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WDTPRS – 10th Sunday after Pentecost: Mercy and Justice are not opposed
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Aug 13, 2017 at 12:55 am
Symbols of Mercy and Justice on the emblem of the Spanish Inquisition
The Collect for the 10th Sunday after Pentecost in the Extraordinary Form survived, sort of survived, to...
Struggles and Trials? Look to Jesus in the Fourth Watch of the Night
Catholic Online - Featured News - Aug 13, 2017 at 12:00 am We can miss a real encounter with the Lord if we think that this account
is only about Peter and the disciples - something distant which
happened ...
PRAY: Calls for prayers during ' abhorrent acts of hatred' in Charlottesville
Catholic Online - Featured News - Aug 13, 2017 at 12:00 am The head of the U.S. bishops conference called for prayers after one person was killed and over a dozen injured during a white nationalist protest in ...
Why is Mexico the most dangerous Latin American country for priests?
Catholic Online - Featured News - Aug 13, 2017 at 12:00 am For the ninth year in a row, Mexico is the most violent country in Latin America for priests, said a report from the Catholic Multimedia Center.
Seven Essential Lessons for Dads
Integrated Catholic Life - Aug 12, 2017 at 11:04 pm Our state in life is where we live out our vocation; it is the path by which we journey to Heaven. God has called each of us by name to Himself. In baptism we each received a...
Death: Friend or foe?
Aleteia - Aug 12, 2017 at 11:00 pm And if the former, what does that mean for life?Bill Tammeus is a friend who for many years was the religion editor of The Kansas City Star. Though retired, he did not shake the...
The Catholic doctor who invented the stethoscope
Aleteia - Aug 12, 2017 at 11:00 pm A French physician, known as a thoroughly kind and charitable man, also identified and named melanoma and advanced treatment for TB.Have you ever wondered who invented the...
Why these popes think you should be reading Dante
Aleteia - Aug 12, 2017 at 11:00 pm Here are 6 lessons that a handful of pontiffs have learned from the poet.Still in exile from his beloved Florence when he died, Dante is buried in Ravenna, a prominent reminder of...
Meet the Cuban-American priest who fought for immigrant rights
Aleteia - Aug 12, 2017 at 11:00 pm During his life, Ven. Félix Varela defended those on the margins of society. Born in Havana, Cuba, in 1788, Félix Varela y Morales spent his childhood in St. Augustine, Florida....
4 Ways to develop empathy according to Edith Stein
Aleteia - Aug 12, 2017 at 11:00 pm Struggling with jealousy, anger, or lack of kindness? The brilliant St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross can help.Do you ever emotionally lose it (maybe just a little bit) when...
Today, Jesus scolded me while I celebrated Mass
Aleteia - Aug 12, 2017 at 11:00 pm He reminded me of the crucial truth that is the only response to suffering and doubt.As is the case for every priest in the world, not a single day passes without people seeking...
Blessed Virgin Mary, patron of sailors
Aleteia - Aug 12, 2017 at 11:00 pm Photo of the Day: August 13, 2017A procession with the statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary on a traditional fishing boat takes place at the harbor of Nice, southeastern France,...
Court Refuses To Enforce Arbitration Award In Church Control Dispute
The Religion Clause - Aug 12, 2017 at 9:15 pm In Patterson v. Shelton, (ED PA, Aug. 11, 2017), a Pennsylvania federal district court dismissed an attempt to obtain enforcement of an arbitration award entered over ten years...
Our Lady of Kazan and Mary's affinity for Russia
Catholic News Agency - General - Aug 12, 2017 at 5:02 pm Rome, Italy, Aug 12, 2017 / 04:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- One hundred years ago, at the height of a cultural about-face in Russia, Mary appeared to three shepherd children in...
Calls for prayer amid 'abhorrent' violence in Charlottesville
Catholic News Agency - General - Aug 12, 2017 at 4:46 pm Washington D.C., Aug 12, 2017 / 03:46 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The head of the U.S. bishops conference called for prayers after one person was killed and over a dozen injured during a...
Trump and the evangelicals: Is a counselors’ association becoming too politicized?
GetReligion - Aug 12, 2017 at 3:00 pm
The ongoing entanglement of an important segment of U.S. evangelical Protestantism with the Donald Trump phenomenon keeps taking new and newsworthy turns.
The latest is a small...
Daily Readings for Sunday, August 13, 2017
Catholic Online - Featured News - Aug 12, 2017 at 2:25 pm Reading 1: 1 Kings 19:11-13, Reading 1: 1 Kings 19:9, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 85:9-14, Gospel: Matthew 14:22-33, Reading 2: Romans 9:1-5
Prayer for the Forgiveness of Sins: Prayer of the Day for Sunday, August 13, 2017
Catholic Online - Featured News - Aug 12, 2017 at 2:25 pm O Lord, Jesus Christ,
Redeemer and Saviour,
forgive my sins,
just as You forgave Peter's denial
and those who crucified You.
Count not my ...
Walking on Water: Reflection for the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time
CatholicMom.com - Aug 12, 2017 at 12:30 pm See page for author [CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Readings for August 13, 2017: 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time
One of the most famous stories of the New Testament is the one...
Pope Benedict XVI on the Walking on the Water: “With Your Strength Alone You Cannot Rise. Hold Tight to the Hand of Christ”
Big C Catholics - Aug 12, 2017 at 12:21 pm The following commentary on the walking on the water in which Our Lord saves Peter from drowning in the storm is from Pope Benedict XVI’s Angelus address delivered from the Papal...
