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Posters criticizing Pope appear on streets of Rome
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 6, 2017 at 4:12 am Posters criticizing Pope Francis appeared on the streets of Rome on Saturday, February 4.
Royal commission: Seven per cent of Australian Catholic priests accused of abuse
Catholic Herald - Feb 6, 2017 at 4:00 am Seven per cent of priests in Australia’s Catholic Church were accused of sexually abusing children over the past several decades, a lawyer said Monday as officials investigating...
Daily Gospel Reflection for February 6, 2017 - St. Paul Miki & Companions
CatholicMom.com - Feb 6, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: Mark 6, 53-56 – St. Paul Miki & Companions
Although this is a short reading – and really sort of the end of another story – it is rich with description. Jesus...
Posters criticising Pope Francis appear in Rome
Catholic Herald - Feb 6, 2017 at 3:24 am Criticism of Pope Francis intensified on Saturday after his intervention in the Order of Malta order, with posters appearing around Rome asking: “Where’s your mercy?”
The posters...
A Turning Point in the Culture War?
Crisis Magazine - Church - Feb 6, 2017 at 2:10 am
Is the social revolution approaching its Thermidor, the point at which its progress stops or reverses? It’s difficult to be optimistic, but recent developments raise the...
Look to Christ to overcome 'tragic' Reformation legacy, Pope says
EWTN - Vatican News - Feb 6, 2017 at 2:06 am Vatican City, Feb 6, 2017 / 02:06 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- The 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation is an opportunity for both Protestants and Catholics to place Christ at...
Ugliness and Faux Outrage at the D.C. Women’s March
Crisis Magazine - Church - Feb 6, 2017 at 2:00 am
On the Saturday following Trump’s inauguration the capital was clogged with another mass rally—the Women’s March on Washington. At first described as “spontaneous” by the media,...
Pope Francis sends video message to Super Bowl
Catholic Herald - Feb 6, 2017 at 1:54 am In a papal first, Pope Francis recorded a video message that was shown to tens of thousands of fans during Sunday’s Super Bowl game between the New England Patriots and Atlanta...
Accord between Holy See, Congo
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 6, 2017 at 12:15 am Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, traveled to the Republic of the Congo to sign an accord with the nation’s prime minister on February 3.
The heavenly prize Helen Mahoney finds in India
The Catholic Leader - Feb 6, 2017 at 12:00 am HE prayed he wouldn’t get Daisy. Inside Mithra, a rehabilitation centre for children and adults with mental and physical disabilities from India’s poorest quarters, a line of...
St. Paul Miki and the Feast of True Friendship
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Feb 6, 2017 at 12:00 am Today we celebrate the feast of St. Paul Miki and his companions, martyrs who laid down their life for Christ's sake. Br. Raphael Forbing, O.P. suggests this feast is also a time...
Pope appoints special delegate to Sovereign Order of Malta
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 5, 2017 at 11:32 pm Pope Francis has appointed Archbishop Giovanni Angelo Becciu as his special delegate to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
When Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady Met Pope St. John Paul II
ChurchPOP - Feb 5, 2017 at 11:28 pm Tom Brady is the quarterback for the Super Bowl Champions New England Patriots and was named MVP of the big game. But
The post When Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady Met Pope St. John...
Prevent money-centered economy from claiming more victims, Pope tells Focolare
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 5, 2017 at 11:17 pm Pope Francis met on February 4 with 1,100 members of the Focolare Movement who are part of the Economy of Communion, an anti-poverty initiative begun in São Paulo in 1991.
How to to Overcome Sins and Faults of the Tongue
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 5, 2017 at 11:04 pm Sins and Faults of the Tongue: To Speak or not to Speak—That is the Question Dear Sister, There is a lot of noise around me—constantly. So much chatter. It seems to me that...
Bless me Father, because I am so annoyed with you
Aleteia - Feb 5, 2017 at 11:00 pm Bless me Father, because I am so annoyed with you. I attended Mass at your parish this past Sunday. I’ve worshiped there before, although this was my first Mass with you...
We are all quoting Shakespeare, even if unwittingly
Aleteia - Feb 5, 2017 at 11:00 pm Even if you have never seen a Shakespeare play or read any of his sonnets, you’re likely to have quoted the English author. As Hephzibah Anderson wrote in her piece on Shakespeare...
This football camp encourages your son to pray and go to Mass
Aleteia - Feb 5, 2017 at 11:00 pm Starting this summer, St. Norbert Abbey, Catholic Athletes for Christ (CAC) and Catholic Kids Publishing will be hosting an innovative football camp that hopes to impact the lives...
“Tracking Mary”: How to teach your children about the Marian apparitions
Aleteia - Feb 5, 2017 at 11:00 pm The founders of Growing with the Saints, sisters Melissa Kaiser, Susan Lawson and Maryalice Beach, didn’t intend to start their own publishing company. They simply wanted their...
