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New Reprint of a Renowned Summary of Thomistic Theology
New Liturgical Movement - May 17, 2017 at 7:00 am A Manual of Catholic Theology, Based on Scheeben's "Dogmatik." By Joseph Wilhelm, D.D., Ph.D., and Thomas B. Scannell, B.D., with a Preface by Henry Edward Cardinal Manning....
Lib Dem leader abandons anti-abortion stance after Guardian questioning
Catholic Herald - May 17, 2017 at 6:11 am Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has recanted of his previous anti-abortion views and declared himself “pro-choice” after being confronted over remarks he made 10 years ago. The...
Juror Removed For Religious Satement Made In Delibertaions
The Religion Clause - May 17, 2017 at 6:05 am According to FirstCoast News, in a Jacksonville, Florida federal district courtroom earlier this month, a jury found former Congresswoman Corrine Brown guilty on 18 counts of...
"Praying the Angelus" - (Re)Discover an Ancient Devotion
CatholicMom.com - May 17, 2017 at 6:00 am
My knowledge of the Angelus prayer was minimal at best before reading Praying the Angelus by Jared Dees (Ave Maria Press, 2017). I doubt that I am alone in that regard. Dees, a...
NBA star Ray Allen is spending retirement educating others about the Holocaust
Aleteia - May 17, 2017 at 6:00 am Allen said he wants to "inspire people to break down stereotypes, and treat one another ... like family."Two-time NBA champion Ray Allen isn’t taking it easy during his retirement...
Court Dismisses California Law Challenge To Chabad's Kapparot Ceremony
The Religion Clause - May 17, 2017 at 6:00 am In United Poultry Concerns v. Chabad of Irvine, (CD CA, May 12, 2017), a California federal district court dismissed a suit by an animal rights organization claiming that the...
Pope Francis: “Each of us is God’s love story”
Aleteia - May 17, 2017 at 5:54 am At the Wednesday audience, Pope Francis focuses on Mary Magdalene, the “Apostle of the greatest hope” who shows us how intensely personal Christian faith is meant to be VATICAN...
Life is not ‘normal’ for Palestinians, bishops’ conference of Holy Land says
Catholic Culture - World News - May 17, 2017 at 5:41 am The Catholic bishops of the Holy Land have joined in a statement warning against the acceptanace of the status quo in relations between Israel and Palestine.
Archdiocese speaks ahead of Netflix series on murdered nun
EWTN - US Latest News - May 17, 2017 at 5:32 am Baltimore, Md., May 17, 2017 / 05:32 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- No one knows who killed Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik.
Australian prosecutors near decision on complaints against Cardinal Pell
Catholic Culture - World News - May 17, 2017 at 5:25 am Australian police say that they are close to a decision on whether or not to bring criminal charges against Cardinal George Pell for sexual abuse.
Amazon may be topic for future Syno
Catholic Culture - World News - May 17, 2017 at 5:19 am The plight of the native people in the Amazon region might be the topic for a future meeting of the Synod of Bishops, a Peruvian prelate reports.
Benedict XVI praises Cardinal Sarah for new book
Catholic Culture - World News - May 17, 2017 at 5:12 am “With Cardinal Sarah, a master of silence and of interior prayer, the liturgy is in good hands,” writes Pope-emeritus Benedict XVI, in an afterword for a book by the African...
Archdiocese speaks out as Mexico tops list of violent countries
EWTN - World Catholic News - May 17, 2017 at 5:12 am Mexico City, Mexico, May 17, 2017 / 05:12 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- The Mexico archdiocese's newspaper Desde la Fe wrote an editorial
decrying the "disastrous situation in Mexico" as...
Summary of the General Audience
News.va - May 17, 2017 at 5:10 am (Vatican Radio) At the General Audience on Wednesday, Pope continued his catechesis on Christian Hope, speaking this week on “Mary Magdalene, Apostle of Hope.”
He was reflecting...
Bringing the messages of Our Lady of Fatima to Boston
Aleteia - May 17, 2017 at 5:00 am Mother Olga Yaqob shares "a nun's eye view" of a night of prayer and adoration Last Saturday, May 13, the Universal Church celebrated the 100th Anniversary of the appearance of...
Pope points to Mary Magdalene as an apostle of hope
Catholic News Agency - General - May 17, 2017 at 4:36 am Vatican City, May 17, 2017 / 03:36 am (CNA/EWTN News).- By calling Mary Magdalene by name after his resurrection, Jesus shows us just how personal his relationship with mankind is...
Pope points to Mary Magdalene as an apostle of hope
EWTN - Vatican News - May 17, 2017 at 4:36 am Vatican City, May 17, 2017 / 04:36 am (EWTN News/CNA).- By calling Mary Magdalene by name after his resurrection, Jesus shows us
just how personal his relationship with mankind...
Vatican in brief: Legalizing euthanasia is “toxic” and “deadly” for the weakest, says Cardinal Müller
Aleteia - May 17, 2017 at 4:20 am Also: Shrines and catechesis, and a children’s train coming to the Vatican to meet the pope.Cardinal Müller/euthanasia: Canada’s decision to legalize euthanasia not only “...
Latest statistics: seminarians down in the USA and the world, priests worldwide in decline, catastrophic decline in women religious. Will vocations survive the new Bergoglian priestly formation document?
Rorate Coeli - May 17, 2017 at 4:10 am I. World Statistics
Last month, the Vatican website published a report on the Pontifical Yearbook 2016 and Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae 2015, with a detailed summary of the...
What the littlest children can teach us about suffering
Catholic News Agency - General - May 17, 2017 at 4:02 am Denver, Colo., May 17, 2017 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- “There will be saints among the children.”
So said Pope Pius X, when he lowered the age that children could receive their...
