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Church: The Necessity of Youth Ministry
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Aug 26, 2013 at 1:00 am Recently, "Bad Catholic" blogger Marc Barnes wrote a thoughtful piece on the "problem" with youth ministry within the mission and life of the Church. Today, WOF Blog...
Bishop: Homophobia is a Mental Illness
Creative Minority Report - Aug 25, 2013 at 11:57 pm In an videotaped interview, Bishop Raúl Vera López, a Mexican friar of the Dominican Order and bishop of the Diocese of Saltillo, gave a scathing interview which he said "...
Dominican Sisters, Mater Eucharistiae, and Awesomeness
Integrated Catholic Life - Aug 25, 2013 at 11:01 pm I used to think it must be so boooooorrrrrriiiinnnnng to be a religious sister. I mean, what would you do for fun? Pray? I’ve come a long way since those days. Now, I struggle not...
Letter to a new deacon
The Deacon's Bench - Aug 25, 2013 at 9:40 pm One of the Redemptorist priests I met last week on retreat was Fr. John McKenna. He was excited to share with me the news that a friend of his from a previous parish was about to...
The Traditional Latin Mass in Hong Kong
New Liturgical Movement - Aug 25, 2013 at 7:34 pm Former St. Alphonsus (Baltimore) parishioner turned FSSP seminarian Joseph Mihm serving as sub-deacon for a Solemn High Mass in Hong Kong.
Pope Francis: "Be Christians and Give Witness to the Faith"
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Aug 25, 2013 at 7:00 pm Jesus does not exclude sinners, on the contrary he “prefers sinners” to forgive them. Pope Francis emphasized this during his Sunday Angelus address to the thousands of pilgrims...
Fit for God: Why priests need to stay in shape
The Deacon's Bench - Aug 25, 2013 at 6:18 pm Deacons, too, of course! This gives new meaning to the idea of “exercising your ministry.” Check out this piece from Chaz Muth at Catholic News Service: On a recent hot summer...
Treating Those We Love Like Strangers
Creative Minority Report - Aug 25, 2013 at 6:17 pm I was at the bookstore recently with my kids. The little ones were checking out the Legos while the older girls were lounging like hippies on beanbag chairs reading books we hadn’...
“You don’t think this is ever going to happen to your church”: Landmark Maine church prepares for sale
The Deacon's Bench - Aug 25, 2013 at 5:59 pm Photo: Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal Details, from the Lewiston-Auborn Sun Journal: Few prayers remain for St. Louis Catholic Church. The neo-Gothic landmark still sits just as it...
Sunday Supper: Old Fashioned Edition
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Aug 25, 2013 at 5:50 pm What are you having? Are you having a good meal with others as you sanctify your Sunday?
Here’s an old fashioned drink.
Vietnamese tonight.
Spring rolls and Pho!
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Cardinal George praised by columnist for outspoken vigor
Catholic News Agency - General - Aug 25, 2013 at 5:20 pm Chicago, Ill., Aug 25, 2013 / 04:20 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Cardinal Francis George of Chicago’s “intellectual vigor” and “forceful defense of the Church” may be why Pope Francis has...
The Weekly Francis – Volume 24 – 25 August 2013
The Curt Jester - Aug 25, 2013 at 5:04 pm
This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 7 August to 25 August 2013.
The Weekly Francis is a compilation of the Holy Father’s writings,...
Living in Alaska, she’s got a prayer
Catholic Hot Dish - Aug 25, 2013 at 5:04 pm I’m just catching up with a book that’s been in print for seven years, but the lag in time doesn’t do anything but add richness to Heather Lende’s fine work, “If You Lived Here, I...
The Weekly Francis – 25 August 2013
Jimmy Akin.org - Aug 25, 2013 at 4:58 pm This version of The Weekly Francis covers material released in the last week from 7 August to 25 August 2013.
Angelus
11 August 2013
15 August 2013 – Angelus on the Solemnity of...
Raising Our Voices for Peace in Syria
CatholicMom.com - Aug 25, 2013 at 4:48 pm
Raising Our Voices for Peace in Syria
Last night, our family sat comfortably in the living room, eating takeout pizza and rewatching Hotel Rwanda. Our Adam, now an 18 year old,...
Who Did It?
Commonweal - Aug 25, 2013 at 3:49 pm As war-mongering heats up in Washington, London, and Paris, and the White House asserts that it was almost certainly the Assad Regime that used chemical weapons last week, here is...
Franciscans of the Immaculate - Intervention Commissioner is interested in only one matter: the Traditional Mass
Rorate Coeli - Aug 25, 2013 at 3:15 pm From the questionnaire sent by the Commissioner (Monsignor Vito Angelo TODISCO, OFMConv, Apostolic Visitator) designated in the Intervention of the Congregation for Institutes of...
The Church and the March on Washington: "Leaping into the air for joy"
Commonweal - Aug 25, 2013 at 3:09 pm Yesterday I posted some excerpts from Francis E. Kearns's report on the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, fifty years ago this week. Joseph Komonchak's comment on that...
Responding to our God of Creation, Redemption and Inspiration
CatholicMom.com - Aug 25, 2013 at 2:00 pm
ValLimar Jansen
Note: I chair the Commission for Women of the Diocese of Worcester, MA and we are putting on our biennial women’s conference, Gather Us In 2013 on November 2,...
After Hasan trial: Spot big religion ghost in this story
GetReligion - Aug 25, 2013 at 1:47 pm The military trial of Maj. Nidal Hasan was never — as a journalism story — really about whether or not he was guilty of massacring his unarmed colleagues at Ft. Hood, Texas. With...
