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Meatless Friday: Pierogi Lasagna
CatholicMom.com - Mar 3, 2017 at 7:30 am
I married into a Polish family that still takes pride in cooking up hundreds of homemade pierogi every Christmas Eve. While I love to cook, pierogi definitely require a team...
‘Pope Francis has urged us to have fewer children,’ claims Vatican academy member
LifeSiteNews - Mar 3, 2017 at 7:30 am A Vatican conference this week heard repeated calls for reducing the world's population.
“Fasting is helping others, is not continuing injustices”
Vatican Insider - Mar 3, 2017 at 7:24 am Today, on the first Friday of Lent, the Readings speak of fasting, the penance “that we are called to do at this time of Lent” in order to draw closer to the Lord. True fasting is...
Archbishop Chaput: Pope Francis cannot contradict John Paul II on Communion
Catholic Herald - Mar 3, 2017 at 7:11 am Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia has said that it would be good for Pope Francis to answer the dubia, and that Francis cannot contradict Pope St John Paul II’s teaching...
The Apocalypse Art Prize 2017
New Liturgical Movement - Mar 3, 2017 at 7:00 am The Apocalypse Prize 2017 is a religious art competition which as been developed to stimulate interest in Medieval Art as a resource for contemporary religious artists. This is...
Faith can’t grow without temptation, pope tells Rome priests
Franciscan Media - Mar 3, 2017 at 6:27 am Pope Francis addresses priests of the Diocese of Rome during a meeting at the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome March 2. (CNS photo/L’Osservatore Romano, handout)
ROME (CNS) —...
Trump pushes education choices in visit to Florida Catholic school
EWTN - US Latest News - Mar 3, 2017 at 6:26 am Orlando, Fla., Mar 3, 2017 / 06:26 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- President Donald Trump visited a Florida Catholic school on Friday,
praising the Catholic education system and touting his...
House Task Force On Anti-Semitism Sends Suggestions To Trump
The Religion Clause - Mar 3, 2017 at 6:15 am Yesterday the eight co-chairs of the U.S. House of Representatives Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Anti-Semitism sent a letter (full text) to President Trump suggesting three...
2nd Circuit Hears Arguments On Whether Money Damages Are Available Under RFRA
The Religion Clause - Mar 3, 2017 at 6:10 am The U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday heard oral arguments (MP3 audio of full arguments) in Tanvir v. Comey. In the case, Muslim plaintiffs sued claiming that when...
Religious Coalitions Take Contrasting Positions As Amici In Transgender Bathroom Case
The Religion Clause - Mar 3, 2017 at 6:05 am Broad coalitions of religious groups have, through amicus briefs, now weighed in on opposite sides of the battle over transgender rights and Title IX that will be argued before...
Lenten Miscommunications
CatholicMom.com - Mar 3, 2017 at 6:00 am
By Rafael Marchesni via Freeimages.com, CC0 Public Domain
“It’s Lent so we can’t say the A word!” My ears pricked to attention as I heard my youngsters discussing this in hushed...
Learning from a Heroic Servant of Marginal People
Brandon Vogt - Mar 3, 2017 at 6:00 am
Today we continue our regular series called “Learning from the Saints.” Our guide is expert Bert Ghezzi, a dear friend of mine and the author of numerous books including Voices...
Krishna Community Reaches Agreement Over Pipeline Route On Sacred Land
The Religion Clause - Mar 3, 2017 at 6:00 am As reported by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, last Tuesday a lawsuit was filed in federal district court in West Virginia by the New Vrindaban Krishna community claiming that the...
Chad, Xaverian’s radio for development
Vatican Insider - Mar 3, 2017 at 6:00 am For a decade in Chad, where half the population is Muslim and the other half is divided between traditional religion and Christianity, November 28 marks the day of peaceful...
Partiarch Kirill: chasing ‘likes’ on social media is a disease
Catholic Herald - Mar 3, 2017 at 4:34 am Patriarch Kirill of Moscow has dubbed the hunt for the perfect profile picture and the obsession over gaining likes on social media as a “disease of society”.
The primate’s...
World meeting of Russian Catholics hailed as ‘last hurrah’ for movement
Catholic Herald - Mar 3, 2017 at 4:21 am One of the smallest Eastern Catholic churches in the world, the Russian Catholic Church, faces some big issues, including its survival.
That’s the issue that will dominate at a...
Paul VI and the Unexpected Lessons of Populorum Progressio
Crisis Magazine - Church - Mar 3, 2017 at 4:20 am
March 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of Blessed Paul VI’s social encyclical Populorum Progressio. Even today, this document is regularly referenced by some Catholics,...
“We grow in faith by feeling sinners and returning to our roots”
Vatican Insider - Mar 3, 2017 at 4:16 am To grow in faith we need to remember our roots, to have hope and recognize us as sinners. How did Peter, whose “proven faith ’is that of someone who” is aware of his unworthiness...
How “Educators” Kill Creativity
Crisis Magazine - Church - Mar 3, 2017 at 4:15 am
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on ’t, ah fie! ‘Tis an unweeded garden
That grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature...
Catholic MP with ashes on her forehead causes stir in the Commons
Catholic Herald - Mar 3, 2017 at 3:36 am Catholic MP Carol Monaghan has said that having ashes on her forehead at a Commons select committee meeting turned into a teaching moment when a number of colleagues did not know...
