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LCWR UPDATE: Fidget Spinner, Mickey Mouse, and interesting gestures
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Aug 13, 2017 at 12:00 pm Update from the annual meeting of the LCWR:
Not photoshopped:
What do you want to bet that some of these same gals back in March 2016, during the political campaign, accused...
Why is America crazy? That Atlantic cover story has the answer -- it's that old-time religion
GetReligion - Aug 13, 2017 at 12:00 pm
Yes, I heard you.
There is no question that the think piece for this week was that amazing cover story at The Atlantic that ran with that fascinating double-decker headline that...
My View For Awhile: Rising From The Ashes Edition
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Aug 13, 2017 at 11:46 am Now for a couple of flights, one shortish and one longish.
Not much going on at this airport today. Parking and check in and security were a breeze.
It is a fairly quick trip to...
Blind woman regains sight after visiting relics at Phoenix church
Saint's Relic Tours - Aug 13, 2017 at 11:35 am Blind woman regains sight after visiting relics at Phoenix church
http://www.azfamily.com/story/34426220/blind-woman-regains-sight-after-visiting-relics-at-phoenix-church
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Many Relics in Evansville, Indiana at Monastery of Saint Clare
Saint's Relic Tours - Aug 13, 2017 at 11:24 am Monastery Of St. Clare Home To Many Relicshttp://www.themessageonline.org/special_features/article/id/17529 August 10, 2017...
Homily for the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 20, 2017, Year A
Big C Catholics - Aug 13, 2017 at 11:08 am Fr. Charles IrvinSenior PriestDiocese of Lansing(Click here for today’s readings)Today’s Gospel account contains one of the most memorable verbal duels recorded in the four...
Judge Wrongly Relied On Defendant's Christian Religious Background To Enhance Sentence
The Religion Clause - Aug 13, 2017 at 10:37 am In Miller v. People of the Virgin Islands, (VI Sup. Ct., Aug. 9, 2017), the Virgin Islands Supreme Court remanded for re-sentencing a case in which defendant plead guilty as an...
Free Exercise Claim Against Hospital Over Diet For Daughter Moves Ahead
The Religion Clause - Aug 13, 2017 at 10:16 am In Dixon v. Department of Health and Human Services, (ED MI, Aug. 11, 2017), a Michigan federal district court allowed parents whose daughter was ordered hospitalized for mental...
Tenth Sunday After Pentecost
Regina Magazine - Aug 13, 2017 at 10:08 am Today is the Tenth Sunday After Pentecost. by Fr. Francis Xavier Weninger, 1882 “Two men went up into the temple to pray.” Luke 18, 10. What a remarkable contrast presents...
The annual tradition of blessing herbs on the feast of the Assumption
Aleteia - Aug 13, 2017 at 7:00 am The special blessing seeks to increase the natural powers of healing these plants possess.During the Middle Ages there developed an annual tradition of blessing herbs on the feast...
Your Sunday Sermon Notes
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Aug 13, 2017 at 6:58 am It’s the 10th Sunday after Pentecost or else the 19th Ordinary Sunday.
Was there a good point made in the sermon you heard during the Holy Mass in fulfillment your of Sunday...
Angelus: Listen to the Lord not horoscopes or fortune tellers
News.va - Aug 13, 2017 at 6:41 am (Vatican Radio)"When you do not cling to the word of the Lord, but have more security in consulting horoscopes and fortune tellers you become submerged”. Those were Pope Francis’...
“Faith is not an easy way out from the problems of life”
Vatican Insider - Aug 13, 2017 at 6:19 am “When we don’t cling to the word of the Lord, but instead, we consult horoscopes and fortune-tellers, we start sinking” warns the Pope during the Angelus. “The Church doesn’t sink...
Only the Lord can help
Communio - Aug 13, 2017 at 6:11 am Today, on the 19th Sunday through the Church Year, we hear the gospel reading where Jesus walks on the water. We are moving through the summer…and what the Church gives to us to...
Trust in Christ – not in horoscopes, Pope Francis says
Catholic News Agency - General - Aug 13, 2017 at 5:41 am Vatican City, Aug 13, 2017 / 04:41 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Sunday Pope Francis repeated a message he often has, warning against putting one's trust in horoscopes and fortune...
Trust in Christ – not in horoscopes, Pope Francis says
EWTN - Vatican News - Aug 13, 2017 at 5:41 am Vatican City, Aug 13, 2017 / 05:41 am (EWTN News/CNA).- On Sunday Pope Francis repeated a message he often has, warning against
putting one's trust in horoscopes and fortune...
St. Barbara of the Tunnels? These Glasgow workers have a special devotion
EWTN - World Catholic News - Aug 13, 2017 at 5:11 am Glasgow, Scotland, Aug 13, 2017 / 05:11 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Workers building a three-mile tunnel under the streets of Glasgow, Scotland have a special patron, and a statue of her...
This is how to be a Christian
Aleteia - Aug 13, 2017 at 5:00 am G.K. Chesterton walks us through the ABCs“He saw things we don’t see,” Peter Kreeft writes in the foreword of ABCs of the Christian Life by G. K. Chesterton, a book recently...
Daily Gospel Reflection for August 13, 2017
CatholicMom.com - Aug 13, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: Matthew 10:7-15
Whenever I read this story I think about a young child learning to walk, or even better, learning to ride a bike. The parent is running alongside...
Grace…meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.
Aleteia - Aug 13, 2017 at 3:00 am Anne Lamott
