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Plants, cards, meals? There’s an even better way to express condolences
Aleteia - May 29, 2017 at 7:00 am If we want to give something that the departed can truly appreciate, there's only one real choice.Sometimes just a few words said in a certain way at a certain time can suddenly...
Does the Christian Tradition Have a Problem with Smiling and Laughing?
New Liturgical Movement - May 29, 2017 at 7:00 am I once heard a speaker claim that one of the reasons it is hard for ordinary Christian families to see themselves in the Holy Family is that all the famous paintings we see of...
Holy Cross priest tapped as bishop of Pensacola-Tallahassee diocese
Catholic News Agency - General - May 29, 2017 at 6:56 am Vatican City, May 29, 2017 / 05:56 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Monday the Vatican announced Pope Francis’ appointment of Fr. William “Bill” A. Wack to be the next bishop of the...
Holy Cross priest tapped as bishop of Pensacola-Tallahassee diocese
EWTN - Vatican News - May 29, 2017 at 6:56 am Vatican City, May 29, 2017 / 06:56 am (EWTN News/CNA).- On Monday the Vatican announced Pope Francis' appointment of Fr. William
"Bill" A. Wack to be the next bishop of the...
Communicate Hope and Trust
The Reason for Our Hope - May 29, 2017 at 6:27 am That’s the heart of the message issued by Pope Francis for World Communications Day of 2017. This year the event falls on May 28th, which in the liturgical calendar is the...
Vatican studying the possibility of incardinating priests in movements
Vatican Insider - May 29, 2017 at 6:16 am An interdicasteral meeting took place this morning; it was held under the presidency of the Pope with all the dicasteries of the Roman Curia....
Congressional Commission Holds Hearings on Countering Religious Violence
The Religion Clause - May 29, 2017 at 6:05 am On May 24, the U.S. House of Representatives Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission held hearing on Freedom of Belief: Countering Religious Violence. A video of the hearings and...
Recent Articles of Interest
The Religion Clause - May 29, 2017 at 6:00 am From SSRN:
Samuel Moyn, Thomas Pink, John Finnis & Lorenzo Zucca, Christian Human Rights: A Debate, (King's Law Journal, Vol 28.1 (2017), p.1-50).
Barry W. Bussey, Rights...
From The Catholic Mom's Prayer Companion: Honor Your Mother
CatholicMom.com - May 29, 2017 at 6:00 am Editor’s Note: We’re thrilled to give our readers a sneak peek at The Catholic Mom’s Prayer Companion: A Book of Daily Reflections, the newest addition to our CatholicMom.com Book...
Mgr. Rugambwa opens the Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies
News.va - May 29, 2017 at 5:34 am Rome - "Let us reflect together on the ‘mission heart of the Christian faith’ in the light of the Apostolic Missionary Exhortation of Pope Francis’ Evangelii Gaudium. Let us have...
Priest criticises parents who reduce First Communion to ‘orgy of materialism with miniature brides’
Catholic Herald - May 29, 2017 at 5:30 am A priest has criticised parents who reduce their child’s First Communion to an “orgy of materialism with miniature brides”, claiming many children never return to Mass the...
From A Soup Kitchen to The Panhandle – For Summer Kickoff, Pope Plays Wack-The-Noles
Whispers in the Loggia - May 29, 2017 at 5:22 am Over recent weeks, the growing community at St Ignatius Martyr parish in Austin has been planning a “bash” for their pastor’s 50th birthday. However, the Pope now sends word that...
Why women aren't choosing adoption – and how pro-lifers can change that
EWTN - US Latest News - May 29, 2017 at 4:55 am Washington D.C., May 29, 2017 / 04:55 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- At 21 years old, Millie Lopus was pregnant and scared. A rising college
senior at Loyola University Maryland, she was...
Anders Arborelius, the Carmelite bishop who believes in young people
Vatican Insider - May 29, 2017 at 4:34 am He was born 67 years ago in Sorengo, a small municipality in the Canton of Ticino in Switzerland, but his family was from Sweden where he grew up, namely in Lund. Anders...
Daily Gospel Reflection for May 29, 2017
CatholicMom.com - May 29, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: John 16:29-33
The disciples said to Jesus, “Now You are talking plainly, and not in any figure of speech. Now we realize that You know everything and that You do...
Polish prime minister’s son celebrates first Mass in Old Rite
Catholic Herald - May 29, 2017 at 3:30 am Poland’s Prime Minister Beata Szydlo has attended the first Mass celebrated by her older, who was ordained a priest at the weekend. Fr Tymoteusz Szydlo, 25, celebrated Mass in the...
President Trump issues Ramadan statement
Catholic Culture - World News - May 29, 2017 at 3:17 am President Donald Trump has issued a statement marking the beginning of the month of Ramadan.
Report: renewed crackdown on Christians in Eritrea
Catholic Culture - World News - May 29, 2017 at 3:10 am Nearly 100 Christians have been arrested this month in Eritrea, the one-party East African state that is among the world’s most repressive, according to World Watch Monitor, which...
Pope calls for ‘truly constructive’ communication on social media
Catholic Culture - World News - May 29, 2017 at 2:46 am After the recitation of the Regina Coeli in St. Peter’s Square on May 28, Pope Francis recalled that the day was the 51st World Communications Day.
