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Brooklyn diocese ousts non-Catholic charter school from church-owned building
Catholic Culture - World News - May 12, 2017 at 4:56 am The Diocese of Brooklyn, New York, has informed a local charter school that it must vacate a church-owned building, because it is not a Catholic school.
Australian bishops split on proposal to discuss limits of confessional seal
Catholic Culture - World News - May 12, 2017 at 4:50 am Australian Catholic bishops have chosen not to take action on a proposal to seek guidance from Rome about the limits of the confessional seal.
Mike Pence: ‘We stand with’ persecuted Christians
Catholic Herald - May 12, 2017 at 4:33 am Vice President Michael Pence told Christian leaders “we’re with you, we stand with you,” at a summit to address the plight of persecuted Christians on Thursday. Pence addressed...
Francis and the Holy children’s Marian journey
Vatican Insider - May 12, 2017 at 4:28 am The journey that begins today, Friday, May 12, 2017, is among Pope Francis’ international trips the one with the strongest Marian feel. One hundred years after the apparitions in...
Cardinal Bertone talks about the third secret of Fatima
Catholic News Agency - General - May 12, 2017 at 4:05 am Fatima, Portugal, May 12, 2017 / 03:05 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The third secret of Fatima deals with past events, but at the same time its call to conversion is always current,...
Cardinal Bertone talks about the third secret of Fatima
EWTN - World Catholic News - May 12, 2017 at 4:05 am Fatima, Portugal, May 12, 2017 / 04:05 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
The third secret of Fatima deals with past events, but at the same time its call to conversion is always current,...
Mary points to Christ's mercy, Pope Francis tells Fatima pilgrims
EWTN - World Catholic News - May 12, 2017 at 3:47 am Fatima, Portugal, May 12, 2017 / 03:47 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Pope Francis asked pilgrims in Fatima on Friday evening to think about the qualities the Virgin Mary possesses, being...
Fatima at 100: Our Lady’s harrowing message of freedom
Catholic Herald - May 12, 2017 at 3:42 am At Fatima, Our Lady scared the hell out of the children to whom she appeared. Or more precisely, she frightened the children out of hell and took them instead to heaven. Pope...
Daily Gospel Reflection for May 12, 2017
CatholicMom.com - May 12, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: John 14:1-6
In this passage, Jesus is offering his disciples reassurance and comfort. “Do not let your hearts be troubled,” he tells them. We must remember that...
Egypt: Islamic cleric suspended from ministry after denouncing Christians and Jews
Catholic Culture - World News - May 12, 2017 at 3:22 am Egyptian authorities have suspended an Islamic preacher from public ministry, after he denounced Christians and Jews as “infidels.”
On Consulting the People
Crisis Magazine - Church - May 12, 2017 at 3:20 am
Should the Church—Christians acting as such, especially those in authority—heed the cry of the people? Less rhetorically, should the Church be guided by public opinion?
The...
A Czech Philosopher Comes to the Defense of Truth
Crisis Magazine - Church - May 12, 2017 at 3:15 am
In contrast to lie or error, truth is usually understood as an idea that corresponds to reality (or the quality of such an idea), and the existence and accessibility of truth is...
Creditors reject archdiocesan reorganization plan in Minnesota bankruptcy case
Catholic Culture - World News - May 12, 2017 at 3:14 am Sex-abuse victims voted overwhelmingly to reject a bankrutpcy settlement offered by the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis, Minnesota, in favor of an alternate plan put forward...
Pope due to arrive in Fatima to mark 100th anniversary of apparitions
Catholic Herald - May 12, 2017 at 3:06 am Pope Francis and pilgrims from around the world are flocking to the shrine town of Fatima to honour two poor, illiterate shepherd children whose visions of the Virgin Mary 100...
Luciani spoke to Sr. Lucia of apostasy and the problems of the Church
Vatican Insider - May 12, 2017 at 3:05 am Many hypotheses have been made on this meeting, some of which are pretty creative. In 1977, Cardinal Albino Luciani, patriarch of Venice, during a Marian pilgrimage visited Sister...
My past, O Lord, to Your mercy; my present, to Your love; my future to Your providence.
Aleteia - May 12, 2017 at 3:00 am Padre Pio
Pilgrims decend on Fatima shrine ahead of Pope's visit
News.va - May 12, 2017 at 2:50 am (Vatican Radio) Tens of thousands of pilgrims are preparing to descend on the Marian Shrine of Fatima ahead of Pope Francis' visit later on Friday. The Holy Father is due to fly...
The Great Seduction
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 12, 2017 at 2:46 am A reader writes: Rod Dreher has a pretty good takedown of the executive order that came out of the White House recently. Between this and the AHCA, as Ross Douthat tweeted it, “...
One of the great (accidentally) prolife movies now has a sequel
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 12, 2017 at 2:43 am Looking forward to it.
Morning Catholic must-reads: 12/05/17
Catholic Herald - May 12, 2017 at 2:40 am Pope Francis has left flowers at the altar of St Mary Major ahead of today’s visit to Fatima. Australia’s bishops are reportedly divided over a proposal to seek the Pope’s...
