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Ash Wednesday: 'Seek To Experience God's Presence Within'
Catholic Online - Featured News - Feb 28, 2017 at 4:02 pm "You may ask me: 'But, does God exist? And if he exists does he really concern himself with us? Can we reach him?' It is, indeed, true that we cannot ...
Lent: Giving Up Social Media and... Talking?!
Journey of a Catholic Nerd Writer - Feb 28, 2017 at 3:51 pm No, your eyes do not deceive you. I'm giving up talking... in a way. Let me back up a bit and explain.I've been thinking about what to do for Lent for several weeks. I started...
Ohio bishops support bill protecting clergy’s religious liberty in same-sex ‘marriage’
LifeSiteNews - Feb 28, 2017 at 3:47 pm The Pastor Protection Act would keep churches from being forced to violate moral beliefs to accommodate others 'that do not conform.'
Corned beef conundrum: Some dioceses give St. Patrick’s Day dispensation
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Feb 28, 2017 at 3:45 pm When St. Patrick's Day falls on a Friday, as it does about every seven years, the Lenten rule requiring Catholics to abstain from meat on Fridays collides with the long-held...
Is everything just politics? How The New York Times, others viewed death of evangelical Doug Coe
GetReligion - Feb 28, 2017 at 3:45 pm Barely four weeks after the February 2 National Prayer Breakfast he managed for so many years, evangelical lay pastor Doug Coe died on February 21 of complications from a heart...
You asked for some Catholic fiction for Lent: Aleteia heard you!
Aleteia - Feb 28, 2017 at 3:24 pm When we posted our suggested Lenten Reading for 2017, a lot of people were happy, but some asked — in the comboxes, and on social media feeds, (and even in a few pointed emails...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, March 01, 2017
Catholic Online - Featured News - Feb 28, 2017 at 3:01 pm Reading 1: Joel 2:12-18, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 51:3-6, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 51:12-14, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 51:17, Gospel: Matthew ...
How assisted suicide discriminates against the poor and disabled
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 28, 2017 at 3:01 pm Washington D.C., Feb 28, 2017 / 02:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- While physician-assisted suicide is promoted as empowering terminally-ill patients, it could result in the poor being...
Pyne bills withdrawn after LNP votes to block proposed abortion legislation
The Catholic Leader - Feb 28, 2017 at 3:00 pm PRO-life campaigners are claiming victory after the scrapping of Queensland’s controversial abortion bills. Member for Cairns Rob Pyne withdrew his two private member’s bills,...
Iowa Senate Panel Passes Bill to Ban Late-Term Abortions on Babies After 20 Weeks
LifeNews.com - Feb 28, 2017 at 2:54 pm A new Iowa bill passed by a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday would protect unborn babies from painful late-term abortions.
The bill, Iowa Senate File 53, would prohibit abortions...
Yesterday, Sherry Antonetti and I talked on Connecting the Dots…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Feb 28, 2017 at 2:20 pm …about the odd Providence of God, arguments about the orans position, and whether the Church should be worried about ET.
College Professor: Abortion is Great for Women, “You Can’t Have Good Mental Health” Without Abortion
LifeNews.com - Feb 28, 2017 at 2:20 pm Veronica O’Keane, professor of psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin, has criticised Ireland’s pro-life laws, and claimed that abortion is not bad for a woman’s mental health.
The...
Today on Connecting the Dots at 5 PM…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Feb 28, 2017 at 2:18 pm I’ll be interviewing fellow Patheosi Sam Rocha. You can listen live here. Call in at 1-573-4BREAD4.
Local bishop says again Mary is not appearing in Medjugorje
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Feb 28, 2017 at 2:12 pm "The Virgin Mary has not appeared in Medjugorje," said Bishop Ratko Peric of Mostar-Duvno, the diocese in Bosnia-Herzegovina, which includes Medjugorje.
28 Feb 2013: Four years ago, Pope Benedict abdicated
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 28, 2017 at 2:04 pm It has been four years. It seems longer. I captured quite a few images from the live coverage HERE.
Democrats Refuse to Shake President Donald Trump’s Hand Tonight Before His Address
LifeNews.com - Feb 28, 2017 at 1:53 pm Rep. Eliot Engel is making history tonight. For the first time since serving in Congress, the Democrat from New York will be not sitting on the aisle to shake the president’s hand...
Holding Tight to Childhood
CatholicMom.com - Feb 28, 2017 at 1:30 pm
Copyright 2017 Sherry Boas. All rights reserved.
Dear Mom,
In case you are wondering if the little things you did made a difference, let me assure you. They did. And they still...
For Shrove Tuesday
Saint Louis Catholic - Feb 28, 2017 at 1:22 pm Sweet is this present life, but it passes away; terrible, O Christ, is Thy judgment, and it endures forever. Let us, therefore, cease to love what is unstable, and fix our...
Ottawa archbishop backs Alberta bishops: It is ‘erroneous’ for adulterers to receive Communion
LifeSiteNews - Feb 28, 2017 at 1:21 pm Canada archbishop interprets Amoris as no Communion for divorced and civilly remarried Catholics.
Report Card: Trump Withdraws ‘Transgender’ Policy; CUA Receives Ancient Manuscript Donation
Catholic Education Daily - Feb 28, 2017 at 1:08 pm Catholic-educated students better suited to deal with science/religion debate
A study from The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) suggests that while many young...
