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Brother Al and the Canticle Cafe
Franciscan Media - Dec 2, 2011 at 11:00 am "I was sitting here waiting on the bus, about freezing to death, the
first time I saw him,” Kelly Howard says of Brother Al Mascia and the
Canticle Café mobile unit. She recalls...
US cATHOLIC attacks the Bishop of Covington. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 2, 2011 at 10:54 am Our liturgical disputes have, I think, lined up between two parties: those who have a correct understanding and those who have a defective understanding of “active participation...
What's happening around the Apostolate?
Archdiocese of Saint Louis - Dec 2, 2011 at 10:44 am
Check out our latest newsletter which features our new Office of Young Adult Ministry, upcoming events, and the latest and greatest from each of our ministries. The newsletter...
The One?
The Forum - Dec 2, 2011 at 10:24 am Writing for National Review Online, Ramesh Ponnuru makes a pretty airtight case for supporting Mitt Romney this go-around, especially by addressing the most common concern raised...
Red Bull Crashed Ice to burst from Cathedral steps
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Dec 2, 2011 at 10:09 am
Promotional poster for Crashed Ice event. (Courtesy of Red Bull)
The rumors are true: A Red Bull Crashed Ice extreme sports event is going to be staged on the steps of the...
Smoking Bishop and a Cat named Jeoffry
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 2, 2011 at 9:45 am A reader alerted me to this wonderful bit of lore on the blog Spitalfields Life. Enjoy this with a glass of negus, which it’s something Preserved Killick will know about....
Aborted baby girl found in garbage bin, Manhattan mother charged with self abortion
Rock for Life Blog - Dec 2, 2011 at 9:23 am This is a disturbing story. According to the CBS affiliate in New York a Manhattan apartment complex building manager, while sorting recyclables, found an aborted baby girl...
Occupy Movement Gets A Catholic Face
Opinionated Catholic - Dec 2, 2011 at 9:16 am An interesting read and link at America. See Occupy: Catholicism as the Sleeping Giant (UPDATED).I disagree with a lot of what Occupy seems to say (at times it's not clear) but...
Special: Missal Launch III
Catholic Underground - Dec 2, 2011 at 9:00 am Part three of a six part series which Father Ryan presented on Radio Maria about the launch of the revised translation of the Roman Missal.
51: tail wagging dog again?
Commonweal - Dec 2, 2011 at 8:38 am The Likudization of U.S. Foreign Policy?
Now don’t get upset! Last I pointed to Netanyahu’s influence on U.S. policy by using the L work (Likud), some of you got very upset. But...
Open Policy On Courthouse Displays Results In Unusual Mix
The Religion Clause - Dec 2, 2011 at 8:32 am In Leesburg, Virginia, the first of 9 or 10 holiday displays on the Louden County Court House grounds will go up this week end. As reported last month by Leesburg Today, after...
Non Catholic Funny Look At Liberal Catholic Mass Changes Hysteria
Opinionated Catholic - Dec 2, 2011 at 8:26 am MCJ has come through again as he looks at two pieces that appeared at Huff Post. See MASS HYSTERIA and MASS HYSTERIA II
Coptic patriarch maintains hope amid Islamist gains
EWTN - World Catholic News - Dec 2, 2011 at 8:18 am Rome, Italy, Dec 2, 2011 / 08:18 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
Coptic Catholic Patriarch Antonios Naguib remains hopeful for his country's future, even as Egypt's Islamic political...
Diez Noches Más
Whispers in the Loggia - Dec 2, 2011 at 7:50 am In ten nights' time -- while, per usual, the chattering classes sleep -- the Stateside church will rock anew with its most powerful and widespread evidence of hope, life... and,...
The Indispensable Role of the Family in the New Liturgical Movement
New Liturgical Movement - Dec 2, 2011 at 7:26 am Two weeks ago, the Holy Father encouraged all within the Church to take up the prayer of the psalms and the Divine Office, and just yesterday the Pope highlighted that "the new...
Daily Quote from the Prophet Isaiah
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 2, 2011 at 6:30 am “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good tidings, who publishes peace, who brings good tidings of good, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, ‘...
South Dakota High Court Says Clergy Abuse Case Barred By Statute of Limitations
The Religion Clause - Dec 2, 2011 at 6:27 am In Iron Wing v. Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls, (SD Sup. Ct., Nov. 30, 2011), the South Dakota Supreme Court held that a lawsuit filed in 2008 by a victim of clergy sexual abuse...
