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For Archbishop Chaput, Holy Family holds lesson on immigration
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 16, 2014 at 5:39 am Philadelphia, Pa., Dec 16, 2014 / 04:39 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Faithful Catholics “need to remember that the Holy Family too was once a family of immigrants and refugees,”...
Let the Church Be a House of Wonder
Crisis Magazine - Church - Dec 16, 2014 at 5:35 am
Introibo ad altare Dei.Ad Deum qui laetificat juventutem meum.
I shall go in to the altar of God.
To God, the joy of my youth.
A few days ago I entered for the first time what...
Pope’s Defense of the Faith Has Not Been Heard
Crisis Magazine - Church - Dec 16, 2014 at 5:30 am
I was recently upbraided by one of my readers for my “constant sniping” at Pope Francis: this I found disconcerting, even painful, since faithfulness to papal teaching (and to...
Final Report on the Apostolic Visitation of Institutes of Women Religious in the United States of America
News.va - Dec 16, 2014 at 5:20 am Final Report on the Apostolic Visitation of Institutes of Women Religious in the United States of America Introduction At the conclusion of the Apostolic Visitation of Institutes...
Full text: Vatican report on US women religious
Catholic Herald - Dec 16, 2014 at 5:15 am Introduction
At the conclusion of the Apostolic Visitation of Institutes of Women Religious in the United States of America, conducted “to look into the quality of the life of...
Daily Gospel Reflection for December 16, 2014
CatholicMom.com - Dec 16, 2014 at 5:00 am
Today’s Gospel: Matthew 21: 28-32
The Gospel reading for today used to confuse me, until it happened to me. It’s the story of the two sons. One says he won’t do what his father...
Abandoned monstrance centerpiece of new chapel
Franciscan Media - Dec 16, 2014 at 5:00 am A man fishing at the Loch Raven Reservoir in north Baltimore County some two decades ago was convinced he had snagged a big fish after his line hooked something substantial.
After...
Ukrainian Catholic leader: the Pope is on Ukraine's side
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 16, 2014 at 4:50 am At a recent prayer vigil, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), an Eastern-rite church in full communion with the Holy See, said that "the Pope is on the side of...
Pope receives leader of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 16, 2014 at 4:42 am Pope Francis received Dragan Covic, the Croat member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, at the Apostolic Palace on December 15. Covic also met with Cardinal Pietro...
Catholic group laments �weak' results of Lima climate conference
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 16, 2014 at 4:29 am Stating that the world is now poised for "4-degree warming," an alliance of 17 Catholic development agencies strongly criticized the "weak" results of a major climate conference...
New Canadian ambassador seeks to collaborate with Holy See for ‘betterment of humanity’
Vatican Insider - Dec 16, 2014 at 4:25 amHeightened security at Nigerian churches
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 16, 2014 at 4:05 am Churches in Nigeria have heightened their security in response to the continued terrorist activity of the Islamist militant organization Boko Haram.
In Kano, a city of 2.1 million...
Kerry asks Vatican for help in relocating Guantanamo detainees
Catholic Herald - Dec 16, 2014 at 4:05 am US Secretary of State John Kerry met with his Vatican counterpart yesterday and asked him to support the Obama administration’s efforts to close the American detention camp in...
At Vienna conference, Holy See renews call for nuclear disarmament
EWTN - World Catholic News - Dec 16, 2014 at 3:55 am Vienna, Austria, Dec 16, 2014 / 04:01 am (EWTN News).-
At a meeting on the impact of nuclear arms last week, the Holy See complained that institutions have not found the proper...
Pope laments rigidity, praises Pius XII for mitigating the Eucharistic fast
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 16, 2014 at 3:52 am In his December 15 homily at Domus Sanctae Marthae, Pope Francis decried the rigidity and lack of principle of the chief priests in the day's Gospel reading and praised Pope Pius...
Mgr John Armitage is appointed new rector of Walsingham
Catholic Herald - Dec 16, 2014 at 3:35 am Mgr John Armitage, Vicar General of the Brentwood Diocese, has been appointed the new Rector of the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham in Norfolk, East Anglia.
Following the...
Only a repentant heart will receive salvation, Pope Francis says
EWTN - Vatican News - Dec 16, 2014 at 3:14 am Vatican City, Dec 16, 2014 / 03:14 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Pope Francis touched on the importance of being humble and open to the
Lord's correction, encouraging the faithful to offer...
Archbishop of Sydney: ‘Hell has touched us’
Catholic Herald - Dec 16, 2014 at 3:09 am The recently appointed Archbishop of Sydney Anthony Fisher has told a memorial service for the victims of Monday’s siege that “hell has touched us”.
During the service on Tuesday...
Anne Catherine Emmerich on Joseph’s Search for Lodging
Verbum Blog - Logos Bible Software - Dec 16, 2014 at 3:05 am Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich’s mysterious visions have been a subject of ongoing discussion in the Catholic Church. When she was beatified in 2004 by Pope John Paul II, the...
At Vienna conference, Holy See renews call for nuclear disarmament
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 16, 2014 at 3:01 am Vienna, Dec 16, 2014 / 02:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- At a meeting on the impact of nuclear arms last week, the Holy See complained that institutions have not found the proper...
