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What is Jesus Asking?
CatholicMom.com - Aug 16, 2017 at 6:00 am
“Good teachers provide good answers, but exceptional teachers ask great questions.” In the Gospels, Jesus asks over 100 questions. Allan F. Wright, academic dean for...
Walk along Ireland’s own “Camino” pilgrimage route
Aleteia - Aug 16, 2017 at 6:00 am “Pilgrim Paths” offer guided walks retracing the steps of penitents of the past.Ireland’s long tradition of holy pilgrimages dates back to as early as the year 441, when St....
State Department Releases 2016 International Religious Freedom Report
The Religion Clause - Aug 16, 2017 at 6:00 am Yesterday the State Department released its 2016 International Religious Freedom Annual Report (full text). In remarks on the Report, Secretary of Sate Tillerson highlighted...
Kenyan bishops plead for peace, fear post-election violence
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 16, 2017 at 5:51 am The Catholic bishops of Kenya have called for calm in the wake of disputed general elections.
Memento mori: In the midst of death, you must look
Aleteia - Aug 16, 2017 at 5:00 am Death tells us, “Look carefully. See what you’ve got.”It had been a good day, the day one year ago Facebook just reminded me about. My wife and I were in Portland, Maine, taking...
Modern Catholics ‘too wishy-washy’, says Scottish archbishop
Catholic Herald - Aug 16, 2017 at 4:59 am Scottish Catholics have become too “wishy-washy” in standing up for their faith, the Archbishop of Glasgow has warned. In an essay for Crux, Archbishop Philip Tartaglia said “too...
Scotland: Church leaders urge action against anti-Catholic hate crimes
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 16, 2017 at 4:53 am Catholic leaders in Scotland are urging government officials to recognize a rising tide of “hate crimes” that target Catholics.
The Pope: serenity to the victims of disasters and wars
Vatican Insider - Aug 16, 2017 at 4:52 am “Once again, I would like to entrust to the Vergin Mary, all the anguishes and the pains of people who, in many parts of the world, are suffering because of natural disasters,...
‘This is the land of Gandhi and Buddha’: India’s prime minister denounces religious violence
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 16, 2017 at 4:50 am India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for an end to religious violence in a speech marking the 70th anniversary of India’s independence.
Jerusalem: Greek Orthodox patriarch decries court decision on sale of Church properties
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 16, 2017 at 4:45 am Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem has condemned the decision of an Israeli court to uphold the sale of properties by his predecessor.
Bishop Romero, the martyr who chose the Gospel and the people
Vatican Insider - Aug 16, 2017 at 4:37 am It is highly possible that Prelate Oscar Arnulfo Romero, born a hunderd years ago, the 15th of August, 1917, and killed on the altar the 24th of March 1980, and beatified only in...
Prelate praises Uganda’s longtime ruler
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 16, 2017 at 4:35 am A Catholic archbishop has praised Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni for preserving the fragile peace in the African country.
Nigerian cardinal: Amoris Laetitia affirmed traditional Church teaching on receiving Holy Communion
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 16, 2017 at 4:25 am A Nigerian cardinal has said that Amoris Laetitia upheld the Church’s traditional teaching that Catholics who are divorced and remarried cannot receive the Eucharist.
Iceland is 'eradicating' Down syndrome…by aborting everyone who has it
EWTN - World Catholic News - Aug 16, 2017 at 4:22 am Reykjavik, Iceland, Aug 16, 2017 / 04:22 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
A recent article from CBS News proclaims that "few countries have come as close to eradicating Down syndrome births...
Iceland is 'eradicating' Down syndrome…by aborting everyone who has it
Catholic News Agency - General - Aug 16, 2017 at 4:22 am Reykjavik, Iceland, Aug 16, 2017 / 03:22 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A recent article from CBS News proclaims that “few countries have come as close to eradicating Down syndrome births...
US men’s religious orders commit to working for papal encyclical on nonviolence
Vatican Insider - Aug 16, 2017 at 4:21 am The umbrella group of the leaders of U.S. Catholic men’s religious orders has committed to working to persuade Pope Francis to write a new encyclical letter focused on shifting...
Bishops ‘very slow to change’ in confronting abuse, says lay leader of Catholic commission
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 16, 2017 at 4:20 am The head of the Australian bishops’ commission on sexual abuse has said that she fears the Church has been only “partially cleansed and unreconstructed” despite months of intense...
Syriac patriarch says West has ‘betrayed’ Middle East Christians
Catholic Herald - Aug 16, 2017 at 4:16 am The West has failed to do enough to protect Christian minorities in the Middle East, the Syriac Catholic Patriarch has said. “I can tell you, we’ve been not only abandoned by the...
New Jersey: judge affirms right of Catholic school to refuse to re-enroll student
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 16, 2017 at 4:14 am A New Jersey judge has affirmed the right of a Catholic school to deny admission to two girls whose parents had twice filed suit against the school’s administration.
Father Sosa: Jesuits’ mission is fostering reconciliation with God, human beings, environment
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 16, 2017 at 4:06 am The superior general of the Society of Jesus said that the Jesuits are called to work for reconciliation “on three levels: with God, with human beings, with the environment.”
