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Pope to Emphasize Dialogue With Islam During Albania Trip
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Sep 15, 2014 at 8:57 am This Sunday’s papal trip to Albania will focus on the importance of dialogue with Islam, as the Muslim-majority nation with a notable Christian presence provides a fitting context...
Can The Rule of St. Benedict save inner city schools?
The Deacon's Bench - Sep 15, 2014 at 8:49 am A new documentary evidently makes a persuasive argument: One of the most astonishing things about how Catholic schools educate kids in our country’s worst neighborhoods is that...
Germany Dedicates Memorial to Disabled People Nazis Killed, But is Our Abortion Eugenics Much Different?
LifeNews.com - Sep 15, 2014 at 8:47 am We should applaud the newest memorial in Germany. And maybe we need one of our own. I’ll explain.
A few weeks ago, Germany dedicated a memorial to Nazism’s first victims: the...
Getting Through Fall with the Grace of Confirmation
CatholicMom.com - Sep 15, 2014 at 8:30 am A post on Confirmation in the middle of September seems out of place. Agreed.
However, as the school year starts again and my duties get more serious: I must send them to school...
Daily Homily: God Has Visited His People
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Sep 15, 2014 at 8:09 am Tuesday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time Year Two 1 Corinthians 12:12-14, 27-31a Psalm 10:1b-2, 3, 4, 5 Luke 7:11-17
Jesus is the Lord of life. His miracle today...
New bishop of Leeds: The recipe for his success
Catholic Herald - Sep 15, 2014 at 8:02 am Fr Marcus Stock is beaming about the bishops’ ad limina visit to Rome. The bishops, he says, enjoyed each other’s company, got “positive feedback” from the dicasteries, and felt a...
NYT tackles Ebola in Liberia, but gives short shrift to spiritual facet
GetReligion - Sep 15, 2014 at 8:00 am In a new feature, The New York Times inspects the specter of Ebola in Liberia. Unfortunately, the religious ghosts stay fairly well concealed.
The 1,700+ article does have its...
Maine agency backs off no-resuscitation order for injured baby
EWTN - US Latest News - Sep 15, 2014 at 7:59 am Portland, Maine, Sep 15, 2014 / 07:59 am (EWTN News).- Following the threat of legal action, a state government agency has decided not to sustain a "do not resuscitate" order on...
Pope's Angelus: Christians also face discrimination in well-to-do countries (Video)
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Sep 15, 2014 at 7:45 am To view the video click here.
Pope: Two women walk alongside every Christian: Mary and the Church (Video)
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Sep 15, 2014 at 7:41 am To view the video click here.
The Calculation of the September Ember Days (Reprint)
New Liturgical Movement - Sep 15, 2014 at 7:34 am This article, which explains the difference between the traditional dating of the September Ember Days, and that currently used in the EF, was originally published in 2010. The...
What To Expect When You Are Expecting (Synodal Disaster)
Creative Minority Report - Sep 15, 2014 at 7:27 am We are now just weeks aways from the commencement of the Synod on the Family.Due to the words of a Cardinal Kasper earlier this year during a speech in preparation for the synod,...
Suffering Through
Saint Louis Catholic - Sep 15, 2014 at 7:21 am hard to decide which is the more beautiful landscape, as my daughter struggles to make it through the semester...
Society still values marriage, says Cardinal Nichols
Catholic Herald - Sep 15, 2014 at 7:19 am Many people, including the young, still value the instituion of marriage, Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster has said.
In an address to the Catholic charity, Marriage Care,...
"Dear Father": Answers for Troubled Times III - My Pastor is Now Addicted to "Who am I to judge?" -- Now what?
Rorate Coeli - Sep 15, 2014 at 7:01 am Dear Father,
I'm somewhat confused by a pastor, who used to be very conservative until two years ago, but who's been recently using, 'Who am I to judge?' often in his sermons,...
Inside the New Evangelization
CatholicMom.com - Sep 15, 2014 at 7:00 am
CatholicMom.com contributor and “New Evangelizer” Ellen Gable Hrkach.
Recently, our wonderful contributor Ellen Gable Hrkach was highlighted in a terrific article entitled “...
Archbishop Listecki’s vision
The Deacon's Bench - Sep 15, 2014 at 6:57 am An overview on the results of a recent archdiocesan synod, from The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Catholic laity — the people in the pews — will play a more prominent role in the...
Cardinal Rodriguez: World Facing Greatest Humanitarian Crisis Since World War II
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Sep 15, 2014 at 6:45 am Caritas Internationalis President Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga has warned that the world is facing the greatest humanitarian crisis since the Second World War. Opening a...
The redemptive power of Our Lady of Sorrows is perfectly encapsulated by Michelangelo’s Pieta
Catholic Herald - Sep 15, 2014 at 6:41 am Today, in case you have forgotten, is the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, which falls the day after the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Our Lady of Sorrows is a very...
Mary’s Sorrow and Discipleship
Dominicana - Sep 15, 2014 at 6:30 am An old man’s cold prediction of a sword thrust through her heart; a rough journey to Egypt with her newborn; losing her boy on the road from Jerusalem to Nazareth; meeting her...
