Latest News
This Joyful Eastertide
Integrated Catholic Life - Apr 20, 2017 at 11:04 pm Augustine once proclaimed, “We are an Easter people and ‘Alleluia’ is our song!” When the Easter Vigil’s beauty is over, when family visits have come to an end, and when the last...
5 Beautiful documentaries to help your kids fall in love with nature
Aleteia - Apr 20, 2017 at 11:00 pm Family friendly, fun ways to help children understand the importance of Earth Day.Disney is famous for their make-believe worlds — their fairy tales and superheroes, their Haunted...
It’s Easter, time to feast, not fast
Aleteia - Apr 20, 2017 at 11:00 pm Even though it's Friday, you are free to find a steak and dive in!Throughout the year, Catholics are asked to practice a form of penance each Friday. Traditionally this was...
Dorothy Day, Mother Teresa, and the 5-Finger Gospel
Aleteia - Apr 20, 2017 at 11:00 pm Did you know these two Catholic women heroes spent time together in Calcutta in 1970?Many may not know, but in 1970 Dorothy Day took a trip to Calcutta and was invited by Mother...
Tourists toss more than $1.5 million into Rome’s Trevi Fountain
Aleteia - Apr 20, 2017 at 11:00 pm ...and it all goes to help the poor.At Rome’s Trevi Fountain, the coin you toss in goes to help the needy, and it’s no drop in the bucket. Last year, more than $1.5 million...
Learning to love with Alanna-Marie Boudreau
Aleteia - Apr 20, 2017 at 11:00 pm Enter an acoustic wonderland.“If I could love you more than all the saints and angels combined…” The heart of the song “Simon (Petros)” is the desire to learn to love as...
Is ‘co-living’ a housing solution for modern times?
Aleteia - Apr 20, 2017 at 11:00 pm Cohousing, an intergenerational type of community living originating in Denmark, is on the rise in the US.At times it can seem that our modern lives are more individualized than...
Did Zoroastrianism shape monotheism?
Aleteia - Apr 20, 2017 at 11:00 pm A recent article by Joobin Bekhrad for the BBC sheds light on the possible Iranian roots of Western religionsPersian and Judeo-Persian studies have been neglected for a long time...
From Mexico to Fatima, the Holy Children “witnesses of truth”
Vatican Insider - Apr 20, 2017 at 9:52 pm At 11 and 9 years Francesco and Jacinta Marto, the two illiterate "Pastorinhos" of Fatima to whom in 1917 appeared the "Lady", the Virgin Mary in the Cova da Iria, probably would...
Refugees resettled into Queensland’s country towns are finding new life and steady employment
The Catholic Leader - Apr 20, 2017 at 9:00 pm TOOWOOMBA is welcoming the stranger – offering a helping hand and a new life to hundreds of Syrians fleeing the war with Islamic State. Three months ago, Nesrin Khoury arrived...
Pope Francis sends regrets to Brazil for not visiting this year
Catholic News Agency - General - Apr 20, 2017 at 9:00 pm Vatican City, Apr 20, 2017 / 08:00 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis sent a letter to the president of Brazil, apologizing for his inability to visit in 2017 and encouraging the...
ASK FATHER: Eating meat on Friday in the Octave of Easter
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Apr 20, 2017 at 8:40 pm Let’s get out in front of this before the calendar clicks over to Friday
From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
My wife and I recently returned to the traditional friday abstinence from meat...
Brisbane Catholics rejoice as Church approves canonisation of Fatima visionaries Francisco and Jacinta Marto
The Catholic Leader - Apr 20, 2017 at 7:55 pm VISIONARIES Francisco and Jacinta Marto, two of the three Fatima children who witnessed Marian apparitions 100 years ago, will be canonised on May 13. Pope Francis will canonise...
Living the Life of Mercy: Readings for Divine Mercy Sunday
The Sacred Page - Apr 20, 2017 at 7:43 pm Behind the
readings for this Sunday lies a Gospel text which is never read, but whose
influence is felt and whose concepts and images serves as a link between the
texts that are...
Pope Approves Order Barring Former Knights of Malta Grand Master From His Own Order’s Elections in Rome
OnePeterFive - Apr 20, 2017 at 6:53 pm Over the past few months, we’ve covered the saga of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta rather extensively. If you’re unfamiliar with the main events surrounding this thousand-...
Saint Anselm — His Wisdom in 25 Quotations
Big C Catholics - Apr 20, 2017 at 6:30 pm Saint Anselm of Canterbury, the 11th century Benedictine archbishop, achieved tremendous insight into the love of God. He dedicated his life to seeking out and teaching the depths...
‘This My Inheritance’ will please you
Aleteia - Apr 20, 2017 at 6:00 pm All Sons and Daughters can really rock a hymn.“All praise be to God, Always, now and forever!” All Sons and Daughters’ “This My Inheritance” is a rocking hymn with triumphant...
“Each Finger Could be Counted:” What a Doctor Saw After Examining a Baby Who Died in a Miscarriage
LifeNews.com - Apr 20, 2017 at 5:51 pm (LiveActionNews) — Melissa Ogle, MD, is a pro-life doctor I wrote about in a previous article. When she was young, she had an abortion and deeply regretted it. She told her story...
Does Planned Parenthood Receive Taxpayer Funding for Abortions? Yes. Here’s How
LifeNews.com - Apr 20, 2017 at 5:41 pm This is part three of a series. Here are parts one and two.
MYTH #5: Government funding to Planned Parenthood isn’t going for abortion.
This is simply not so. There are several...
Alabama Senate Passes Pro-Life Bill Saying There is No Right to Abortion
LifeNews.com - Apr 20, 2017 at 5:20 pm Alabama state Senators advanced a bill this week that would add the right to life for unborn babies into the Alabama Constitution. The proposal would write into the Alabama...
