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The Joy of Mary’s Marriage to Joseph
Snoring Scholar - Mar 18, 2013 at 6:00 am
A Mary Moment Monday post
Mary and Joseph’s marriage didn’t exactly get off to an easy start. They were engaged and Joseph had promised not to “defile” Mary, because she was a...
Catholic Techie Maggie Brudnicki
CatholicMom.com - Mar 18, 2013 at 6:00 am You know what’s fun? Meeting people through the work I do here at CatholicMom.com.
One such person is a fellow Ohioan who’s a techie in a more low-key way than most of the other...
Recent Articles of Interest
The Religion Clause - Mar 18, 2013 at 6:00 am From SSRN:
Kenneth L Marcus, Is Anti-Semitism Unique?: Review of Clemens Heni, Antisemitism: A Specific Phenomenon (Berlin: Edition Critic, 2013) (2013). Brandeis Brief (March...
Pope Francis Explains Why He Chose St. Francis of Assisi's Name
Franciscan Media - Mar 18, 2013 at 6:00 am VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis said that "as things got dangerous" in the conclave voting, he was sitting next to his "great friend," Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes "who...
We have betrayed Iraqi Christians twice
Catholic Herald - Mar 18, 2013 at 5:52 am The travails Iraq has undergone in the decade since the invasion in 2003 have largely played out among, and between, the country’s major ethno-religious groups: Sunni and Shia...
Pope Francis will shake up more than Vatican schedules
Catholic News Agency - General - Mar 18, 2013 at 5:45 am Vatican City, Mar 18, 2013 / 04:45 am (CNA/EWTN News).- All the Vatican officials will continue in their positions “until otherwise provided” while Pope Francis takes time for “...
Pope Francis will shake up more than Vatican schedules
EWTN - Vatican News - Mar 18, 2013 at 5:45 am Vatican City, Mar 18, 2013 / 05:45 am (EWTN News).-
All the Vatican officials will continue in their positions "until otherwise provided" while Pope Francis takes time for "...
I thought that having a new Pope at last would bring some relief from hostile media attention: how wrong can you be?
Catholic Herald - Mar 18, 2013 at 5:15 am “Reacting with unusual swiftness,” The New York Times reported, two days day after the present Holy Father’s election, “the Vatican on Friday rejected any suggestion that Pope...
What Did St. Francis Really Say? – 3
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Mar 18, 2013 at 4:52 am Now that we have a Pope named Francis, and all sorts of people are making references to St. Francis of Assisi in an attempt to pigeonhole this new Pope, we should consider who...
Archbishop Chaput: Pope Francis's election is 'huge benefit for the Church'
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 18, 2013 at 4:41 am Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia sees the election of Pope Francis as "a great gift, a huge benefit for the Church, and also a candid recognition of the new Catholic...
Missionary beaten in Pakistan; hundreds of Christians remain homeless
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 18, 2013 at 4:41 am Naeem Bhadhar, a Presbyterian pastor and missionary, was several beaten by Muslim extremists after he tried to organize a protest in Kalaswala, a village 85 miles from Lahore,...
Obama names delegation to Pope's inaugural Mass
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 18, 2013 at 4:40 am President Barack Obama has announced that Vice President Joseph Biden will lead the US delegation to the Mass inaugurating Pope Francis's Petrine ministry.
Other members of the ...
Michigan company gains court victory against HHS mandate
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 18, 2013 at 4:39 am A federal district court judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the HHS mandate against Domino's Farms, a Michigan property-management company wholly...
South African cardinal apologizes for remarks on pedophilia
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 18, 2013 at 4:38 am Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier of Durban has apologized for describing pedophilia as an "illness" rather than a "criminal condition."
Cardinal Napier had told BBC that "from my...
LENTCAzT 34 Monday 5th Week of Lent – An efficacious aid that is free for the poor.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Mar 18, 2013 at 4:33 am
Today is Monday in the 5th Week of Lent.
We hear today about the ancient Roman Station, in Trastevere, something by St. Cyril of Jerusalem, and a thought from Benedict XVI.
From...
Strange Bedfellows
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Mar 18, 2013 at 2:53 am Loopy New Age Catholic-gone-Episcopalian kook Matthew Fox pauses from celebrating rave masses in some basement in San Francisco to announce that he has joined the sedevacantists...
Hey Anchorage, Alaska!
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Mar 18, 2013 at 2:46 am A reader writes:
Can you please pass on our info and I ask for prayers here in Anchorage, Alaska for our new Prolife apostolate “Catholic Men For Life” Our intention is to grow to...
Pope Francis: 'Christ is the Center, Not the Successor of Peter'
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Mar 18, 2013 at 2:38 am Almost 6,000 journalists gathered at the Paul VI Audience Hall in the Vatican to attend an audience with Pope Francis. “I would like, then, to thank you in a special way for the...
Brad Birzer is a Gift to the Church
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Mar 18, 2013 at 2:35 am Here he is, exercising his customary beautiful common sense and fidelity to Jesus Christ.
Compare and Contrast
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Mar 18, 2013 at 2:34 am A reader writes:
Savor .the ongoing silence about Obama’s ongoing Drone War against civilians, including children, in Pakistan right now, as opposed to what will be the incessant...
