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Bible aims to make God's word more accessible to African-American youth
Franciscan Media - Nov 25, 2014 at 5:00 am A new youth Bible set to hit bookstores this January contains illustrations depicting Jesus as an African-American.
The African American Youth Bible, modeled after the Catholic...
Fordham Alumni Discuss ‘New Theological Perspectives’ on ‘Sexual and Gender Diversity’
Catholic Education Daily - Nov 25, 2014 at 5:00 am Fordham University’s alumni services office recently presented a discussion on “Sexuality and the Church,” The Fordham Observer reported. The discussion explored “new theological...
USCCB backs call for greater spending on high-speed Internet access for schools
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 25, 2014 at 4:57 am The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has called upon the nation to spend $1.5 billion more each year to ensure that all schools have high-speed Internet access....
How Narnia and Middle Earth helped an atheist professor find her faith
Catholic Herald - Nov 25, 2014 at 4:52 am I have been reading Dr Holly Ordway’s Not God’s Type: an Atheist Academic Lays Down her Arms (Ignatius Press, or Gracewing in the UK). It is always uplifting to read books like...
University of Dallas Wins Beautification Award from City
Catholic Education Daily - Nov 25, 2014 at 4:47 am The University of Dallas in Iving, Tex., will be honored with an award from Irving’s Parks and Recreation Department for its “contributions to quality of life in Irving,”...
Islamic militants murder non-Muslims on Kenyan bus
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 25, 2014 at 4:41 am Members of al-Shabaab, the Somali-based jihadist terrorist group, attacked a bus in northeastern Kenya on November 22 and murdered 28 non-Muslims.
"The non-Somali passengers were...
Pope greets journalists on flight to Strasbourg
News.va - Nov 25, 2014 at 4:35 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis greeted journalists travelling with him on the flight to Strasbourg. Introducing the Holy Father, the Director of the Holy See Press Office, Father...
Cardinal urges transparency on Nicaragua Canal
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 25, 2014 at 4:30 am Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes of Managua has called for greater transparency from the regime of Daniel Ortega about the Nicaragua Canal.
Construction on the $40-billion canal, which...
St. Louis archbishop pleads for peace in Ferguson
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 25, 2014 at 4:15 am Violence flared in Ferguson, Missouri, after a grand jury decided not to indict a police officer who shot a teenager in August.
"I and other religious and civic leaders have...
Amid Ferguson unrest, archbishop pleads: reject violence
Catholic Herald - Nov 25, 2014 at 4:14 am The Archbishop of St Louis, Missouri, has called on protesters and angry locals not to “lash out” in violence as unrest engulfed the city of Ferguson last night.
Archbishop Robert...
Never before seen: empty streets
Rorate Coeli - Nov 25, 2014 at 4:13 am Tweet of the day, by the main religious correspondent of French daily Le Figaro, Jean-Maria Guénois:
Jamais vu : personne ou presque dans les rues de Strabourg pour accueillir le...
Precedence in Evening Prayer
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Nov 25, 2014 at 4:11 am Answered by Legionary of Christ Father Edward McNamara, professor of liturgy and dean of theology at the Regina Apostolorum university. Q: I am a secular Carmelite OCDS in...
Scholars: No, Benedict XVI doesn't support Kasper in Synod debates
EWTN - Vatican News - Nov 25, 2014 at 4:10 am Vatican City, Nov 25, 2014 / 04:49 am (EWTN News/CNA).- A new volume of Benedict XVI's collected works includes an updated
version of a 1972 essay in which he had suggested that...
Sunday Times says Cardinal Vaughan is ‘best comprehensive in the country’
Catholic Herald - Nov 25, 2014 at 4:06 am The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School in west London has been declared the best comprehensive in the country by the Sunday Times newspaper.
The Kensington school, which celebrated...
Vatican Radio: interview with Cardinal Burke on the sacred liturgy
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 25, 2014 at 4:05 am Vatican Radio has interviewed Cardinal Raymond Burke, the patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, on the sacred liturgy.
"What happened after the [Second Vatican] Council...
Controversy over Same-Sex Marriage Discussion at Marquette Gets National Attention
Catholic Education Daily - Nov 25, 2014 at 4:00 am “I’m not a Catholic—but it seems to me Marquette University is one of those CINO schools—Catholic in Name Only,” wrote Fox News & Commentary host Todd Starnes, concerning the...
Pope meets with Egypt's president
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 25, 2014 at 3:57 am Pope Francis met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi during a November 24 audience at the Vatican.
Sisi, a general, helped oust the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi...
Scholars: No, Benedict XVI doesn't support Kasper in Synod debates
Catholic News Agency - General - Nov 25, 2014 at 3:49 am Vatican City, Nov 25, 2014 / 02:49 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A new volume of Benedict XVI's collected works includes an updated version of a 1972 essay in which he had suggested that...
Catholic Quote of the Day — from Pope-emeritus Benedict XVI
Integrated Catholic Life - Nov 25, 2014 at 3:30 am “In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth; we understand with greater clarity what it is we want to say and what...
