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What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Sep 17, 2014 at 1:00 pm Sometimes I post about preparing for emergencies or disasters. For example, I’ll mention things as practical as having an Uninterreptable Power Source (UPS) for your important...
How to Incorporate Essential Oils into Your Schoolyear
CatholicMom.com - Sep 17, 2014 at 12:30 pm This month’s scriptural reflection: Philippians 4:13, “I can do all things in Him who strengthens me.”
Going back to school, whether it be public, private, co-op, or homeschool...
US Bishops on peace pilgrimage to Holy Land
News.va - Sep 17, 2014 at 12:17 pm (Vatican Radio) A delegation of 18 U.S. bishops have been in the Holy Land since September 10 to pray for peace. The “Pilgrimage for Peace” has visited and prayed at the various...
Bl. Joseph Vaz, first saint to Sri Lanka
News.va - Sep 17, 2014 at 12:12 pm Pope Francis’ approval of the votes of the Ordinary Session of the Cardinals and Bishops in favor of canonization of Blessed Joseph Vaz attains special significance in the wake...
CU Weekly 274: iPhone or Breakfast Pastry?
Catholic Underground - Sep 17, 2014 at 12:05 pm Shownotes forthcoming!
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The Banal and On the Spot, Spot
Creative Minority Report - Sep 17, 2014 at 12:03 pm Cardinal Ratzinger famously called the revised liturgy "a banal on-the-spot product." Rorate has a story that actually tells us the spot in the on-the-spot fabrication of a new...
A Letter from a Reader: “It’s so refreshing to be able to let go of useless baggage from recent decades”
Rorate Coeli - Sep 17, 2014 at 11:39 am St. Josemaría Escrivá (Oct. 2, 1968)
One of the most interesting and gratifying aspects of carrying out an apostolate of writing is the letters received from readers, conveying a...
Forget black masses for a moment: Some journalists need to check facts on the Mass
GetReligion - Sep 17, 2014 at 11:30 am
Truth be told, I have been sitting out the "black mass" media storms. I have no doubt that, for the ancient churches, we are dealing with sacrilege of the highest order. At the...
What's on our website
Commonweal - Sep 17, 2014 at 11:16 am We’ve just posted a new web exclusive on our homepage: John Corvino’s “Against Obsessive Celibacy,” in which he continues the conversation with Michael Hannon of First Things over...
Young adults encounter Christ at World Youth Day
The Busy Catholic - Sep 17, 2014 at 11:13 am Making friends with Catholics from other countries gives hope, renews spirits
Winetta Lee (right) poses with a friend before the statue of Christ the
Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro,...
The fantastical story of the prodigal son
Credo Catholic - Sep 17, 2014 at 11:06 am There has been a lot of chatter about the parable of the Prodigal Son lately, and it usually ends with one group of people within the Church judging or insinuating that another...
Two Movie Reviews: The Identical and The Song
CatholicMom.com - Sep 17, 2014 at 11:00 am Life is messy…and we make it messier!
I saw two movie screenings back to back. Before I was able to write a review for the first one, I saw the second. They are both about...
Pope Francis uses fast-track move to canonize first Sri Lankan
Catholic News Agency - General - Sep 17, 2014 at 10:54 am Vatican City, Sep 17, 2014 / 09:54 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Blessed Joseph Vaz will soon become Sri Lanka's first saint after Pope Francis Sept. 17 advanced his cause for canonization...
Pope Francis uses fast-track move to canonize first Sri Lankan
EWTN - Vatican News - Sep 17, 2014 at 10:54 am Vatican City, Sep 17, 2014 / 10:54 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Blessed Joseph Vaz will soon become Sri Lanka's first saint after Pope
Francis Sept. 17 advanced his cause for canonization...
Here’s a great way to help support vocations—and it’s an offer too good to refuse
The Deacon's Bench - Sep 17, 2014 at 10:45 am The folks over at Vocation Boom, the non-profit working to boost vocations to the priesthood, contacted me this morning about a great opportunity for all of you to get involved in...
Bishop Tobin on divorce: Changes needed in approach, not teaching
Catholic News Agency - General - Sep 17, 2014 at 10:43 am Providence, R.I., Sep 17, 2014 / 09:43 am (CNA).- The dilemma of divorced and remarried Catholics should prompt consideration of changes in the Church’s approach to annulments and...
Girl Forced to Remove "Virginity Rocks" T-Shirt in School
Creative Minority Report - Sep 17, 2014 at 10:40 am This is kind of ironic. Here's the lede:A Fayetteville junior high made a teenager girl change T-shirts at school because they said it contained sexual content. She said it...
Is Francis About to Decapitate Cardinal Burke? Or...Just Give Him a New Job?
Commonweal - Sep 17, 2014 at 10:10 am Something outrageous is happening in Rome: a new pope who was reportedly elected with a clear mandate to reform the curia has, over the course of a year and a half in office, been...
Have You Entered Our Weekly Giveaway? Back to the Books (and Other Fun Stuff!)
CatholicMom.com - Sep 17, 2014 at 10:00 am Have you checked out our pile of giveaways this week? Thanks to Dolphin Tale 2, Give Him 5, Jen Norton Art Studio, and all the publishers who keep my giveaway shelf stocked for...
Irish bishop bows to pressure, says he will postpone introduction of permanent deacons
The Deacon's Bench - Sep 17, 2014 at 9:51 am Details: Protests over the proposed introduction of a male-only lay ministry in the Catholic diocese of Killaloe have forced the local bishop to back down and postpone the move....
