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Networks Ignore “Major Blow” to Planned Parenthood as Trump Signs Bill Allowing States to Defund
LifeNews.com - Apr 17, 2017 at 8:37 am Of the broadcast networks, only one highlighted President Trump’s “major blow” to Planned Parenthood state funding on Thursday.
Trump signed into law a bill that empowers states...
The Alleluia Yawn
Dominicana - Apr 17, 2017 at 8:30 am On the surface, one’s familiarity with the events of Christ’s Passion, Death, and Resurrection can slowly compromise their power to captivate. I mean, did your mind happen to...
St. Mark HD
Catholic Online - Featured News - Apr 17, 2017 at 8:28 am Much of what we know about St. Mark, the author of the Second Gospel, comes largely from the New Testament and early Christian traditions. Mark the ...
Pope Francis on Easter Monday: May Mary intercede for persecuted Christians
Aleteia - Apr 17, 2017 at 8:22 am In light of the Resurrection, “we are called to be men and women who affirm the value of life.”VATICAN CITY — On Easter Monday, as Italy celebrates the second day in Easter Octave...
Persecuted Chaldeans: San Diego Union-Tribune delivers an Easter story with content
GetReligion - Apr 17, 2017 at 8:15 am At the newspapers I used to work on, I was responsible for coming up with a splashy feature each year for Easter day. At one point, I used this opportunity to hit up my employers...
7 Instant Pot recipes to get dinner on the table … right now!
Aleteia - Apr 17, 2017 at 8:00 am Got an Instant Pot? Let some of these fast, foodie recipes from expert chefs get you started!The Instant Pot: this year’s multi-tasking, wonder-appliance has landed. It made its...
Pope Francis prays for persecuted Christian communities
News.va - Apr 17, 2017 at 7:35 am (Vatican Radio) On Easter Monday Pope Francis greeted pilgrims and visitors gathered in St Peter’s Square, praying especially for Christians who are persecuted for their faith....
Finding hope in a grumpy world
CatholicMom.com - Apr 17, 2017 at 7:30 am
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It was peak traffic time when I left my appointment, heading for home. The meeting I had attended was not pleasant so I was tired and grumpy...
A Tour of the Bernardikapelle in Vienna
New Liturgical Movement - Apr 17, 2017 at 7:00 am In my recent visit to Vienna for a liturgical study day sponsored by Una Voce Austria, I spent a morning walking around the center of the city with an old friend, Pater Edmund...
Letter from Rome
Commonweal - Apr 17, 2017 at 6:41 am Letter from Rome
By Robert MickensApril 17, 2017
Easter is the “most solemn festival” on the church’s calendar.
But this yearly commemoration of the passion, death, and...
Be men and women of life, Pope Francis says Easter Monday
EWTN - Vatican News - Apr 17, 2017 at 6:30 am Vatican City, Apr 17, 2017 / 06:30 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Easter Monday, Pope Francis said how it is Christ's resurrection that calls each of us to bring the message of Easter – a...
Be men and women of life, Pope Francis says Easter Monday
Catholic News Agency - General - Apr 17, 2017 at 6:30 am Vatican City, Apr 17, 2017 / 05:30 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Easter Monday, Pope Francis said how it is Christ’s resurrection that calls each of us to bring the message of Easter – a...
New film on Armenian genocide took two years to make, longer to realize
Franciscan Media - Apr 17, 2017 at 6:26 am WASHINGTON (CNS) — “The Promise,” a film dramatizing the genocide of Armenians in the Turkish-ruled Ottoman Empire at the outset of World War I, was two years in the making, but...
Quality Time vs. Quantity of Time
CatholicMom.com - Apr 17, 2017 at 6:00 am
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Can I spend quality time and make up for the lack of quantity of time? This is the age-old question that people ask themselves...
Beating the Easter Monday Blues
Saints 365 - Apr 17, 2017 at 5:57 am The overriding sentiment which prevails at my house and in my heart each Easter Monday is the same. It is finished. The long 40 days of Lenten fasting, prayer and penance are...
Missouri reverses course, makes churches eligible for some state grants
EWTN - US Latest News - Apr 17, 2017 at 5:01 am St. Louis, Mo., Apr 17, 2017 / 05:01 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Missouri has announced that it will start allowing religious groups to be eligible for certain state grants, although the...
Benedict XVI's 90 years: 'I am grateful to God'
EWTN - Vatican News - Apr 17, 2017 at 4:24 am Vatican City, Apr 17, 2017 / 04:24 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- At his birthday party on Monday, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI told his Bavarian guests that "My heart is full of gratitude...
Theresa May: stand up for religious freedom at home and abroad
Catholic Herald - Apr 17, 2017 at 3:56 am Theresa May has made a plea for religious tolerance in her first Easter message as Prime Minister.
In a video message, May said: “We should be confident about the role that...
Catholics heartened by stay on flurry of planned executions in Arkansas
EWTN - US Latest News - Apr 17, 2017 at 3:49 am Little Rock, Ark., Apr 17, 2017 / 03:49 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- As judges halted the planned executions of eight inmates in 10 days in Arkansas, Catholics around the country pointed...
Daily Gospel Reflection for April 17, 2017
CatholicMom.com - Apr 17, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: Matthew 28:8-15
The women in today’s Gospel are leaving the empty tomb, “fearful yet overjoyed.” Those two emotions infrequently appear together: a freshly...
