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USCCB, CRS urge Secretary Tillerson to support Green Climate Fund, clean-energy investments
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 19, 2017 at 10:51 pm Two bishops who chair committees of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, joined by the president and CEO of Catholic Relief Services, have called upon Secretary of...
I Feel Restless in My Faith and with Myself
Journey of a Catholic Nerd Writer - Feb 19, 2017 at 8:54 pm Deep breath in. I've been feeling incredibly restless in my faith and with myself and I know it's due to my lack of Mass attendance and trips to the confessional. Exhale.You guys...
Celebrating World Day of Social Justice in Our Catholic Families
CatholicMom.com - Feb 19, 2017 at 6:31 pm
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In addition to being President’s Day, tomorrow is also “World Day of Social Justice”, marked around the world as...
Feast of Blessed Francisco and Jacinta Marto
Big C Catholics - Feb 19, 2017 at 6:23 pm February 20th, dioceses in Portugal celebrate the feast of Blesseds Francisco, 11, and Jacinta, 10, the youngest non-martyrs to be beatified in the Church's history. The brother...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 20/02/17
Catholic Herald - Feb 19, 2017 at 6:01 pm Christian love “represents a superior realisation of justice”, Pope Francis said at yesterday’s Angelus (full text, full video).
Hundreds have attended the crowning of the statue...
Popes of the Twentieth Century on the Real Presence
Big C Catholics - Feb 19, 2017 at 3:57 pm Clockwise from L to R: Pope Pius XI, Pope Paul VI,Pope St. John XXIII and Pope St. Pius X.The Eucharist is the Real Presence of Jesus Christ, His Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity...
Michael Novak, noted theologian, philosopher and author, dies at 83
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Feb 19, 2017 at 3:00 pm Michael Novak, a Catholic philosopher, theologian and author who was highly regarded for his religious scholarship and intellectual independence, died Feb. 17 at his home in...
Sharing the Word for February 20, 2017 – Seventh Week in Ordinary Time – Year 1
Franciscan Media - Feb 19, 2017 at 3:00 pm Monday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
February 20, 2017
Daily Reading from the USCCB: Sirach 1:1-10
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I'M TIRED OF FRANCIS
Rorate Coeli - Feb 19, 2017 at 2:24 pm That's it. That's all we have to say.
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On the other hand, we should never get tired of Saint Paul. He, like the good Jesuits of the 16th century (Xavier first of all, but so many...
Pope’s tip for becoming a saint: Pray for someone who doesn’t like you
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Feb 19, 2017 at 2:22 pm A practical first step toward holiness -- as well as for assuring peace in one's family and in the world -- is to pray for a person who has caused offense or harm, Pope Francis...
Pope Francis: to love your enemies, prayer is a game-changer
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 19, 2017 at 2:21 pm Vatican City, Feb 19, 2017 / 01:21 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The path to holiness and sainthood, Pope Francis said, requires imitating Christ by loving our enemies and praying for...
House Hearing On State of Religious Liberty In U.S.
The Religion Clause - Feb 19, 2017 at 1:48 pm Last Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice held a hearing on "The State of Religious Liberty in America." A video of the full...
The Shack: Christian Film with a Catholic Touch
Franciscan Media - Feb 19, 2017 at 12:51 pm Sam Worthington, Oscar winner Octavia Spencer, and Sumire Matsubara star in the adaptation of The Shack. (Photo by Jake Giles Netter/Lionsgate)
In 2007, Canadian author William P...
Your weekend think piece: Darth Bannon making earth move inside Vatican? Crux says look again
GetReligion - Feb 19, 2017 at 12:50 pm In another example of the Catholic-beat team at Crux offering some timely media criticism, the omnipresent John L. Allen, Jr., has produced a follow-up analysis about that the...
Reflection on Matthew 6:24-34, "You cannot serve God and mammon…"
Big C Catholics - Feb 19, 2017 at 12:37 pm The Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, February 26, 2017By Father Bernard BourgeoisLeviticus 19:1, 2, 17, 18; Psalm 103; 1 Corinthians 3:16-23; Matthew 6:24-34Originally published in...
Homily for the 8th Sunday in Ordinary Time, February 26, 2017, Year A
Big C Catholics - Feb 19, 2017 at 12:30 pm Christ Reproving the Pharisees, James Tissot, c. 1890.Fr. Charles IrvinSenior PriestDiocese of Lansing(Click here for today’s readings)When we give someone a gift at Christmas, or...
Pope visits parish of Santa Maria Josefa del Cuore di Gesù
News.va - Feb 19, 2017 at 12:02 pm (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis travelled across Rome Sunday afternoon for a visit to the parish of Santa Maria Josefa of the Heart of Jesus (It: Santa Maria Josefa del Cuore di Gesù...
Card. Arinze Defends Catholic Doctrine… Again
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 19, 2017 at 11:10 am With the help of LifeSite we hear from the great Francis Card. Arinze, Cardinal Bishop of the Suburbicarian Diocese of Velletri-Segni, former Prefect of the Congregation for...
“Well! This is different!”, quoth I. The First Lady’s Rally Prayer POLL.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 19, 2017 at 10:37 am Yesterday I watched the TV coverage of Pres. Trump’s massive rally in Florida. Apparently, lines were a mile long to attend.
My jaw nearly dropped when First Lady Melania Trump...
European Court of Justice Advocate's Opinion on Tax Exemption For Catholic Church
The Religion Clause - Feb 19, 2017 at 9:56 am In Congregación de Escuelas Pías Provincia Betania v. Ayuntamiento de Getafe, (CJEU, Feb. 16, 2017), an Advocate General's opinion recommended that the Court of Justice of the...
