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Note On Blog Postings
Opinionated Catholic - Oct 19, 2013 at 6:08 am Blog Posting should return to at least a post a day if not more. I go through some phases where I just take a break from the news and we see just 3 or 4 post a week. I suspect I...
Providence College Student Gets Pope's Zucchetto
Franciscan Media - Oct 19, 2013 at 6:00 am The "zucchetto switcheroo" is a long-held tradition for popes and pilgrims.
Thomas Aquinas College founder remembered for humility
EWTN - US Latest News - Oct 19, 2013 at 5:28 am Santa Paula, Calif., Oct 19, 2013 / 05:28 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Ronald P. McArthur, the founding president of Thomas Aquinas College, died Oct. 17 and is being remembered for the...
FSSP - Entering their 26th year with a great future ahead
Rorate Coeli - Oct 19, 2013 at 5:13 am A priestly reader sends us the following:
On October 19 in the Basilica of the Assumption of Mary, in Lindau, Bavaria, His Grace Wolfgang Haas, Archbishop of Vaduz will confer...
My present reading list
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Oct 19, 2013 at 4:34 am Someone wrote to ask what I am reading these days. A while back all my sidebar widgets mysteriously disappeared and I haven’t gotten around to rebuilding the widget that had...
Daily Catholic Quote from Walker Percy
Integrated Catholic Life - Oct 19, 2013 at 4:00 am “In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.” (Walker Percy, from Signposts in a Strange Land) If you liked this quote,...
Daily Scriptures Reflection and Morning Prayer for Saturday, October 19, 2013
CatholicMom.com - Oct 19, 2013 at 4:00 am Today’s Scriptures
USCCB Video Reflection
Saints of the Day
Scripture: Lectionary 472. Oct.19th . Romans 4:13,16-18. Psalm 105:6-7,8-9, 42-43. Luke 12:8-12
St. Paul is the first...
SYRIA: Bombs in confessionals
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Oct 19, 2013 at 3:39 am I am catching up on the news. To my horror I saw a story at Vatican Insider, to my knowledge only in Italian at this point, wherein the the Syrian Melkite Greek Catholic ...
What did the Pope really say in his short, non-magisterial fervorino about “ideology”?
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Oct 19, 2013 at 3:11 am Some people are getting worked up – again – about something Pope Francis said during his morning sermonette yesterday. His Holiness, in his non-magisterial fervorino, spoke about...
Reader Kate Cousino writes…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Oct 19, 2013 at 2:26 am I’m just writing to share with you this link to a piece I wrote on Chesterton and gratitude (as I told you before, I kept envisioning you while reading Manalive, so it seems...
Sad Yet Beautiful Story has a Strange Connection For Me
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Oct 19, 2013 at 2:11 am A story is making the rounds about a beautiful old couple, Floyd and Margaret Nordhagen, who died holding hands in a car accident last Saturday out in eastern Washington.
I know...
Fr. Robert Barron on Protestantism…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Oct 19, 2013 at 2:10 am …and Authority.
Reactionary Layman Successfully Defends Church from Wounded Sinner Seeking God
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Oct 19, 2013 at 2:07 am From Terry Nelson:
[W]hile he was Bishop of La Crosse, Wisconsin, Cardinal Burke permitted a transgendered woman to begin a religious community, or pious association of the...
Pope: Art expresses the beauty of faith
EWTN - Vatican News - Oct 19, 2013 at 1:52 am Vatican City, Oct 19, 2013 / 01:52 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
The creative arts help proclaim the gospel, explore the mysteries of Christian faith and reflect the quest for the "...
Bank robber falsely accused priests
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Oct 19, 2013 at 12:01 am This is so disturbing. What a nightmare.
FOLLOW-UP: Convicted Bank Robber Found GUILTY of Falsely Accusing Four Different Catholic Priests of Abuse [w/ COURT DOCS]
Convicted bank...
For God…For Others
Integrated Catholic Life - Oct 18, 2013 at 11:01 pm by Sister Maria Goretti, OCD “Sisters, there is nothing in our life that can’t be for others.” These words of Father Patrick Angelucci, SDB, the main celebrant and homilist for...
Now It is Evening, Time to Cease From Labour
Breviary Hymns - Oct 18, 2013 at 9:48 pm Be Thou Our Guardian Through the Hours of DarknessNow It is Evening, Time to Cease From Labour is a translation of the hymn Die Nacht ist Kommen Drin Wir Ruhen Sollen by Peter...
Press summary: The dangerous dilemma of the two living popes
Rorate Coeli - Oct 18, 2013 at 9:00 pm In the English-speaking media, there is an almost unanimity around the events of the current pontificate. As French blog Riposte Catholique reports, this attitude is certainly not...
Gay ‘marriages’ to begin in New Jersey as state Supreme Court refuses to grant stay
LifeSiteNews - Oct 18, 2013 at 8:40 pm by Ben Johnson TRENTON, NJ, October 18, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) –The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled on Friday afternoon that gay “marriages” would commence in the Garden State on...
Anniversaries and milestones
Cardinal Seán's Blog - Oct 18, 2013 at 8:28 pm Hello and welcome!
Last Wednesday I visited Notre Dame Cristo Rey High School in Lawrence for the celebration of their 10th anniversary.
In the last 10 years Notre Dame Cristo Rey...