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I love to admire this beautiful God-made world but I wish we could see beyond what God has made

Catholic Herald - Oct 21, 2013 at 7:13 am

There is something lovely over at The Guardian today, namely a photo gallery of the winners of the Landscape Photographer of the Year competition. While I know nothing about...

Lawsuit Layes Bare Anti-Catholic Strategy In Mandate

Creative Minority Report - Oct 21, 2013 at 7:09 am

In a lawsuit, the Archdiocese of Washington has laid bare the anti-Catholic bias as the raison d'etre of the contraceptive mandate. Lawyers representing the archdiocese filed a...

Pope Francis Receives Lutheran World Federation Representatives

Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Oct 21, 2013 at 6:38 am

This morning, Pope Francis received a delegation from the Lutheran World Federation as well as representatives of the Lutheran-Roman Catholic International Commission on Unity...

Untie him and let him go

Dominicana - Oct 21, 2013 at 6:30 am

The dead man came out, tied hand and foot with burial bands, and his face was wrapped in a cloth. So Jesus said to them, “Untie him and let him go,” (Jn 11:44). “Sin directs the...

Dutch Appeals Court Holds Church of Scientology Is Tax Exempt

The Religion Clause - Oct 21, 2013 at 6:20 am

In the Netherlands last week, the Amsterdam Court of Tax Appeals reversed a lower court decision and held that the Church of Scientology qualifies as a Public Benefit Organization...

All human life is 'very good' in God's eyes, cardinal says

EWTN - US Latest News - Oct 21, 2013 at 6:17 am

Washington D.C., Oct 21, 2013 / 06:17 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- God "sees a reflection of himself" in all persons, Washington Archbishop Cardinal Donald Wuerl preached to members of...

The Church’s Second World War is twisted and distorted in the popular imagination

Catholic Herald - Oct 21, 2013 at 6:12 am

I was reading The Abomination by Jonathan Holt when something pulled me up short. It’s an upmarket Dan Brown style whodunit set in Venice. Someone – perhaps the Vatican – is...

Lawsuit accuses Obama administration of “conscious strategy to marginalize” Catholic religious views

The Deacon's Bench - Oct 21, 2013 at 6:11 am

Details: The Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., is arguing in a new lawsuit that the Obama administration is engaged in a “conscious political strategy to marginalize and...

Op-Ed Says Europe's Concern About Male Ritual Circumcision Is Not Anti-Semitic

The Religion Clause - Oct 21, 2013 at 6:05 am

Haaretz yesterday carried an interesting opinion piece by James McDonald titled Europe's Shudder at Circumcision. He argues that the recent resolution by the Council of Europe's...

Catholic media bring the Gospel to people, Pope says

Catholic Herald - Oct 21, 2013 at 6:01 am

The Catholic media is important not only as means of documenting Church events, Pope Francis has said, but for bringing the Church and the Gospel closer to people. Catholic media...

Catholic Techie Matthew Warner

CatholicMom.com - Oct 21, 2013 at 6:00 am

On the list of “people you think of when someone says the phrase ‘Catholic Techie,’” I think Matthew Warner, best known as founder of FlockNote, is in the top five. Everyone...

Shaking Things Up

The Reason for Our Hope - Oct 21, 2013 at 6:00 am

While travelling recently on a flight, I was seated directly behind two people, who, in the course of the journey, struck up a lengthy conversation. I was trying to do some work,...

Recent Articles of Interest

The Religion Clause - Oct 21, 2013 at 6:00 am

From SSRN: Charles Becker, Windsor's Push Toward Universal Interstate Recognition of Same-Sex Marriages, (September 20, 2013). Hamid Harasani, Accommodating Two Worlds, (April...

Bishop O'Connell Calls Jesus "the Divine Immigrant"

Franciscan Media - Oct 21, 2013 at 6:00 am

Jesus was the "divine immigrant" who lived his life "traveling from place to place," Bishop David M. O'Connell of Trenton told the congregation at a mid-day "Justice for...

Pope Francis: Greed destroys people, families

News.va - Oct 21, 2013 at 5:55 am

(Vatican Radio) Greed, attachment to money, destroys people, destroys families and relationships with others: That was Pope Francis’ message this morning during Mass in Santa...

Pope gives thanks for advances in Lutheran-Catholic relations

News.va - Oct 21, 2013 at 5:55 am

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has expressed his gratitude for the “many advances made in relations between Lutherans and Catholics in these past decades, not only through...

New U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See Presents Credentials to Pope Francis

Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Oct 21, 2013 at 5:53 am

Kenneth F. Hackett, the new U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, formally presented his credentials to Pope Francis today at the Vatican Apostolic Palace. Ambassador Hackett, who...

Pope: Attachment to Money Destroys People, Families and Relationships

Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Oct 21, 2013 at 5:32 am

In his homily this morning in the chapel of Casa Santa Marta, Pope Francis warned of destruction of people, families and relationships brought on by the attachment to money and...

The next homosexualist goal: elimination of “age of consent”, license for pedophiles

What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Oct 21, 2013 at 5:00 am

I have been writing for a long time now that the next step in the homosexualist agenda is to eliminate the “age of consent” limit. They approach their goals through creeping (...

UK: Confraternity of Catholic Clergy (invitation to laity!)