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POLL: Covering images for Passiontide, 5th Sunday of Lent – 2017
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Apr 2, 2017 at 11:47 am We are now in Passiontide.
From this Sunday, traditionally called 1st Sunday of the Passion, it is customary to veil images in churches. In the Gospel in traditional Form of the...
Recent Prisoner Free Exercise Cases
The Religion Clause - Apr 2, 2017 at 11:22 am In Orwig v. Chapdelane, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 38875 (D CO, March 17, 2017), a Colorado federal district court allowed an inmate to proceed with some of his claims complaining he...
ASK FATHER: Family member baptized children without parents knowledge
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Apr 2, 2017 at 11:14 am From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
I recently learned that one of my family members took the initiative to illicitly baptize two “infants” (one under the age of one and the other almost 4...
Even in tragedy, God’s love remains, Pope tells earthquake victims
Catholic News Agency - General - Apr 2, 2017 at 10:41 am Vatican City, Apr 2, 2017 / 09:41 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Sunday Pope Francis encouraged people from earthquake-damaged communities to continue the process of rebuilding with courage...
Even in tragedy, God's love remains, Pope tells earthquake victims
EWTN - Vatican News - Apr 2, 2017 at 10:41 am Vatican City, Apr 2, 2017 / 10:41 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Sunday Pope Francis encouraged people from earthquake-damaged communities to continue the process of rebuilding with courage...
Saint Francis of Paula, Confessor
Regina Magazine - Apr 2, 2017 at 10:29 am April 2 Today is the feast day of Saint Francis of Paula. Ora pro nobis. by Fr. Xavier Weninger, 1877 Paola, a small town in Calabria, a province of Naples, was the favored...
Pope tells Christians to be witnesses of life and hope
News.va - Apr 2, 2017 at 10:02 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Sunday told the faithful not to remain trapped in the rubble of life, but to rise from the rubble and rebuild their lives with the help of God.
The...
“I am close to the earthquake victims. A soon recovery of the historic towns is essential”
Vatican Insider - Apr 2, 2017 at 9:33 am The Pope started by encouraging the victims of the 2012 earthquake, “Do not give into discouragement given by the still remaining difficulties.” Then he appealed, “To soon restore...
Are Francis’s Critics ‘More Catholic Than the Pope’?
Regina Magazine - Apr 2, 2017 at 9:21 am VIEW FROM THE PEW Is it arrogant to question or criticize a Pope’s words? Is what the Pope says ‘law’ – even if it contradicts Catholic teaching? Five ordinary US Catholics got...
Passion Sunday
Regina Magazine - Apr 2, 2017 at 9:17 am Today is Passion Sunday (by Fr. Prosper Gueranger 1870) Today, if ye shall hear the voice of the Lord, harden not your hearts. The Holy Church begins her Night Office of this...
Pope appeals for Columbia, DRC, Venezuela and Paraguay
News.va - Apr 2, 2017 at 8:28 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has expressed deep pain for the tragedy that has struck the city of Mocoa in Columbia where a gigantic landslide has killed over 250 people and left...
Hipster market in DC to offer free sign language class
Aleteia - Apr 2, 2017 at 6:00 am Trendy food hall is popular with deaf students from neighboring universityUnion Market, Washington, DC’s trendy renovated food emporium in the Northeast quadrant of the city, is...
Pope: Don't dwell on suffering, let Jesus heal you
EWTN - Vatican News - Apr 2, 2017 at 5:44 am Vatican City, Apr 2, 2017 / 05:44 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
Sunday, Pope Francis said that each of us carries some kind of tomb inside our heart, whether from sin or suffering, and we...
Pope: Don’t dwell on suffering, let Jesus heal you
Catholic News Agency - General - Apr 2, 2017 at 5:42 am Vatican City, Apr 2, 2017 / 04:42 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Sunday, Pope Francis said that each of us carries some kind of tomb inside our heart, whether from sin or suffering, and we...
Mali bishops plead for kidnapped nun's release
EWTN - World Catholic News - Apr 2, 2017 at 5:01 am Bamako, Mali, Apr 2, 2017 / 05:01 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- The Catholic bishops of Mali are asking the general public to help secure the release of a nun who was kidnapped in the...
As we forgive those who sin against us: Parsing the Lord’s Prayer
Aleteia - Apr 2, 2017 at 5:00 am To forgive others is sometimes a true burden of the crossWhat are we praying for in the Our Father (Part VI) This is the down side of “forgive us our sins,” this second half of...
The Pope prays for Colombia, Congo, Venezuela and Paraguay
Vatican Insider - Apr 2, 2017 at 4:03 am A prayer for the flood victims in Colombia. A prayer to end the “bloody armed clashes” in Congo, alertness and closeness to the people of Venezuela and Paraguay, two Latin...
Eye contact: In you I see all I have been … and all I hope to be
Aleteia - Apr 2, 2017 at 4:00 am Photo of the day, April 2, 2017In Rumer Godden’s classic novel, In This House of Brede, two nuns are waiting at the door for a new arrival to their Benedictine monastery, while...
Daily Gospel Reflection for April 2, 2017 - Fifth Sunday of Lent
CatholicMom.com - Apr 2, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: John 11:1-45 – Fifth Sunday of Lent
As you spend more time with people you get to know them better, and learn what makes them happy, sad, afraid; you also learn...
Pope: avoid the “temptation to feel sorry for ourselves”
Vatican Insider - Apr 2, 2017 at 3:14 am “Let us not be imprisoned by the temptation of being alone and disheartened, to feel sorry for ourselves for what happens to us. This is the atmosphere of the sepulcher; the Lord...
