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Pope's Address to the 13th Ordinary Council of the Secretariat General of the Synod of Bishops
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jun 13, 2013 at 4:54 am Here is the translation of the Pope's address to the members of the 13th Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops, gathered in assembly to reflect on...
The Miraculous Responsory of St. Anthony of Padua
New Liturgical Movement - Jun 13, 2013 at 4:52 am R. Si quaeris miracula, R. If you ask for miracles
Mors, error calamitas, Death, error, all calamaties
Daemon, lepra...
Colorado fire draws aid efforts, call for prayers
EWTN - US Latest News - Jun 13, 2013 at 4:48 am Colorado Springs, Colo., Jun 13, 2013 / 04:48 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
A massive forest fire in Colorado Springs has destroyed more homes than any previous fire in the state,...
Francis: Ask For the Grace of Meekness and Love
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jun 13, 2013 at 4:36 am For the first time since his election to the papacy, Pope Francis celebrated morning Mass in the Chapel of Domus Sanctae Marthae in his native Spanish. Present at the Mass were...
Print Edition 14.6.13
Catholic Herald - Jun 13, 2013 at 4:17 am In this week’s edition of The Catholic Herald Alicia von Stamitz interviews American Benedictine nun, Sister Joan Chittister; Laura Keynes, the great-great-great-grandaughter of...
Antonio, "the Saint"
Rorate Coeli - Jun 13, 2013 at 4:00 am Il Santo, "the Saint" loved by the multitudes. The Evangelical Doctor, the miracle-worker, the Canon and the Friar, from Lisbon to Padua, the humble man of God entirely dedicated...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 13/06/13
Catholic Herald - Jun 13, 2013 at 3:47 am Pope Francis is already a “spiritual success”, his close friend Rabbi Abraham Skorka has said during a visit to Rome (video)
Officials from the Holy See and Vietnam have begun new...
Evangelium Vitae: A consistent life ethic
News.va - Jun 13, 2013 at 3:30 am (Vatican Radio) “One of the things we want to demonstrate is, that the Gospel of Life is the defense of all life. We want to show the consistent life ethic of the Catholic...
Neo-Triumphalism: George Weigel's Offenses Against Pious Ears
Rorate Coeli - Jun 13, 2013 at 3:17 am The latest article by Mr. Weigel in First Things is yet another in a series of articles wherein he touts the "triumphs" of Vatican II over the previous magisterium. This time, he...
The Paradigm of Revolt in Public Education
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jun 13, 2013 at 3:15 am In 1962, historian of science Thomas S. Kuhn shocked the academic world with his book The Structures of Scientific Revolution. He asserted that scientific communities are closed...
The Sheer Joy of Fatherhood
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jun 13, 2013 at 3:10 am Recently I ran into my former advisor at Texas A&M University whom I hadn’t seen for nearly a decade. While I held my son Thomas in my arms, I shared with him the details of...
Pope Francis is a ‘spiritual success’, says rabbi
Catholic Herald - Jun 13, 2013 at 3:03 am Pope Francis is a “wonderful” leader of the Church and “a spiritual success”, an Argentine rabbi has said
Rabbi Abraham Skorka, an Argentine biophysicist and rector of the Latin...
Zambian bishops encourage 'people-driven' constitution
Catholic News Agency - General - Jun 13, 2013 at 3:01 am Lusaka, Zambia, Jun 13, 2013 / 02:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Catholic bishops of Zambia have urged locals to be vigilant in calling for a new, “people-driven” constitution to...
Zambian bishops encourage 'people-driven' constitution
EWTN - World Catholic News - Jun 13, 2013 at 3:01 am Lusaka, Zambia, Jun 13, 2013 / 03:01 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
The Catholic bishops of Zambia have urged locals to be vigilant in calling for a new, "people-driven" constitution to...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain: The Savage Noble
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jun 13, 2013 at 3:00 am Nothing conjures up summer quite like a bully, sure-’nough treasure:
A kite, a dead rat and a string to swing it with, twelve marbles, part of a jew’s harp, a piece of blue bottle...
Jesuit College Profs, Political Activists Defend Catholic Campaign for Human Development
Catholic Education Daily - Jun 13, 2013 at 3:00 am Theologians and others associated with Jesuit universities have joined with the partisan group Faith in Public Life to defend Catholic grants to grassroots organizing groups,...
NLRB Again Violates Freedom of Religious University
Catholic Education Daily - Jun 13, 2013 at 2:55 am Continuing the National Labor Relations Board's unconstitutional intrusion into religious education, a regional NLRB officer has ruled that faculty members at a Lutheran...
40-minute Interview with Fr. Guy Nicholls (Birmingham Oratory) on the Mass Propers
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jun 13, 2013 at 2:44 am …is here.
Fr. Guy Nicholls is the director of The Blessed John Henry Newman Institute for Liturgical Music. It is a new venture by the Fathers of the Birmingham Oratory in...
Prayer Requests
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jun 13, 2013 at 2:38 am A reader writes:
Could you please post a prayer for my oldest son? Just last week, he started having physical problems, the kind that always say ‘see a doctor immediately!’ He...
The Ambiguities of the Council
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jun 13, 2013 at 2:37 am A reader writes:
Hey Mark, have you read anything about the recent comments by Cardinal Kasper that Vatican II was “deliberately ambiguous”? Some traditionalists are making a lot...