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Spain to recognize St. Teresa of Avila with Jubilee Year
EWTN - World Catholic News - Apr 28, 2014 at 5:08 am Madrid, Spain, Apr 28, 2014 / 05:08 pm (EWTN News).-
The Diocese of Avila has made public a decree from the Apostolic Penitentiary by which Pope Francis has granted a Jubilee Year...
Daily Gospel Reflection for April 28, 2014
CatholicMom.com - Apr 28, 2014 at 5:00 am
Today’s Gospel: John 3:1-8
Happy Easter! How fitting to read this Gospel just after Jesus saves us by his Passion, Death and Resurrection. Nicodemus wanted to believe and so do...
Seminarian kidnapped, murdered in Mexico
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 28, 2014 at 4:40 am A seminarian in north-central Mexico was kidnapped and murdered during Holy Week.
Like other seminarians, Samuel Gustavo Gómez Veleta, 21, had been assigned to do rural missionary...
Encountering the Word — John 14:1-3
Integrated Catholic Life - Apr 28, 2014 at 4:30 am “Let not your hearts be troubled; believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place...
Pope Francis is right to praise bold speaking but it needs to be in support of the indissolubility of marriage
Catholic Herald - Apr 28, 2014 at 4:19 am The Pope’s sermon given at the canonisation yesterday of his predecessors, Saint John Paul II and Saint John XXIII, gives immense food for thought.
There was much that Pope...
Newly canonized Popes were �true sons' of the Virgin Mary, says Pope Francis
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 28, 2014 at 4:19 am At the conclusion of the Mass of canonization of John XXIII and John Paul II, Pope Francis delivered a brief address before praying the Regina Caeli.
Pope Francis thanked the...
Pope Francis canonizes John XXIII and John Paul II
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 28, 2014 at 3:53 am Pope Francis canonized two of his predecessors, John XXIII (1958-63) and John Paul II (1978-2005), during a Mass in St. Peter's Square on April 27.
An estimated 800,000 pilgrims...
Is God Dead? Have We Killed Him?
Crisis Magazine - Church - Apr 28, 2014 at 3:25 am Nietzsche isn’t exactly the kind of guy you expect to show up in a papal encyclical. All the more so does it seem odd to refer to him as a prophet. Nonetheless, recent popes have...
John Paul II Set the Barque Back on Course
Crisis Magazine - Church - Apr 28, 2014 at 3:20 am Why was Pope John Paul canonized this past Sunday not alone but together with Pope John? There is a very good answer to this question: but it is not the one generally being touted...
The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse by Beatrix Potter
Crisis Magazine - Church - Apr 28, 2014 at 3:15 am If there is anything pleasant in life, it is doing what we aren’t meant to do. If there is anything pleasant about criticism, it is finding out what we aren’t meant to find out....
Pope, prime minister discuss Ukrainian crisis
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 28, 2014 at 3:03 am On the two days preceding the canonization of St. John XXIII and St. John Paul II, Pope Francis received in separate audiences President-elect Salvador Sánchez Cerén of El...
Fr. Barron's Word From Rome Recap
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Apr 28, 2014 at 3:00 am Yesterday the Church celebrated the canonization of two holy popes, John Paul II and John XXIII, and Fr. Barron had a front row seat. Reporting for both EWTN and NBC, he spent the...
Murka!
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Apr 28, 2014 at 2:49 am A society that feels it needs an app to tell it when to go pee during the movie showing preternaturally hot and fit superheroes killing our enemies in fiery explosions (for...
Brief papal tribute to St. Augustine
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 28, 2014 at 2:39 am Declining an invitation from Algerian bishops to reconsecrate the newly restored Basilica of St. Augustine, Pope Francis has sent Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the...
I both swell with paternal pride and burn with shame
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Apr 28, 2014 at 2:11 am Help me, I am trapped
in a haiku factory!
Save me, before they
- Peter Shea
Postmodernity…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Apr 28, 2014 at 2:07 am …may best defined as that period in history when you can think whatever idiocy you like about Jesus Christ (including the utter folly of imagining he never existed) but there is...
Council of Cardinals meeting this week for fourth time
EWTN - Vatican News - Apr 28, 2014 at 1:21 am Vatican City, Apr 28, 2014 / 01:21 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
The latest meeting of the group of eight cardinals advising Pope Francis on the reform of the Roman Curia began Monday, and...
Rome: Day 5 – Of museums and other Roman stuff
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Apr 28, 2014 at 12:54 am This morning we have a visit to some of the preservation and restoration workshops of the Vatican Museums.
Later, I hope to sneak into the Basilica through a back door and visit...
