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The useful book that answers questions about the faith you were too scared to ask
Catholic Herald - May 4, 2017 at 9:20 am I have been reading a useful and informative book: A Priest Answers 27 Questions You Never Thought to Ask by Fr Michael Kerper, a parish priest in New Hampshire. Some of the...
Trump issues order to protect religious freedom
Catholic Culture - World News - May 4, 2017 at 9:16 am US President Donald Trump has issued an executive order to protect religious freedom, promising that the federal government will respect the rights of believers.
Daily Reading for Saturday, May 6th, 2017 HD
Catholic Online - Featured News - May 4, 2017 at 9:16 am Reading 1, Acts 9:31-42
31 The churches throughout Judaea, Galilee and Samaria were now left in peace, building themselves up and living in the fear ...
Newborn Clutches the Contraceptive Coil Meant to Prevent His Birth
LifeNews.com - May 4, 2017 at 9:15 am Baby Dexter was not supposed to be.
His mother, Lucy Hellein of Fort Mitchell, Alabama, was using a supposedly highly effective birth control device when doctors believe she...
As Church of England prepares to accept gay ‘marriage,’ conservative group offers another option
LifeSiteNews - May 4, 2017 at 9:06 am An Anglican 'missionary bishop' will be appointed to serve those who remain faithful to church teaching.
St Augustine might have had doubts about the Benedict Option
Catholic Herald - May 4, 2017 at 9:03 am What are we to make of the Benedict Option proposed by Rod Dreher? Some years ago I wrote a book which examined, among other things, a similar idea from an American academic...
Pope Francis' monthly prayer intentions for May 2017
OSV Daily Take - May 4, 2017 at 9:01 am THE POPE'S MONTHLY PRAYER INTENTIONS May 2017 Pope's Prayer Intention - Christians in Africa: That Christians in Africa, in imitation of the Merciful Jesus, may give prophetic...
Knights do battle over Order of Malta
Catholic Herald - May 4, 2017 at 8:48 am “When you come to a fork in the road,” Yogi Berra is said to have recommended, “take it.” That is more or less what the Order of Malta have just done in their elections. The 56...
Encounter in Egypt: Trip highlights one of pope’s key teachings
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - May 4, 2017 at 8:43 am VATICAN CITY — Encounter. It’s a word Pope Francis uses often and something he insists is the concrete first step toward faith and toward building a better world.
Talking with...
Bergoglio: a good kind of “violence” to reform the Vatican media
Vatican Insider - May 4, 2017 at 8:34 am That of the Vatican mass media is an “irreversible” reform, that is not just to “whitewash things” and must be done “with intelligence, with mildness,” but allow me the expression...
Big issue in Rose Garden today: A victory, or a Trump white flag, on religious liberty?
GetReligion - May 4, 2017 at 8:33 am First Amendment pros on both the left and the right are bracing themselves to find out what is in new, revised executive order on religious liberty that will be signed by...
Queen of Heaven, Rejoice!
Dominicana - May 4, 2017 at 8:30 am Easter is a time of rejoicing. Not just on the day itself, or in the octave, but for all 50 days until Pentecost. This is longer than the 40 days of Lent, which is meant to...
Vatican archbishop: I do not agree with the title ‘Pope Emeritus’
Catholic Herald - May 4, 2017 at 8:27 am Archbishop Rino Fisichella, President of the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelisation, has said he does not agree with calling Benedict XVI ‘Pope Emeritus’. Speaking at a...
Anthony Esolen’s Passion for Truth Leads Him to Thomas More College
Catholic Education Daily - May 4, 2017 at 8:05 am Effective this summer, acclaimed Catholic author and Dante scholar Anthony Esolen will join the faculty of The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in Merrimack, N.H. and also help...
House Will Vote Today on Bill to Defund Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz
LifeNews.com - May 4, 2017 at 8:05 am House Republicans have scheduled a vote today on a bill that would defund to Planned Parenthood abortion business.
This is the second attempt to get enough votes on the...
Dedicated teacher works on lesson plans while in labor (PHOTO)
Aleteia - May 4, 2017 at 8:00 am And the baby is born not even an hour later!D-Day has arrived, you’re in labor and heading off to hospital, with bag, husband, and hospital notes in hand. But if you’re Jennifer...
“The Church must listen to the restlessness of the people”
Vatican Insider - May 4, 2017 at 7:46 am The Church must be careful about “those benefactors who in the end cheat Her.” But above all, the Church should always “be on its feet and on the journey, listening to the...
Science, compassion, adoption – why Mike Pence says 'life is winning' in America
EWTN - US Latest News - May 4, 2017 at 7:39 am Washington D.C., May 4, 2017 / 07:39 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- "Life is winning in America," U.S. Vice President Mike Pence told
attendees at a pro-life gala on Wednesday evening in...
The Family Lilac from Italy
CatholicMom.com - May 4, 2017 at 7:30 am
Copyright 2017 Margaret Rose Realy, Obl. OSB. All rights reserved.
My great-grandparents emigrated from Italy not long after they were married; my great-grandmother had a three-...
Pope at daily Mass: To evangelize, go out, listen, rejoice
News.va - May 4, 2017 at 7:25 am
(Vatican Radio) The Church should be on its feet and on the journey, listening to the restlessness of the people, and always with joy. That was the message of Pope Francis this...