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University Tells Team To Remove Memorial Cross From Helmets
The Religion Clause - Sep 12, 2014 at 6:10 am This season, the Arkansas State University football team decided to honor their recently murdered teammate and their former equipment manager who recently died in a car crash by...
EEOC Sues Dunkin' Donuts Over Refusal To Hire Seventh Day Adventist
The Religion Clause - Sep 12, 2014 at 6:05 am The EEOC yesterday filed a religious discrimination lawsuit against a Dunkin' Donuts franchise in Ashville, North Carolina. The company withdrew its offer to hire Darrell Littrell...
Look who’s getting into “selfies” now!
The Deacon's Bench - Sep 12, 2014 at 6:02 am CNS tweeted this shot this morning, announcing: This is being billed as “first ever #selfie with #PopeBenedict.” Taken by an Italian seminarian, Giuseppe Ricciardi.
St. Nicholas of Tolentino, pray for us!
Snoring Scholar - Sep 12, 2014 at 6:00 am On the afternoon of September 10, a friend of our family went to the hospital for some bleeding she was having.
A bit of background: she was pregnant with twins, 26.5 weeks...
Praying Your Newsfeed and How Pinterest Can Help
CatholicMom.com - Sep 12, 2014 at 6:00 am
Prayer is a power gift. Perhaps you have not thought prayer in terms of gift.
The interesting thing about gifts — they need to be:
Received,
Opened, and
Used.
In putting it to...
'It pierced my heart like a knife,' nun says after visit to Iraqis
Franciscan Media - Sep 12, 2014 at 6:00 am
BEIRUT (CNS) -- Sister Marie Claude Naddaf, provincial leader of the
Sisters of the Good Shepherd for Lebanon and Syria, is still shaken by
what she witnessed visiting Irbil,...
Curial decree on feast days of St. John XXIII, St. John Paul II
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 12, 2014 at 5:51 am Pope Francis has decided that the feast days of Pope St. John XXIII (October 11) and Pope St. John Paul II (October 22) will be observed as optional memorials on the liturgical...
Being married by Pope Francis is a dream come true, couple says
EWTN - Vatican News - Sep 12, 2014 at 5:46 am Rome, Italy, Sep 12, 2014 / 05:46 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- An Italian couple to be married over the weekend by Pope Francis say they could not wish for anything more than to receive...
Pope at Santa Marta: Do not take pleasure in others’ mistakes
News.va - Sep 12, 2014 at 5:35 am (Vatican Radio) True fraternal reprimand is painful because it is done with love, in truth and humility. Moreover it is unchristian to take pleasure when reprimanding someone. ...
Read Luke 6, Pope Francis emphasizes
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 12, 2014 at 5:34 am On several occasions during his pontificate, Pope Francis has urged the faithful to read, and reread, the Beatitudes and Matthew 25.
Preaching on love of enemies during his...
Sts John XXIII, John Paul II added to General Roman Calendar
EWTN - Vatican News - Sep 12, 2014 at 5:34 am Vatican City, Sep 12, 2014 / 05:34 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- The Congregation for Divine Worship on Thursday added Saints John XXIII
and John Paul II to the universal calendar of the...
Holy See diplomat decries slavery
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 12, 2014 at 5:30 am A leading Vatican diplomat decried the actions of Islamist groups as he lamented contemporary slavery.
Commenting on a new UN report on slavery, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, who ...
Archbishop Tomasi: Human Trafficking Not Confined to Poor Countries
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Sep 12, 2014 at 5:25 am The fight against contemporary forms of slavery was the theme of the address given by Archbishop Silvano Tomasi. Holy See Permanent Observer at the United Nations, during the 27th...
Pope Francis' Ad Limina Address to Bishops of the Democratic Republic of Congo
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Sep 12, 2014 at 5:16 am At 12 o’clock this morning, the Holy Father Francis received in audience, in the Hall of the Consistory, the Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of the Democratic Republic of the...
Pope to DRC Bishops: Work for Society Based on Respect for Human Dignity
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Sep 12, 2014 at 5:08 am The education of young people in order to overcome violence and inequality, the participation of the Church in building society and the consolidation of peace and her mission in...
Pope Francis set to visit war memorial of 'Redipuglia'
News.va - Sep 12, 2014 at 5:01 am (Vatican Radio) On the morning of Saturday 13th of September Pope Francis will make a penitential pilgrimage to the north eastern Italian War Memorial of 'Redipuglia', also...
Iraqis will be seen like early Christian martyrs, priest predicts
Catholic News Agency - General - Sep 12, 2014 at 5:01 am Baghdad, Iraq, Sep 12, 2014 / 04:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- An Argentinian priest caring for the Catholic community in Baghdad says the faith of persecuted Iraqi Christians is moving...
Iraqis will be seen like early Christian martyrs, priest predicts
EWTN - World Catholic News - Sep 12, 2014 at 5:01 am Baghdad, Iraq, Sep 12, 2014 / 05:01 am (EWTN News/CNA).- An Argentinian priest caring for the Catholic community in Baghdad says the faith of persecuted Iraqi Christians is moving...
Daily Gospel Reflection for September 12, 2014
CatholicMom.com - Sep 12, 2014 at 5:00 am
Today’s Gospel: Luke 6:39 -42
I’m always telling myself that I should tape the wise words that I read to my forehead. This passage from today’s Gospel reading deserves top...
Nun says misery of Iraqis ‘pierced my heart like a knife’
Catholic Herald - Sep 12, 2014 at 4:58 am Sister Marie Claude Naddaf, provincial leader of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd for Lebanon and Syria, is still shaken by what she witnessed visiting Irbil, Iraq.
Sister Marie...
