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Libertarians and Pro-Choice Advocates: Peas in a Pod
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Feb 15, 2017 at 1:29 am Recently somebody posted this on FB: It sparked a fascinating conversation: Melody: Jesus was speaking to the individual, NOT the government. If your so concerned about refugees,...
Why we need a religious freedom move from Trump – and soon
EWTN - US Latest News - Feb 15, 2017 at 1:01 am Washington D.C., Feb 15, 2017 / 08:00 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
President Donald Trump must sign an executive order with broad protections for religious freedom, or global consequences...
Is a Vatican-China agreement close? What could happen.
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 15, 2017 at 1:01 am Vatican City, Feb 15, 2017 / 12:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Hopes are on the rise for an agreement between the Vatican and China on the appointment of bishops, with Cardinal John Tong...
Pope Francis: indigenous peoples should give informed consent to development projects
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 15, 2017 at 12:35 am Pope Francis received participants in an Indigenous Peoples’ Forum convened by the International Fund for Agricultural Development.
Boast of grace and afflictions, Pope says in reflection on St. Paul and hope
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 15, 2017 at 12:27 am Continuing his weekly series of catechetical addresses on Christian hope, Pope Francis devoted his February 15 general audience to a text from St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans (...
Kenya’s bishops warn of famine
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 15, 2017 at 12:06 am Some Kenyans are dying of hunger brought on by drought, the chairman of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops said at a recent press conference.
And now for one of the dopiest things I’ve heard in a while
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 15, 2017 at 12:01 am This is just plain dopey.
From that perennial purveyor of blech, RNS…
‘Glitter Ash Wednesday’ sparkles for LGBT Christians and others
(RNS) Lighten up, Ash Wednesday.
A New York-...
G.K. Chesterton and “This is Us”
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Feb 15, 2017 at 12:00 am Husband and father of five children, Jared Zimmerer, explains how television's “This is Us” beautifully and aptly displays the painful tension of family life. The constant tug and...
Scarlett Johansson and The Great Adventure of Monogamy
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Feb 15, 2017 at 12:00 amKorean missionaries expelled from China
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 14, 2017 at 11:51 pm The Chinese government has expelled 32 South Korean Christian missionaries from the country.
Increased security at Cologne cathedral
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 14, 2017 at 11:16 pm Stating that “people should have no anxiety when they go to the cathedral,” police officials have announced heightened security measures at Cologne Cathedral.
The Weight of Glory
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 14, 2017 at 11:04 pm We can believe we are mere mortals dreaming the dream of immortality, while in fact, we are immortals dreaming the terrible dream of mere mortality. We all know what the weight of...
The War Between Doing and Being
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 14, 2017 at 11:04 pm Unquestionably, my life is full of continuous, often exasperating battles between doing and being. Culture tells us that we are valuable because of what we do. It speaks to our...
New shepherd already listening to Townsville’s pastoral needs
The Catholic Leader - Feb 14, 2017 at 11:02 pm TOWNSVILLE’S sixth bishop was sitting in his presbytery kitchen when he learnt his predecessor had been diagnosed with a terminal illness. Over the kitchen table at the Clear...
A Playful Prayer for a Husband
Aleteia - Feb 14, 2017 at 11:00 pm I’ll be patient…But could we meet by the first of July? Marie Miller’s playful pop-folk song 6’2, which was featured on Dancing with the Stars, probably strikes a chord with most...
Don’t minimize your tiny crosses and small annoyances — God doesn’t
Aleteia - Feb 14, 2017 at 11:00 pm February has really been doing a number on me. It’s all the usual things — cabin fever, head colds, icy roads, and a handful of other things, all making me a bit frustrated. But...
Sunday Soundbite for February 19, 2017
Franciscan Media - Feb 14, 2017 at 11:00 pm Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Cycle A
February 19, 2017
https://www.franciscanmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/ssordA_7.mp3
Sometimes the hardest gospel texts to hear...
Doctors “discover” an organ that had already been discovered by Da Vinci
Aleteia - Feb 14, 2017 at 11:00 pm You happen to have a mesentery: an organ that connects the intestines with the abdomen, and that had gone unnoticed for about 5 centuries. Only recently have scientists ...
Sacred Heart statue vandalized, after Eagle Scout spent 18 months restoring it
Aleteia - Feb 14, 2017 at 11:00 pm When four statues outside St. Edith Stein parish in Brockton, Massachusetts, were vandalized last week, the person it saddened the most may have been an 18-year-old university...
The day the architect of a church tricked the devil
Aleteia - Feb 14, 2017 at 11:00 pm As soon as one enters the Cathedral of Munich, better known by locals as the Frauenkirche (“Our Lady’s Church”), one can see a footprint at a point of access to the central nave....
