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Daily Readings for Sunday, May 21, 2017
Catholic Online - Featured News - May 20, 2017 at 2:25 pm Reading 1: Acts of Apostles 8:5-8, Reading 1: Acts of Apostles 8:14-17, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 66:16, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 66:20, ...
The Samaritan Pentecost: 6th Sunday of Easter
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What does Christianity teach about protecting yourself (think motorcycling)?
GetReligion - May 20, 2017 at 1:00 pm
BARBARA’S QUESTION:
My son is in his 20s. He’s a devoted Christian. He also loves motorcycles. I hate them, and have seen too many young people killed on them. He says ‘Mom, if...
The Paraclete: Reflections for the Sixth Sunday of Easter
CatholicMom.com - May 20, 2017 at 12:30 pm
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Readings for May 21, 2017: Sixth Sunday of Easter
Reflection on #Sunday #Gospel by @dritaly: The Holy...
Rome hosts annual March for Life
Catholic News Agency - General - May 20, 2017 at 12:15 pm Rome, Italy, May 20, 2017 / 11:15 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Held this year on May 20, Rome’s seventh annual March for Life was a chance for pro-life advocates of any faith to share...
WDTPRS – 6th Sunday of Easter: We are simultaneously risen, rising, and about to rise
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - May 20, 2017 at 11:38 am Here is this week’s Collect, for the 6th Sunday of Easter in the Ordinary Form:
Fac nos, omnipotens Deus, hos laetitiae dies, quos in honorem Domini resurgentis exsequimur,...
Saint Ethelbert, King of the East-Angles, Martyr
Regina Magazine - May 20, 2017 at 11:08 am May 20 Today is the feast day of Saint Ethelbert. Ora pro nobis. King of the East Angles, was, according to the “Speculum Historiale” of Richard of Cirencester (who died about...
2017 Pentecost Novena to the Holy Spirit Begins May 26th
Big C Catholics - May 20, 2017 at 10:59 am May 26, 2017Jesus told His disciples to pray together after His Ascension. During this time, Mary and the twelve Apostles prayed in the upper room for the coming of the Paraclete...
Wherein Fr. Z relates a brutal tale of sudden realization and horror
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - May 20, 2017 at 10:31 am in S. California, in the exotic periphery of Bakersfield, a priest friend zoomed up to the door of where I was staying and gruffly said, “Get in the car!”.
“Ralph!”, quoth I, “Is...
Latinists! A great opportunity in June
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - May 20, 2017 at 9:32 am I’ve been in touch with the folks who are organizing Sermo Fidelium (Talk/Language of the Faithful).
This will be a few days in a truly beautiful setting for Latinists and...
ASK FATHER: Am I obliged to do the strange penance Father gave during confession?
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - May 20, 2017 at 9:21 am From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
When I went to confession the priest asked me to watch a certain movie for my penance. I have done a search for it but what I found (trailers) seems...
WOMAN: One-on-One Evangelization
CatholicMom.com - May 20, 2017 at 9:00 am
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“Woman: Strong Faith, True Beauty” opened its first season on Shalom World TV in Fall 2016.
The series is...
Trump nominates Callista Gingrich as US ambassador to Vatican
Aleteia - May 20, 2017 at 8:35 am President makes pick as he leaves for first foreign trip, including RomeBefore leaving on his first international trip as president, which will include a visit to Pope Francis at...
Saint Bernardine of Siena, Confessor
Regina Magazine - May 20, 2017 at 8:06 am May 20 Today is the feast day of Saint Bernardine. Ora pro nobis. by Fr. Francis Xavier Weninger, 1876 St. Bernardin, of whom the Roman Martyrology says that he was a light to...
The Catholic Imagination, Then & Now
Commonweal - May 20, 2017 at 7:32 am The Catholic Imagination, Then & Now
By Paul BaumannMay 20, 2017
I recently spoke, alongside my colleague Dominic Preziosi, at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center Campus at a...
Gingrich’s appointment as Vatican ambassador gets mixed reviews
Vatican Insider - May 20, 2017 at 7:07 am The White House late Friday announced President Donald Trump’s intent to nominate Callista Gingrich, wife of former House speaker Newt Gingrich, to serve as U.S. ambassador to the...
Pope highlights effects of unemployment on families
News.va - May 20, 2017 at 6:50 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Saturday highlighted the serious problem of unemployment. His words came during a meeting with participants attending an International Conference...
Pope Francis condemns use of human embryos for research
Aleteia - May 20, 2017 at 6:33 am “No ends, even noble in themselves ... can justify the destruction of human embryos.” VATICAN CITY — “No ends, even noble in themselves, such as a predicted utility for science,...
Trump nominates Callista Gingrich US ambassador to the Holy See
Catholic Herald - May 20, 2017 at 5:31 am As he prepared to meet Pope Francis for the first time, President Donald Trump formally nominated Callista Gingrich, wife of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, to be the new U.S...
Despite pleas from bishops, immigration arrests soar in 2017
Catholic News Agency - General - May 20, 2017 at 5:19 am Washington D.C., May 20, 2017 / 04:19 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Immigration arrests have risen sharply in 2017 compared to the previous year, after the Trump administration unveiled...
