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Celebrating National Good Samaritan Day
CatholicMom.com - Mar 13, 2017 at 7:30 am
Photo (Detail of Rossano Gospels, 6th century Good Samaritan) by Jim Forest (2014) via Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Did you know that today is National Good Samaritan Day? Me either....
PODCAST: Bishop Mark Davies of Shrewsbury goes on retreat
Catholic Herald - Mar 13, 2017 at 7:05 am Our pilgrim today, is Bishop Mark Davies of Shrewsbury who has chosen to go on retreat to any Catholic church in the world “where I can be close to the tabernacle.” The intention...
Why the Communal Mass Should Be Sung
New Liturgical Movement - Mar 13, 2017 at 7:00 am This article concerns the singing of the Ordinary Form of the Mass, but its main point pertains also to the desirability of sung Masses in the Extraordinary Form.As is well known...
Blogger goes on trial for playing Pokémon Go in Russian church
Catholic Herald - Mar 13, 2017 at 6:53 am A trial for the blogger who is accused of inciting religious hatred for playing Pokémon Go in a church has begun in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.
Ruslan Sokolovsky has been...
‘The Benedict Option risks becoming a ghetto mentality’: an interview with Fr George Rutler
Catholic Herald - Mar 13, 2017 at 6:36 am Fr George Rutler’s new book, which I blogged about last week, is the product of an original mind. So I wanted to ask him: what were his formative influences? “My parents,” he...
A Deathbed Conversion Story
CatholicMom.com - Mar 13, 2017 at 6:00 am
Painting by R. Pistoni [CC BY 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons
I believe my prayers contributed to a deathbed conversion. There were surely other prayers at work, but mine were in the...
Recent Articles of Interest
The Religion Clause - Mar 13, 2017 at 6:00 am From SSRN:
Khaled A. Beydoun, Acting Muslim, (Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review (CR-CL), Vol. 53, Forthcoming).
Jaakko Husa, Hindu Law - Stateless Law?, (...
Pope asks priests and lay Catholics to recommend Vicar of Rome candidates
Catholic Herald - Mar 13, 2017 at 5:52 am Pope Francis is asking Rome priests and lay Catholics to recommend candidates and qualities for the city’s next vicar.
During a closed-door meeting Friday with Rome priests,...
The Church is the 'only functioning institution' in South Sudan
EWTN - US Latest News - Mar 13, 2017 at 5:46 am Washington D.C., Mar 13, 2017 / 05:46 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Amid war and famine in South Sudan, the Catholic Church is still serving the most vulnerable even as the government has...
Secularism faces global decline thanks to contraception, study claims
Catholic Herald - Mar 13, 2017 at 5:12 am Secularism will decline worldwide while religion grows, according to a new study in the journal Evolutionary Psychological Science.
The study, reported in The Times, observed more...
My life isn't a tragedy – a Rwandan woman's incredible story of survival
EWTN - Vatican News - Mar 13, 2017 at 5:02 am Vatican City, Mar 13, 2017 / 05:02 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
She begged and scrounged for food in the forest; she drank water from a stream with dead bodies in it; she wrapped grass on...
Despite warnings, assisted suicide bill advances in Hawaii
EWTN - US Latest News - Mar 13, 2017 at 5:00 am Honolulu, Hawaii, Mar 13, 2017 / 05:00 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Although critics said an assisted suicide bill would put vulnerable people at risk and change the nature of medicine,...
Population Control Advocates Hobnob at the Vatican
Crisis Magazine - Church - Mar 13, 2017 at 4:15 am
In 1873, a saint who professed herself “madly fond of children,” who “desire[d] to give many elect souls to Heaven,” gave birth to her ninth child—St. Thérèse of Lisieux. Today,...
Martin Luther: Defender of Erroneous Conscience
Crisis Magazine - Church - Mar 13, 2017 at 4:10 am
Two trials, two appeals to conscience.
Trial 1: I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so...
My life isn't a tragedy – a Rwandan woman's incredible story of survival
Catholic News Agency - General - Mar 13, 2017 at 4:02 am Vatican City, Mar 13, 2017 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- She begged and scrounged for food in the forest; she drank water from a stream with dead bodies in it; she wrapped grass on...
Pope prays for all mistreated youths after Guatemala fire
Catholic Herald - Mar 13, 2017 at 3:40 am Pope Francis has prayed for the 39 girls killed and others injured in the blaze that began in a Guatemalan youth shelter when mattresses were set alight in a protest by those...
Daily Gospel Reflection for March 13, 2017
CatholicMom.com - Mar 13, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: Luke 6:36-38
Here Jesus calls us to the same type of generosity that God displays toward us. We’re not called to give what is fair or equitable. We’re not called...
Pope to Roman parish: 'Transfiguration shows path towards Easter, Resurrection'
News.va - Mar 13, 2017 at 3:15 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis visited the Roman parish of St. Magdalene of Canossa on Sunday afternoon, meeting with young people and the sick and elderly before celebrating Mass...
On Friday, Doug O’Brien and I talked…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Mar 13, 2017 at 2:59 am …about how much we owe our parents and about the Francis-hating Lie Machine at Liesite and Breitbart:
Vatican confirms papal trip to Egypt under consideration
Catholic Herald - Mar 13, 2017 at 2:33 am The Vatican has confirming a papal trip to Egypt is under consideration but that no dates or itinerary have been finalised.
The statement on Saturday by spokesman Greg Burke came...
