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Saintly Denverite Julia Greeley featured in manuscript
Catholic News Agency - General - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:11 pm Denver, Colo., Nov 26, 2011 / 01:33 pm (CNA).- While deftly flipping through the 120-page manuscript he authored, Father Blaine Burkey, O.F.M. Cap., pointed to the 20th-century...
October 2012 most important month yet for New Evangelization
Catholic News Agency - General - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:11 pm Vatican City, Nov 26, 2011 / 08:17 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The man responsible for leading Pope Benedict's mission to re-evangelize traditionally Christian countries is predicting...
U.S. religious freedom commission granted brief extension
Catholic News Agency - General - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:11 pm Washington D.C., Nov 25, 2011 / 03:06 pm (CNA).- A federal commission that advocates for religious freedom around the world has been given a four-week reprieve from closing its...
New York priest tipped as next Irish Nuncio
Catholic News Agency - General - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:11 pm Vatican City, Nov 25, 2011 / 02:32 pm (CNA).- Monsignor Charles Brown, a 52 year-old New York priest who currently works in the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the...
The Weekly Benedict (Nov. 26, 2011)
Jimmy Akin.org - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:11 pm Here are this week's items for The Weekly Benedict (subscribe here):
AUDIENCE: 16 November 2011, Psalm 110 (109)
APOSTOLIC VOYAGE TO BENIN (cont. from last week) . . .
SPEECH...
Did Jesus Quote the Deuterocanonicals? Receiving the Holy Spirit in Acts. Should I Quit My Job at Hospital?
Jimmy Akin.org - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:11 pm You often hear that Jesus and the apostles quoted from the deuterocanonical books of the Bible--those that aren't in the Protestant Old Testament. Did they? If not, what does the...
The Four Liturgists of the Apocalypse
Jimmy Akin.org - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:11 pm The Register recently asked me to do a post on what I saw at Mass this Sunday, the first Sunday of Advent, the first Sunday using the new translation of the Roman Missal.
Happy to...
Old-World Chapel in Milwaukee
The Forum - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:11 pm Today I stopped by Saint Joseph Chapel in Milwaukee. It's a remarkable place of beauty, perhaps the most impressive church/chapel in the entire archdiocese. It is mostly gothic in...
Advent Wreath - Vector Illustration
Jeff Geerling's Blog - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:11 pm I was recently inspired by Jeffrey Miller's embeddable Advent Wreath widget to try my hand at illustrating and animating an advent wreath in HTML5 with the <canvas> element...
Two Cheers for the New New Mass Translations
Saint Louis Catholic - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:11 pm The new, more accurate English translation of the Ordinary Form of the Mass finally comes online tonight, as the New Roman Missal becomes obligatory for the First Sunday of Advent...
So, How'd It Go?
Whispers in the Loggia - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:10 pm Before all else, friends, at the start of a new Ecclesial Year, may all its blessings, joys and gifts be yours -- and, where applicable, with your spirit.* * *Well more than...
Happy Nunciature, Charlie Brown -- Pope Formally Taps CDF Aide as Irish Legate
Whispers in the Loggia - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:10 pm And so it is... just like our ops said it would be.Indeed, gang, we can't forget the breeze, most of the time....And so it is: as first relayed on these pages Thanksgiving Eve, at...
"The Demand of a New Evangelization": From B16's Desk, Bench Talk 1
Whispers in the Loggia - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:10 pm In the first of a reported five speeches to be given the Stateside bench on its first ad limina visit of his pontificate, earlier today B16 delivered the following remarks to the...
Ar Domhan Fanann
Whispers in the Loggia - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:10 pm Cé go bhfuil ár máthair Éirinn beloved -- to say nothing of Gotham, Rome and, indeed, Church-World at large -- waits on formal word of B16's appointment of Charlie Brown as Nuncio...
Turning the Page
Whispers in the Loggia - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:10 pm And so, folks, after ten years... Lord knows how many wars... and more hyperventilating among the liturgical crowd than over the preceding two millennia of Christianity combined (...
Photos of Saint Mary's Church, in Glasgow, Missouri
Rome of the West - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:10 pm
HERE ARE PHOTOS of Saint Mary's Church, located in Glasgow, Missouri. Built on the highest hill in that Missouri River town, this church is a part of the Diocese of Jefferson...
Black Friday Recommendations
The Catholic Foodie - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:10 pm
It’s here again. Black Friday. Oh, and the holiday season too.
To be honest, I’m not really a fan of Black Friday. Don’t get me wrong. I love to save money. And you can...
Algeria: Numbers Do Not Make a Church
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:10 pm ROME, NOV. 25, 2011 (Zenit.org).- More than 99% of Algerians are Muslim. Yet this was not always the case. The north African country was once at the center of Christian culture...
Pakistani 'Harmony' Minister Optimistic About Equality
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:10 pm By Edward Pentin
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Pope: Feeding the Hungry Forces Question of Why There Is Hunger
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Nov 27, 2011 at 1:10 pm VATICAN CITY, NOV. 25, 2011 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI says that charity groups have a role in educating society, since a work of charity speaks of God and brings people to...
