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French bishops launch fundraising campaign as number of Catholics declines (CWN)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 3, 2018 at 6:01 am As France’s Catholic population declines, the French bishops’ conference has launched a fundraising campaign using radio, social media, and advertising inserts.
Topic of Pope's weekly audience: the penitential act of the Mass (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 3, 2018 at 6:01 am Click here for video of the Pope’s January 3 general audience.
Italian prelate denounces gambling (CWN)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 3, 2018 at 6:01 am Comparing “pathological” gamblers to Peter Pans who do not wish to grow up, an Italian archbishop has warned the faithful about the dangers of gambling addiction.
11th Circuit: Clergyman's Right To Retirement Benefits Was Ecclesiastical Matter
The Religion Clause - Jan 3, 2018 at 6:00 am In Myhre v. Seventh-Day Adventist Church Reform Movement American Union International Missionary Society, (11th Cir., Jan 2, 2018), the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld...
Top online courses you’ll want to try in 2018 (they’re free!)
Aleteia - Jan 3, 2018 at 6:00 am Why not take advantage of these classes offered by the world’s great universities?The internet has brought us many things, good, bad, and just plain stupid. There is one way, at...
An Open Book: January 2018
CatholicMom.com - Jan 3, 2018 at 6:00 am
Welcome to the January 2018 edition of An Open Book, hosted both at My Scribbler’s Heart AND Catholicmom.com!
Join #OpenBook linkup + share your current reads! Hosted by @...
Argentine President Macri will not be present during the Pope’s visit to Chile
Catholic Herald - Jan 3, 2018 at 5:47 am Pope Francis’s native Argentina will send no special representatives to the Pontiff’s apostolic visit to neighbouring Chile this month. President Mauricio Macri will not attend...
Judge orders more mediation to resolve Minn. clergy abuse settlements
EWTN - US Latest News - Jan 3, 2018 at 5:15 am Minneapolis, Minn., Jan 3, 2018 / 05:32 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
Disputes over clergy abuse settlements in the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis have led a federal bankruptcy judge...
Five bishops reaffirm traditional teaching on Communion
Catholic Herald - Jan 3, 2018 at 5:03 am Five bishops have reaffirmed the Church’s traditional teaching on Communion for the divorced and remarried, in an apparent response to recent statements from Pope Francis. The...
Pope Francis: Sin separates us from both God and neighbor
EWTN - Vatican News - Jan 3, 2018 at 5:03 am Vatican City, Jan 3, 2018 / 05:03 am (EWTN News/CNA).- On Wednesday Pope Francis emphasized how sin breaks our relationship with God and with our community, which is why at the...
French theologian named to Legion of Honor (CWN)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 3, 2018 at 5:01 am President Emmanuel Macron has named a French theologian and historian as an Officer of the Legion of Honor, France’s highest order of merit.
Life is back to normal — do we really need the feast of the Epiphany?
Aleteia - Jan 3, 2018 at 5:00 am What's the point? What is it that we're meant to understand, this late into the Christmas season?Do we really need to bother with the Feast of the Epiphany? By the time it rolls...
Nine Days of Prayer for Family Unity with Venerable Patrick Peyton: Day Three
CatholicMom.com - Jan 3, 2018 at 5:00 am Image courtesy of Holy Cross Family Ministries. All rights reserved. Used with permission.
Join us in a #novena of thanksgiving in honor of #rosarypriest Venerable Patrick Peyton....
Judge orders more mediation to resolve Minn. clergy abuse settlements
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 3, 2018 at 4:32 am Minneapolis, Minn., Jan 3, 2018 / 03:32 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Disputes over clergy abuse settlements in the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis have led a federal bankruptcy judge...
Time for a Spiritual Health Assessment
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jan 3, 2018 at 4:10 am
The story of the rich man and Lazarus is more than a bracing reminder about our duty to the poor; it is a cautionary tale about misjudging our spiritual condition.
In Jesus’s day...
Pope Francis: Sin separates us from both God and neighbor
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 3, 2018 at 4:03 am Vatican City, Jan 3, 2018 / 03:03 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Wednesday Pope Francis emphasized how sin breaks our relationship with God and with our community, which is why at the...
21 people are dead and 450 under arrest in Iran's bloody week of protests (Business Insider)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 3, 2018 at 4:01 am L’Osservatore Romano (1/3 Italian ed.) devoted front-page coverage to this story.
DR Congo: priests arrested in crackdown on Church-backed protests (AFP)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 3, 2018 at 4:01 am The Democratic Republic of the Congo, a nation of 83 million, is 50% Catholic. The nation’s president, Joseph Kabila, has governed beyond his constitutional term limit, and the...
Kim Jong Un highlights his 'nuclear button,' offers Olympic talks (NBC News)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 3, 2018 at 4:01 am L’Osservatore Romano (1/3 Italian ed.) devoted front-page coverage to this story.
2 Coptic Christians slain in Cairo (AsiaNews)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 3, 2018 at 4:01 am The New Year’s murder of 2 Christians at a Cairo liquor store follows December 29 attacks on a church and store in Helwan. “We can be attacked, and this can happen at any time,”...
