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Trump plans meeting with Pope in May
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 20, 2017 at 7:00 am US President Donald Trump is reportedly seeking to meet with Pope Francis in May, when the American leader will be traveling to Italy to participate in a meeting of G7 industrial...
How the Cult of Positivity is turning us against each other
Aleteia - Apr 20, 2017 at 7:00 am Why are we so reluctant to look a fellow human being in the eye and say “I’m hurting”?Whether I’m struggling with mental or physical illness, with a failing spiritual life, or...
Niece of Fatima visionaries reflects on her remarkable family
EWTN - Vatican News - Apr 20, 2017 at 7:00 am Fatima, Portugal, Apr 20, 2017 / 07:00 am (EWTN News/CNA).- The niece of Blessed Franciso and Jacinta Marto has voiced excitement
for the coming canonization of her relatives,...
Niece of Fatima visionaries reflects on her remarkable family
Catholic News Agency - General - Apr 20, 2017 at 7:00 am Fatima, Portugal, Apr 20, 2017 / 06:00 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The niece of Blessed Franciso and Jacinta Marto has voiced excitement for the coming canonization of her relatives,...
Fatima seers to be canonized May 13
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 20, 2017 at 6:53 am Pope Francis will preside at the canonization of Francisco and Jacinta Marto on May 13 during his visit to Fatima, Portugal, the Vatican has confirmed.
Pope Francis is ready to meet Donald Trump, the Holy See confirms
Aleteia - Apr 20, 2017 at 6:42 am White House press secretary says they would be “honored” to have an audience with the pope in May and will be contacting the Vatican soon.VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is ready to...
Christian Solidarity Worldwide Recognized BY UN As NGO
The Religion Clause - Apr 20, 2017 at 6:20 am According to AP, yesterday the United Nations Economic and Social Council voted 28-9 (with 12 abstentions) to accredit the British-based Christian Solidarity Worldwide as a non-...
Catholic Hospital Sued Over Refusal Of Gender Reassignment Surgery
The Religion Clause - Apr 20, 2017 at 6:15 am A transgender male filed suit this week in a California state trial court against Dignity Heath. Following Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services that...
Roy Hattersley: ‘The Church’s real heroes are the little people’
Catholic Herald - Apr 20, 2017 at 6:15 am I am in the book-lined study of a flat deep in the shadow of Westminster Cathedral. On the table sits The Catholics: The Church and its People in Britain and Ireland from the...
The political elite have undermined the family. It’s time to change course
Catholic Herald - Apr 20, 2017 at 6:15 am One of the strangest things about modern British politics is its unfriendliness towards the conventional family. I only realised this recently, while writing a book about the...
The Biblical crisis that Benedict resolved
Catholic Herald - Apr 20, 2017 at 6:15 am Before the ninetieth birthday of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on Easter Sunday, Tracey Rowland published in these pages an appreciation for what she called a “Ratzinger Revolution...
9th Circuit Hears Oral Arguments In Falun Gong's Suit Against Cisco
The Religion Clause - Apr 20, 2017 at 6:10 am On Tuesday, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of appeals heard oral arguments (video of full arguments) in Doe v. Cisco Systems, Inc. In the case, a California federal district court...
Assistant Principal Sues Over Christian Parents' Objections To Yoga
The Religion Clause - Apr 20, 2017 at 6:05 am Atlanta Journal Constitution yesterday reported on a lawsuit filed in federal district court in Georgia by Bonnie Cole, an assistant principal in the Cobb County schools, who says...
Is this the earliest depiction of the cross of Christ?
Aleteia - Apr 20, 2017 at 6:00 am Bible scholar finds evidence that early Christians adopted a Greek symbol to portray the crucifixion.Early Christians were reluctant to depict the crucifixion of Jesus Christ....
Alabama Supreme Court Affirms Suspension of Chief Justice Over Defiance of Same-Sex Marriage
The Religion Clause - Apr 20, 2017 at 6:00 am Yesterday, a specially composed panel of judges sitting as the Supreme Court of Alabama unanimously affirmed the judgment of the Alabama Court of the Judiciary suspending Alabama...
Untidy Waste and Weeds
CatholicMom.com - Apr 20, 2017 at 6:00 am
Via Pixabay (2012), CC0 Public Domain
Weeds. Even in the small garden they are a bother. I yank them out and throw them onto the driveway, making a mess instead of tossing them...
Almost 900 churches across the world to celebrate Mass in honour of Archbishop Fulton Sheen
Catholic Herald - Apr 20, 2017 at 5:13 am Almost 900 churches across the world have pledged to celebrate Masses to mark the birthday of the late Archbishop Fulton Sheen.
A grassroots effort calling on Catholic churches...
“Seeking Jesus in Everyday Life”: A fast take with author Julie Davis
Aleteia - Apr 20, 2017 at 5:00 am We all love to read those helpful pithy quotes. Now we can use them to jumpstart into prayer, too.For 13 years, Julie Davis’ Happy Catholic blog has been the place where Catholics...
Resent the “Easter Crashers” called “Creasters”? Maybe the problem is yours
Aleteia - Apr 20, 2017 at 5:00 am Katrina Fernandez urges a reader to really think about what he's sayingDear Katrina, I don’t really have a question, it’s more like I just need to vent. I hate how every holiday...
One finance and one healthcare for humanity
Vatican Insider - Apr 20, 2017 at 4:13 am Some controversy and several debates have been stirred up by Pope Francis’ Social Magisterium, which on several occasions relaunched the teaching of the Church’s social doctrine,...
