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Why I Quit Cussin' Like a Sailor
Catholic Online - Featured News - Mar 7, 2017 at 12:00 am Her husband and I met for the first time at the party and it turned out that I'd made quite an impression on him. Unfortunately, it wasn't my ...
Pope, Curia reflect on St. Matthew’s Gospel
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 6, 2017 at 11:47 pm Pope Francis and 70 members of the Roman Curia arrived at a retreat house in Ariccia, Italy, on March 5 to begin their annual Lenten spiritual exercises.
‘Catastrophic’ humanitarian situation in South Sudan
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 6, 2017 at 11:15 pm The director of Caritas in the Diocese of Torit, South Sudan, spoke of famine brought on by drought and war.
Trust in the Holy Spirit to Lead Us to Truth
Integrated Catholic Life - Mar 6, 2017 at 11:04 pm In these Disconnected Times, Trust in the Holy Spirit To Lead Us to Truth We live in an indoctrinated age of novelty and dissatisfaction. We are always looking ahead to what is...
When art came to the Eucharist’s rescue: Caravaggio, Domenichino, and Barocci
Aleteia - Mar 6, 2017 at 11:00 pm On the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, this series of articles looks at how the Church responded to this turbulent age by finding an artistic voice to proclaim...
Did Natural Family Planning just get a whole lot easier?
Aleteia - Mar 6, 2017 at 11:00 pm Natural family planning isn’t rocket science. But particle physics? Dr. Elina Berglund might say so. On February 9, Berglund’s start-up, Natural Cycles, became the first-ever...
Ani, the Turkish city of 1,001 churches
Aleteia - Mar 6, 2017 at 11:00 pm Today, only awe-inspiring ruins surrounded by more than a kilometer of walls bear witness to Ani’s former, ancient splendor. At its zenith, the city was the capital of the...
Advice from St. Gregory on how to reject 3 temptations of the devil
Aleteia - Mar 6, 2017 at 11:00 pm As we head into our 40 days in the desert, here’s some advice from St. Gregory Nazianzen, lest the devil tempt us as he tempted Christ. We have a secret weapon, in fact, and...
So, what are you reading, Dom Bettinelli?
Aleteia - Mar 6, 2017 at 11:00 pm [Aleteia loves books but recognizes that a world busy with social media doesn’t afford many prompts to that old conversation-starter, “Read any good books lately?” So, we’re...
Americans may soon need visas to travel to Europe
Aleteia - Mar 6, 2017 at 11:00 pm Last week, the European Union (EU) voted to approve a non-binding resolution that would require American citizens to obtain a visa before they can enter any EU country. This move...
3 Reasons why Catholic education is failing in the Philippines… and elsewhere
Aleteia - Mar 6, 2017 at 11:00 pm Last January, I asked my students to fill in this sentence, “I believe in ____.” I teach at a Jesuit university in the Philippines that has produced presidents, heroes, priests...
What if Beethoven were a 21st-century composer?
Aleteia - Mar 6, 2017 at 11:00 pm As is true of all classics, Beethoven’s music never ages. Loved by both connoisseurs and neophytes, its appeal is universal. But what if Beethoven were a contemporary composer,...
Long-lost novel by Walt Whitman discovered
Aleteia - Mar 6, 2017 at 11:00 pm A long-lost novel by Walt Whitman has been discovered, and if the author of Leaves of Grass were still around today he wouldn’t be pleased. The New York Times, reporting on the...
“Invite one inactive Catholic friend or family to come with you to Mass…”
Aleteia - Mar 6, 2017 at 11:00 pm Bishop John O. Barres is the new Bishop of Rockville Centre, which encompasses two counties on Long Island, New York. In his very first statement to the 1.7 million Catholics in...
Trump visits Catholic school in Florida
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 6, 2017 at 10:53 pm President Donald Trump visited St. Andrew Catholic School in Orlando on March 3 and touted school-choice legislation during remarks at a parent-teacher conference listening...
Trump Tells Planned Parenthood They Can Have $$$ if They Give up Abortion
Creative Minority Report - Mar 6, 2017 at 10:40 pm So the question this really comes down to is does Planned Parenthood love money more than death?Orlando Sentinel:President Donald Trump has offered to maintain federal funding for...
USCCB: prelate criticizes President Trump’s new executive order on refugees
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 6, 2017 at 10:31 pm Bishop Joe Vásquez of Austin, chairman of the US bishops’ Committee on Migration, took issue with President Donald Trump’s new executive order protecting the nation from foreign...
Memento mori
The Curt Jester - Mar 6, 2017 at 8:35 pm Some years ago I came across a story about Trappist Caskets where the monks of New Melleray Abbey in Ohio build hand-crafter caskets. This appealed to me in several ways. That...
Msgr. Mark Rivituso named auxiliary bishop for St. Louis
Saint Louis Review - St. Louis News - Mar 6, 2017 at 8:29 pm Jennifer Brinker | jbrinker@archstl.org | twitter: @jenniferbrinker
Msgr. Mark S. Rivituso was at his desk on a recent Monday morning when the...
Persimmon sandwiches? How Dominicans live poverty today
The Catholic Leader - Mar 6, 2017 at 7:42 pm “Anyone who shows the least inclination to really practise the poverty of Christ in his own life will be called a crank.” EVANGELICAL poverty embraced for the sake of the mission...
