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Ohio city bans conversion therapy
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 10, 2017 at 12:19 am In a 12-0 vote, the city council in Toledo, Ohio, has made it a crime for a mental health provider to “engage in sexual orientation or gender identity change efforts with any...
Background: World Day of the Sick
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 10, 2017 at 12:04 am February 11 is the 25th World Day of the Sick, a commemoration instituted by St. John Paul II that takes place each year on the memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes.
Cardinal Tong: The Vatican and China could be close to a milestone agreement
Vatican Insider - Feb 10, 2017 at 12:00 am After years of dialogue and negotiation, the Holy See and China have reportedly reached “a preliminary consensus” that “will lead to an agreement over the appointment of bishops...
St. Scholastica's New Way of Seeing
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Feb 10, 2017 at 12:00 am Today is the Feast of St. Scholastica. Father Steve Grunow reflects upon Scholastica's witness as a beacon of light in a world broken by sin, pointing the way toward a life of...
Nigerian bishop decries violence, corruption
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 9, 2017 at 11:36 pm A Nigerian bishop has decried widespread corruption and violence in Africa’s largest nation, according to the Lagos-based Guardian.
Do You Need Religion to Be Moral? And More!
Jimmy Akin.org - Feb 9, 2017 at 11:24 pm Here’s my recent appearance on Catholic Answers Live where I discuss whether you need religion to be moral, and many other questions!
In this appearance on Catholic Answers Live (...
Aleppo described as ‘post-apocalyptic’
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 9, 2017 at 11:21 pm The spokesman for Caritas Internationalis, the Church’s confederation of relief and development agencies, described the situation in east Aleppo as “post-apocalyptic” and “beyond...
Moments of Grace
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 9, 2017 at 11:04 pm Bob Ross came up in conversation the other day, as cultural icons are wont to do, and I quoted his famous quip, “We don’t make mistakes, we have happy accidents.” I pointed out...
There’s money to be made off your Valentine’s Day Blues, thanks to Facebook data
Aleteia - Feb 9, 2017 at 11:00 pm Basically, we have our own selves to blame: we cannot keep from sharing our feelings, whatever they are, on social media. It’s already a habit, a compulsion that propels us...
How after praying for a miracle for my addicted love one, I learned to “Let go, and let God”
Aleteia - Feb 9, 2017 at 11:00 pm Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding and my entire will, all I have and call my own. You have given all to me. To you, Lord, I return it....
This hairdresser slave is on the way to canonization
Aleteia - Feb 9, 2017 at 11:00 pm February is Black History Month, which is a fitting occasion to also recognize the contributions of many Black Catholic Americans. We can honor such people as Father Augustus...
Archaeologists discover new cave that contained Dead Sea Scrolls
Aleteia - Feb 9, 2017 at 11:00 pm Recent excavations in Israel have led to the discovery of a 12th cave that is believed to have once held Dead Sea Scrolls. The investigation is ongoing, but archaeologists have...
Yes, time speeds up as we get older — it’s called “the proportional theory”
Aleteia - Feb 9, 2017 at 11:00 pm “What? Christmas already? Again?” said no kid, ever. However, as we get older, time begins to run relatively faster, when compared to our lifespan. That is to say, that a year...
7 Books to feed the mind and edify the soul in 2017
Aleteia - Feb 9, 2017 at 11:00 pm Whether dealing with timeless questions of metaphysics and phenomenology, or the social reality of living a Christian life in an increasingly post-Christian culture, these are 7...
‘The LEGO Batman Movie’ delivers heart and humor
Aleteia - Feb 9, 2017 at 11:00 pm After The LEGO Movie became a surprise hit with both audiences and critics alike, a follow-up was all but inevitable. Unexpected, however, was the announcement that the first...
5 Ways to prepare for Lent — It’s closer than you think!
Aleteia - Feb 9, 2017 at 11:00 pm I’m full of ideas for how to improve my spiritual life, but my mantra has been “I’ll do it in Lent.” What better time to pull myself together? But every year, when Lent does...
Anti-Defamation League welcomes Pope’s condemnation of anti-Semitism
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 9, 2017 at 10:49 pm Following a February 9 audience with Pope Francis, the Anti-Defamation League welcomed the Pope’s denunciation of anti-Semitism.
A reader writes asks for prayer for a dying girl
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Feb 9, 2017 at 6:53 pm He says: Can you please pray for the family of a 8 yo girl who is dying? Father, Jesus wept with anger at the sight of death. Hear our prayer for this little girl. If it your...
The Miraculous Final Meeting Between St. Scholastica and St Benedict of Nursia
Big C Catholics - Feb 9, 2017 at 6:41 pm St. Scholastica, like her brother, [St Benedict of Nursia] dedicated herself to God from early youth. Information on the virgin Scholastica is very scanty. In his Second Book of...
Excommunicable under previous popes, women priests now open for discussion
LifeSiteNews - Feb 9, 2017 at 6:35 pm Arguments for the ordination of women are being presented by a priest in a Vatican-reviewed journal
