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Christian village attacked in Nigeria; 30 dead
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 18, 2012 at 5:32 am Muslim nomads have attacked a Christian village in central Nigeria, killing 30.
The October 14 attack took place in Benue State, which is located in southeastern ...
Prelates speak about Islam as synod discussion concludes; Cardinal Pell rues decline of fasting
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 18, 2012 at 5:31 am On the eleventh day of the Thirteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, 25 synod fathers spoke on various aspects of the synod's theme, "The New Evangelization...
Cardinal Napier: new evangelization needs new approaches and new fervour
News.va - Oct 18, 2012 at 5:19 am (Vatican Radio) Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, Archbishop of Durban in South Africa, is one of the participants at the ongoing Synod of Bishops of the New Evangelization. Speaking...
Tonight in Gotham: American Catholicism's "Power Hour"
Whispers in the Loggia - Oct 18, 2012 at 5:15 am (Thursday, 18 – 5.50am) Even for this morning's expected spotlight on Indy, lest anybody forgot, today's Main Event – and not just in Churchworld – takes place back East. Of...
Catholic mom organizes 'virtual' race for Chinese orphans
Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 18, 2012 at 5:10 am Washington D.C., Oct 18, 2012 / 04:10 am (CNA).- After researching adoption in China and learning of the high rates of abandoned children, a Catholic homeschooling mother...
Cistercian nuns plan new monastery after vocations rise
EWTN - US Latest News - Oct 18, 2012 at 5:03 am Madison, Wis., Oct 18, 2012 / 05:03 am (EWTN News).-
Following a vocations boom at Valley of Our Lady Monastery near Madison, Wis., an architecture firm is designing a new...
Debate: Should the Church give up on the old-fashioned ‘single-priest’ parish?
Catholic Herald - Oct 18, 2012 at 4:20 am Vienna archdiocese, we report this week, is about to start closing more than three quarters of its parishes. Over the next decade, 660 parishes will be reduced to 150 larger...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 18/10/12
Catholic Herald - Oct 18, 2012 at 4:20 am Cardinal Donald Wuerl offered a summary of the 230 speeches delivered at the synod of the bishops on the new evangelisation yesterday as the synod reached its halfway point (video...
The Unstoppable Brandon Vogt….
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Oct 18, 2012 at 4:10 am …has a great video of a conversation between himself and Fr. Robert Barron. Check it out!
Vienna archdiocese to cut parishes by 75 per cent
Catholic Herald - Oct 18, 2012 at 4:00 am The Archdiocese of Vienna has said it will press ahead with a major reorganisation that will include closing most of its parishes over 10 years, despite objections from some local...
Daily Scriptures Reflection for 10/18/12 – Feast of St. Luke, Evangelist
CatholicMom.com - Oct 18, 2012 at 4:00 am St. Luke, Evangelist
Scripture: Lectionary # 470: Ephesians 1:3-10. Psalm 98:1, 2-3, 3-4,5-6. Luke 11:47-54:
Thursday’s Scriptures
USCCB Video Reflection
Saints of the Day...
In College? Need a Quick Term Paper?
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Oct 18, 2012 at 3:46 am The Postmodern Essay Generator will provide you with endless streams of meaningless verbiage! You’ll be able to rattle off such pretentious and intimidating babble as:
“Truth is...
Bishop suggests Vatican could create Catalan Bishops' Conference
EWTN - World Catholic News - Oct 18, 2012 at 3:28 am Barcelona, Spain, Oct 18, 2012 / 03:28 pm (EWTN News).-
Bishop Xavier Novell of Solsona, who is the youngest prelate in Spain, said on Oct. 17 that if the region of Catalonia...
Christians before the conflicts in the Middle East
News.va - Oct 18, 2012 at 3:10 am Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The demands of the Arab peoples in order to obtain constitutional, economic and social reforms are just and legitimate, but what is not right is the fact of...
CRS Rice Bowl program has new internet component
Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 18, 2012 at 3:03 am Baltimore, Md., Oct 18, 2012 / 02:03 am (CNA).- Catholic Relief Services has revamped its traditional Lenten anti-hunger Operation Rice Bowl program to allow participants to...
Prayer Requests and Praise Reports
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Oct 18, 2012 at 2:53 am A reader writes:
About 10 days ago I asked the Prayer Warriors to pray for my sister Giovanna who was going in for surgery. Yesterday afternoon they removed a small tumor from her...
It’s the Big Election Super Fun Pak!
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Oct 18, 2012 at 2:44 am Since I keep getting the same arguments over and over, I’m rounding up my responses into a single super fun pak of replies so I don’t have to keep saying the same things again and...
Ross Douthat
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Oct 18, 2012 at 2:16 am answers Adam Gopnik and his reflexive panic about the imminent Theocracy that (Gopnik hyperventilates) RR are about to impose–a fear as in touch with reality as the Right’s fear...
Renewing Ireland requires giving youth hope and truth, bishops say
EWTN - World Catholic News - Oct 18, 2012 at 2:13 am Vatican City, Oct 18, 2012 / 02:13 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
Ireland's delegation to the Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization presented ways to re-evangelize a country shaken by...
Advent Calendar Question
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Oct 18, 2012 at 2:07 am A reader asks:
Does anyone where to buy an Advent calendar that corresponds to the actual dates of Advent, rather than Dec. 1 to Dec. 24?
Beats me. Anyone?
