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Francis remembers Paul
The Deacon's Bench - Aug 6, 2014 at 10:04 am From the CNS blog this morning: Holding his weekly general audience today in the Vatican’s air-conditioned Paul VI audience hall, Pope Francis reminded people that today is the...
Poetry and Prayer
Commonweal - Aug 6, 2014 at 10:00 am The current issue of Commonweal features two lovely poems by Christian Wiman.
The Scottish poet, Edwin Muir, at the end of the Second World War, wrote a very personal prayer-poem...
Snakeoil Salesmanship: The Dangerous Politicization of Birth Control
Catholic Vote - Aug 6, 2014 at 10:00 am
While chaperoning for an exchange program in Europe this summer and collecting specimens for my erratically accumulated German vocabulary, I learned that the German word for oral...
NAACP Leader: Right to Abortion Same as Right to Eat at Lunch Counter
LifeNews.com - Aug 6, 2014 at 9:58 am NAACP board member Julian Bond is heard in this video saying that the right to abortion is the same as the right to eat at a lunch counter.
Note: Reproductive freedom = abortion...
Pope sends message to Latin American family congress
News.va - Aug 6, 2014 at 9:55 am
(Vatican Radio) From August 4 to 9, the First Latin American Congress on the Pastoral Care of the Family sponsored by Celam, is beinging held in Panama. The theme is: "Family and...
Wherein the rejected Fr. Z shares his pain with the readership
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Aug 6, 2014 at 9:51 am Even after last year’s bitter experience being rejected by the LCWR, I – eternal optimist that I am – once again applied for media credentials for their annual assembly.
The LCWR...
The Traditional Mass is Alive and Well, and the Secular Press Takes Notice
Saint Louis Catholic - Aug 6, 2014 at 9:38 am The St. Louis Post-Dispatch takes notice of the Ordinations of the Four American Priests of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest by Cardinal Burke in a nice write-up...
Planned Parenthood Does Abortions and Wastes $115 Million of Your Tax Dollars
LifeNews.com - Aug 6, 2014 at 9:35 am You work hard for your money, and as a good, upstanding citizen, you pay your taxes, trusting that those dollars will be used to benefit the greater community. They should not be...
AN URGENT LETTER OF THE CHALDEAN PATRIARCH
Rorate Coeli - Aug 6, 2014 at 9:30 am August 5, 2014
Your Holiness Pope Francis
Your Beatitudes the Patriarchs of the East
Your Excellencies the Presidents of the Bishops' Conferences
The Christians of Iraq face an...
Helping homeless off the streets
News.va - Aug 6, 2014 at 9:27 am
(Vatican Radio) One of the most oft-repeated refrains of Pope Francis’ pontificate thus far has been his call to go out to the “existential peripheries” and help those in need,...
Claro Paschali Gaudio / Paschale Mundo Gaudium
Breviary Hymns - Aug 6, 2014 at 9:24 am c.1315 Fresco , Chora Church, Istanbul - Courtesy of WikipediaClaro Paschali Gaudio is an anonymous Ambrosian hymn dating back to the 4th or 5th century. It is one of 3 hymns...
Wyoming Catholic College Will Be on EWTN’s ‘Life on the Rock’
Catholic Education Daily - Aug 6, 2014 at 9:24 am Dr. Kevin Roberts, president of Wyoming Catholic College (WCC) in Lander, Wyo., and assistant professor of leadership and outdoor education Dr. Tom Zimmerman will appear on EWTN's...
EEOC Reaffirms That Employers Can’t Pressure Employees to Have Abortions
LifeNews.com - Aug 6, 2014 at 9:17 am Last month, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), responsible for enforcing federal laws related to workplace discrimination, issued new enforcement guidance on...
Oklahoma City archbishop on Black Mass: “This Satanic ritual is deadly serious”
The Deacon's Bench - Aug 6, 2014 at 9:14 am Details: Archbishop Paul Coakley is calling for a Catholic campaign of prayer to oppose a satanist’s plans for a “Black Mass” at Civic Center Music Hall. In an open letter...
Francis sets faithful “homework”: Examine your conscience by reflecting on Gospel “protocol”
Vatican Insider - Aug 6, 2014 at 9:09 amU.S. Bishops Feature Benefits of Catholic Schools in New Video
Catholic Education Daily - Aug 6, 2014 at 9:04 am The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops recently created a new video highlighting the benefits and necessity of Catholic schools as "communities of the New Evangelization...
Another Lawsuit Filed against Planned Parenthood
Quartermaster of the Barque - Aug 6, 2014 at 9:00 am It’s a warm and fuzzy “abortion saved my life” story that will soon appear in promotional advertising for the abortuary nationwide — except it’s not and it won’t.
Rocky Mountain...
Bishops move to counter black Mass in Oklahoma City
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 6, 2014 at 8:37 am Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City and Bishop Paul Slattery of Tulsa, Oklahoma have moved to counter a Black Mass scheduled for September 21st. The Black Mass is slated to...
Archbishop Coakley Calls for Prayer to St Michael to Stop Black Mass
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Aug 6, 2014 at 8:37 am Here is the text of an open letter released by Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, regarding a black mass planned for September in the city. * * *
August 4, 2014
The...
Daily Homily: I Will Make a New Covenant
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Aug 6, 2014 at 8:25 am --
Jeremiah 31:31-34 Psalm 51:12-13,14-15,18-19 Matthew 16:13-23
Today's Liturgy of the Word presents two very powerful themes: in Jeremiah, we read God's announcement of a New...
