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Daily Reading for Thursday, March 16th, 2017 HD
Catholic Online - Featured News - Mar 14, 2017 at 8:10 am Reading 1, Jeremiah 17:5-10
5 Yahweh says this, 'Accursed be anyone who trusts in human beings, who relies on human strength and whose heart turns ...
European Court of Justice Upholds Neutral Employment Rules Barring Religious Dress
The Religion Clause - Mar 14, 2017 at 7:50 am The Court of Justice of the European Union today decided two cases raising the question of whether private employers may prohibit Muslim employees from wearing a headscarf at work...
Pope: Conversion - learning to do good with deeds, not words
News.va - Mar 14, 2017 at 7:39 am (Vatican Radio) Avoiding evil, learning to do good, and allowing yourself to be carried forward by the Lord: this is the path of Lenten conversion pointed out by Pope Francis in...
Matilda: A 10th-Century Saint for 21st-Century Moms
CatholicMom.com - Mar 14, 2017 at 7:30 am
Via Mary’s Rosaries, PD.
Today is the feast of St. Matilda (also spelled Mathilda), a saint who was also a wife and mother. At first glance, Matilda doesn’t have a lot in common...
Not Just Illuminations! Historical Wall Paintings of the Gothic School of St Albans
New Liturgical Movement - Mar 14, 2017 at 7:00 am Recently, I suggested that Matthew Paris and other artists of the 14th Gothic illuminations (which I have called the “School of St Albans” after the town where Paris lived and...
Pope Francis: Listening to each other can make the world a better place
Catholic Herald - Mar 14, 2017 at 6:56 am People need to listen more if they want there to be peace in the world, Pope Francis said.
Open “ears are missing, there’s a lack of people who know how to listen,” which is...
Aquinas College to downsize, shift focus to education
EWTN - US Latest News - Mar 14, 2017 at 6:56 am Nashville, Tenn., Mar 14, 2017 / 06:56 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Aquinas College in Nashville announced last week that it will be restructuring to focus primarily on education degrees...
Aquinas College to downsize, shift focus to education
Catholic News Agency - General - Mar 14, 2017 at 6:56 am Nashville, Tenn., Mar 14, 2017 / 05:56 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Aquinas College in Nashville announced last week that it will be restructuring to focus primarily on education degrees...
A genuine dubium for confessors
Catholic Herald - Mar 14, 2017 at 6:38 am In the wake of Amoris Laetitia, there has understandably been much talk of pastoral accompaniment, gradualism, and the internal forum; of meeting people where they are, in their...
Anglican Evensong was celebrated in St Peter’s Basilica for the first time
Catholic Herald - Mar 14, 2017 at 6:14 am Anglican Choral Evensong was celebrated in St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican for the first time on Monday.
The service was presided over by Anglican Archbishop David Moxon,...
7th Circuit Upholds Enhanced Sentence For Hajj Fraud Defendant
The Religion Clause - Mar 14, 2017 at 6:05 am In United States v. Minhas, (7th Cir., March 10, 2017), the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the 114 month prison sentence imposed on a travel agent convicted in two...
New Mexico bishops admonish pro-choice Catholic legislators
EWTN - US Latest News - Mar 14, 2017 at 6:01 am Santa Fe, NM, Mar 14, 2017 / 06:01 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- New Mexico Bishops released a statement last week discouraging public advocacy from Catholic legislators for abortions and...
Family Games: Quick Dice Games
CatholicMom.com - Mar 14, 2017 at 6:00 am
Sometimes (read: more often than I’d like to admit), I am a bit of a snob. This is true for food, books, and sometimes even games. Why would I ever want to play a real-time...
11th Circuit: Title VII Does Not Bar Sexual Orientation Discrimination
The Religion Clause - Mar 14, 2017 at 6:00 am In Evans v. Georgia Regional Hospital, (11th Cir., March 10, 2017), the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision held that Title VII of the 1964 Civil rights Act does...
The faith of the simple and the anti-Francis operations
Vatican Insider - Mar 14, 2017 at 5:59 am The ecclesiastical hostility reserved to Pope Francis, in all its various gradations, is unprecedented in the history of the last centuries....
Porn leaves men dissatisfied with real relationships, study finds
EWTN - US Latest News - Mar 14, 2017 at 5:28 am Washington D.C., Mar 14, 2017 / 05:28 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- A recent analysis of 50 studies found that pornography was negatively associated with sexual and relational satisfaction...
Marie Collins responds to Cardinal Muller, challenging his facts on abuse commission
Vatican Insider - Mar 14, 2017 at 5:26 am VATICAN CITY -- The clergy sexual abuse survivor who recently resigned from Pope Francis’ Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors has written an open letter to the head...
How Pope Francis' sincere humanity has shaped his pontificate
EWTN - Vatican News - Mar 14, 2017 at 5:05 am Vatican City, Mar 14, 2017 / 05:05 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Rather than a weakness, Pope Francis' humanity – and his acknowledgment of it – has been a source of strength and impact...
Conversion is a journey of action, Pope says
EWTN - Vatican News - Mar 14, 2017 at 5:01 am Vatican City, Mar 14, 2017 / 05:01 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Pope Francis urged Catholics in Tuesday's homily not only to avoid evil,
but to pursue good in concrete actions, likening...
Pontificatus Nostro Quinto
Whispers in the Loggia - Mar 14, 2017 at 4:54 am “And Jesus came into the quarters of Caesarea Philippi: and he asked his disciples, saying: Whom do men say that the Son of Man is? But they said: Some John the Baptist, and...
