Latest News

Viva Papa!

Aleteia - Sep 9, 2017 at 11:00 pm
Photo of the Day: September 10, 2017Pope Francis arrives to celebrate Mass at the Catama area in Villavincencio, Colombia for a crowd of over several hundred thousand on September...

5 Pithy sayings of St. Teresa of Avila

Aleteia - Sep 9, 2017 at 11:00 pm
She knew exactly what to say and how to say it.One of four women considered a “Doctor of the Church,” St. Teresa of Avila was a spitfire in her day and had a certain way with...

DOJ Supports Christian Baker In Amicus Brief Filed With Supreme Court

The Religion Clause - Sep 9, 2017 at 9:35 pm
In an amicus brief filed in the U.S. Supreme Court on Sept. 7 in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice sided with the...

Pope in Colombia spells out priorities for the clergy

News.va - Sep 9, 2017 at 8:41 pm
(Vatican Radio) Some 12,000 priests, men and women religious, consecrated laypeople and seminarians with their families crowded into Medellin’s “La Macarena” event centre on...

No RLUIPA Violations In Denial of Variance For Personal Chapel

The Religion Clause - Sep 9, 2017 at 8:30 pm
In Milosavlejevic v. City of Brier, (WD Wash., Sept. 7, 2017), a Washington federal district court held that the city of Brier, Washington did not violate RLUIPA when it denied...

Just desserts: How Aleteia helped serve the pope a favorite dish

Aleteia - Sep 9, 2017 at 7:53 pm
He enjoys a Slovenian dish (the one he asked Melania about), and it was at his breakfast table this morningDo you remember when Melania Trump visited Pope Francis and news reports...

How Pope John Paul II once saved a fallen priest from despair, homelessness and alcoholism

What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Sep 9, 2017 at 7:16 pm
I have come to dread interviews with Popes.  I have from the beginning of the interviews decades ago.  I generally read them anyway because, well, I have to, don’t I. The recent...

The New Motu Proprio: the Antithesis of Authentic Liturgical Development

OnePeterFive - Sep 9, 2017 at 6:48 pm
A new papal motu proprio letter on the liturgy was released today. It’s called Magnum Principium, and in my opinion, it’s a ticking timebomb. But to better understand it, we must...

WIN – Double passes to Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie

The Catholic Leader - Sep 9, 2017 at 6:00 pm
Photo: Dreamworks George Beard and Harold Hutchins are best friends who spend their days creating comic books and dreaming up pranks. One day they accidentally hypnotise their...

Pope Francis speaks to Colombia's priests, religious, seminarians: Full Text

News.va - Sep 9, 2017 at 5:15 pm
(Vatican Radio)  Pope Francis, who is currently on an Apostolic Visit to Colombia, spoke on Saturday to priests, religious, seminarians and their families in Medellin, some 200...

Pope Francis tells Colombia's youngest victims that Jesus loves them

News.va - Sep 9, 2017 at 5:15 pm
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis’ apostolic visits always feature at least one event in a place of suffering, of solidarity, of rebirth. He always makes sure he spends some precious...

Vocations that only seek to 'climb the ladder' are dead, Pope says

Catholic News Agency - General - Sep 9, 2017 at 5:05 pm
Medellin, Colombia, Sep 9, 2017 / 04:05 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- On Saturday, Pope Francis told Colombia's priests and religious that vocations come from a variety of different...

Pope in Colombia greets children in Hogar San Jose Home: Full text

News.va - Sep 9, 2017 at 4:10 pm
(Vatican Radio) “Saint Joseph can never be without Jesus and Mary”, Pope Francis assured Claudia Yesenia, who shared her courageous testimony, and the children of “St. Joseph’s...

“May God convert the hearts of the drug sicarios” 

Vatican Insider - Sep 9, 2017 at 4:01 pm
“Young people are naturally restless, that kind of restlessness that has often been deceived and destroyed by drug sicarios (hired killers)”. Pope Francis raises his eyes from his...

Pope urges Colombian priests at Medellin Mass to 'get involved'

News.va - Sep 9, 2017 at 3:35 pm
(Vatican Radio) The theme of day four of Pope Francis’ visit to Colombia is “Vocations” and he travelled to the country’s most Catholic city – Medellin – on Saturday to celebrate...

The suffering of children wounds the heart, Pope Francis says

Catholic News Agency - General - Sep 9, 2017 at 3:20 pm
Medellin, Colombia, Sep 9, 2017 / 02:20 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In a visit to a children’s home in Colombia, Pope Francis said Saturday that we can never accept the mistreatment or...

Home Again

Franciscan Media - Sep 9, 2017 at 3:01 pm
Genteel decorum prevails in the romantic comedy “Home Again” (Open Road). At least, it does so everywhere beyond the confines of its protagonist’s bedroom. The result is a morally...

#WDTPRS – 23rd Ordinary Sunday: Who we are and what we are to do.

What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Sep 9, 2017 at 1:37 pm
The Collect for the 23rd Ordinary Sunday – this Sunday – was not in any pre-Conciliar edition of the Roman Missal, but it was in the 8th century Gelasian Sacramentary in a section...

The Pope at the Hogar San José, “To see children suffer, wounds our hearts” 

Vatican Insider - Sep 9, 2017 at 1:31 pm
Claudia Yesenia García Ramírez’s story is yet another symbol of the conflicts that have scarred Colombia for the last half century. Today she is thirteen years old and is...

St. Thomas of Villanova, Bishop, "Father of the Poor"

Big C Catholics - Sep 9, 2017 at 1:18 pm
(In 2017, this feast is superseded by the Sunday liturgy.)September 10th, is traditionally the feast of Saint Thomas of Villanova (1488-1555), the 16th century Spanish Augustinian...
Subscribe to Catholic News Live - Latest News