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NY Times: Support groups spring up for women in love with priests
The Deacon's Bench - Nov 6, 2014 at 8:20 am Oh brother: They had not planned on falling in love, but they did. They did not want to become the objects of malicious gossip, but they are. They had not imagined living a life...
Daily readings: November 9-15
Catholic Herald - Nov 6, 2014 at 8:13 am Ordinary Form
Divine Office Week III
Sunday, November 9: The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica
Ez 47:1-2, 8-9 & 12; Ps 45; 1 Cor 3: 9-11;
Jn 2:13-22
Monday, November 10: St...
Jesus is the stream of living water flowing from the Father
Catholic Herald - Nov 6, 2014 at 8:09 am The Lateran Basilica in Rome, known to many simply as St John Lateran, has always been venerated as the mother Church of Rome. It is the cathedral church of the Diocese of Rome...
Abortion, minimum wage, pot among issues facing voters on Election Day
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Nov 6, 2014 at 8:02 am WASHINGTON — In midterm elections Nov. 4, voters in Tennessee approved an amendment to the state constitution that will give the Legislature the authority to pass laws regulating...
Poll on Common Core Reveals Significant Concerns from Parents and Teachers
Catholic Education Daily - Nov 6, 2014 at 8:01 am A majority of parents and teachers in public education have expressed significant concern and dissatisfaction with the implementation of the Common Core State Standards, according...
The Feast of All Saints 2014 - The Apostles
New Liturgical Movement - Nov 6, 2014 at 8:00 am From the Breviary according to the use of the Roman Curia, 1529, the continuation of the sermon for the fifth day in the Octave of All Saints: It is clear that the most-blessed...
Religion News Service's 'LGBT' blogger omits a needed Q(& A)
GetReligion - Nov 6, 2014 at 8:00 am
Religion News Service has a new blog on being "Faithfully LGBT," and the first item by blogger Eliel Cruz (other than his introductory post) is a report on the "Gay in Christ"...
Christian Couple, Unborn Child Burned Alive in Pakistan
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Nov 6, 2014 at 7:58 am On Tuesday, a Muslim mob severely beat a Christian couple accused of burning pages of the Koran in eastern Pakistan and then incinerated the bodies in a brick kiln. Shama Bibi,...
Editor's Notebook — Pope: Being a 'half-way Christian' is not acceptable; Brittany Maynard and a new end-of-life debate
OSV Daily Take - Nov 6, 2014 at 7:38 amArchbishop decries Jerusalem car attacks: 'We are acting like savages'
EWTN - World Catholic News - Nov 6, 2014 at 7:29 am Jerusalem, Israel, Nov 6, 2014 / 07:29 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- A Melkite-Greek Catholic archbishop has lamented recent car attacks in Jerusalem, saying that such actions are inhuman...
Burke in Vienna on Synod's midterm relatio: "saddest possible document"
Rorate Coeli - Nov 6, 2014 at 7:06 am From GloriaTV, reporting from Vienna, where the Cardinal was this week:
On November 4th Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke presented in Vienna the German edition of the book “Remaining in...
Pope at Santa Marta: Christians should not be afraid to get their hands dirty (Video)
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Nov 6, 2014 at 7:00 am To view the video click here.
Small Success Thursday: Giving Your Time
CatholicMom.com - Nov 6, 2014 at 7:00 am
Every week flies by, so I’m so very glad to have SST to help check the passage of time. We live in a busy world, and stopping to count blessings is like stopping to pray. It is...
How Congress Makes or Breaks a President
Catholic Vote - Nov 6, 2014 at 6:56 am The conventional wisdom says America’s success or failure is all about the president. Bush was a bad one, so the economy tanked … and Clinton was a good one so the economy soared...
Catholic Charity: Adopt an Iraqi Family (Video)
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Nov 6, 2014 at 6:55 am To view the video click here.
President of Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo of Argentina visits Pope Francis (Video)
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Nov 6, 2014 at 6:53 am To view the video click here.
Growing in Holiness With Schoenstatt
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Nov 6, 2014 at 6:40 am The Schoenstatt Movement just celebrated its 100th anniversary, with celebrations in Germany where it was founded, and an audience with the Pope in Rome. Maria Elena Vilches...
In Praise of Useless Nothingness
Dominicana - Nov 6, 2014 at 6:30 am We value things. Tangible things. Quantifiable things. If a thing can be measured or priced, it has value. However, we tend to appreciate most what is intangible or immeasurable....
Pope at Santa Marta: God goes to the limit so no one should be lost
News.va - Nov 6, 2014 at 6:25 am (Vatican Radio) The true Christian is not afraid to get his hands dirty by reaching out to sinners, even at the risk of losing his reputation, because as the parable of the Good...
Pope Francis: A new stage in relations between Catholics and Evangelicals
News.va - Nov 6, 2014 at 6:25 am (Vatican Radio) In a meeting on Thursday with a delegation from the World Evangelical Alliance, Pope Francis expressed his confidence that the Holy Spirit “can inaugurate a new...
