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Bishop Barron on The Holy Spirit in the Life of the Church
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Jun 2, 2017 at 12:00 am This coming Sunday marks the Feast of Pentecost! A time for all of us to reflect on how the Holy Spirit is moving in our lives and the life of the Church. Today, we listen to...
Everything you SHOULD know about Pentecost
Catholic Online - Featured News - Jun 2, 2017 at 12:00 am This weekend, the Church celebrates Pentecost, one of the most important feast days of the year that concludes the Easter season and celebrates the ...
Vatican Fire: Reports of Vatican City bombing are NOT true
Catholic Online - Featured News - Jun 2, 2017 at 12:00 am Reports of a "Vatican City Bombing" flooded social media yesterday. They plastered images of billowing clouds of black smoke coming from Rome.
Maryland bishops call for compassion, prudence on immigration
Catholic News Agency - General - Jun 1, 2017 at 11:58 pm Baltimore, Md., Jun 1, 2017 / 10:58 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Maryland Catholic Conference has issued a statement of guiding principles for Catholics and state legislators to...
50th anniversary of French bishops’ overseas initiative
Catholic Culture - World News - Jun 1, 2017 at 11:43 pm In his 1967 encyclical Populorum Progressio, Blessed Paul VI appealed for international solidarity with those in the poorest nations. The French bishops responded by founding the...
7 Things kids tell psychologists – but are too afraid to tell their parents
Aleteia - Jun 1, 2017 at 11:00 pm As a child psychologist, I hear the things children want to talk about with their parents, if they could.Do you remember being a kid and wishing that you could say something to...
Pope Francis — surfer
Aleteia - Jun 1, 2017 at 11:00 pm Photo of the Day, June 2, 2017Pope Francis signs a surf board given to him by Sean Brody and Daniel Hopkins, global surf travelers and founders of the Kwepunha Surf Retreat during...
A day in the life of John Paul II
Aleteia - Jun 1, 2017 at 11:00 pm His personal secretary remembers the Polish pope's routines, starting with his 5 a.m. wake-up, prayer, and cold shower.In an extensive interview, Archbishop Mieczysław Mokrzycki,...
Metal band The Angelus finds hope in the darkness
Aleteia - Jun 1, 2017 at 11:00 pm The band takes its name from the painting “The Angelus” by Jean-François Millet.“There will be no peace on earth for you or me…” So begins the second album by Texas-based metal...
WATCH: Map of how religion spread throughout the world
Aleteia - Jun 1, 2017 at 11:00 pm See when and where the five largest religions of the world became dominant.This animated map shows the growth of the five largest religions of the world from 3,000 BC to today....
The Eagle Scout on his way to sainthood
Aleteia - Jun 1, 2017 at 11:00 pm Francis J. Parater was always prepared both on the trail and in his path toward Heaven.Born to a devout Catholic family in 1897 in Richmond, Virginia, Francis Parater became very...
Draft of Proposed Broader Contraceptive Mandate Exemption Becomes Available
The Religion Clause - Jun 1, 2017 at 9:50 pm As previously reported, the Office of Management and Budget has under review interim final rules that will expand conscience exemptions from the Obamacare contraceptive coverage...
Lawsuit says farmer's market wrongly barred Catholic farmer
Catholic News Agency - General - Jun 1, 2017 at 9:01 pm Lansing, Mich., Jun 1, 2017 / 08:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Catholic farmer Steve Tennes says the city of East Lansing, Mich. illegally barred his family-run farm from the city...
ACTION ITEM! Birettas for Seminarians Project RENEWED!
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jun 1, 2017 at 8:03 pm YOU, dear readers, have supplied over 100 birettas to seminarians. Kudos. Some thank you notes from seminarians with spiffy new birettas HERE and HERE.
Last night after the...
Fabio to play the Pope in Sharknado 5
The Curt Jester - Jun 1, 2017 at 8:02 pm On Thursday, the NBCUniversal cabler unveiled the fifth edition will be titled Sharknado 5: Global Swarming. The tagline is also Trump-inspired: “Make America bait again.”
Both...
Hostility to Religion in America Is ‘Undeniable’
Big C Catholics - Jun 1, 2017 at 6:40 pm A new report released this week by the First Liberty Institute listed more than 1200 government-initiated attacks on religion in 2016. “Undeniable: The Survey of Hostility to...
Pontifical Mass at the Throne in Madison – PHOTOS
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jun 1, 2017 at 6:26 pm Last night, 31 May, His Excellency Most Reverend Robert C. Morlino, Bishop of Madison and Extraordinary Ordinary, celebrated a Pontifical Mass at the Throne at Immaculate Heart of...
Trump: ‘We’re getting out’ of ‘very unfair’ Paris Climate Agreement
LifeSiteNews - Jun 1, 2017 at 6:01 pm The president based his decision to get out of the environmental accord on the fiscal burden placed on the U.S.
“Overcomer” Mandisa continues to inspire with “Unfinished”
Aleteia - Jun 1, 2017 at 6:00 pm Her faith has lead her through the darkest times.Mandisa is possibly the strongest person we’ve ever had the pleasure of covering on Cecilia. She has overcome Simon Cowell’s...