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Six miles from ISIS: A shockingly brave priest returns to Iraq

EWTN - Vatican News - Oct 9, 2014 at 5:02 am
Vatican City, Oct 9, 2014 / 05:02 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Father Ghazwan Yousif Baho had the option to stay in Italy when he recently accompanied an elderly Iraqi couple to an...

Daily Gospel Reflection for October 9, 2014

CatholicMom.com - Oct 9, 2014 at 5:00 am
Today’s Gospel: Luke 11:5-13 Every parent can recognize the truth in this passage. In my home, we often take a wait and see approach when a child calls out at night. We might not...

Morning Catholic must-reads: 09/10/14

Catholic Herald - Oct 9, 2014 at 4:54 am
Catholics “believe in the development of doctrine, but not doctrinal backflips”, Cardinal George Pell said at a panel discussion in Rome last night. Pope Francis is “following the...

Confused by the synod? Remember, love is the fulfilment of the Law

Catholic Herald - Oct 9, 2014 at 4:48 am
In what has now been hailed as a sudden new turn of events the Synod Fathers have been talking about gradualism. But the concept of gradualism is in fact as old as Christianity...

Turn to Bible, shun paganism, African prelate tells synod

Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 9, 2014 at 4:47 am
As the Synod of Bishops began its discussions on October 9, an African prelate called upon the synod fathers to seek wisdom from the Bible. Preaching at Midmorning Prayer Bishop...

Changing Marriage Discipline Will Change Doctrine

Crisis Magazine - Church - Oct 9, 2014 at 4:35 am
Recent headlines in the mainstream media suggest that the Catholic Church is close to making major doctrinal changes on divorce and remarriage.  The Huffington Post has suggested...

Biden says it's a priority to assist Iraq's persecuted Christians

Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 9, 2014 at 4:34 am
Vice President Joe Biden said that it is his "priority to ensure safety for Iraqi Christians by whatever means," according to a report by Kaldaya.net, a Chaldean news site. Biden...

Irrational Disbelief: The Hypocrisy of Scientific Atheism

Crisis Magazine - Church - Oct 9, 2014 at 4:30 am
Somewhere along the line of modern history, the idea has taken root, spread, and become commonly held among seculars that religious people hold to a Faith that is separate from,...

Morocco hailed as model of moderate Islam

Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 9, 2014 at 4:20 am
L'Osservatore Romano has published a front-page article praising Morocco as a model of coexistence between Muslims, Christians, and Jews. Morocco, Italian historian Lucetta...

The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

Crisis Magazine - Church - Oct 9, 2014 at 4:15 am
There is nothing like a good ghost story. The forms of fiction are few that can compete with the proverbial dark and stormy night; with skeletal trees, rattling chains, groaning...

Boko Haram have destroyed 186 churches, Nigerian diocese says

Catholic Herald - Oct 9, 2014 at 4:14 am
Nearly 200 churches in the Maiduguri Diocese in north-eastern Nigeria have been destroyed or razed by Boko Haram insurgents since August, a diocesan official said. Father Gideo...

US Bishops Respond to Contraception Mandate Adjustments: Makes Situation Worse

Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Oct 9, 2014 at 4:12 am
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) submitted comments October 8 to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and two other federal agencies on the Obama...

Prelate laments new court decision on same-sex marriage

Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 9, 2014 at 4:07 am
The United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has struck down the marriage laws of Idaho and Nevada, paving the way for same-sex marriage in the states. Responding to the...

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What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Oct 9, 2014 at 4:00 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHixeIr_6BM&feature=player_embedded Because I never want a report that one of my readers ended up splattered or having splattered some innocents...

USCCB criticizes latest version of HHS mandate �accommodations'

Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 9, 2014 at 3:56 am
The general counsel of the United States Conference Catholic Bishops has formally responded to the latest version of the HHS mandate, which was released in late August. "The...

Vote or let Bosnia stay mired in instability, bishop warns

Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 9, 2014 at 3:53 am
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Oct 9, 2014 / 02:53 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In the run-up to national elections, the bishops of Bosnia and Herzegovina are encouraging the nation's...

Vote or let Bosnia stay mired in instability, bishop warns

EWTN - World Catholic News - Oct 9, 2014 at 3:53 am
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Oct 9, 2014 / 03:53 am (EWTN News/CNA).- In the run-up to national elections, the bishops of Bosnia and Herzegovina are encouraging the nation's...

Chinese prelate dead at 89

Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 9, 2014 at 3:45 am
A Chinese bishop who suffered 14 years of imprisonment and forced labor at the hands of the Communist regime has died at the age of 89. Born in 1925, Bishop John Chrysostom Lan...

Catholic Quote of the Day — from Pope Francis

Integrated Catholic Life - Oct 9, 2014 at 3:30 am
“No one must say that they cannot be close to the poor because their own lifestyle demands more attention to other areas. This is an excuse commonly heard in academic, business or...

Priest murdered in Colombia

Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 9, 2014 at 3:26 am
Father Andrés Duque Echeverry, a parish priest of the Archdiocese of Medellín, was stabbed to death in an apparent robbery attempt. El Tiempo, Colombia's leading newspaper,...
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