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Money doesn't make you rich – loving others does, Pope says
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 7, 2017 at 5:00 am Vatican City, Feb 7, 2017 / 04:00 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis’ pastoral heart came out in his Lenten message this year, focusing in what could be a lengthy homily on the...
Francis warns Christians against ‘tyrannical idol’ of money in Lenten message
Vatican Insider - Feb 7, 2017 at 4:26 am Pope Francis has bluntly called on Christians to abhor what he terms “the love of money,” warning in his message for the 2017 Lenten season that the desire for wealth can become a...
An Indian woman became a nun...because of elephants?
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 7, 2017 at 4:02 am Orissa, India, Feb 7, 2017 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Nine years ago, Christians in the Kandhamal district of Odisha, India suffered the worst attacks against Christians in...
The trouble with Wagner
Catholic Herald - Feb 7, 2017 at 3:48 am Reading Stephen Pollard’s article about anti-Semitism and social media in the Telegraph last week gave me a jolt. According to Pollard, figures from the Community Security Trust...
Holy See calls on UN to address economic, social, spiritual poverty
News.va - Feb 7, 2017 at 3:39 am (Vatican Radio) The Holy See’s representative to the United Nations has told a commission for social development that world leaders must address “not only economic poverty but...
Daily Gospel Reflection for February 7, 2017
CatholicMom.com - Feb 7, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: Mark 7:1-13
“How well you have set aside the commandment of God in order to uphold your tradition!”
Traditions are so important. I was raised with traditions...
Church in El Salvador calls for mining ban
Catholic Herald - Feb 7, 2017 at 3:19 am The Church in El Salvador has asked the small Central American country’s legislature to ban metal mining.
Archbishop Jose Luis Escobar Alas said on Monday that the country’s...
Vatican releases updated guidelines for bioethical questions
Catholic Herald - Feb 7, 2017 at 2:54 am To offer clearly and accurately the Catholic Church’s positions on abortion, contraception, genetic engineering, fertility treatments, vaccines, frozen embryos and other life...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 07/02/17
Catholic Herald - Feb 7, 2017 at 2:31 am Donald Trump is expected to meet Pope Francis in May, reports Christopher Lamb.
The German bishops’ guidelines on Amoris Laetitia are “very demanding”, a senior official has said...
Vatican defend inviting ex-Chinese health minister to organ trafficking conference
Catholic Herald - Feb 7, 2017 at 2:23 am China is stepping up its efforts to persuade the international medical community that it has stopped using executed prisoners as organ donors, sending a high-level delegation to a...
Did a Planned Parenthood throw pizza parties if abortion quotas were met?
EWTN - US Latest News - Feb 7, 2017 at 2:20 am Washington D.C., Feb 7, 2017 / 02:20 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Planned Parenthood clinics had monthly quotas for abortions or abortion
referrals, according to two former clinic workers...
The Crown: A Celebration of Traditionalism
Crisis Magazine - Church - Feb 7, 2017 at 2:15 am
Historical television dramas usually aren’t my cup of tea. They’re too preachy. Political correctness is irksome enough now; the last thing we need is to fight today’s culture...
Religion and the Johnson Amendment
Crisis Magazine - Church - Feb 7, 2017 at 2:10 am
At the National Prayer Breakfast February 2, President Trump pledged to repeal the “Johnson Amendment,” a provision added in 1954 to the Internal Revenue Code that is the...
Proceeds of Vatican art project will go to children's hospital in CAR
EWTN - World Catholic News - Feb 7, 2017 at 2:01 am Bangui, Central African Republic, Feb 7, 2017 / 02:04 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Inspired by Pope Francis' trip to Central African Republic in 2015, a children's hospital in the country...
Social Respectability as Religion in Flannery O’Connor’s “Revelation”
Crisis Magazine - Church - Feb 7, 2017 at 2:00 am
In her short stories Flannery O’Connor presents many religious people who attend church and consider themselves moral and principled, but their religion does not inspire their...
PR expert convicted in Vatileaks trial leaks more in new book
Catholic Herald - Feb 7, 2017 at 1:53 am One of the major protagonists in the Vatican’s leaks scandal — communications consultant Francesca Chaouqui — is releasing a book which she describes as “a testament of truth”.
In...
Yesterday, Sherry Antonetti and I talked about…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Feb 7, 2017 at 1:37 am Chesterton, epistemic closure bubbles, and the cheap trick of pitting homeless vets against refugees.
Just for perspective…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Feb 7, 2017 at 1:34 am while we’ve been panicked about the death toll being inflicted by refugees and terrorists on our soil (currently standing at a whopping 0), there are 1553 dead and 2900 wounded...
A reader struggles with fear of hell
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Feb 7, 2017 at 1:31 am He writes: Confession or Holy Communion for a couple of years because I am worried about making a sacrilege. People tell me, “Don’t worry, you have scruples/neo-Jansenism/OCD” but...
Kevin O’Brien is back on the air!
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Feb 7, 2017 at 1:15 am With a brand new blog!
