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St. Colette: Saint of the Day for Monday, March 06, 2017
Catholic Online - Featured News - Mar 5, 2017 at 3:02 pm Colette was the daughter of a carpenter named DeBoilet at Corby Abbey in Picardy, France. She was born on January 13, christened Nicolette, and ...
Daily Readings for Monday, March 06, 2017
Catholic Online - Featured News - Mar 5, 2017 at 3:02 pm Reading 1: Leviticus 19:11-18, Reading 1: Leviticus 19:1-2, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 19:8-10, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 19:15, Gospel: Matthew ...
Eucharist defines the Roe family
The Catholic Leader - Mar 5, 2017 at 3:00 pm THERE’S no doubting what the Roe family will prioritise this weekend. Parents Daniel and Kristen said faith expression was “normalised” in their home and weekly Mass attendance “...
Sharing the Word for March 6, 2017 – First Week of Lent – Year 1
Franciscan Media - Mar 5, 2017 at 3:00 pm Monday of the First Week of Lent
March 06, 2017
Daily Reading from the USCCB: Leviticus 19:1-2, 11-18
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ACTION ITEM! Declaration on Sacred Music – Cantate Domino – 50th anniversary of Instruction ‘Musicam Sacram’
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Mar 5, 2017 at 2:13 pm My friend Prof. Peter Kwasniewski has been part of a project to create a Declaration on Sacred Music – Cantate Domino – on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1967...
Stephen Curry goes to Liberty: Social justice plus God plus sneakers equals news?
GetReligion - Mar 5, 2017 at 2:05 pm First let me confess that this post is inspired, in part, by the fact that it is written while sitting at a desk that allows me to glance to the side and look at the Golden Gate...
Egyptian priest praises Muslim support of threatened Christians
Franciscan Media - Mar 5, 2017 at 1:20 pm OXFORD, England (CNS) — A spokesman for Egypt’s Catholic Church praised local Muslims for helping embattled Christians after a series of Islamic State attacks in Sinai.
Father...
Pope Francis begins Lenten Spiritual Exercises
News.va - Mar 5, 2017 at 12:59 pm (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis and members of the Vatican Curia travelled on Sunday afternoon to the "Casa del Divin Maestro,” a retreat centre in Ariccia, located in the Alban...
Reflection on the Second Sunday of Lent, Year A, Matthew 17:1-9
Big C Catholics - Mar 5, 2017 at 12:10 pm The Second Sunday of Lent (A), March 12, 2017By Msgr. Bernard BourgeoisGenesis 12:1-4a; Psalm 33; 2 Timothy 1:8b-10; Matthew 17:1-9"He saved us and called us to a holy life." (2...
Homily for the 2nd Sunday in Lent, March 12, 2017, Year A
Big C Catholics - Mar 5, 2017 at 12:00 pm Fr. Charles IrvinSenior PriestDiocese of Lansing(Click here for today’s readings)God asked Abraham to leave his land, take everything and everyone with him and move to a new land...
KINDLE Alert
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Mar 5, 2017 at 11:54 am ALERT!
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Pope Francis: “Consult your Bible as often as your cellphone”
Aleteia - Mar 5, 2017 at 11:18 am VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Sunday called on Christians to consult the Bible with the same frequency as they might consult their cellphones for messages. Speaking to the crowds...
Recent Prisoner Free Exercise Cases
The Religion Clause - Mar 5, 2017 at 10:11 am In Shehee v. Ahlin, (9th Cir., Feb. 27, 2017), the 9th Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a civil detainee's complaint regarding problems in connection with a requested religious...
Is the Pope Francis Papacy in Crisis?
Big C Catholics - Mar 5, 2017 at 8:58 am One longtime Catholic commentator says the papacy of Pope Francis is a disaster in the most demonstrative of terms. In Phil Lawler's Op-Ed for Catholic Culture he writes:For over...
Pope Francis: ‘consult the Bible as often as your cellphone’
News.va - Mar 5, 2017 at 8:08 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Sunday called on Christians to consult the Bible with the same frequency as they might consult their cellphones for messages.
Listen to the report...
Portrait of a lady: Concerning missing art treasures and a contested cathedral
GetReligion - Mar 5, 2017 at 8:00 am “Cognitive dissonance” is a mellifluous phrase I’ve heard bandied about in the media during these first days of the Donald Trump administration.The new president’s supporters are...
Do you read the Bible as often as you check your phone? Francis asks
EWTN - Vatican News - Mar 5, 2017 at 7:22 am Vatican City, Mar 5, 2017 / 07:22 am (EWTN News/CNA).- On the first Sunday of Lent, Pope Francis said if we want to fight
against the temptation of sin, we must be familiar with...
No Bivens Claim By Vet Denied Psychological Care Because of Anti-Gay Views
The Religion Clause - Mar 5, 2017 at 7:00 am In Waksmundski v. Williams, (SD OH, Feb. 27, 2017), Marine Corps veteran John Waksmundski who had been receiving psychological counseling for a number of years at a VA Hospital...
Wednesday 8 March
Vatican Insider - Mar 5, 2017 at 6:56 am 10 am: The Pope will hold his weekly General Audience in St. Peter’s Square ...
What's it like to be an 'invisible' child under China's one-child policy?
Catholic News Agency - General - Mar 5, 2017 at 6:31 am Beijing, China, Mar 5, 2017 / 05:31 am (CNA).- For some 35 years, the population of China was strictly controlled by the Communist government’s one-child policy.
Parents were only...
