Apr 30, 2015 at 4:00 am The Tapestry
by Nancy Bilyeau
Simon & Schuster, £17
London, 1537: Smithfield is awash with gawpers flocking to see a beautiful Yorkshire noblewoman burned alive for...
Saint Louis Catholic: "No one has won anything here; we’ve all lost."
Catholic Morality - Apr 30, 2015 at 3:59 am Saint Louis Catholic: "No one has won anything here; we’ve all lost."
Holy See: Work collectively for a world without nuclear arms
News.va - Apr 30, 2015 at 3:50 am
(Vatican Radio) The Holy See on Wednesday said the “safest and surest path” toward a future where nuclear weapons are never used is a “mutual and total renunciation” of all...
