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Cardinal Sandri asks generous support for annual collection for Church in Holy Land
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 3, 2017 at 8:30 am The prefect of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches has urged all Catholics to contribute generously to the annual Good Friday collection, which supports the Church in the...
New York Times offers lots of whispers (hint, hint) about Pence's patient waiting game
GetReligion - Apr 3, 2017 at 8:25 am Sooooooo ... Did anyone read the OTHER big mainstream news feature involving the vice president?
There was, of course, that tsunami of digital ink about Mike and Karen Pence and...
Bishop Eamonn Casey showed there is a way back from personal catastrophe
Catholic Herald - Apr 3, 2017 at 8:22 am The passing of the late Bishop Eamonn Casey was marked by some kind and generous tributes, including this one from Des Wilson that appeared in the letters page of the Guardian,...
Liberals shun leading anti-euthanasia group at hearing on Ontario’s ‘joke’ of a bill
LifeSiteNews - Apr 3, 2017 at 8:07 am Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition says Bill 84 allows doctors 'complete control' in assisted suicide.
4 Things I want my daughter to know about being ‘feminist’
Aleteia - Apr 3, 2017 at 8:00 am And they have nothing to do with faith. One night, I had a dream: A dream which effectively exposed the previously hidden corners of my totally stereotypical Catholic imagination...
Venezuelan bishops encourage resistance as government moves to eliminate opposition
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 3, 2017 at 7:54 am The Catholic bishops of Venezuela have condemned the “morally unacceptable” move by Venezuela’s government to abolish the country’s parliament. The bishops spoke of open...
Three Ways to Cultivate Silence During Holy Week
CatholicMom.com - Apr 3, 2017 at 7:30 am
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I love Holy Week. The final week leading up to Easter is a special time, when we commemorate the Passion and death of Jesus...
What UNC’s Luke Maye has to teach us ordinary folk
Aleteia - Apr 3, 2017 at 7:00 am He's not the only one to have gone from "minor character" to "star of the show."I’ve been watching a lot of college basketball during the NCAA men’s tournament and was especially...
Colonial- and Mission-Era Mexican Outdoor Chapels
New Liturgical Movement - Apr 3, 2017 at 7:00 am A reader of NLM who had seen my various posts on outdoor Masses (see here, here, and here) wrote to me about a fascinating piece of architectural history that deserves to be...
Even Mother Teresa nearly rejected the divine call
Catholic Herald - Apr 3, 2017 at 6:38 am It is always tempting to see the saints, not as individuals with the very human struggles that afflict us all, but surrounded with an aura of sanctity, symbolised by a halo. This...
Free school meals figures are misleading, Catholic academics warn
Catholic Herald - Apr 3, 2017 at 6:28 am The amount of children who receive Free School Meals (FSM) is a misleading indicator of a school’s socio-economic composition, Catholic academics have warned in response to...
Ex-convict: We need to end the stigma against felons
EWTN - US Latest News - Apr 3, 2017 at 6:24 am Washington D.C., Apr 3, 2017 / 06:24 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- As Pope Francis and U.S. bishops insist upon helping ex-convicts
re-enter society, advocates are pointing to a litany of...
Recent Articles of Interest
The Religion Clause - Apr 3, 2017 at 6:05 am From SSRN:
Rafael Domingo, God and the Secular Legal System: Introduction, (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
Ronald J. Krotoszynski Jr., Agora, Dignity, and Discrimination: On...
The Church and the liturgy face a ‘profound crisis’, says Cardinal Sarah
Catholic Herald - Apr 3, 2017 at 6:01 am Cardinal Robert Sarah, the Vatican’s liturgical chief, has spoken of a “serious, profound crisis” in the liturgy and the Church since the Second Vatican Council.
In a message to a...
Our Darkness and Holy Saturday
CatholicMom.com - Apr 3, 2017 at 6:00 am
Photo via Flickr (2009), CC BY 2.0. Title added by author.
In almost two weeks we will be entering into our most holy days of days: the Triduum, consisting of the evening of Holy...
More Recent Prisoner Free Exercise Cases
The Religion Clause - Apr 3, 2017 at 6:00 am [Note to readers: A unusually large number of prisoner free exercise cases have been decided in recent weeks, so Religion Clause will summarize them in postings more frequent than...
A Fast Take on ‘The Wisdom of the Body’ with Christine Valters Paintner
Aleteia - Apr 3, 2017 at 5:00 am "I want to reach women who are exhausted by the endless internal criticism."Christine Valters Paintner is a Benedictine Oblate, spiritual director and retreat leader, and the...
Syrian religious sister among recipients of International Women of Courage Award
Catholic Herald - Apr 3, 2017 at 4:21 am A religious sister from Syria was one of 13 women honoured March 29 by the US Department of State with the Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Award.
First lady...
Francis: corrupt judges and witnesses? They have always existed
Vatican Insider - Apr 3, 2017 at 4:14 am Pope Francis renews the call not to judge “in the heart of the others.” He asks to forgive and points out: the fullness of the law, the true justice, is Jesus, with His mercy, His...
Ideology and the Crisis of Integrity in American Politics
Crisis Magazine - Church - Apr 3, 2017 at 4:10 am
We hear a lot nowadays about the polarization in American politics, between the two parties and between conservatives and “progressives” (as liberals have come to be called)....
