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Action urged on Planned Parenthood funding
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 23, 2017 at 1:14 am Human Life Action, which works closely with the US bishops on pro-life legislation, has called upon pro-life Americans to urge their senators to rescind a Title X funding rule...
Border bishops issue statement on immigration
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 23, 2017 at 1:02 am Twenty bishops from Texas and northern Mexico met at the Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of San Juan del Valle in San Juan, Texas, and issued a 19-point statement on...
Venezuelan Catholics face backlash for opposing government
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 23, 2017 at 1:02 am Caracas, Venezuela, Feb 23, 2017 / 12:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- After speaking against alleged government misconduct, human rights abuses and delay of free elections, Catholic...
Pope Francis: the Torah manifests the ‘paternal and visceral love of God’
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 23, 2017 at 12:43 am Argentine Rabbi Abraham Skorka presented Pope Francis with a new edition of the Torah, or first five books of the Old Testament.
Popular movements call for sanctuary, disruption; blast racism, ‘all forms of human hierarchy’
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 23, 2017 at 12:22 am Participants in the First US Regional Meeting of Popular Movements issued a “message from Modesto” following a four-day meeting in the California city.
Pray for San Jose! Thousands displaced as entire neighborhoods are submerged in floodwaters
Catholic Online - Featured News - Feb 23, 2017 at 12:00 am Previously drought-stricken California has received so much water, entire cities are flooding and thousands have lost their homes.
South Sudan has fertile land - So why are 5.5 MILLION PEOPLE starving?
Catholic Online - Featured News - Feb 23, 2017 at 12:00 am South Sudan has made headlines recently as a famine was officially declared and images of starving children pop up everywhere - but why is the ...
Why are there more Muslims than Christians in Britain's religious schools?
Catholic Online - Featured News - Feb 23, 2017 at 12:00 am Muslim students outnumber Christian pupils in over 30 religious schools in Britain.
The Saint Who Refused to Bow Down to Caesar
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Feb 23, 2017 at 12:00 am Today is the Feast of St. Polycarp. Father Steve offers his reflection on this early Christian martyr, the political situation in Rome at the time of his life and witness, and the...
Gladstone priest welcomes city’s planned Islamic centre
The Catholic Leader - Feb 22, 2017 at 11:55 pm ONE of Gladstone’s Catholic priests has lent support to a bid to build an Islamic centre in the central Queensland town, despite an anti-Muslim campaign. “I’m absolutely in...
Vatican newspaper op-ed cautions against advance end-of-life directives
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 22, 2017 at 11:34 pm A palliative care specialist, writing on the front page of L’Osservatore Romano’s February 23 edition, cautioned readers against drafting advance directives for end-of-life care.
Daily Catholic Quote — from St. Polycarp
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 22, 2017 at 11:02 pm “You threaten me with fire which burns for an hour, and after a little is extinguished, but are ignorant of the fire of the coming judgment and of eternal punishment, reserved for...
Bishop Barron: Evangelizing through the good
Aleteia - Feb 22, 2017 at 11:00 pm Anyone even vaguely acquainted with my work knows that I advocate vigorous argument on behalf of religious truth. I have long called for a revival in what is classically known as...
Every week her confessor said these two words and it finally reached her heart
Aleteia - Feb 22, 2017 at 11:00 pm Little girl, get up. Little girl, get up and live. Many women (and men) struggle with the concept of loving and being loved by God as a Father. Whether this is caused by a...
“I cannot go to school today”
Aleteia - Feb 22, 2017 at 11:00 pm Sick Shel Silverstein, 1930 – 1999 “I cannot go to school today,” Said little Peggy Ann McKay. “I have the measles and the mumps, A gash, a rash and purple bumps. My mouth is wet...
5 Situations where empathy is the best apologetic
Aleteia - Feb 22, 2017 at 11:00 pm As a cradle Catholic who reverted to the faith in part thanks to the amazing work being done by the folks at Catholic Answers, I have learned over the years to be prepared with...
Oscar-nominated documentary tells story of autistic boy who found his voice through Disney movies
Aleteia - Feb 22, 2017 at 11:00 pm When Owen Suskind was just three years old, he disappeared. He didn’t go missing in the physical sense, he went inside himself — he stopped speaking, laughing, and lost motor...
Meet the Father of Catholic Scouting, Venerable Jacques Sevin
Aleteia - Feb 22, 2017 at 11:00 pm Over the past century millions of boys and girls have benefited from various scouting programs that teach invaluable life skills. Many of these scouting organizations trace their...
WATCH: What this famous dad did when his baby girl couldn’t stop crying
Aleteia - Feb 22, 2017 at 11:00 pm Comedian Michael Jr. was looking through some old video footage and found a clip he recorded of his youngest daughter when she was a newborn. As he was filming, the baby began...
When is Ash Wednesday?
Aleteia - Feb 22, 2017 at 11:00 pm Ash Wednesday, the first day of the penitential season of Lent in the Catholic Church, is always 46 days before Easter Sunday. It is a “movable” feast that is assigned a date in...
