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Pope's Address to Bishops of Rwanda
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Apr 3, 2014 at 7:47 am Pope Francis this morning received in audience the bishops of the episcopal conference of Rwanda, for their visit “ad Limina Apostolorum.” Here below is a translation of the...
Daily Readings: April 6 – 12
Catholic Herald - Apr 3, 2014 at 7:44 am Ordinary Week
Divine Office Week I
Sunday, April 6: Fifth Sunday of Lent
Ez 37:12-14; Ps 130; Rm 8:8-11; Jn 11:1-45
Monday, April 7: St John Baptist de la Salle, priest
Dn 13:1-...
Israeli diplomat strike ends, giving Pope’s visit the all clear
Vatican Insider - Apr 3, 2014 at 7:43 amChrist summons us from the darkness of sin and fear
Catholic Herald - Apr 3, 2014 at 7:39 am ‘If there is no resurrection from the dead, Christ himself cannot have been raised, and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is useless, and your believing is useless...
Editor's Notebook — Prayers for Fort Hood and Chile, Charlotte uproar, and a beloved bishop remembered.
OSV Daily Take - Apr 3, 2014 at 7:38 amPope meets with bishops of Rwanda (Video)
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Apr 3, 2014 at 7:36 am To view the video click here.
And for a change, a ‘Noah’ movie story that sails smoothly
GetReligion - Apr 3, 2014 at 7:33 am Last week, I criticized USA Today’s fast-food cheeseburger of a story on the religious controversy over the new “Noah” movie. Today, I want to praise the filet-mignon level of...
Pope's Mass: Don't be afraid of praying! (Video)
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Apr 3, 2014 at 7:32 am He explained that most of the times, praying is like talking to a friend: something that everyone does without fear, but freely, just like Moses did at Mount Sinai. To view the...
The saint who was accused of treason
Catholic Herald - Apr 3, 2014 at 7:31 am St Stanislaus of Szczepanów was born in a village in Lesser Poland (Małopolska). He was educated at the cathedral school in Gniezno, Poland’s capital at the time. He was...
Queen Elizabeth II has her first meeting with Pope Francis (Video)
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Apr 3, 2014 at 7:29 am To view the video click here.
QEII meets Francis
Communio - Apr 3, 2014 at 7:22 am Queen Elizabeth II, 87, with Prince Philip, 92 is today in Rome fulfilling an invitation she had to reschedule in 2013 due to ill health. Last year the Queen was to meet Italy’s...
Pope Francis meets with Cape Verde Prime Minister
News.va - Apr 3, 2014 at 7:20 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Thursday met with the Prime Minister of the Republic of Cape Verde, José Maria Pereira Neves. Cape Verde is a Portuguese speaking island nation...
Print edition 4/4/2014
Catholic Herald - Apr 3, 2014 at 7:20 am This week Kenny Thomas, the 1990s pop star tells us which music station he thinks is playing in hell, we report on the appointment of Mgr Nicholas Hudson as the new auxillary...
Papal telegram for Chilean earthquake victims
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 3, 2014 at 7:13 am Pope Francis has sent a telegram of condolence to the president of Chile's episcopal conference following an 8.2-magnitude earthquake near Iquique, a city in the northern part of...
Pope Francis canonizes 3 saints; 13 other sainthood causes advance
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 3, 2014 at 7:00 am In an April 3 audience with the prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, Pope Francis canonized three blesseds by the process of "equivalent canonization."
The three...
New Bible exhibit evangelizes through history of scripture
EWTN - Vatican News - Apr 3, 2014 at 6:49 am Vatican City, Apr 3, 2014 / 06:49 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
Featuring ancient biblical artifacts from all over the world, the Verbum Domini II exhibition has officially opened at the...
Cardinal O'Malley: "Despite the Xenophobic Ranting of a Segment of the Population, Our Immigrant Population Contributes Mightily to the Economy and Wellbeing of the United States"
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Apr 3, 2014 at 6:45 am Here are the text notes for the homily of Cardinal Seán O’Malley, archbishop of Boston, at a Mass he celebrated with other US bishops on Tuesday at the US-Mexico border. The...
Congratulations to Canadian and Brazilian Catholics.
Rorate Coeli - Apr 3, 2014 at 6:35 am Pope Francis signed earlier today the canonization decree (by equipollent canonization) of three major figures of the greatest religious enterprise in history, the (old-style)...
On Mountains, and Views Therefrom
Dominicana - Apr 3, 2014 at 6:30 am I’m scared of heights. When I have to climb a ladder, I prefer not to go past the seventh or eighth step. Some of my most dreadful nightmares have been of clinging to a way too...
House Committee Holds Hearing On Persecution of Religious Communities In Vietnam
The Religion Clause - Apr 3, 2014 at 6:30 am A video is now available online of the March 26 hearing by the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee's Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on Persecution of Religious and...
