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Worldliness 'stuns more than grappa on a fast,' Pope tells new cardinals
EWTN - Vatican News - Jan 24, 2015 at 8:51 am Vatican City, Jan 24, 2015 / 09:02 am (EWTN News/CNA).- In a letter to the 20 bishops who will be elevated to the cardinalate
next month, Pope Francis said that the role is one of...
Beatification cause opened for founder of Focolare movement
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 24, 2015 at 8:48 am Rome, Italy, Jan 24, 2015 / 07:48 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Bishop Rafaello Martinelli of Frascati, Italy, has announced that the beatification cause will be opened for the founder of...
Pope Francis says: GO TO CONFESSION!
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 24, 2015 at 8:28 am Pope Francis is nothing if not interesting. When he goes off text or speaks off the cuff… anything can happen. The usual result is that we are left stopped in our tracks and...
Altar girls, again: what happened when a SF parish banned girl altar servers
The Deacon's Bench - Jan 24, 2015 at 8:27 am It must have been a slow news day in San Francisco, since it appears this led the local news last night: A Bay Area church is now under fire over a controversial new policy saying...
Petition for a Catholic Requiem for King Richard III
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 24, 2015 at 8:03 am From the UK’s best Catholic weekly, the Catholic Herald:
Thousands sign petition calling for Richard III to have a Catholic burial
Three thousand people have signed a petition...
Worldliness 'stuns more than grappa on a fast,' Pope tells new cardinals
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 24, 2015 at 8:02 am Vatican City, Jan 24, 2015 / 07:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In a letter to the 20 bishops who will be elevated to the cardinalate next month, Pope Francis said that the role is one of...
Weekly Giveaway: Books a-Plenty
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The pope’s liturgical “abuse”
The Deacon's Bench - Jan 24, 2015 at 7:53 am Over at the blog Pray Tell, Anthony Ruff notes a recent letter regarding the Sign of Peace during Mass: One of the last acts of Cardinal Llovera as prefect of the Congregation for...
Pope Francis: Religious who pray for Christian unity an "invisible monastery"
News.va - Jan 24, 2015 at 6:50 am
(Vatican Radio) The vital role that men and women religious of different Christian Churches play in the ecumenical journey was at the heart of Pope Francis’s meeting on Saturday...
Pope speaks on 10th anniversary of Church instruction on nullity of marriage
News.va - Jan 24, 2015 at 6:50 am
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis met on Saturday afternoon with the participants of a three-day international conference in Rome, marking the 10th anniversary of Dignitas connubii,...
Pope Francis surprised by misunderstanding of his words on family
EWTN - Vatican News - Jan 24, 2015 at 6:20 am Vatican City, Jan 24, 2015 / 06:20 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Pope Francis was surprised that his words on responsible parenthood were
not widely taken in the sense that he intended...
What’s next?
St. Louis Areopagus - Archdiocesan Blog - Jan 24, 2015 at 5:38 am By Deacon Sam Lee | Director of Campaign Life Missouri Ok, Generation Life. You’re soon headed back from DC, exhilarated but tired. And you ask yourself: “Where do I go from here...
Daily Gospel Reflection for January 24, 2015
CatholicMom.com - Jan 24, 2015 at 5:00 am
Today’s Gospel: Mark 3:20-21
Memorial of Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
Do you have that “crazy Uncle Joe” who wears a scapular, large cross, and various...
Pope names former top prosecutor to head board for clergy abuse appeals
Franciscan Media - Jan 24, 2015 at 5:00 am
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis named the Vatican's former chief
prosecutor of clerical sex abuse cases to head his new doctrinal team
dealing with appeals filed by clergy...
Want Christian unity? Deepen your own conversion, Pope says
EWTN - Vatican News - Jan 24, 2015 at 4:48 am Vatican City, Jan 24, 2015 / 04:48 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Pope Francis told a group of religious men and women that they are the
forerunners in working towards Christian unity,...
Pope Francis Sends Solidarity Message to Malawi’s Flood Victims
News.va - Jan 24, 2015 at 4:35 am Following Malawian President Peter Mutharika's declaration on 13 January 2015 that 15 districts in the country are disaster areas, Pope Francis through the office of Apostolic...
FIUV Position Paper: The Extraordinary Form and China
Rorate Coeli - Jan 24, 2015 at 4:10 am Today I can publish a Position Paper from the Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce (FIUV) on the Extraordinary Form in China.
While other parts of the world have been holding our...
Catholic Quote of the Day — from St. Francis de Sales
Integrated Catholic Life - Jan 24, 2015 at 3:30 am “Consider all the past as nothing, and say, like David: Now I begin to love my God.” (St. Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church) January 24 is the Memorial of St....
Pope urges new cardinals not to let nomination go to their heads
Catholic Herald - Jan 24, 2015 at 2:26 am Pope Francis has urged the 20 new cardinals he will create next month not to overdo their celebrations.
Writing to the new cardinals he will create in February, he said they...
