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Pope Francis has a special message this Lent, and here it is
Catholic News Agency - General - Mar 1, 2017 at 10:54 am Vatican City, Mar 1, 2017 / 09:54 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In his message for Lent 2017, Pope Francis reminded the faithful that they should heed the Scriptures and treat each human...
Pope on Ash Wednesday: Feeling suffocated by sin? Let God save you
Catholic News Agency - General - Mar 1, 2017 at 10:43 am Vatican City, Mar 1, 2017 / 09:43 am (CNA/EWTN News).- At Ash Wednesday Mass, Pope Francis spoke about the bad habits, negativity, and sin present in our lives which cause us to...
Why do pro-life presidents have such pro-abortion children?
LifeSiteNews - Mar 1, 2017 at 10:41 am The news that Barbara Bush is headlining a Planned Parenthood fundraising is extremely disappointing, but hardly surprising.
Abuse survivor quits papal body, citing Vatican resistance to safeguarding
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Mar 1, 2017 at 10:36 am VATICAN CITY — One of the founding members and the last remaining abuse survivor on the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors has quit over what she described as...
STYLE Savvy: What's the Deal with All These Piles?
CatholicMom.com - Mar 1, 2017 at 10:30 am
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If you’re a regular reader of this series, you know I’m an I need to see it/drop and run person.
This combination makes me the Queen of...
CU Weekly 338: Hylomorpic.
Catholic Underground - Mar 1, 2017 at 10:26 am This week, the CU Crew discussed:
Fr. Decker’s pilgrimage to Fatima, Santiago de Compostela, Madrid, and Lourdes. how to reprogram your life using
The post CU Weekly 338:...
ASK FATHER: Is it OK to clap at the end of the recessional hymn at Sunday Mass?
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Mar 1, 2017 at 10:12 am From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
At our Sunday Masses there is instantaneous applause at the end of the recessional hymn. Is this OK? I have sent many emails to the parish priest and he...
Plenary Indulgence Opportunity on Fridays During Lent
Big C Catholics - Mar 1, 2017 at 9:55 am A plenary indulgence may be obtained on each Friday of Lent by the faithful, who after worthily receiving Communion, piously recite the following prayer before an image of Christ...
Saint David of Wales, Abbott and Bishop
Regina Magazine - Mar 1, 2017 at 9:52 am March 1 Today is the feast day of Saint David. Ora pro nobis. Saint David (Dewi Sant) is the the only Welsh saint to be canonized by the Church. While little is factually known...
Ash Wednesday
Regina Magazine - Mar 1, 2017 at 9:45 am Today is Ash Wednesday. by Rev. James Luke Meagher, 1883 The fast of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and lasts till Easter Sunday. During this time there are forty-six days, but as...
New Hampshire could be next state to approve transgender rights bill
LifeSiteNews - Mar 1, 2017 at 9:42 am Legislation to include gender in the state's anti-discrimination laws is on the fast track toward a vote.
Pope: learn from indigenous peoples how to care for creation
News.va - Mar 1, 2017 at 9:39 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has joined his voice to those taking part in Brazil’s “Fraternity Campaign,” an annual Lenten Campaign organized by the Brazilian National Conference...
POLL: 2017 #AshWednesday Ashes and You
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Mar 1, 2017 at 9:27 am Lent is an important season in the yearly cycle of a Catholic Christian’s life. The inclination toward a feeling of obligation is laudable. The desire to begin the spiritual war...
Your #AshWednesday Sermon Notes – #ashtag
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Mar 1, 2017 at 9:20 am If you went to church for Ash Wednesday – it is not a Holy Day of Obligation – and if there was a sermon, was there a good point made which you can share with the readership?
Saint Josemaría Escrivá on Lent
Big C Catholics - Mar 1, 2017 at 9:13 am Lent should suggest to us these basic questions: Am I advancing in my faithfulness to Christ, in my desire for holiness, in a generous apostolate in my daily life, in my ordinary...
Your Friendly Lenten Reminder that the Rosary is AWESOME
CatholicMom.com - Mar 1, 2017 at 9:00 am
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Takes too long. Don’t know it. None of my people do it. I already pray. And these were the excuses I sold...
Vandalism at Jewish cemeteries decried, called hateful actions
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Mar 1, 2017 at 8:45 am PHILADELPHIA — Responding to the destruction of some 100 gravestones at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput Feb. 27 deplored the “senseless acts of...
Abuse survivor resigns from commission for protection of minors
EWTN - Vatican News - Mar 1, 2017 at 8:42 am Vatican City, Mar 1, 2017 / 08:42 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
On Wednesday the decision of clerical abuse survivor Marie Collins to resign from her post on the Pontifical Commission for...
Lent is more than a time of penance, says Pope
Catholic Herald - Mar 1, 2017 at 8:40 am Like the people of Israel freed from the bondage of slavery, Christians are called to experience the path toward hope and new life during the Lenten season, Pope Francis said....
From Jerusalem to Standing Rock, victors recast past to reflect their religious worldviews
GetReligion - Mar 1, 2017 at 8:30 am Jerusalem's Temple Mount -- as Jews call it in English, or the Noble Sanctuary, the English version of its Muslim name -- is arguably the world's most fought over bit of sacred...
