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Did Oroville Spillway Break Apart From Design Flaws? Or Poorly understood Stagnation Pressure back in 1960's?
Catholic Online - Featured News - Apr 5, 2017 at 12:00 am Late January 2017, photographers captured "jackhammering" cavitation erosion at a seam in the spillway prior to it breaking apart. Did this ...
What did Prince Charles give Pope Francis during his Vatican visit?
Catholic Online - Featured News - Apr 5, 2017 at 12:00 am Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, paid Pope Francis a visit as part of their Italian tour.
Here's what's coming to Netflix in April as streaming overtakes cable
Catholic Online - Featured News - Apr 5, 2017 at 12:00 am Netflix has changed the world with its streaming model of delivering video on demand to consumers. Each week, Netflix releases new content while ...
6 Things Christians should NEVER post on social media
Catholic Online - Featured News - Apr 5, 2017 at 12:00 am We all love social media. It's what keeps us connected to old high school buddies, childhood friends who live across the world and even family - but ...
Cardinal Parolin: God is the source and goal of human development
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 4, 2017 at 11:54 pm Preaching at a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica during a conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of Blessed Paul VI’s encyclical Populorum Progressio, Cardinal Pietro Parolin...
State Department honors Aleppo nun
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 4, 2017 at 11:36 pm First Lady Melania Trump has given the State Department’s International Women of Courage Award to 13 women, including a Salesian sister who serves in Aleppo.
I’m not sure impatience exists! Really!
Integrated Catholic Life - Apr 4, 2017 at 11:04 pm Many of us seem to lack patience. Is patience even a thing? Doesn’t everyone you know confess to being impatient? Red lights, long lines, other people’s lack of understanding—...
Evening Prayer: Prayer of the Day for Wednesday, April 05, 2017
Catholic Online - Featured News - Apr 4, 2017 at 11:01 pm O my God, at the end of this day I thank You most heartily for all the graces I have received from You. I am sorry that I have not made a better use ...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, April 05, 2017
Catholic Online - Featured News - Apr 4, 2017 at 11:01 pm Reading 1: Daniel 3:14-20, Reading 1: Daniel 3:91-92, Reading 1: Daniel 3:95, Responsorial Psalm: Daniel 3:52-56, Gospel: John 8:31-42
'Living Lent': Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent - Day 36
Catholic Online - Featured News - Apr 4, 2017 at 11:01 pm PRAY: "Blessed are they who have kept the word with a generous heart and yield a harvest though perseverance." (John 14:6)
Great-grandma’s attic: When Protestants rediscover Catholic practices
Aleteia - Apr 4, 2017 at 11:00 pm Eventually people want what they discover they have thrown away.Well, yeah. Lent, says Scott McConnell of Lifeway Research, “seems to lack crossover appeal. It has remained a...
WATCH: Saudi bakery thrives using a “trust box” instead of a cashier
Aleteia - Apr 4, 2017 at 11:00 pm Customers decide how much money to put in, after making their selections.A bakery in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, is banking on the honesty of its customers. A year an a half ago, owner...
Why do exorcists ask demons to reveal their names?
Aleteia - Apr 4, 2017 at 11:00 pm In this interview with an exorcist from Switzerland, we're told the devil isn't everywhere—but don't go looking for him either, just in case.With our modern mentality, the...
The medieval origins of your email address
Aleteia - Apr 4, 2017 at 11:00 pm The internet probably saved the @ symbol from obscurity .When computer engineer Ray Tomlinson sent the first-ever network email in 1971, it travelled only a couple of inches –...
Are clothing stores lying to women who wear a size 8 or more?
Aleteia - Apr 4, 2017 at 11:00 pm We should find a better way than "vanity sizing."A WaPo article on vanity sizing in women’s clothing went viral recently, with this sentence as the highlight: “A size 8 dress...
Pope Francis: Pay attention when you make the sign of the cross!
Aleteia - Apr 4, 2017 at 11:00 pm The gesture of blessing reminds us that good ideas and good will are not the source of salvation: "The only salvation is in the crucified Christ."Wearing a crucifix around our...
Rachel’s Contrition, Chapter 38
Aleteia - Apr 4, 2017 at 11:00 pm Rachel begins to take action, for Lilly's sake, but what about Father Jacobsen? Where has he gone, and why the odd looks at the mention of his name?Continued from Chapter 37…...
4 Ways to have a ‘soulful’ relationship
Aleteia - Apr 4, 2017 at 11:00 pm What's that, you ask? Just think about decluttering your heart in the same way you would your roomThere is so much being written on decluttering our homes and simplifying our...
Why do Catholics make the Sign of the Cross before praying?
Aleteia - Apr 4, 2017 at 11:00 pm Is it some sort of medieval superstition? When a group of Christians from different denominations get together to pray, it is easy to figure out who is (or was) Catholic. Instead...
Trying to decide if I should head for Ground Zero in Downtown Seattle…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Apr 4, 2017 at 9:34 pm or head over the mountains and enjoy a more lingering death from fallout: The worry that POTUS may lead us into an inescapable dead end is mounting. Consider the following...
