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London choir aims to bring sacred music from the Masses...to the masses
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 21, 2017 at 1:02 am London, England, Feb 21, 2017 / 12:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- You may recognize the sound of the London Oratory Schola Cantorum Boys Choir from epic motion picture soundtracks like...
Pope Francis discusses duties to migrants, refugees
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 21, 2017 at 12:56 am In an address on migration, Pope Francis discussed how the political community, civil society, and the Church ought to react to the phenomenon of mass migration, especially forced...
Bishop Vincent Long tells Royal Commission he was abused
The Catholic Leader - Feb 21, 2017 at 12:23 am PARRAMATTA Bishop Vincent Long has told the Royal Commission into child sexual abuse that he was a victim of sexual abuse by clergy. Bishop Long, who came to Australia as a...
“Babette's Feast” and the Mission Fields
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Feb 21, 2017 at 12:00 am Hostility toward Catholicism arises for a variety of reasons and can be sustained for generations. To break through some of the negative stereotypes, Fr. Michael Cummins offers...
The Beauty of a Soul Opened Up by Grace
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 20, 2017 at 11:04 pm For those who love St. John Paul II, Saturday, January 21, 2017 was a big family celebration, when Pope Francis authorized the Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints to...
Encountering the Word — Psalm 11:7
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 20, 2017 at 11:01 pm A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “For the Lord is righteous; he loves righteous deeds; the upright shall behold his face.” (Psalm 11:7) Please share on social media. Print this...
This Lent, try becoming empty
Aleteia - Feb 20, 2017 at 11:00 pm Ash Wednesday is March 1 this year. There are scads of articles on how to have a good Lent, with handy lists of good options for putting into practice the three traditional...
Seen the Friars’ “Brother” video? Here are 6 things you missed.
Aleteia - Feb 20, 2017 at 11:00 pm Not too long ago, we shared with you the Franciscan Friars’ cover of “Brother” by The Brilliance, and it became an instant hit among our viewers. The words of “Brother” clearly...
Abbey beers vs. Trappist beers
Aleteia - Feb 20, 2017 at 11:00 pm Neither Trappist nor Abbey beers are “kinds” of beers. That is to say, if a beer is called “Trappist” that won’t tell you whether it’s an Imperial Russian Stout, an IPA, or a Pale...
The 9-hour novena that this group of friends has been praying for decades
Aleteia - Feb 20, 2017 at 11:00 pm So many Catholic young people “lose their faith” when they head to college. For me it was the opposite — it was during my college years that I discovered and fell in love with the...
How a not-great annual check-up revealed the not-great state of my soul
Aleteia - Feb 20, 2017 at 11:00 pm I just left the doctor’s office for my annual check-up. Per the norm, I was given the results of my blood test that was taken the day before. As I skimmed over my comprehensive...
So, what are you reading, Carrie Gress?
Aleteia - Feb 20, 2017 at 11:00 pm [Aleteia loves books but recognizes that a world busy with social media doesn’t afford many prompts to that old conversation-starter, “Read any good books lately?” So, we’re...
5 Spiritual lessons we can learn from little children
Aleteia - Feb 20, 2017 at 11:00 pm One of my favorite icons depicts Jesus with children scampering about him. It illustrates three verses from Chapter 19 of Matthew’s Gospel: 13 Then children were brought to him...
Aleppo, two months after defeat of rebels, struggles to regain normal life
Aleteia - Feb 20, 2017 at 11:00 pm Perhaps anywhere in the United States, if a bunch of kids had nothing else to ask a visitor with money than whether they could get a basketball court renovated, we might be...
Assisted fertility programs: What if they get the wrong father?
Aleteia - Feb 20, 2017 at 11:00 pm A couple decides to have a child. The man can’t have any kids, as he has had a vasectomy. They do some research, and find out about the in vitro process. They go through several...
Father Emil Kapaun, the saint in the foxhole
Aleteia - Feb 20, 2017 at 11:00 pm Emil Joseph Kapaun was born on a farm near Pilsen, Kansas, in 1916. Pilsen was a tiny town of less than 100 people named after the city of Pizen in the Czech Republic. His parents...
The Holy Father's Prayer Intentions for March 2017
Big C Catholics - Feb 20, 2017 at 11:00 pm Please remember the Holy Father Pope Francis' intentions in prayer throughout the month of March:Support for Persecuted Christians.That persecuted Christians may be supported by...
Cardinal Tobin decries populist racism, xenophobia
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 20, 2017 at 10:22 pm In an address to the US Regional World Meeting of Popular Movements, Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark lamented the “dark clouds gathering” around the United States.
German Catholics, Lutherans to hold ecumenical festival
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 20, 2017 at 10:05 pm The German Bishops’ Conference has announced that Catholics and Lutherans will take part in a major ecumenical festival on September 16 as the 500th anniversary of the Protestant...
Ukrainian Catholic leader recalls Cardinal Slipyj’s heroism
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 20, 2017 at 9:52 pm Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, has written a letter paying tribute to his predecessor, Cardinal Josyf Slipyj (1892-1984),...
