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Christians Struggle to Rebuild Their Lives in Syria
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Oct 10, 2014 at 7:08 am Sister Maria of Nazareth has committed herself to an extraordinary mission. The Argentinian nun from the Institute of the Incarnate Word has been living in Aleppo, Syria, for the...
Synod14: Participants Send Message to Families Who Suffer War, Violence
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Oct 10, 2014 at 7:02 am During the Third Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops today, the assembly's participants issued the following message to families suffering from war, violence...
Meatless Friday: Oktoberfest Pretzels & Beer Cheese
CatholicMom.com - Oct 10, 2014 at 7:00 am
You don’t have to look too hard at the first two-thirds of my name to figure out that I’m of Irish extraction. I can dance my “sevens” and “threes.” I used to know an eight-...
Photo Exhibit in Seoul Promotes Pope's Korea Message of Reconciliation
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Oct 10, 2014 at 7:00 am An exhibition of photographs taken during Pope Francis’ pastoral visit to Korea is adding atmosphere in the Archdiocese of Seoul. The exhibition features large prints of some of...
Can death be beautiful? A response to Brittany Maynard
EWTN - US Latest News - Oct 10, 2014 at 7:00 am Denver, Colo., Oct 10, 2014 / 07:00 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
Brittany Maynard plans on ending her life on November 1.
An Invitation to Live Not Only to Eat
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Oct 10, 2014 at 6:56 am \Roman Rite –Twenty-eight Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A – October 12, 2014 Is 25,6-10; Ps 23; Phil 4,12-14.19-20; Mt 22, 1-14
Ambrosian Rite – Seventh Sunday after the...
Catholic School Celebrates 10 Years as Catholic Education Honor Roll School
Catholic Education Daily - Oct 10, 2014 at 6:55 am Bishop T.K. Gorman Catholic School in Tyler, Tex., held an event this week celebrating ten years on the Catholic Education Honor Roll as a School of Excellence.
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Diner owner turns over the cash register to God
The Deacon's Bench - Oct 10, 2014 at 6:41 am How’s this for trust? Details: When the going got tough at her Dallas restaurant, Dana Parris decided to turn the cash register over to God. Roger Self was at lunch last week...
Article: From the Crusades to Columbus: Religion in Ridley Scott’s Historical Epics
Decent Films Guide - Oct 10, 2014 at 6:35 am A self-described atheist, Sir Ridley Scott has developed a generally bleak vision of religion, particularly the Judeo-Christian tradition, throughout his work, above all in...
Counting Memories
Dominicana - Oct 10, 2014 at 6:30 am The rosary is a prayer of memories, Mary’s memories of her Son’s life. As a mother remembers her child’s first word and first steps, Mary remembers Jesus’ life, death, and...
Blessed John Henry Newman
Communio - Oct 10, 2014 at 6:26 am From the writings of Blessed John Henry Newman, Priest
(Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Chapter V: Position of My Mind since 1845, London 1864, pp. 238-239, 250-251)
It was like coming...
Daphne McLeod: What I would do if I were bishop for a day
Catholic Herald - Oct 10, 2014 at 6:06 am The Flock, the newsletter of Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice, announced your retirement earlier this year by saying that, at the age of 86, you had decided to hang up your boxing gloves...
Teen Malala's Nobel prize sparks pride in Pakistani bishop
EWTN - Vatican News - Oct 10, 2014 at 6:04 am Vatican City, Oct 10, 2014 / 06:04 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Malala Yousafzai has received the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize at the age of
17 – making her the youngest ever recipient of the...
Amazing Catechists Relauched!
CatholicMom.com - Oct 10, 2014 at 6:00 am
One of my favorite resources as a catechist is Amazing Catechists, the site founded by Lisa Mladinich. In fact, I love the site so much that, every so often, I even contribute....
Debate emerges on St. John Paul II's early writings on social ethics
Franciscan Media - Oct 10, 2014 at 6:00 am
WARSAW, Poland (CNS) -- Less than six months after St John Paul II was
canonized, questions are being raised about a book of lectures he penned
as a young priest in his Polish...
New ways needed to share gospel of the family, says Cardinal Nichols
Catholic Herald - Oct 10, 2014 at 5:53 am Cardinal Vincent Nichols has called for new means to be used to share the Church’s vision of the family.
He also praised the contribution of married couples at the family synod,...
Does it matter that Pope Francis was overlooked for the Nobel Peace Prize?
Catholic Herald - Oct 10, 2014 at 5:32 am So, we now know the winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace 2014. It is the 17-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl, Malala Yousafzai and the Indian Kailash Satyarthi. The first is a Muslim...
Cardinal shines light on migration, marriage prep in family synod
Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 10, 2014 at 5:32 am Vatican City, Oct 10, 2014 / 04:32 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The effects of migration and poverty upon families, the pastoral care of children, the Eucharist in connection to our...
Cardinal shines light on migration, marriage prep in family synod
EWTN - Vatican News - Oct 10, 2014 at 5:32 am Vatican City, Oct 10, 2014 / 05:32 am (EWTN News/CNA).- The effects of migration and poverty upon families, the pastoral care of children, the Eucharist in connection to our...
Iraqi Patriarch Sako calls for ‘new education’ of youth for peace
News.va - Oct 10, 2014 at 5:30 am (Vatican Radio) Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako is expressing concern for the some 120,000 Iraqi refugees who’ve fled Mosul and villages in the Nineveh Plains. In an...
