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Pope tells football players team spirit is important in life
News.va - Feb 23, 2017 at 5:49 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Thursday told members of the Spanish Villarreal football club that the team spirit which is so vital in playing a good match is fundamental in life...
When the Church Thrives, Cultures Thrive
Crisis Magazine - Church - Feb 23, 2017 at 5:45 am
The current controversy over Pope Francis’s apostolic letter on marriage highlights several realities in the Church and the world that are not always so clear. As is widely known...
I am too angry for words. Wherein Fr. Z… grrrrrr
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 23, 2017 at 5:00 am I am so angry I could spit.
There are already so many problems with modern baseball… now this.
Is the Novus Ordo age of baseball upon us?
From Hot Air:
Another bad idea from MLB:...
Catholics shouldn't totally reject human gene editing- but it still has ethical problems
EWTN - US Latest News - Feb 23, 2017 at 4:50 am Washington D.C., Feb 23, 2017 / 04:50 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Recent American guidelines for human gene modification have raised
important ethical questions, especially with regard...
Four questions for Cardinal Coccopalmerio
Catholic Herald - Feb 23, 2017 at 4:40 am Vatican City
Readers, like us writers, are perhaps getting weary from the dizzying twists and turns on divorce, remarriage and the sacraments. Alas, the latest whirl on the Amoris...
Race-based death sentence rejected at US Supreme Court
EWTN - US Latest News - Feb 23, 2017 at 4:34 am Washington D.C., Feb 23, 2017 / 04:34 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- A death row inmate in Texas deserves a new sentencing hearing because his own lawyers called on an expert who claimed he...
US bishop who was a refugee defends Trump’s travel ban
Catholic Herald - Feb 23, 2017 at 4:27 am An Iraqi-American bishop has defended attempts by President Donald Trump to introduce a travel ban on refugees.
Chaldean Catholic Bishop Bawai Soro, based in El Cajon, California...
Second Catholic diocese to support a refugee family from Syria
Catholic Herald - Feb 23, 2017 at 3:59 am The Archdiocese of Cardiff is to become the second Catholic diocese in Britain to help support a refugee family from Syria.
The diocese has given up a property for the family. The...
The Pope sends his emissaries “grocery shopping” among retailers victims of the earthquake
Vatican Insider - Feb 23, 2017 at 3:58 am It was Pope Francis’s will to help small producers and retailers from the earthquake area. In recent days, Bishop Konrad Krajewski - accompanied by another Vatican prelate, Bishop...
Catholics shouldn't totally reject human gene editing – but it still has ethical problems
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 23, 2017 at 3:50 am Washington D.C., Feb 23, 2017 / 02:50 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Recent American guidelines for human gene modification have raised important ethical questions, especially with regard...
Cardinal Coccopalmerio: my Communion guidance wouldn’t apply to gay couples
Catholic Herald - Feb 23, 2017 at 3:45 am Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, one of the most prominent defenders of Communion for the remarried, has said that his proposed guidance would apply to the divorced and remarried...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 23/02/17
Catholic Herald - Feb 23, 2017 at 3:30 am Catholic doctors around the world have protested against a new French law banning “misleading” pro-life websites.
Italian authorities are investigating a banker who allegedly used...
Daily Gospel Reflection for February 23, 2017 - St. Polycarp
CatholicMom.com - Feb 23, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: Mark 9:41-50 – St. Polycarp
Today’s reading begins with praise for unity and charity, ends with peace and unity, and seems gruesomely fascinated with melodramatic...
Cardinal Nichols praises Pope’s ‘patience and reserve’ over dubia
Catholic Herald - Feb 23, 2017 at 3:30 am Cardinal Vincent Nichols has expressed his support for Pope Francis in the wake of questions raised by four cardinals about parts of Amoris Laetitia.
The president of the Bishops...
Trump draws praise for withdrawing transgender bathroom regulation
EWTN - US Latest News - Feb 23, 2017 at 2:27 am Washington D.C., Feb 23, 2017 / 02:27 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- On Wednesday night, the Trump administration withdrew an Obama-era guidance that had directed schools to allow students...
Venezuelan Catholics face backlash for opposing government
EWTN - World Catholic News - Feb 23, 2017 at 2:02 am Caracas, Venezuela, Feb 23, 2017 / 02:02 am (EWTN News/CNA).- After speaking against alleged government misconduct, human rights
abuses and delay of free elections, Catholic...
Muslim Refugee Hails Pope Francis
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Feb 23, 2017 at 1:56 am How both care for the least of these and evangelism is done.
How Evangelical Leaders Whored for Milo Yiannopolous
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Feb 23, 2017 at 1:52 am The repulsive story is here: If Yiannopoulos is a cultural leader for what remains of the conservative movement, then conservatism does not represent millions of people who once...
Leading Russian Orthodox official laments persecution, says ‘Islamic terrorism’ does not exist
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 23, 2017 at 1:38 am Metropolitan Hilarion of Volkolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, met on February 21 with representative from 11 Arab states.
