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Daily Reflection — The Grace of Conversion
Integrated Catholic Life - Nov 19, 2014 at 5:30 am “The officers then went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, ‘Why did you not bring him?’ The officers answered, ‘No man ever spoke like this man!’ The...
Exhibition on Saint Francis opens at the United Nations in New York
News.va - Nov 19, 2014 at 5:30 am (Vatican Radio) The Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, Archbishop Bernardito Auza, on Monday opened the Exhibition on “Friar Francis: Traces, words, images...
Pope at Audience: The universal call to holiness
News.va - Nov 19, 2014 at 5:30 am (Vatican Radio) “Every state of life leads to holiness, always”, but only if we are open to the grace of God’s gift, said Pope Francis Wednesday speaking of the universal call to...
Pope Francis calls for peace after series of Jerusalem attacks
News.va - Nov 19, 2014 at 5:30 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has made a heartfelt plea to Israelis and Palestinians to put an end to the violence which has plagued Jerusalem and other parts of the Holy Land in...
PARIS – Day 5: Miraculous Edition
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Nov 19, 2014 at 5:21 am Pro sacerdote vel laico
O Mater pietatis et misericordiae, beatissima Virgo Maria, ego miser et indignus peccator ad te confugio toto corde et affectu; et precor pietatem tuam, ut...
Poverty, divorce, alcoholism – no shortage of challenges for Church in Belarus
Catholic News Agency - General - Nov 19, 2014 at 5:08 am Minsk, Belarus, Nov 19, 2014 / 04:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In Belarus, western Ukraine's neighbor to the north, the Church is doing its best to reach out to the people, even as it...
Pope Says This Friday Is Day to Thank God for Cloistered Religious
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Nov 19, 2014 at 5:04 am At the end of today’s general audience, Pope Francis noted that this Friday, Nov. 21, is the liturgical Memorial of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Noting the...
Thomas Aquinas College Graduates Lead Faithful Catholic Schools
Catholic Education Daily - Nov 19, 2014 at 5:03 am The Cardinal Newman Society recently spoke to four graduates of Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, Calif., about their experiences at the College and how an education in the...
Daily Gospel Reflection for November 19, 2014
CatholicMom.com - Nov 19, 2014 at 5:00 am
Today’s Gospel: Luke 19: 11-28
There is a proposition sometimes put forth by religious skeptics that the Gospels are just stories concocted by the early church, that Jesus is...
Wherein Benedict XVI is now channeling his inner Augustine
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Nov 19, 2014 at 5:00 am You probably know that Benedict XVI’s life’s works as a theologian are being edited and released in different volumes. Ignatius Press has the publishing rights for English. His...
Catholic doctor who treated patients in Sierra Leone dies from Ebola
Franciscan Media - Nov 19, 2014 at 5:00 am
OMAHA, Neb. (CNS) -- A Maryland Catholic doctor who contracted the Ebola
virus while working at a Methodist hospital in the West African nation
of Sierra Leone died early Nov....
This is the speech on abortion that an Oxford University mob doesn’t want you to hear
Catholic Herald - Nov 19, 2014 at 4:49 am This is the text of a speech that was due to be given at Christ Church college yesterday. The speech was not delivered following protests by the Oxford University Student Union...
USCCB urges Congress: protect anti-poverty programs
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 19, 2014 at 4:42 am Two chairmen of committees of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops have urged members of Congress to "draw a �circle of protection' around the many programs that serve...
Barrister: Oxford college’s decision not to host abortion talk ‘unlawful’
Catholic Herald - Nov 19, 2014 at 4:29 am A barrister has said that an Oxford college’s decision not to host an abortion debate is unlawful.
Neil Addison, national director of the Thomas More Legal Centre, said: “It’s an...
Vatican official: adultery incompatible with reception of Holy Communion
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 19, 2014 at 4:24 am In an address to a Vatican conference on the complementarity of man and woman in marriage, the secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Family spoke about the indissolubility...
Loyola Marymount Univ. Presidential Search Committee Leader Tied to Planned Parenthood
Catholic Education Daily - Nov 19, 2014 at 4:19 am The Cardinal Newman Society recently learned that the person chosen to lead the search for Loyola Marymount University's new president has served as board chair for an...
Head of Univ.'s Presidential Search Committee Chaired Org. That Gave Thousands to Planned Parenthood
Catholic Education Daily - Nov 19, 2014 at 4:19 am The Cardinal Newman Society recently learned that the person chosen to lead the search for Loyola Marymount University's new president has served as board chair for an...
Christendom Plans Big Expansion to Mission Trip Program
Catholic Education Daily - Nov 19, 2014 at 4:10 am The Mission Program at Christendom College will launch a new two-month mission experience next summer that will give students and recent graduates a “real taste of missionary life...
Bangladesh: pastors arrested after preaching to Muslims
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 19, 2014 at 4:08 am Two Protestant pastors, both converts from Islam, were surrounded by a mob and arrested in Lalmonirhat, a district in northern Bangladesh, as they spoke about Christianity to...
Papal Gifts to Be Raffled Off For Rome's Poor
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Nov 19, 2014 at 4:01 am Pope Francis is accustomed to receiving gifts from dignitaries. Bikes, footwear, even a car are among the many presents given to the Pontiff. According to several news sources,...
