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A Catholic New Orleans Couple Goes the Extra Mile On Adoption
Opinionated Catholic - Dec 3, 2011 at 2:27 pm As cuts to News Media staff as to religion reporting continue at least we in Louisiana can be blessed that at least one paper has a quality reporter. Get Religion rightly points...
Extreme Makeover: homily edition
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 3, 2011 at 2:15 pm
[After cobbling together this week's homily -- which is much shorter than usual, because the Mass will include the 15-minute-long Rite of Welcome in my parish -- I realized that...
WDTPRS 2nd Sunday of Advent (1962MR)
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 3, 2011 at 2:11 pm The 1962MR for the 1st Sunday of Advent stressed the Second Coming, and therefore attentive penance. Yet in the Postcommunion last week, the priest brought us back to preparation...
Pope Benedict reflects on Bavarian Advent traditions
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 3, 2011 at 2:11 pm Vatican City, Dec 3, 2011 / 03:11 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Benedict XVI last night enjoyed a traditional Bavarian Advent without leaving Rome courtesy of a German television...
Seven Days in Utopia
CatholicMom.com - Dec 3, 2011 at 2:00 pm This week, I enjoyed watching the DVD version of Seven Days in Utopia. This was a film that I had really wanted to see in theaters, but that came and went before I saw it. In the...
Fishwrap rakes up some muck in the Arlington altar girl dispute
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 3, 2011 at 1:46 pm You may recall that a priest of the Diocese of Arlington, Fr. Michael Taylor of Corpus Christi Church in South Riding, VA, made a decision in favor of male-only service at the...
WDTPRS VOICEMAIL
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 3, 2011 at 1:08 pm I received voice mails through Skype and my Skype numbers (one in the USA and another in the UK). Thanks!
NB: The numbers changed from the old numbers, which I allowed to lapse....
Herman Cain Suspends Republican Presidential Campaign
LifeNews.com - Dec 3, 2011 at 1:00 pm Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain announced today that he is withdrawing from the race for the GOP nomination to take on pro-abortion President Barack Obama. Cain has...
Fr. Barron - Leaving the Church
Making Things Visible - Dec 3, 2011 at 12:37 pm I enjoy Fr. Barron. In this particular case, I think the spiritual danger needs to be made much clearer. The Church is our Mother in the order of Grace. Grace is necessary for our...
Author of book on deacons: “Each of us is called to a vocation…”
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 3, 2011 at 12:29 pm Over at the National Catholic Register, Kathryn Jean Lopez caught up with Elizabeth Fiococelli, author a book for children that I mentioned some weeks back, “Where Do Deacons Come...
The Weekly Benedict ebook Volume 3
The Curt Jester - Dec 3, 2011 at 12:23 pm
This is the third volume of The Weekly Benedict ebook which is a compilation of the Holy Father’s writings, speeches, etc which I pull from Jimmy Akin’s The Weekly Benedict.
The...
And With Your... Second
Whispers in the Loggia - Dec 3, 2011 at 12:12 pm Just in case anybody could use an added look as we enter into this Second Sunday of Advent, here, the newly-rendered Propers for the Day according to the freshly-implemented Roman...
Catholic Artist Spotlight — Nellie Edwards
CatholicMom.com - Dec 3, 2011 at 12:00 pm Editor’s note: Recently, I had the privilege of seeing some artwork by Nellie Edwards and was very moved by her work. I asked her to share a bit of it with our readers, and am so...
Rhode Island governor excludes Christmas from State House ceremony
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 3, 2011 at 11:55 am Providence, R.I., Dec 3, 2011 / 12:55 pm (CNA).- A 17-foot Colorado blue spruce is standing tall at the center of controversy in the Rhode Island State House rotunda for what is...
George Will Doesn't Like Newt
The Forum - Dec 3, 2011 at 11:07 am I was pretty taken aback by the force of George Will's latest piece, appearing in The Washington Post, in which he tears into Newt Gingrich as basically being a complete phony. He...
The Weekly Benedict (Dec. 3, 2011)
Jimmy Akin.org - Dec 3, 2011 at 10:37 am Here are this week's items for The Weekly Benedict (subscribe here):
ANGELUS: Angelus, 27 November 2011
AUDIENCE: 23 November 2011, Apostolic Journey to Benin
SPEECH: To the...
The Weekly Benedict (Dec. 3, 2011)
Jimmy Akin.org - Dec 3, 2011 at 10:37 am Here are this week's items for The Weekly Benedict (subscribe here):
ANGELUS: Angelus, 27 November 2011
AUDIENCE: 23 November 2011, Apostolic Journey to Benin
SPEECH: To the...
