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Some Random Sunday Thoughts
The Curt Jester - Feb 26, 2017 at 2:12 pm If during the TLM you setup a projector to show a video of the Bishop’s Annual Stewardship Appeal, you should at least use a film projector for the correct ambiance. Perhaps some...
Pope visits All Saints Anglican Church
News.va - Feb 26, 2017 at 12:45 pm (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has paid a visit to All Saints Anglican Church in the heart of Rome. This afternoon the Pope presided over an evensong service with the bishop of the...
Reflection on the First Sunday of Lent, Matthew 4:1-11
Big C Catholics - Feb 26, 2017 at 12:37 pm Crucifixion of Jesus icon, Moldovita Monastery, Moldavia, Romania.The First Sunday of Lent, March 13, 2011By Father Bernard BourgeoisGenesis 2:7-9, 3:1-7; Psalm 51; Romans 5:12-19...
Humility is the first step to unity, Pope tells Catholics, Anglicans
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 26, 2017 at 12:31 pm Vatican City, Feb 26, 2017 / 11:31 am (CNA/EWTN News).- During his Sunday visit to Rome’s Anglican parish of All Saints, Pope Francis voiced gratitude for the good relations...
Homily for the 1st Sunday in Lent, March 5, 2017, Year A
Big C Catholics - Feb 26, 2017 at 12:30 pm Fr. Charles IrvinSenior PriestDiocese of Lansing(Click here for today’s readings)“And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.” I have often pondered over the meaning...
Francis becomes first pope to visit Rome’s Anglican church
Catholic Herald - Feb 26, 2017 at 12:21 pm Pope Francis has become the first pontiff to visit an Anglican church in Rome.
Francis and an Anglican bishop prayed side-by-side Sunday afternoon at All Saints Church in central...
Your Sunday Sermon Notes
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 26, 2017 at 11:57 am Was there a good point made in the sermon you heard for your Mass of Sunday Obligation?
Let us know!
The Epistle of Barnabas and the Gospel of Matthew
Jimmy Akin.org - Feb 26, 2017 at 11:36 am In its entry on the (apocryphal) Epistle of Barnabas, the Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary states:
Although Barnabas 4:14 appears to quote Matt 22:14, it must remain an open question...
Shameful and Repulsive: 1970s-style Francis unsurprisingly soft on pedophiles
Rorate Coeli - Feb 26, 2017 at 11:26 am From the excellent AP reporter in Rome Nicole Winfield:
Pope quietly trims sanctions for sex abusers seeking mercy
By NICOLE WINFIELD
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has quietly...
A (probably) idle idea
Commonweal - Feb 26, 2017 at 10:54 am It is open season on immigrants. ICE (Immigration Customs Enforcement) officers have been set loose (NYTimes). They are tracking down illegal immigrants who may or may not have...
Pope: Catholics and Anglicans, brothers and sisters in Christ
News.va - Feb 26, 2017 at 10:35 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Sunday visited the Anglican Parish of All Saints in Rome. Speaking at the Church the Pope said, "today, with gratitude to God, we recognize one...
Thinking about two newsy people: Atlantic listens to Tucker Carlson, David Gelernter
GetReligion - Feb 26, 2017 at 10:30 am It isn't hard news, but sometimes the best thing journalists can do with really interesting people who is sit down and talk to them -- with a recorder turned on.
The Atlantic has...
Saint Josemaría Escrivá, "It is Not Enough to Be Good"
Big C Catholics - Feb 26, 2017 at 9:51 am Today it is not enough for men and women to be good. Moreover, whoever is content to be nearly good, is not good enough. It is necessary to be 'revolutionary'. Faced by hedonism,...
The Pope: “priests called to be close to young people living together in pre-matrimonial situations”
Vatican Insider - Feb 26, 2017 at 9:45 am Those who choose premarital cohabitation instead of marriage must be welcomed, listened to and understood. Especially if they are young. For them the Church must have an...
Recent Prisoner Free Exercise Cases
The Religion Clause - Feb 26, 2017 at 8:00 am In Heyer v. U.S. Bureau of Prisons, (4th Cir., Feb. 23, 2017), the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals allowed a deaf inmate to move ahead with his claim that his free exercise...
Sunday 26 February
Vatican Insider - Feb 26, 2017 at 7:45 am At 3.50 begins the Pope’s visit to the “All Saints” Anglican Church, Rome...
God is faithful – trust him and don't worry, Pope Francis says
EWTN - Vatican News - Feb 26, 2017 at 7:37 am Vatican City, Feb 26, 2017 / 07:37 am (EWTN News/CNA).- While earthly pleasures such as power and money bring temporary
satisfaction, they are ultimately fleeting and deceptive,...
“Money, pleasure and power are a cause of unhappiness”
Vatican Insider - Feb 26, 2017 at 7:21 am “The temptation to reduce everything to money, pleasure and power is pressing. We risk reducing our lives to a frantic search, “and while many friends or many that we thought were...
The FBI and Religion Is Studied
The Religion Clause - Feb 26, 2017 at 7:14 am Salon today has posted an interesting article titled How the FBI Is Hobbled by Religious Illiteracy. Much of it is an interview with University of Pennsylvania Prof. Steven...
Pope Angelus: Let God take care of tomorrow
News.va - Feb 26, 2017 at 6:42 am (Vatican Radio) During his Angelus address on Sunday in St Peter’s Square, Pope Francis took his cue from the Gospel reading of the day in which Jesus calls us not to worry about...
