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Why this Catholic priest objects to the 'private exorcist' trend
EWTN - World Catholic News - Aug 5, 2017 at 4:02 am Denver, Colo., Aug 5, 2017 / 04:02 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
A recent article in the Economist has some disturbing news about the rise of so-called "professional exorcists" in France...
Knights of Columbus planning to replace traditional uniform
Catholic Herald - Aug 5, 2017 at 3:46 am The Knights of Columbus, long associated with swords, capes and chapeaus, will be going through a significant uniform change. Supreme Knight Carl Anderson announced during the...
Gene editing could lead to eugenics, ethicist warns
Catholic Herald - Aug 5, 2017 at 3:32 am A Catholic research institute has described the “gene editing” of human embryos at a US university as “the essence of eugenics,” adding that the study “raises serious ethical...
Daily Gospel Reflection for August 5, 2017
CatholicMom.com - Aug 5, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: Matthew 14:1-12
This Gospel is just a little sickening, with the conglomeration of sin that’s crammed into a few sentences. To be honest, I always feel sorry for...
Last Week, the President of the United States Urged Cops to be More Brutal
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Aug 5, 2017 at 2:50 am …in a speech so stupid and irresponsible the DEA chief had to publicly reject Trump’s calls for more violence from cops. Mr. Trump, they have that down. Here are some cops...
US citizens can be held for three years on the basis of nothing whatsoever…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Aug 5, 2017 at 2:36 am …and then be denied compensation by Appeal Courts. All they have to do is breathe oxygen while being brown and it’s perfectly fine for the state to do that: Davino Watson told the...
It’s our birthday, precioussss!
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Aug 5, 2017 at 2:19 am And we wants Cut In Half Man to entertain usss with trickses. Sadly, he won’t be appearing at my festivities, for I will be at Lake Ballinger today, cooling off from the August...
Sharing the Word for August 5, 2017
Franciscan Media - Aug 5, 2017 at 12:00 am Saturday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time
August 05, 2017
Daily Reading from the USCCB: Leviticus 25:1, 8-17
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From Scotland to Rome – A Story of Conversion
Integrated Catholic Life - Aug 4, 2017 at 11:04 pm It was 11:45 in the evening and I couldn’t sleep. I was anxious about a phone conversation I overheard my wife having with her mother about Catholicism and my patience for this...
Daily Catholic Quote — from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Integrated Catholic Life - Aug 4, 2017 at 11:02 pm “Without God man neither knows which way to go, nor even understands who he is. In the face of the enormous problems surrounding the development of peoples, which almost make us...
Encountering the Word — Psalm 23:6
Integrated Catholic Life - Aug 4, 2017 at 11:01 pm “Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” (Psalm 23:6) Please share on social media. Print this entry
Musing on the teeth of Saint Ambrose
Aleteia - Aug 4, 2017 at 11:00 pm Revering a 1,600-year-old relic of a holy man is not worship. John Henry Newman got it. I write these words from Milan, Italy, where I am with my Word on Fire team filming new...
Faith where eagles dare
Aleteia - Aug 4, 2017 at 11:00 pm Photo of the Day: August 5, 2017High atop this rock near the village of Katskhi, Georgia, sits a church. As far back as the 5th century, a group of Christians known as Stylites,...
The underlying spirituality in Stephen King’s ‘Dark Tower’
Aleteia - Aug 4, 2017 at 11:00 pm King is not a Christian writer, but his works, especially those that star supernatural boogiemen, often feel strangely spiritual.I first met Randall Flagg in high school, when a...
How to maintain respect for someone you disagree with
Aleteia - Aug 4, 2017 at 11:00 pm There's a big difference between respecting people and respecting their ideas and actions.Human beings experience a silly need to impose our will and our way of thinking on others...
The Transfiguration and the mystical moment
Aleteia - Aug 4, 2017 at 11:00 pm The Transfiguration, like his baptism by John, was a pivotal moment in the life of Jesus.Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by...
The church that Our Lady outlined in snow
Aleteia - Aug 4, 2017 at 11:00 pm Christmas came early that year in Rome.On August 5 each year the Church celebrates the memorial of the Dedication of St. Mary Major, also known as “The Feast of Our Lady of the...
The scientist nuns: In pursuit of faith and reason
Aleteia - Aug 4, 2017 at 11:00 pm Meet 3 Sisters in science who simultaneously trod two paths to ultimate truth.Making a career out of science, just like joining a religious order, requires dedication and...
Designer babies vs Catholic teaching
Aleteia - Aug 4, 2017 at 11:00 pm Where does the dicey borderline between therapy and enhancement reside?On the other hand, interventions which are not directly curative, the purpose of which is “the production of...
