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Vatican event lauds 'tenacious' women in modern society
EWTN - Vatican News - Oct 22, 2013 at 5:02 am Vatican City, Oct 22, 2013 / 05:02 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Just down the road from St. Peter's Basilica, a crowd of almost 200
packed into an audience hall to hear a panel discussion...
Vatican event lauds 'tenacious' women in modern society
Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 22, 2013 at 5:02 am Vatican City, Oct 22, 2013 / 04:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Just down the road from St. Peter's Basilica, a crowd of almost 200 packed into an audience hall to hear a panel discussion...
QUAERITUR: Forcing people to pray “spontaneously”. (Turn the tables on ‘em.)
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Oct 22, 2013 at 4:38 am From a professed sisterly readerette:
Many teachers on our staff are involved with the Charismatic Movement, including our principal. At the end of our faculty meetings she goes ...
Vatican newspaper pays tribute to Hitchcock's <i>Vertigo</i>
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 22, 2013 at 4:35 am L'Osservatore Romano has published a tribute to Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film.
Emilio Ranzato, who described the film as the "joy of surrealists of all times," said that...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 22/10/13
Catholic Herald - Oct 22, 2013 at 4:28 am The US State Department has condemned the killing of four Coptic Christians, including two girls, outside a church in Cairo on Sunday.
Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst of...
Pro-Abortion Catholic College Professor Resigns Ethics Post Over Dropped Abortion Coverage
Catholic Education Daily - Oct 22, 2013 at 4:24 am A law professor at Santa Clara University has resigned from the university’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics in protest over the Jesuit institution dropping abortion coverage....
The Nation at Princeton’s Service
Crisis Magazine - Church - Oct 22, 2013 at 4:10 am One of the many forms of self-promotion, at my old mater ferox, was a regular bulletin called “Princeton in the Nation’s Service,” detailing the many ways in which Princetonians...
Pope Commemorates World Mission Day
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Oct 22, 2013 at 4:09 am After the recitation of the Angelus on Sunday, Pope Francis commemorated World Mission Day in his address to thousands of pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square. The mission of...
Prelate: Central African Republic is a �tinderbox'
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 22, 2013 at 4:08 am On the eve of testimony at the United Nations, the Central African Republic's leading prelate said that the nation is a "tinderbox."
Members of Séléka, an Islamist rebel movement...
Muslim group to use former Catholic church as a mosque
Catholic Herald - Oct 22, 2013 at 4:00 am A Catholic church sold to the Muslim community in Stoke-on-Trent will be used as a mosque, The Catholic Herald has learned.
Following reports that St Peter’s Catholic church in...
Daily Catholic Quote from Blessed John Paul II
Integrated Catholic Life - Oct 22, 2013 at 4:00 am “To claim the right to abortion, infanticide and euthanasia, and to recognize that right in law, means to attribute to human freedom a perverse and evil significance: that of an...
Sex and the Public Order
Crisis Magazine - Church - Oct 22, 2013 at 4:00 am Sex and the institutions, customs, and restraints related to it are basic to social order. That claim shouldn’t be controversial, and it’s odd that it has become so.
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Daily Scriptures Reflection and Morning Prayer for Tuesday, October 22, 2013
CatholicMom.com - Oct 22, 2013 at 4:00 am Today’s Scriptures
USCCB Video Reflection
Saints of the Day
Scripture: Lectionary 474. Oct. 22. Romans 5:12.15.17-19,20-21. Psalm 40: 7-8,8-9.10.17. Luke 12:35-38
Paul continues...
Egypt: bishop criticizes Muslim Brotherhood following attack on church
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 22, 2013 at 3:55 am A Latin-rite Catholic bishop in Egypt has criticized the Muslim Brotherhood following an October 20 attack on a Coptic Orthodox church in a Cairo suburb. The death toll in the...
Nicaraguan bishop: Ortega government persecuting the Church
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 22, 2013 at 3:38 am A Nicaraguan bishop has told the Fides news agency that the government of Daniel Ortega has undertaken a "devious persecution" of the Church.
Ortega, a leader of the Marxist...
Abuse by priests
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Oct 22, 2013 at 3:33 am I saw a great post about the motives of liturgical abuse at the blog Waiting For Godot To Leave (fun title).
Here is some of it. See the rest there. My emphases and comments:...
Encountering the Word – Jeremiah 1:4-5
Integrated Catholic Life - Oct 22, 2013 at 3:30 am The word of the Lord came to me: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you, a prophet to the nations I appointed you.” (Jeremiah 1:4-5) If...
2 Christian pastors murdered in Kenya
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 22, 2013 at 3:22 am Two Protestant pastors were murdered in Kenya during the October 19-20 weekend, Agence France-Press reported.
Charles Matole was found shot in the head as he was "sitting on a...
Spanish woman recounts how beatified aunt saved her life
Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 22, 2013 at 3:06 am Tarragona, Spain, Oct 22, 2013 / 02:06 am (CNA).- Blessed Josefa Martinez' niece says she owes her life to her aunt, who was beatified Oct. 13 alongside 521 other martyrs of the...
Local Christians deplore indifference following Pakistani church bombing
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 22, 2013 at 3:04 am Christians in Peshawar, a city of 3.6 million in northern Pakistan, are lamenting the indifference shown by civil leaders and the international community to the plight of victims...
