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"They Look Like Warehouses" - The Director of the Vatican Museums on the New Churches of Rome
New Liturgical Movement - Jun 7, 2013 at 7:00 am “They look like warehouses.” In an article published a few weeks ago, the website of the Italian daily La Repubblica quotes Antonio Paolucci, the director of the Vatican Museums,...
The Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Communio - Jun 7, 2013 at 6:51 am
At the period of Jesus' coming upon this earth, man had forgotten how to love, for he had forgotten what true beauty was. His heart of flesh seemed to him as a sort of excuse for...
Bangladesh Court Fines Muslin Clergy For Election Campaigning
The Religion Clause - Jun 7, 2013 at 6:43 am According to bdnews24, in Bangladesh a "mobile court" has fined an imam and a moazzin (Muslim preacher) 10,000 Tk (equivalent of $128 US) for campaigning for a candidate in the...
Tune Ev’ry Heart and Ev’ry Voice
Dominicana - Jun 7, 2013 at 6:30 am Every form of local patriotism is, to some degree, unintelligible to those who do not share it. Princeton University was my own little platoon, to borrow from Edmund Burke, and...
Daily Catholic Quote from St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
Integrated Catholic Life - Jun 7, 2013 at 6:30 am The sacred heart of Christ is an inexhaustible fountain and its sole desire is to pour itself out into the hearts of the humble so as to free them and prepare them to lead lives...
State lacks authority to redefine marriage, says bishop
EWTN - US Latest News - Jun 7, 2013 at 6:06 am Phoenix, Ariz., Jun 7, 2013 / 06:06 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, Ill., explained that marriage is rooted in nature and exists prior to the state...
Christian Employee Who Objects To Secular Counseling Loses Religious Accommodation Claim
The Religion Clause - Jun 7, 2013 at 6:04 am In Valenzisi v. Stamford Board of Education, (D CT, June 5, 2013), a Connecticut federal district court dismissed a claim by high school math teacher challenging his termination...
Pope Nixes 'Boring' Practice of Reading Text to Students
Franciscan Media - Jun 7, 2013 at 6:00 am VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Francis ditched a 1,250-word prepared speech
to students saying it would be "a tad boring" to read out loud and opted
instead to just quickly hit the high...
One Church, Two Paths: Contrasting Chaput and O’Malley
The Deacon's Bench - Jun 7, 2013 at 5:58 am Over at NCR, Tom Roberts looks at these two leading American prelates—both Capuchins, former classmates, now among the most prominent archbishops in the United States—and sees two...
Holy See Appeals For More Protection of Migrants and Refugees
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jun 7, 2013 at 5:49 am The document, entitled “Welcoming Christ in Refugees and Forcibly Displaced Persons” calls for special attention to today’s problem of migrations, which presents a very different...
Pope to Students: Spiritual Formation Is the Requirement for Service
Catholic Education Daily - Jun 7, 2013 at 5:49 am This morning in Rome, Pope Francis met with students and teachers from Jesuit-run schools in Italy and Albania and offered words of encouragement, according to the Vatican...
Pope Speaks With Students from Jesuit Schools in Italy and Albania
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jun 7, 2013 at 5:47 am Pope Francis met with over 9000 students from Jesuit schools in Italy and Albania at the Paul VI Audience Hall this morning. The atmosphere was lively as the Pope began the...
Pope at Mass: The science of tenderness
News.va - Jun 7, 2013 at 5:45 am (Vatican Radio) It’s harder to open our hearts and let God love us than to love God in return. But the only way to really love Him is to love others, especially the poor. God is...
Let yourself be loved by God, Pope Francis urges faithful
Catholic Herald - Jun 7, 2013 at 5:44 am Catholics should pray for the grace to allow themselves to be loved by God, Pope Francis said at Mass this morning.
In his homily in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae at the...
I rarely agree with Nick Clegg but he is right about stay-at-home mums
Catholic Herald - Jun 7, 2013 at 5:29 am Those who follow my blog will know that I am a stout champion of a mother’s right to raise her children at home, especially when they are very young, without constant government...
Nebraska Christian leaders argue against food stamp cuts
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 7, 2013 at 5:20 am Bishop William Dendinger of Grand Island has joined Episcopal, Lutheran, and Methodist leaders in Nebraska in urging representatives and senators not to support cuts to the...
Bishop: �drones aren't the murky moral subject we pretend they are'
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 7, 2013 at 5:20 am Writing for a Washington Post blog, Bishop Richard Pates of Des Moines, chairman of the Committee on International Justice and Peace of the United States Conference of Catholic...
Leading Philippine prelate: divorce, same-sex marriage legislation unlikely to pass
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 7, 2013 at 5:18 am Archbishop Jose Palma of Cebu, president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines, has said that legislation that would expand divorce and alter the definition of...
Pakistan: hundreds accused of taking part in anti-Christian rampage released
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 7, 2013 at 5:15 am Three months after a mob of 3,000 Muslims attacked a Christian neighborhood in Lahore, Pakistan's second-largest city, few of the perpetrators are in prison.
Hundreds of those...
Setback for traditional marriage in House of Lords; bishops call for religious-liberty protections
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 7, 2013 at 5:14 am The United Kingdom moved closer to altering the definition of marriage when the House of Lords, by a 390-148 margin, rejected an attempt to table same-sex marriage legislation.
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