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No Salvation Outside the Church?

Making Things Visible - Oct 16, 2012 at 6:00 am
I wish that I had a dime for every time I had to break the news to some poor innocent person, that salvation comes from within the Church. You see there is this modern notion that...

Defending Life, Liberty a Must for Catholics, Archbishop Says

Franciscan Media - Oct 16, 2012 at 6:00 am
WASHINGTON (CNS) — At what is a critical time for American Catholics to stand up in defense of life and religious freedom, they must engage in the church's new evangelization...

International Theological Commission: Saint Thomas Aquinas and the Year of Faith

Rorate Coeli - Oct 16, 2012 at 5:43 am
Fides quaerens intellectum, theology exists only in relation to the gift of faith. It presupposes the truth of the faith and endeavours to demonstrate its "boundless riches" (Eph...

Theologian should be attentive to what the Spirit is saying

News.va - Oct 16, 2012 at 5:40 am
The International Theological Commission has issued a statement for the Year of Faith launched last Thursday by Pope Benedict XVI during a Mass in St. Peter’s Square. In the...

Kansas Senate candidate: Catholics should not be Democrats

The Deacon's Bench - Oct 16, 2012 at 5:35 am
Details: Steve Fitzgerald, a Republican candidate for the Kansas state Senate, is defending his comments last week that Democrats should not be Catholics, saying was trying to...

Play tells story of death row inmate's Marian visions

Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 16, 2012 at 5:12 am
Santa Monica, Calif., Oct 16, 2012 / 04:12 am (CNA).- The story of a Mississippi death row inmate who admitted his guilt and converted to the Catholic faith after seeing...

Jewish man recalls how Roman nuns hid him during World War II

Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 16, 2012 at 5:09 am
In an article that appeared in L'Osservatore Romano on the anniversary of the Nazis' 1943 deportation of the Jews of Rome, Roberto Piperno recalls taking refuge as a five-year-old...

Islam on the rise in Haiti

Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 16, 2012 at 5:08 am
Islam has spread in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake, in part because of organized relief efforts and in part because of the return of Muslim émigrés, according to the Associated...

In Peoria, Catholic Charities refocuses on corporal works of mercy

Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 16, 2012 at 5:07 am
A year after Catholic agencies in Illinois were forced out of adoption and foster care services because of their refusal to place children with same-sex couples, Catholic...

Archbishop Lori denounces 'godless secularism,' Catholic politicians who favor abortion

Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 16, 2012 at 5:07 am
At the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' special October 14 Mass and Pilgrimage for Life and Liberty at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate...

Mob attacks parish in Pakistan

Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 16, 2012 at 5:06 am
A Catholic parish in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, was attacked by a mob on October 11. The attackers smashed holy books, church windows and doors, and a priest's car,...

Pope: Only when reason has a historical and moral identity can it speak to others

News.va - Oct 16, 2012 at 5:05 am
In interview for film "Bells of Europe", Pope Benedict says Europe has two souls: One a bstract anti-historical reason, the other Christian and anchored to the roots from which...

Adults have abandoned youth, says prelate; synod hears calls for 'deworldification' of Church, 'multimedia liturgy'

Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 16, 2012 at 5:05 am
On the ninth day of the Thirteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, 42 synod fathers spoke on various aspects of the new evangelization. In addition to the...

Morning Prayer for Tuesday, 10/16/12

CatholicMom.com - Oct 16, 2012 at 5:00 am
Morning Prayer for Tuesday of the Twenty-Eighth Week in Ordinary Time Video Link

Chicago summit focuses on religious freedom threats

EWTN - US Latest News - Oct 16, 2012 at 4:58 am
Chicago, Ill., Oct 16, 2012 / 04:58 am (EWTN News).- A religious freedom summit on Oct. 14 united business and cultural leaders from the Chicago area to discuss the importance of...

Classical education enlivens Denver Catholic school

Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 16, 2012 at 4:03 am
Denver, Colo., Oct 16, 2012 / 03:03 am (CNA).- Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School based in Denver, Colo., has nearly doubled its enrollment in just one year by introducing a...
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