Latest News
Your weekend think piece: Concerning the ratio of Paris coverage to that of Boko Haram
GetReligion - Jan 18, 2015 at 12:35 pm I am not a Calvinist, but it became very clear this past week that my "think piece" entry this weekend was predestined to be about this question: Why did the Charlie Hebdo...
A providential boost for the Philippine church's Year for Poor
EWTN - World Catholic News - Jan 18, 2015 at 11:35 am Manila, Philippines, Jan 18, 2015 / 12:04 pm (EWTN News).- A priest currently stationed in the Philippine diocese of Cebu said that
not only is Pope Francis' visit an opportunity...
Science or conscience on climate change?
Commonweal - Jan 18, 2015 at 11:29 am The announcement Friday that 2014 was Earth's warmest year on record prompted responses from some who accept the scientific evidence of climate change that this should finally...
Lombardi on 'great expectations' of Filipinos for papal visit
News.va - Jan 18, 2015 at 11:25 am (Vatican Radio) At the conclusion of Pope Francis’s three day visit to the Philippines, the head of the Holy See press office, Fr Federico Lombardi briefed journalists about the...
A providential boost for the Philippine church's Year for Poor
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 18, 2015 at 11:04 am Manila, Philippines, Jan 18, 2015 / 10:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A priest currently stationed in the Philippine diocese of Cebu said that not only is Pope Francis' visit an...
After Francis: what the 'Pope of Surprises' means for Philippines bishops
EWTN - World Catholic News - Jan 18, 2015 at 10:54 am Manila, Philippines, Jan 18, 2015 / 10:54 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
Pope Francis' departure from the Philippines prompted
gratitude from leading bishops who encouraged Filipinos to...
"Who Will Carry The Light If We Do Not?"
Whispers in the Loggia - Jan 18, 2015 at 10:05 am For all the ups, downs, long days and wild curves that come with life on this beat, moments like this are the summit of what it's all about.As no less than Francis himself...
Welcome To Law and Religion Australia
The Religion Clause - Jan 18, 2015 at 9:51 am Join me in welcoming Law and Religion Australia blog to the Religion Clause sidebar. Law and Religion Australia entered the blogosphere on January 1. It is authored by Neil Foster...
The Philippines' farewell to visiting pontiff: "Pope Francis, we love you!"
EWTN - World Catholic News - Jan 18, 2015 at 9:36 am Manila, Philippines, Jan 18, 2015 / 09:36 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
The Pope departed the Philippines Monday morning from Villamor Air Base at a farewell ceremony where over 400...
Recent Prisoner Free Exercise Cases
The Religion Clause - Jan 18, 2015 at 9:00 am In Jones v. Foster, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 3289 (D NV, Jan. 12, 2015), a Nevada federal district court adopted a magistrate's recommendations (2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 180081, Dec. 23...
Learning from the Church Fathers and Mothers
Communio - Jan 18, 2015 at 8:25 am The Church Fathers and Mothers are essential reading. Because I spend a lot of time in the car, I have been listening to Pope Benedict’s Wednesday audience addresses on the...
Picturing God?
Communio - Jan 18, 2015 at 8:18 am This image, “The Holy Trinity of God,” by Viktor Vasnetsov is a rather interesting image for Christians.
Some will say, with historical precedent, that this image of the Trinity...
What we have come to: teenager announces plans to marry her father
The Deacon's Bench - Jan 18, 2015 at 8:11 am Details: A teenager has revealed in an interview that she plans to marry her father and have children after dating for two years. The unnamed 18-year-old revealed in an interview...
Pope at Mass in Manila : We are called to be God’s children
News.va - Jan 18, 2015 at 7:25 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis celebrated Mass Sunday in Manila’s Luneta Park for enthusiastic crowds who had braved inclement weather to turn out to see their beloved pope. The...
Historic: Crowd in Philippines sets new world record for papal Mass
The Deacon's Bench - Jan 18, 2015 at 7:25 am From Catholic News Agency: The Vatican’s spokesman said that papal history was made Sunday during Pope Francis’ visit to the Philippines where an estimated 6-7 million people...
More than six million attend largest papal Mass in history
Catholic Herald - Jan 18, 2015 at 7:22 am More than six million people have attended what is thought to be the largest papal Mass in history in Manila.
Vatican spokesman Fr Federico Lombardi said Filipino authorities...
Galveston-Houston copes with declining number of nuns
The Deacon's Bench - Jan 18, 2015 at 6:45 am From The Houston Chronicle: The decline in the numbers is a bit of a paradox. It well could be the defining problem facing the institution in coming decades, yet the sisterhood...
Pope’s moving encounter with father of volunteer killed in Philippine storm
Vatican Insider - Jan 18, 2015 at 6:41 amAn Antique Monstrance from the Duomo of Milan
New Liturgical Movement - Jan 18, 2015 at 6:37 am The website of the Milan Cathedral Museum has just posted this photograph of a beautiful 15th-century monstrance.The Italian version of the article is titled “Un antico intreccio...
