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Great moments in journalism: Fox News confuses NAACP with NCAA, just as SNL predicted
The Deacon's Bench - Apr 9, 2014 at 4:13 am Wow. Life imitates television. That’s a scary thought. From Mother Jones: On Tuesday morning, Fox & Friends First host Heather Childers referred to the UConn Huskies as “...
Pope Francis' Telegram of Condolence On Death of Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Apr 9, 2014 at 4:11 am Here is the telegram sent by Pope Francis' message of condolence upon hearing of the news of the death of His Beatitude Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly, Patriarch Emeritus of Babylon...
Read Literature to Learn and Love the Truth
Crisis Magazine - Church - Apr 9, 2014 at 4:10 am The other night I testified (via telephone) before the Alaska state legislature, on the standards their public schools are adopting for classes in English. I’d read the standards...
Ethnic Parishes, Catholic Schools and the Vocations Crisis
Crisis Magazine - Church - Apr 9, 2014 at 4:00 am I am not terribly accustomed to attending bilingual masses. I’ve avoided them rather religiously (sorry) ever since my wife and I went to a Spanish-English mass on Ash Wednesday...
Cardinal Delly, former Chaldean patriarch, dead at 86
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 9, 2014 at 3:55 am Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly, who led the Chaldean Catholic Church from 2013 to 2012, has died in a San Diego hospital, according to a Fides news service report.
Born in 1927,...
The academic who read The God Delusion then turned to God
Catholic Herald - Apr 9, 2014 at 3:44 am The famous Catholic writer Frank Sheed once wrote a well-known book entitled Theology and Sanity. I confess I haven’t read it (yet) but I like the conjunction between the two...
Moscow patriarch compares Ukrainian protests to Russian Revolution
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 9, 2014 at 3:41 am The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has compared the Euromaidan protest in Ukraine, which led to the resignation of a pro-Russian government, to the Russian Revolution of 1917...
Pro-life congressman, wife honored with Notre Dame award
EWTN - US Latest News - Apr 9, 2014 at 3:22 am South Bend, Ind., Apr 9, 2014 / 03:22 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
In an April 5 ceremony, Notre Dame University honored prominent pro-life congressman Chris Smith (R-N.J.), and his wife...
Pro-life congressman, wife honored with Notre Dame award
Catholic News Agency - General - Apr 9, 2014 at 3:22 am South Bend, Ind., Apr 9, 2014 / 02:22 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In an April 5 ceremony, Notre Dame University honored prominent U.S. pro-life congressman Chris Smith (R-N.J.), and his...
DC Courtyard of the Gentiles initiative features hip hop concert, Cokie Roberts
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 9, 2014 at 3:10 am The Courtyard of the Gentiles, the Pontifical Council for Culture's outreach to nonbelievers, is hosting "Faith, Culture, and the Common Good" at Georgetown University.
"In the US...
Templeton Prize Winner Msgr. Tomas Malik
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Apr 9, 2014 at 2:59 am A reader writes:
The very worthy Msgr. Tomas Halik won the Templeton prize. Just a note: He’s a wonderful man, and the priest that married me and my wife over 18 years ago at the...
The Heart of St. Francis
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Apr 9, 2014 at 2:58 am There's the cute statue in the garden, the lover of animals, the gentle steward of nature. Then there's the reformed party boy, the slow and reluctant convert, the man who...
Man issues global call…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Apr 9, 2014 at 2:57 am for wait staff to spit in his food before serving it to him.
Prelates urge participation in March for Marriage
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 9, 2014 at 2:32 am Bishop Richard Malone, the chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth, and Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone,...
Pope Francis to celebrate Holy Thursday Mass at center for disabled
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 9, 2014 at 2:19 am Pope Francis will celebrate the Mass of the Lord's Supper on Holy Thursday evening at a rehabilitation center for the disabled, according to a Vatican Radio report.
St. Mary of ...
A While Back I Wrote a Piece on Credulity and Skepticism…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Apr 9, 2014 at 2:15 am …which you can read here. Bottom line, just as despair and presumption are both the enemies of hope, so credulity and skepticism are both the enemies of true faith.
Now a study...
Curmudgeon Fred Reed…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Apr 9, 2014 at 2:12 am …on the unreality of the “race realists” (aka racists) of the Dark Enlightenment.
No more war in Syria Pope Francis deeply distressed over the murder of the Dutch Jesuit Fr Frans van der Lugt
News.va - Apr 9, 2014 at 1:42 am “Please, silence the weapons, put an end
to the violence! No more war! No more destruction! May humanitarian laws be
respected, may the people who need humanitarian assistance be...
Pope mourns 'brutal killing' of priest, urges end to violence
EWTN - Vatican News - Apr 9, 2014 at 1:17 am Vatican City, Apr 9, 2014 / 01:17 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
In comments made following his general audience address, Pope Francis lamented the killing of a Jesuit priest in Syria, and...
