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3 Pro-Life lessons of Advent
Aleteia - Dec 14, 2017 at 5:00 am Tucked away in this season of waiting and expectation are a few profoundly pro-life messages. We’re halfway through our Advent celebration and preparation for the coming of Jesus...
The Spiritual Roots of Working Class Woes
Crisis Magazine - Church - Dec 14, 2017 at 5:00 am
Secular readers have seen J.D. Vance’s recent best-selling Hillbilly Elegy as the prophetic book of the political year, explaining if not predicting Trumpism, and even as the...
Ohio bill one step closer to prohibiting Down syndrome abortions
EWTN - US Latest News - Dec 14, 2017 at 5:00 am Columbus, Ohio, Dec 14, 2017 / 05:00 pm (EWTN News).- On Wednesday, the Ohio State Senate passed a bill that would penalize
doctors who perform abortions, if the abortion is...
“We are children and not slaves, it is a pity to lose Sunday day of rest”
Vatican Insider - Dec 14, 2017 at 4:46 am “Some secularized societies have lost the Christian sense of Sunday illuminated by the Eucharist. This is a pity”. Pope Francis answered the question “why do we go to Mass on...
Pope Francis: It’s not enough just to ‘be good’. You must go to Mass
Catholic Herald - Dec 14, 2017 at 4:28 am A Catholic cannot just do good deeds and miss Mass on Sunday, Pope Francis has said. It is the Eucharist that provides the spiritual nourishment Christians need to truly live out...
Hong Kong Bishop declares 2018 'Year of Youth' (Vatican Radio)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 14, 2017 at 4:12 amUK: 'draconian' education act would see local authorities policing homeschoolers (Breitbart)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 14, 2017 at 4:12 amZambia's leading prelate emphasizes traditional teaching on remarriage and the Eucharist (Vatican Radio)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 14, 2017 at 4:12 am Lamenting rising civil divorce, Archbishop Telesphore-George Mpundu of Lusaka told Vatican Radio that “the divorced and remarried are not allowed to receive the Sacraments of...
Msgr. Luigi Ligutti's legacy recalled (Catholic Rural Life)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 14, 2017 at 4:12 am The Italian-born priest led the National Catholic Rural Life Conference from 1937 to 1959.
India's coastal archdiocese appeals for help for people hit by cyclone (Vatican Radio)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 14, 2017 at 4:12 am The cyclone has caused over $400 million in damage in Sri Lanka, India, and the Maldives.
ASK FATHER: 1st Communion at another parish because grandparents can’t travel
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 14, 2017 at 4:00 am From a reader…
I am hoping for your wisdom and guidance here. My daughter is preparing for 1st communion (May 2018) at our home parish. However, my parents, living in another...
Prelate outlines Holy See's position on current trade-related issues (Zenit)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 14, 2017 at 3:12 am Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, the Holy See’s Permanent Observer to UN offices in Geneva, addressed a World Trade Organization meeting. Warning that the benefits of trade have not...
US bishops' marriage initiative announces podcast (Marriage Unique for a Reason)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 14, 2017 at 3:12 am The podcast will explore the Church’s teachings on marriage, sexuality, sexual difference, children, religious liberty, and the common good through audio storytelling. “Basically...
Resignations and appointments (12/13) (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 14, 2017 at 3:12 am Pope Francis transferred a Brazilian bishop to a larger diocese.
Video of Pope's 12/13 general audience (YouTube)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 14, 2017 at 3:12 am Click here for additional coverage of the audience, which was devoted to Sunday rest and worship.
Holding infants (or not) can leave traces on their genes (ScienceDaily)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 14, 2017 at 3:12 am “The amount of physical contact between infants and their caregivers can affect children at the molecular level,” researchers at the University of British Columbia found.
Papal audiences (12/13) (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 14, 2017 at 3:12 am In separate audiences, the Pontiff received the president emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications and participants in the Forum of Non-Governmental...
Connecticut: group opposes senator's bell-ringing for Salvation Army (Connecticut Post)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 14, 2017 at 3:12 am “We urge you to consider supporting only secular charities in the future,” the Freedom From Religion Foundation told a state senator. “This will ensure that representatives do not...
If God created shadows it was to better emphasize the light.
Aleteia - Dec 14, 2017 at 3:00 am Pope Saint John XXIII
Vatican to launch revamped news site
Catholic Herald - Dec 14, 2017 at 2:50 am Before Christmas, the Vatican plans to launch its new multimedia communications website, although the Vatican Radio and Vatican Television Center sites will stay accessible as...
