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5 Minutes in A Mom’s Head at Mass
CatholicMom.com - Jun 27, 2014 at 5:00 pm Inspired by the latest viral hilarity from Bunmi Laditan, author of the Honest Toddler…
I can’t believe we’re late again. Everyone will stare while we walk down the – yup,...
Holy Reversal! Court Grants Philly Archdiocese Relief from Mandate
Creative Minority Report - Jun 27, 2014 at 4:53 pm Wow. How's this for a turnaround. Just a few hours ago CMR reported that the Philadelphia archdioceses and related charitable entities had been denied injunctive relief from...
Citizen Wesolowski, laicized for violating minors
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jun 27, 2014 at 4:23 pm By now you will have heard that Jozef Wesolowski, an Archbishop and the former Nuncio to the Dominican Republic, has been laicized. It is not known exactly where he is at the...
In the email: “Do children no longer have to be baptized with saints’ names?”
The Deacon's Bench - Jun 27, 2014 at 4:04 pm A reader writes: In our parish, the two youth ministers are Heather and Austin. Last Sunday Father baptized a Tiffany,a Madison, and a Greysen. I remember when my children were...
Top French court allows firing of employee who wore Islamic veil
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 27, 2014 at 3:49 pm France's highest court has confirmed that a day-care center outside Paris had the right to dismiss an employee who refused to remove an Islamic veil.
''A private entity, in this...
Less Latin, more liberation?
Commonweal - Jun 27, 2014 at 3:45 pm In the course of my Friday reading, I happened on two unrelated (but related?) stories in succession. The first, from Sharon Otterman on the New York Times site today, brings...
Holy See reaches new accord with Serbia on higher education
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 27, 2014 at 3:45 pm The Vatican has announced a new accord with the Republic of Serbia, governing cooperation between the government and the Catholic Church in higher education.
The agreement commits...
We’ve see this movie before, and it ain’t The Bells of St. Mary!
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jun 27, 2014 at 3:43 pm The Fishwrap (aka National Schismatic Reporter) is having a spittle-flecked nutty about the upcoming Synod’s Instrumentum Laboris. Ho hum.
They are, I think, afraid that the...
An American “Camino” to EWTN
CatholicMom.com - Jun 27, 2014 at 3:30 pm
A pilgrimage selfie somewhere in the desert.
After watching Martin Sheen’s “The Way,” where Sheen’s character backpacks Spain’s famed pilgrimage route, the Camino de Santiago de...
Russia placing new restrictions on churches in Crimea
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 27, 2014 at 3:30 pm Having seized control of the Crimea, Russian officials have placed new restrictions on churches there, the Forum 18 news service reports.
Religious communities in Crimea are being...
Holy Innocents in New York City, continued
Rorate Coeli - Jun 27, 2014 at 3:27 pm The sad story of the possible closure of Holy Innocents parish in New York City -- the only church to have a daily traditional Latin Mass in one of the largest and most prominent...
Special Treatment in Manhattan: “Where is the charity for this priest?”
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jun 27, 2014 at 3:22 pm Even the New York Times (aka Hell’s Bible) has taken notice of what is going on in New York City with the parish of Holy Innocents in midtown Manhattan’s Garment District.
My...
Photographs from Valaam Monastery
New Liturgical Movement - Jun 27, 2014 at 3:14 pm I just stumbled across the website of Valaam Monastery, a Russian Orthodox foundation located on a large island in Lake Ladoga, the largest lake in Europe, to the north of St....
Cause opened for beatification of American nun who challenged Billy the Kid
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 27, 2014 at 3:12 pm An American woman religious who stopped an execution and faced down the legendary outlaw Billy the Kid while serving in the New Mexico in the late 19th century could be on the...
7 Quick Takes Vol. 18: Blogging Break, Novenas, and More.
Journey of a Catholic Nerd Writer - Jun 27, 2014 at 3:11 pm -- 1 --Sorry for the blogging break. I've been really busy with school (of course) so I don't have a lot of free time. The free time I do have is spent on Twitter because it's...
Nature Notes: June 27, 2014
Commonweal - Jun 27, 2014 at 3:07 pm Annual firefly report. Profuse!! Brilliant! And very active! Mountain Laurel also profuse. Does this coorelate with wet Spring.
British court upholds law against assisted suicide
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 27, 2014 at 3:04 pm The Supreme Court of Britain has dismissed challenges to a 1961 law that prohibits assisted suicide.
In a series of June 26 actions, the top court rejected three separate...
Synod secretary: don't expect change in Church teachings
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 27, 2014 at 3:01 pm At a Vatican press conference introducing the instrumentum laboris that will be the basis for discussion when the Synod of Bishops meets in October, the special secretary for the...
Accept God's love like a child, Pope urges faithful
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 27, 2014 at 2:55 pm Preaching at a Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae on the feast of the Sacred Heart, June 27, Pope Francis said that "love always generates life and makes us grow."
The Pope told...
Transformers: Age of Extinction
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Jun 27, 2014 at 2:51 pm NEW YORK — There may, no doubt, be circumstances that would justify a film having a running time close to three hours.
Mark Wahlberg and Jack Reynor star in a scene from the...
