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Daily Catholic Quote from St. Thérèse of Lisieux
Integrated Catholic Life - Jul 1, 2014 at 3:30 am “Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.” (St....
From the Front Lines of the War on the Weak
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jul 1, 2014 at 2:42 am California forcibly and illegally sterilizes a bunch of women.
Margaret Sanger’s term for such women was “human weeds”. Our culture will come up with a nicer term like “...
The Horrah! The Horrah!
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jul 1, 2014 at 2:31 am
To hear the freakouters tell it, America just became The Handmaid’s Tale and not, you know, what it was a couple of years ago before Obama decided to stick a gun in the ribs of...
Encountering the Word — Galatians 5:22-23
Integrated Catholic Life - Jul 1, 2014 at 2:30 am “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control…” (Galatians 5:22-23) If you liked this scripture passage,...
Christianity and Islam: A Common Heritage?
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jul 1, 2014 at 2:25 am
Recently two prominent American bishops joined two leading Shiite Muslim scholars in Iran in issuing a statement on weapons of mass destruction. According to the statement, “...
Time to Abandon Comfort And Defend Essentials
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jul 1, 2014 at 2:20 am
The issues that now put Catholics in opposition to secular public thought are too basic to ignore. The Church accepts God as our reference point, and views freedom to develop our...
The Freakoutery over the HHS Ruling is Very Entertaining and Incoherent
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jul 1, 2014 at 2:14 am Case in point:
Um, right. Not your boss’s business. Your business. If you don’t want it to be your boss’s business, don’t frogmarch him into your bedroom and force him to pay...
Ross Douthat Moderates a Conversation between Peter Thiel and N.T. Wright
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jul 1, 2014 at 2:03 am …and it is gripping stuff. Seriously.
Chelsea Clinton Energetically Saws off Branch of Family Tree She is Sitting On
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jul 1, 2014 at 2:02 am ….wishes her Grandmother had had access to Planned Parenthood.
Not the sharpest scalpel in the drawer. Particularly, when she, who is rich as Croesus, stoops down to provide...
Yr. Obdt. Svt. on Blogging
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jul 1, 2014 at 2:01 am …is under discussion over at Intercollegiate Review.
Fr. Lombardi: Killing of Israeli teenagers unacceptable
News.va - Jul 1, 2014 at 1:45 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis shares in the pain of the families of three Israeli teenagers whose bodies were found Monday just over two weeks after they were abducted in the West...
Show joy of Christian family life, Denver archbishop teaches
EWTN - US Latest News - Jul 1, 2014 at 1:02 am Denver, Colo., Jul 1, 2014 / 01:02 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila of Denver has published a pastoral letter calling on Catholics to live their faith in their...
Former Legionaries of Christ leaders dies from cancer
Catholic News Agency - General - Jul 1, 2014 at 1:02 am Mexico City, Mexico, Jul 1, 2014 / 12:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Father Álvaro Corcuera Martínez del Río, L.C., former general director of the Legionaries of Christ and Regnum...
Court issues injunction in archdiocese's lawsuit against HHS mandate
Saint Louis Review - St. Louis News - Jul 1, 2014 at 12:04 am By Dave Luecking | daveluecking@archstl.org | twitter: @stlreviewscribe
The Archdiocese of St. Louis and Catholic Charities of St. Louis...
QUAERITUR: The washing of altar linens
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jul 1, 2014 at 12:01 am From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
My mother is an Extraordinary Minister of Communion and has to wash the altar linen used during the various Masses. Out of curiosity, and preventing...
Father Alvaro Corcuera Dies Aged 56
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jun 30, 2014 at 11:33 pm Father Álvaro Corcuera Martínez del Río, L.C. has died at the age of 56 after a long battle with cancer, the Legionaries of Christ has announced. The Mexican priest served as...
Neo Beuronese Sacred Art from San Diego
New Liturgical Movement - Jun 30, 2014 at 11:30 pm Thanks to NLM reader Roberto who sent me pictures of this work by Enzo Selvaggi in San Diego, California. Enzo is an artist based in the US who has a team of designers and...
To get Kennedy on board, did Alito throw Little Sisters under the bus?
Commonweal - Jun 30, 2014 at 11:21 pm When reading Justice Alito's majority opinion in Hobby Lobby alongside Justice Kennedy's concurring opinion, the unifying thread is clear. And the results don't bode well for the...
Discovering God in Silence
Integrated Catholic Life - Jun 30, 2014 at 11:01 pm A prayerful, meditative silence is the mother of truth. by Sister Mary Clare, O.C.D. Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles God cannot be found in noise and...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 01/07/14
Catholic Herald - Jun 30, 2014 at 11:00 pm The killing of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank is a “hideous and unacceptable crime“, a Vatican spokesman has said.
The new Spanish king and queen invited the Pope to...
