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Making a Good Lent: A Time to Choose
Catholic Online - Featured News - Mar 30, 2017 at 12:00 am I look forward to Lent. It is a time of spiritual housecleaning, taking
inventory, emptying myself and, progressing in the life of faith by ...
Five Positive Ways to Be a Catholic Rebel
Integrated Catholic Life - Mar 29, 2017 at 11:04 pm Come on, we know better than the Church, don’t we? After all, this is the 21st Century and times have changed. Modern man is fully capable of deciding what is moral on his own,...
The sure-fire medieval cure for baldness
Aleteia - Mar 29, 2017 at 11:00 pm All you need is bear fat, wheat straw ash, and patience.That Renaissance woman of the Middle Ages, Hildegard of Bingen, was a theologian, playwright, composer, and scientist....
Help! How do I break the habit of bringing snacks to Mass for my kids?
Aleteia - Mar 29, 2017 at 11:00 pm Mass is actually a good place to teach children that sometimes gratification must be delayed, which is an important lesson for life.Katrina, I need some moral support ending...
Famine in Africa: War, drought and disease conspire against the people of South Sudan
Aleteia - Mar 29, 2017 at 11:00 pm Food and water is there for those who are suffering, but military blocks the way. See our photo galleryWar, drought and disease are conspiring against the people of South Sudan....
4 ways to lean into Lent and prepare for Easter joy
Aleteia - Mar 29, 2017 at 11:00 pm Decide to finish out Lent strong and get ready for a truly happy Easter. It’s still Lent, just in case you—like me—keep forgetting. I’m not very good at Lent. In fact, I’m...
6 Best-selling books that are must-reads this spring
Aleteia - Mar 29, 2017 at 11:00 pm 'A Man Called Ove,' 'When Breath Becomes Air,' and other worthwhile reads from the New York Times Best Sellers list.You know the feeling: You’re at a dinner party and your friends...
At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
Aleteia - Mar 29, 2017 at 11:00 pm St John of the Cross
Rachel’s Contrition, Chapter 32
Aleteia - Mar 29, 2017 at 11:00 pm A strange woman comes into the picture, and Rachel discovers that even priests harbor guilt, and must work out their penance.Continued from Chapter 31… Rachel’s Contrition CHAPTER...
The 10 tasks of the Catholic thinker
Aleteia - Mar 29, 2017 at 11:00 pm The Catalonian philosopher Francesc Torralba on the indispensable role of the Catholic intellectualThe proper place of the intellectual is far from being an ivory tower. Catholic...
Feeling inadequate to the task before you? Here’s the saint for you
Aleteia - Mar 29, 2017 at 11:00 pm It was a hard lesson, but St Hugh finally found the peace of accepting that God would work through him.The Christian call to humility is a difficult one. For those who are...
In DRC, political uncertainty after bishops withdraw from peace talks
Catholic News Agency - General - Mar 29, 2017 at 9:07 pm Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mar 29, 2017 / 08:07 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Political unrest and uncertainty about the future have grown in the Democratic Republic of...
Parramatta bishop urges Australia to do more for refugees and asylum seekers during Brisbane trip
The Catholic Leader - Mar 29, 2017 at 9:00 pm AUSTRALIA can and should do more to help refugees and asylum seekers, the Catholic bishops’ delegate on those concerns Bishop Vincent Long said. Bishop Long made that clear during...
Bangladesh: police accused of attacking Catholic town
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 29, 2017 at 8:25 pm Plainclothes policemen reportedly entered a woman’s house in Doripara, one of the largest Catholic towns in the predominantly Muslim nation of Bangladesh.
BRICK BY BRICK in CINCY! ORATORY!
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Mar 29, 2017 at 8:24 pm I received wonderful Brick By Brick news from Cincinnati.
An Oratory of St. Philip Neri has been officially established at Old St. Mary’s Church. HERE and HERE
Not bad, huh?...
Brexit: English bishops’ spokesman concerned about European residents in England
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 29, 2017 at 7:56 pm As Prime Minister Theresa May took steps to implement Brexit, a spokesman for the English bishops expressed concern about European residents in England.
Bishop: ‘South Sudan is collapsing’
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 29, 2017 at 7:50 pm Bishop Erkolano Lodu Tombe of Yei, president of Caritas South Sudan, warned that the humanitarian situation in the war-torn nation is increasingly dire.
EU bishops discuss Europe’s future
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 29, 2017 at 7:46 pm The bishops of the EU gathered in Brussels on March 29 for a private three-day meeting to reflect on Europe’s future.
USCCB prelate: Trump executive order jeopardizes environment
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 29, 2017 at 7:44 pm Bishop Frank Dewane, the chairman of the US bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, criticized President Donald Trump’s executive order on promoting energy...
Fear and Anxiety in Australia explored by ACU panellists
The Catholic Leader - Mar 29, 2017 at 7:34 pm IS Australia in a time of fear? If so, what are we afraid of and what does this mean for our future? These were the questions posed to four eminent panellists at the Australian...