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Proceeds of Vatican art project will go to children's hospital in CAR
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 7, 2017 at 1:04 am Bangui, Central African Republic, Feb 7, 2017 / 12:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Inspired by Pope Francis’ trip to Central African Republic in 2015, a children’s hospital in the country...
Manager, Safeguarding Office – Diocese of Lismore
The Catholic Leader - Feb 7, 2017 at 12:38 am The Catholic Diocese of Lismore is located on the Far North Coast of New South Wales. Home to more than 105,000 Catholics, the Diocese nurtures the spiritual lives of thousands...
Married couple pioneering new forms of ministry for milleniums
The Catholic Leader - Feb 7, 2017 at 12:30 am “SOMETHING happened” to Karen Doyle when reading the then Pope John Paul II’s Letter to Women. As a newlywed in 2001, the mid-90s document “grabbed a hold of” her soul and “shaped...
Pope’s 2017 Lenten message focuses on rich man, Lazarus
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 7, 2017 at 12:16 am Pope Francis reflected on Christ’s parable of the rich man and Lazarus in his message for Lent 2017, which begins March 1.
Station to Station: An Interview with Gary Jansen
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Feb 7, 2017 at 12:00 am Some people dismiss the Stations of the Cross as a devotional relic of a bygone generation. But not Gary Jansen. In his beautiful new book, Station to Station: An Ignatian Journey...
Puerto Rico’s bishops grateful that Obama commuted activist’s sentence; Pope intervened
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 6, 2017 at 11:49 pm Speaking on behalf of all the bishops of Puerto Rico, Archbishop Roberto González Nieves of San Juan recently gave thanks to God that former President Barack Obama commuted the...
Prelate urges Tillerson not to move US embassy to Jerusalem
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 6, 2017 at 11:18 pm The chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace called upon Secretary of State Rex Tillerson not to move the US...
The Feast that is the Sacraments
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 6, 2017 at 11:04 pm Four elements stand out in the traditional Catholic doctrine of what a sacrament is. Fundamentalism is suspicious of all four. A sacrament is “a sign that effects what it...
Myanmar: 60 Christian churches destroyed since 2011
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 6, 2017 at 11:02 pm Reporting on the underreported story of the persecution of Christians in Myanmar (Burma), John Allen noted recently that more than 60 churches have been destroyed in Kachin state...
Daily Catholic Quote — from Thomas à Kempis
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 6, 2017 at 11:02 pm “Very soon your life here will end; consider, then, what may be in store for you elsewhere. Today we live; tomorrow we die and are quickly forgotten. Oh, the dullness and hardness...
7 Tips to help you pray for your husband
Aleteia - Feb 6, 2017 at 11:00 pm Are you at a loss for words when it comes to praying for your husband? Here are 7 tips — and prayers — to ask for God’s intercession on his behalf. 1. That my spouse might know...
“And you are old before you are young… You never come back”
Aleteia - Feb 6, 2017 at 11:00 pm I say good-by because I know they tap your wrists, In the dark, in the silence, day by day And all the blood of you drop by drop, And you are old before you are young… You never...
Samurai warrior, martyred for his Catholic faith, beatified in Japan
Aleteia - Feb 6, 2017 at 11:00 pm Today an historic event is taking place in Japan, as a samurai warrior who chose a life of poverty and exile — and eventually Christian martyrdom — over obedience to an oppressive...
The 14th-century ‘Golden Haggadah’ is now online
Aleteia - Feb 6, 2017 at 11:00 pm The Haggadah is the Jewish text read during the Passover Seder, the ritual feast in which the story of the liberation of the Israelites from slavery in ancient Egypt is told....
A Catholic widower on difficult mercy of “turning off the machine”
Aleteia - Feb 6, 2017 at 11:00 pm [In this piece, one of Aleteia’s frequent contributors recounts his personal experience with end-of-life decisions. We have just run a helpful piece on the Catholic Church’s...
Fisking the false freedom that Alfa Romeo is selling
Aleteia - Feb 6, 2017 at 11:00 pm On Saturday morning I stood in front of over 300 high school seniors and their parents who were competing for Benedictine College’s Presidential Scholarship. I told them that...
6 Celebrities who have spoken out against porn
Aleteia - Feb 6, 2017 at 11:00 pm Recently a new documentary revealing the harmful effects of pornography was released. Addicted to Porn: Chasing the Cardboard Butterfly is narrated by a surprising celebrity:...
Too old to rock n’ roll? Think again
Aleteia - Feb 6, 2017 at 11:00 pm Last October, Indio, California, was home to a rock n’ roll mega concert featuring Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, the Who and Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters...
Catholic social media: Why it’s important to respect our bishops and pope
Aleteia - Feb 6, 2017 at 11:00 pm Let nothing exist among you that may divide you; but be united with your bishop, and those that preside over you, as a type and evidence of your immortality. —St. Ignatius of...
Watch live from London: Edwin Fawcett and friends
Aleteia - Feb 6, 2017 at 11:00 pm Edwin Fawcett – a favorite here at Cecilia Music – is turning one year older. And to celebrate he is having a special birthday concert, and is inviting you to tune in live from...
