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Campaign seeks to help educate escaped Nigerian schoolgirls
Catholic News Agency - General - Aug 5, 2014 at 5:18 am Washington D.C., Aug 5, 2014 / 04:18 am (CNA).- As more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls remain missing after being kidnapped this spring, one human rights group has started a...
Daily Gospel Reflection for August 5, 2014
CatholicMom.com - Aug 5, 2014 at 5:00 am
Today’s Gospel: Matthew 15:1-2, 10-14
The Pharisees treated human traditions as though they were scriptural. They interpreted rules and laws for morality according to their human...
Islamic State advances in northern Iraq, Lebanon; Christians, others flee
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 5, 2014 at 4:53 am Yadizis, Christians, and other minorities fled villages in northern Iraq after the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) defeated Kurdish fighters.
ISIL, which controls much...
Don’t worry about Cardinal Kasper’s flaky ideas on Holy Communion for the remarried: the Synod will come and go, and Pope Francis will still back Cardinal Müller
Catholic Herald - Aug 5, 2014 at 4:43 am A recent post from Sandro Magister introduces his report on a book-length interview with Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller by asking a question. This is how he poses it: “The prefect...
Pope lifts suspension of former Sandinista official
Catholic Herald - Aug 5, 2014 at 4:42 am Pope Francis has lifted the suspension of Maryknoll Father Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, who was ordered 29 years ago to stop exercising his priestly ministry because he refused to...
Catholic religious brother dies of Ebola in Liberia
EWTN - World Catholic News - Aug 5, 2014 at 4:41 am Monrovia, Liberia, Aug 5, 2014 / 04:41 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Saint Joseph's Catholic Hospital and the Hospitaller Order of Saint John of God in Liberia have announced that a...
All Orthodox in Ukraine should reunite with Moscow, says Russian Orthodox official
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 5, 2014 at 4:36 am An official of the Moscow Patriarchate has called upon all adherents of Orthodox Christianity in Ukraine to return to full communion with the Russian Orthodox Church.
"Return from...
Theologian Responds to Catholic Teacher Firings with Ethical Advice
Catholic Education Daily - Aug 5, 2014 at 4:30 am E. Christian Brugger has responded to recent news and controversies with an analysis considering the question, “Should school teachers, faculty members or school administrators be...
Daily Homily: The Mystery of the Transfiguration
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Aug 5, 2014 at 4:16 am --
Daniel 7:9-10,13-14 Psalm 97:1-2,5-6,9 2 Peter 1:16-19 Matthew 17:1-9
Jesus often referred to himself as the Son of Man. In doing so, he refers to Daniel's vision, which we...
Bishop pledges to stay in Libya: �I cannot leave the few remaining Christians'
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 5, 2014 at 4:12 am As rival militias battle for control of Libya, the apostolic vicar of Tripoli, Bishop Giovanni Martinelli, has pledged to remain in the North African nation "even if only one...
US Chaldeans call on President Obama to help end ‘genocide’ of Iraqi Christians
Catholic Herald - Aug 5, 2014 at 4:05 am Chaldean Catholics in the US have called on President Obama to do more to prevent the “genocide” of Christians in Iraq.
Shouting slogans such as “Obama, Obama, where are you?...
Celebrating Mass ad orientem: video
Rorate Coeli - Aug 5, 2014 at 4:00 am Some time ago I posted in this blog the Position Paper produced by the Una Voce Federation on the celebration of Mass ad orientem - facing East, with the priest having 'his back...
English cardinal commemorates World War I centenary
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 5, 2014 at 3:48 am Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster offered a Requiem Mass for the fallen of the First World War on August 4, the centenary of the United Kingdom's entry into the war.
"No one...
Catholic charity: ‘Gaza on the brink of collapse’
Catholic Herald - Aug 5, 2014 at 3:48 am A top Catholic charity official described Gaza as a “complete catastrophe” after nearly four weeks of fighting between Israel and the Palestinian militant Hamas.
“Gaza is on the...
Pope lifts suspension of priest who served as Sandinista foreign minister
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 5, 2014 at 3:38 am Pope Francis has agreed to lift the suspension of Father Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, the Maryknoll priest who, in defiance of canon law, held political office, serving as Nicaragua...
Encountering the Word — Revelation 21:4
Integrated Catholic Life - Aug 5, 2014 at 3:30 am “…He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away...
Ruthless Ideology and the End of Debate
Crisis Magazine - Church - Aug 5, 2014 at 3:20 am
Some days ago, Josh Barro of the New York Times tweeted the following message: “Anti-LGBT attitudes are terrible for people in all sorts of communities. They linger and oppress,...
Vatican newspaper decries surrogacy
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 5, 2014 at 3:16 am L'Osservatore Romano has published a front-page article lamenting the practice of surrogacy.
The article follows news that a Thai woman acted as a surrogate mother for an...
Why Do We Read Good Books?
Crisis Magazine - Church - Aug 5, 2014 at 3:15 am
Not long ago, one of my older essays was published in these pages to counterbalance, and to caution against, the unqualified praise of Flannery O’Connor’s fictional stories. As I...
Making the Payments is “Little Known”?
Quartermaster of the Barque - Aug 5, 2014 at 3:10 am It torments me whenever I see it. I am baited. I refer to this:
….which is frequently contained in a panel of ads on various websites:
Because as with all major financial...
