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Five Simple Prayers for When You Just Can't
CatholicMom.com - Jun 27, 2017 at 6:00 am
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Some days, I’m just done.
I can’t argue anymore. I can’t fold one more towel. I can’t listen or negotiate or serve or even exist. I need a...
Georgia Supreme Court Dismisses On Standing Grounds Challenge To Tax Credit Scholarship Program
The Religion Clause - Jun 27, 2017 at 6:00 am In Gaddy v. Georgia Department of Revenue, (GA Sup. Ct., June 26, 2017), the Georgia Supreme Court held that plaintiffs in the case lack standing as taxpayers or otherwise to...
The old still have a lot to give young people, Pope Francis says
EWTN - Vatican News - Jun 27, 2017 at 5:43 am Vatican City, Jun 27, 2017 / 05:43 am (EWTN News/CNA).- On Tuesday Pope Francis said that the older generation should not stop
striving in their spiritual lives, but that God...
The old still have a lot to give young people, Pope Francis says
Catholic News Agency - General - Jun 27, 2017 at 5:43 am Vatican City, Jun 27, 2017 / 04:43 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Tuesday Pope Francis said that the older generation should not stop striving in their spiritual lives, but that God...
Unity is more than 'bland uniformity,' Pope tells Orthodox
EWTN - Vatican News - Jun 27, 2017 at 5:12 am Vatican City, Jun 27, 2017 / 05:12 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Pope Francis met with a delegation from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of
Constantinople, saying their journey toward full...
‘Roman Wall Blues’: W.H. Auden’s unlikely hero grapples with his own powerlessness
Aleteia - Jun 27, 2017 at 5:00 am We are all wall guards, pacing out our measures, wondering why the rain must fall, why we can't have what we want. Roman Wall Blues Over the heather the wet wind blows, I’ve lice...
Mali's first cardinal, Archbishop Jean Zerbo
EWTN - World Catholic News - Jun 27, 2017 at 4:33 am Bamako, Mali, Jun 27, 2017 / 04:33 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Among those bishops who will be created cardinals at the June consistory is Archbishop Jean Zerbo of Bamako, a man who has...
'Texting suicide' case could impact assisted suicide legislation
Catholic News Agency - General - Jun 27, 2017 at 4:25 am Boston, Mass., Jun 27, 2017 / 03:25 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A case about whether a troubled teenager convinced her depressed boyfriend to commit suicide through her words and text...
'Texting suicide' case could impact assisted suicide legislation
EWTN - US Latest News - Jun 27, 2017 at 4:25 am Boston, Mass., Jun 27, 2017 / 04:25 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
A case about whether a troubled teenager convinced her depressed boyfriend to commit suicide through her words and text...
Daily Gospel Reflection for June 27, 2017
CatholicMom.com - Jun 27, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: Matthew 7:6, 12-14
I’ve pulled out one particular verse from today’s passage, and that is “Do to others whatever you would have them do to you.“ It also reminds me...
My God, I need fear nothing but sin. For to lose you, my God, is to lose all.
Aleteia - Jun 27, 2017 at 3:00 am St. Alphonsus Liguori
Fr. Jim Martin “Canonizes” Sr. Jeannine Gramick
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jun 27, 2017 at 2:20 am
When I think of a holy hero who speaks with authority, who reflects my beliefs and values, I think of Pope St. John Paul II, worthy of canonization.
When Fr. James Martin, S.J.,...
To Whom Do Democrats Pray?
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jun 27, 2017 at 2:15 am
On June 14, 2017, James Hodgkinson, a staunch Bernie Sanders supporter and volunteer for the Sanders presidential campaign, opened fire at a Republican baseball practice in...
A reader asks for precision on Leo XIII
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jun 27, 2017 at 2:12 am A reader writes: You recently posted a quote attributed to Leo XIII that “Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met the rest of your money belongs to the poor.”...
What? You still haven’t registered for the 36th Annual Chesterton Conference, which…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jun 27, 2017 at 2:11 am is coming to Colorado Springs, Colorado July 27 – 29 on the campus of the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs. Speakers include (among others) Joseph Pearce, Fr. James Schall...
Sherry Weddell on the New Evangelization
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jun 27, 2017 at 2:11 am Sez she: In December of 1990, Pope John Paul II issued these words of prophetic power in Redemptoris Missio: God is opening before the Church the horizons of a humanity more fully...
Good! SCOTUS upholds Religious Liberty
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jun 27, 2017 at 2:07 am The Courts are the only branch of government doing anything right these days.
Pope greets delegation from Ecumenical Patriarch
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 27, 2017 at 1:38 am Pope Francis received a delegation from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople on June 27, as is customary in the days around the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul (June...
Terrorists desecrate Eucharist, destroy Catholic chapel in the Philippines
Catholic News Agency - General - Jun 27, 2017 at 1:05 am Manila, Philippines, Jun 27, 2017 / 12:05 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Last week, members of a terrorist group destroyed a Catholic chapel, desecrating consecrated hosts and religious...
Terrorists desecrate Eucharist, destroy Catholic chapel in the Philippines
EWTN - World Catholic News - Jun 27, 2017 at 1:05 am Manila, Philippines, Jun 27, 2017 / 01:05 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Last week, members of a terrorist group destroyed a Catholic chapel,
desecrating consecrated hosts and religious...