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Resignations and rumors follow reported attempt on life of Georgian Orthodox Patriarch
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 1, 2017 at 5:35 am The secretary to Georgian Orthodox Patriarch Ilia II has resigned, and his security chief has reportedly been ousted, after a priest was arrested for allegedly plotting to poison...
Sex education to be made compulsory in UK Catholic schools?
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 1, 2017 at 5:27 am A move to require sex education in all schools in the United Kingdom has been introduced in Parliament, sparking opposition from some Catholics.
Pope backs Brazilian bishops’ Lenten campaign to protect biological diversity
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 1, 2017 at 5:21 am Pope Francis has given his endorsement to the “Fraternity Campaign,” undertaken each year during Lent by the Brazilian bishops’ conference.
Begin Lent with joy, Pope encourages Ash Wednesday audience
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 1, 2017 at 5:18 am In his public audience on Ash Wednesday, March 1, Pope Francis encouraged the Catholic faithful to welcome the season of Lent, to “begin our journey of hope with joy.”
Syrian prelate reports on nation devastated by war in ‘very bitter’ Lenten message
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 1, 2017 at 5:08 am The Maronite Catholic Archbishop of Damascus has described an “apocalyptic scene” in Syria, in a grim Lenten message.
Congress can do more for religious liberty abroad, scorecard finds
EWTN - US Latest News - Mar 1, 2017 at 5:02 am Washington D.C., Mar 1, 2017 / 05:02 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- The United States Congress can do more to prioritize international religious freedom, and ensuring that bills come up for...
Islamic leader: Judaism and Christianity also have sparked violence
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 1, 2017 at 5:00 am At an inter-religious conference on combatting extremism, the Imam of Egypt’s Al Azhar University reminded participants that Islam is not the only religious faith that has been...
Archbishop of Damascus releases Lent message on ‘this Syria of torments’
Catholic Herald - Mar 1, 2017 at 4:52 am The Marionite Archbishop of Damascus has written a pastoral letter describing the challenges of daily life in war-torn Syria.
In a letter released on Ash Monday – the beginning of...
While Only God is Good, Everyone Can Be Perfect
Crisis Magazine - Church - Mar 1, 2017 at 4:30 am
The sonorous start of Lent jolts with the reminder that man is dust and shall return to dust. It is hardly what we call news: before there were calendars and clocks or Donne’s...
Pope seeks to set example for world leaders as he accepts electric car
Catholic Herald - Mar 1, 2017 at 4:30 am Pope Francis has accepted a 100 per cent electric car in a pilot project to help the Vatican become an “emission-free mobility” state.
The Vatican seeking to become one of the...
Punk Rock and the Millennial Search for Meaning
Crisis Magazine - Church - Mar 1, 2017 at 4:25 am
Six years ago my bandmates and I sat stranded in a broken down van on the Jersey side of the Holland Tunnel. Though we were nearly 2,500 miles away from our home in Northern...
These 17th century monks did a beer fast for Lent
EWTN - US Latest News - Mar 1, 2017 at 4:25 am Washington D.C., Mar 1, 2017 / 04:25 am (EWTN News/CNA).- As Ash Wednesday kicks off the Lenten season, Catholics enter into 40
days of abstaining from sweets, technology, alcohol...
Madrid impounds Catholic group's bus with controversial messaging
EWTN - World Catholic News - Mar 1, 2017 at 4:05 am Madrid, Spain, Mar 1, 2017 / 04:05 pm (EWTN News).- A bus bearing an anti-transgender ideology message was pulled from the
streets of Madrid this week after city officials...
Pope’s prayer intention for March 2017: persecuted Christians
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 1, 2017 at 3:58 am The prayer intention of Pope Francis for March 2017 is “that persecuted Christians may be supported by the prayers and material help of the whole Church.”
Another Canadian archbishop upholds Church tradition on divorce/Communion
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 1, 2017 at 3:52 am Archbishop Terrence Prendergast of Ottawa has joined the ranks of prelates who insist that Amoris Laetitia does not alter that Church’s prohibition on the reception of Communion...
Frustrated member resigns from papal sex-abuse commission
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 1, 2017 at 3:48 am A key member of the sex-abuse commission established by Pope Francis has resigned, citing her frustration with the resistance the panel has encountered at the Vatican.
18th Cologne International Liturgical Conference – March 29- April 1
New Liturgical Movement - Mar 1, 2017 at 3:32 am The 18th Cologne International Liturgical Conference will take place from March 29 to April 1st this year in Herzogenrath bei Aachen, Germany. Among the participants are Card....
Daily Gospel Reflection for March 1, 2017 - Ash Wednesday
CatholicMom.com - Mar 1, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18 – Ash Wednesday
Today’s reading ushers us into the season of Lent. In it, Jesus presumes something about us. He presumes that we wish to...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 01/03/17
Catholic Herald - Mar 1, 2017 at 3:25 am There have been “no apparitions of Our Lady in Medjugorje”, local Bishop Ratko Perić has said (Exsultet blog).
If Europe cuts itself off from its Christian roots it will “come...
These 17th century monks did a beer fast for Lent
Catholic News Agency - General - Mar 1, 2017 at 3:25 am Washington D.C., Mar 1, 2017 / 02:25 am (CNA/EWTN News).- As Ash Wednesday kicks off the Lenten season, Catholics enter into 40 days of abstaining from sweets, technology, alcohol...
