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LCWR’s award this year is an insult to the US Bishops
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - May 5, 2014 at 4:27 am The LCWR (Leadership Conference of Women Religious) are feeling a little frisky. I suspect they think that, even though they are being watched by the CDF for their totally weird...
Bishop Urges Faithful to Vote in European Elections
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - May 5, 2014 at 4:12 am Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth England has written to his diocese, urging the faithful to participate in the European elections on May 22nd this year. Quoting the Catechism in...
The Blind Faith Beliefs of Secular Culture
Crisis Magazine - Church - May 5, 2014 at 3:55 am Secularists are known for dismissing religion as merely espousing a set of blind faith beliefs without any evidence to support them. The crudest among them will often do it in a...
God’s Masculine Names: Misogyny, or Mystagogy?
Crisis Magazine - Church - May 5, 2014 at 3:50 am Why is God a he, not a she or an it? Could Jesus have been a woman? What if the Lord’s Prayer began not with “Our Father,” but with “Our Mother”? Reading modern commentaries, you’...
Father Willie Doyle: Forgotten War Hero
Crisis Magazine - Church - May 5, 2014 at 3:45 am In an unmarked grave in those now silent fields of Flanders lies the body of an Irish priest.
Like so many caught up in the conflict that came to be known as the Great War, he was...
Thanks to benefactors, Mass.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - May 5, 2014 at 3:23 am While traveling I haven’t been able to catch up on my “clerical” work, that is, write notes to everyone who has sent a donation using the buttons on the sidebar or the little wavy...
Scholarships to study Latin in Rome (16-24 year olds)
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - May 5, 2014 at 3:14 am This caught my eye. From my email:
Announcement of Competition: Latin, Greek and Humanities
at the Academy Vivarium Novum in Rome – Italy
Academic year 2014-2015
The Academy...
Holy See's Presentation of Report to UN Committee on the Convention Against Torture
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - May 5, 2014 at 3:08 am Here is the address given by Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations in Geneva during the presentation of the Initial Periodic...
Saw a sweet Samsung phone at Radio Shack the other day
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 5, 2014 at 2:52 am …so I smashed the case and took it. They called the cops and had me arrested, saying what I did was “illegal”. I pointed out to these simpletons that “legality” and “morality” are...
Reason to Homeschool #9834539387
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 5, 2014 at 2:45 am Your child will not be given a lap dance by the teacher.
Sadly, this is what comes of our backward system of all-male, celibate teachers.
The Mary Month of May
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - May 5, 2014 at 2:27 am Traditionally, the month of May is devoted to Our Lady, with its natural emphasis on beauty, flowers, and the springing forth of new life. Today, Ellyn von Huben shares some...
Pope reflects on Emmaus encounter, prays for Ukraine
Catholic Culture - World News - May 5, 2014 at 2:25 am In his Sunday Regina Caeli address, Pope Francis reflected on the Gospel reading at Mass, Christ's encounter with the disciples on the road to Emmaus (Lk. 24:13-35).
The road to...
From the land where Consent is the Sole Criterion of the Good
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 5, 2014 at 2:11 am Married lesbian threesome expecting first screwed-up child.
Applied libertarianism: the philosophy for people with no children
Pope offers Mass of thanksgiving for St. John Paul's canonization
Catholic Culture - World News - May 5, 2014 at 2:01 am Pope Francis visited Rome's parish for Polish residents on May 4 and offered a Mass of thanksgiving for St. John Paul II's canonization.
Noting that St. John Paul had made over 80...
Be joyful evangelizers, Pope tells members of Catholic Action
Catholic Culture - World News - May 5, 2014 at 1:45 am Addressing 7,000 members of Catholic Action, Pope Francis said that parishes need the lay association's apostolic dynamism.
The joy of encountering the risen Christ, Pope Francis...
Pope receives sculpture of newly canonized 'Apostle of Brazil'
EWTN - World Catholic News - May 5, 2014 at 1:34 am Madrid, Spain, May 5, 2014 / 01:34 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- The Diocese of La Laguna on the Spanish island of Tenerife has sent Pope Francis a bronze sculpture of St. Jose of Anchieta...
New pontifical abuse commission: �accountability in the Church' is �especially important'
Catholic Culture - World News - May 5, 2014 at 1:17 am The newly formed Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors concluded its first meeting on May 3 and emphasized the importance of "ensuring accountability in the Church...
Pope to visit patient, staff of Gemelli hospital
Catholic Culture - World News - May 5, 2014 at 12:55 am Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican's Secretary of State, has paid tribute to the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, which is located in Milan, on the occasion of the 90th...
Pope encourages Sri Lanka's bishops to work for unity
Catholic Culture - World News - May 5, 2014 at 12:25 am Five years after the conclusion of the Sri Lankan Civil War, Pope Francis encouraged the bishops of the South Asian island nation to evangelize and promote unity.
The war, fought...
