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A new procedure for bishops' ad limina visits to Rome
EWTN - Vatican News - Jun 12, 2017 at 5:03 am Vatican City, Jun 12, 2017 / 05:03 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- In order to foster collegiality, Pope Francis has added to the usual schedule of bishops' ad limina visit to Rome: one...
A fast take on ‘The Catholic Drinkie’s Guide to Homebrewed Evangelism’
Aleteia - Jun 12, 2017 at 5:00 am An interest in homebrewed beer and a liking for social media brought an unexpected opportunity to this podcaster.Sarah Vabulas began her career working for a member of the House...
Polish bishops: Amoris Laetitia does not allow Communion for the divorced and remarried
Catholic Herald - Jun 12, 2017 at 4:57 am Amoris Laetitia has not changed Church doctrine on Holy Communion for divorced and remarried people, the Polish Bishops’ Conference has said. In a statement issued after last week...
Immigration arrests stun Detroit's Chaldean Catholics
EWTN - US Latest News - Jun 12, 2017 at 4:29 am Detroit, Mich., Jun 12, 2017 / 04:29 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Dozens of Chaldean Christians were arrested by federal immigration officials over the weekend in the Detroit metropolitan...
Pope Francis: ‘Catholic Church committed to protecting migrants’
News.va - Jun 12, 2017 at 4:24 am
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent a message to the President of the Latin American and Caribbean Parliament (Parlatino) on the occasion of its 33rd General Assembly....
Nigerian priest shares harrowing story of being kidnapped
Catholic News Agency - General - Jun 12, 2017 at 4:04 am Issele-Uku, Nigeria, Jun 12, 2017 / 03:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- It was supposed to be a quiet retreat weekend last April for Fr. Sam Okwuidegbe, a Nigerian Jesuit priest and...
Nigerian priest shares harrowing story of being kidnapped
EWTN - World Catholic News - Jun 12, 2017 at 4:04 am Issele-Uku, Nigeria, Jun 12, 2017 / 04:04 am (EWTN News).- It was supposed to be a quiet retreat weekend last April for Fr. Sam Okwuidegbe, a Nigerian Jesuit priest and director...
“Open your hearts to others, do not be the ones whose hearts are dirty”
Vatican Insider - Jun 12, 2017 at 4:00 am On the one hand, the poor, the meek ones, the peacemakers, those hungry for justice who fight for justice or are persecuted for justice for love of righteousness. On the other...
Daily Gospel Reflection for June 12, 2017
CatholicMom.com - Jun 12, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: Matthew 5:1-12
The Sermon on the Mount is one of my favorites, because the bridge between the Old and New Testaments is so beautifully woven into writing and also...
The best gift anyone can give to a friend is to pray for him.
Aleteia - Jun 12, 2017 at 3:00 am Benedict Groeschel
Theresa May risks inflaming Ireland’s religious tensions
Vatican Insider - Jun 12, 2017 at 2:55 am The British Prime Minister’s plan to govern with support from Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party risks re-opening sectarian divisions in Ireland which diplomatic sources...
Why the Odds Favor Islam
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jun 12, 2017 at 2:15 am
On May 22, an Islamic suicide bomber detonated himself outside a pop concert in Manchester, England, killing and wounding dozens, many of them young children.
The terrorist was a...
Three Feasts and Contraception
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jun 12, 2017 at 2:10 am
The flow of time in which we find ourselves, between Pentecost and Corpus Christi, is a bit strange liturgically. Pentecost ends the Easter Season and launches us back into...
Nice Piece on Alvin Plantinga…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jun 12, 2017 at 2:08 am over at First Things. We obviously don’t see eye to eye on everything since he is Dutch Reformed, but it’s a good precis of his work. He has been particularly useful in answering...
What Christian Trump Supporters will be remembered for
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jun 12, 2017 at 2:07 am Today thing for “prolife” Trump supporters to defend instead of the unborn or the gospel. Every day. For the rest of this Administration–and on into eternity.
Wednesday 14 June
Vatican Insider - Jun 12, 2017 at 2:04 am 10 am: The Pope will hold his weekly General Audience in St. Peter’s Square ...
Sunday 18 June
Vatican Insider - Jun 12, 2017 at 2:01 am 12 pm: The Pope will recite the Angelus prayer in St. Peter’s Square ...
Howard Pyle’s The Wonder Clock
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jun 12, 2017 at 2:00 am
Howard Pyle’s The Wonder Clock (1887), a collection of folk tales and fairy tales with illustrations that depict the various scenes of a twenty-four period in a typical home of...
Prelates tell Senate that House GOP’s health care bill has ‘many serious flaws’
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 12, 2017 at 1:45 am Four bishops who chair committees of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops said recently in a letter to senators that the American Health Care Act (AHCA), passed by the...
Welcome bishop or incur suspension, Pope tells priests of Nigerian diocese
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 12, 2017 at 1:29 am Pope Francis has issued an ultimatum to the priests of the Diocese of Ahiara, Nigeria, demanding that they write a letter accepting their bishop or face suspension.
