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More than 2 MILLION Christians forced to flee homes amidst terrifying violence in the Middle East
Catholic Online - Featured News - Jun 16, 2017 at 12:00 am A new report estimates that between 50 and 80 percent of Christians have fled the countries of Iraq and Syria since the start of the Syrian Civil War ...
69 priests resign posts in Indonesian diocese
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 15, 2017 at 11:54 pm Accusing their bishop of embezzling funds and having an affair, 69 of the 167 priests in the Diocese of Ruteng, Indonesia, have resigned from their diocesan and parish posts.
New Swedish cardinal: ‘Europe is not lost for Christianity’
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 15, 2017 at 11:38 pm Cardinal-designate Anders Arborelius, who was recently named Sweden’s first cardinal, said that the papal visit last fall has made the Church a more accepted part of the secular...
WCC leader surveys ecumenical landscape
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 15, 2017 at 11:12 pm Olav Fykse Tveit, the Norwegian Lutheran who heads the World Council of Churches, said in a recent report that the contemporary ecumenical landscape can be interpreted in two ways.
Help my unbelief: The lesson of Peter of Prague
Integrated Catholic Life - Jun 15, 2017 at 11:04 pm This Sunday, we celebrate the feast of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, or Corpus Christi. As I wrote last year, the feast was established to strengthen belief in the Real...
Daily Catholic Quote — from Saint Teresa of Calcutta
Integrated Catholic Life - Jun 15, 2017 at 11:02 pm “Many people are concerned with children of India, with the children of Africa where quite a few die of hunger, and so on. Many people are also concerned about the violence in...
Encountering the Word — John 14:27
Integrated Catholic Life - Jun 15, 2017 at 11:01 pm “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.” (John 14:27) Please share...
The stories behind the bell names in the Cathedral of Notre Dame
Aleteia - Jun 15, 2017 at 11:00 pm No, they are not called "Quasimodo and Esmeralda"Much has been written on the horrors committed in the name of equality, freedom, and fraternity during the French Revolution....
A life of service: Sister Maria Concetta
Aleteia - Jun 15, 2017 at 11:00 pm Photo of the Day, June 16, 2017 ZONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: 81 year-old Italian nun Sister Maria Concetta assists a mother with her newborn baby in Zongo, in a small...
Archbishop of Tangier, Morocco: “Immigrants are nothing to fear”
Aleteia - Jun 15, 2017 at 11:00 pm Archbishop Santiago Agrelo speaks frankly with Aleteia, no holds barredHe is one of the bishops most familiar with immigration. He lives in North Africa. Only 14 kilometers [about...
Jiza Zito of ‘Spoken Bride’: how a prayer led to a husband — and a business
Aleteia - Jun 15, 2017 at 11:00 pm The site's co-founder and creative director said she was told to put everything "in Mary's hands."“Put everything in the hands of Our Lady.” That was the providential advice that...
A Life of Service: Sister Maria Concetta
Aleteia - Jun 15, 2017 at 11:00 pm Photo of the Day: June 16, 201782 year-old Italian nun Sister Maria Concetta assists a mother with her newborn baby in Zongo, in a small village in the Equatorial region of the...
A humble French priest is teaching me to find peace and growth in suffering
Aleteia - Jun 15, 2017 at 11:00 pm If you haven't started learning from him yet, you shouldIt was through several instances of spiritual struggle and discernment, sometimes in confession, that I heard mentioned...
‘Cars 3’ has a message for kids — and for grownups
Aleteia - Jun 15, 2017 at 11:00 pm Disney and Pixar's latest animated romp rolls into theaters this weekend, with something children need to hear.If the average 7-year-old boy had a drivers’ license, he’d race down...
‘War Poets’: Death dances in the trenches of World War I
Aleteia - Jun 15, 2017 at 11:00 pm Joseph Pearce's new play is a modern danse macabre about the soul’s yearning for its true homelandTo hear Joseph Pearce tell it, his first play Death Comes for the War Poets,...
Turn to St. Anthony, Pope encourages faithful
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 15, 2017 at 10:04 pm At the conclusion of his June 14 general audience, Pope Francis recommended devotion to St. Anthony of Padua (1195-1231), whose memorial the Church celebrated the previous day.
A Priest Explains One of the Most Harmful Problems in the Church Today
ChurchPOP - Jun 15, 2017 at 8:37 pm Fewer things sadden me more than an autoimmune disease within the Body of Christ. Catholics attacking Catholics and dragging it into the
The post A Priest Explains One of the...
Re-Intepreting Humanae Vitae, Amoris Laetitia Style
OnePeterFive - Jun 15, 2017 at 8:29 pm On May 17th, Maike Hickson reported a rather shocking revelation from Italian journalist and Vatican expert Marco Tosatti:
In the Vatican, unconfirmed reports from good sources...
Flowers for Mary as Mediatrix of All Graces
Snoring Scholar - Jun 15, 2017 at 7:44 pm
There’s something irresistible about flowers to my young children. I notice it the moment they can walk: they aim for the dandelions and, wobbling, grasp the stem in their chubby...
Symbolic Figure
The Curt Jester - Jun 15, 2017 at 6:53 pm
Father Arturo Sosa Abascal, the superior general of the Jesuit order, suggested that the devil is a “symbolic figure,” in an interview with the Spanish newspaper El Mundo.
“We...
