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Pope Francis to the laity: go out and evangelize, or buy mothballs
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 29, 2017 at 11:01 pm Los Angeles, Calif., Jan 29, 2017 / 10:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- When asked in a new interview what specific mission he has for the laity, Pope Francis responded with a frequent...
How a hungry boy taught me the ugly truth about myself
Aleteia - Jan 29, 2017 at 11:00 pm Seeing homeless children is not that typical in progressive cities like New York, Washington, or Houston. In third world cities, however, they’re everywhere. Sadly, many of them...
My prayers are so distracted! Are they worth anything?
Aleteia - Jan 29, 2017 at 11:00 pm Do you know how many times I’ve opened my Bible or a spiritual reading book only to momentarily be summoned back into family life? Then when I do manage to escape the external...
Founder of ‘Baby Safe Haven’ believes he’s on a mission from God
Aleteia - Jan 29, 2017 at 11:00 pm Two weeks ago, a church custodian found a newborn baby in a laundry basket at the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul, Minnesota. The baby boy was left between the exterior and...
When it comes to books, I have…issues
Aleteia - Jan 29, 2017 at 11:00 pm We are remodeling our basement, and creating the library of my dreams: heated hardwood floors; custom walnut bookshelves; French doors illuminated by God’s natural light and life...
6 Ways to make your Facebook experience more positive and healthy
Aleteia - Jan 29, 2017 at 11:00 pm Did you make a New Year’s resolution to give up Facebook? Or are you thinking about giving it up for Lent? I entertained it as an option, but in the end, I’m not going to cut my...
When she died at 21, my sister’s life was so much more than the sum of her accomplishments
Aleteia - Jan 29, 2017 at 11:00 pm Ten years ago, my little sister died. Kristen was 21 when she was killed in a car accident driving home on an icy road. She had been collecting her things from the university...
The only eternal thing you can give is love
The Catholic Leader - Jan 29, 2017 at 11:00 pm “O COME let us adore him.” This is what we sing at Christmas and in our hearts throughout the year as we adore the one who: “came not to be served but to serve”. (Mark 10:45) As...
What have nuns done for us lately?
Aleteia - Jan 29, 2017 at 11:00 pm The Feast of the Presentation is upon us and it is time to pray for more nuns. My family has prayed daily, “For more priests and more religious,” for years, but when we did, I...
Pope Francis discusses ‘hemorrhage’ of religious vocations
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 29, 2017 at 10:38 pm Pope Francis spoke about the “hemorrhage” of vocations to the consecrated life during a January 28 address to members of the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life...
Vatican message for World Leprosy Day
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 29, 2017 at 10:11 pm Cardinal Peter Turkson, the prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, has issued a message for World Leprosy Day, which fell this year on January 29.
Doctor Who Had Family Members Hold Elderly Patient Down While She Killed Her is Cleared
Creative Minority Report - Jan 29, 2017 at 9:13 pm This is just horrible. A Dutch doctor who had family members hold down an elderly woman while she injected a lethal dose of poison has been cleared.This assisted suicide was...
Regarding those who condemn the Wall on the Mexican Border
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 29, 2017 at 7:01 pm Here is a shot of the wall on the Mexican border.
We must CONDEMN walls! Right?
Wait. Hold on.
If I am not mistaken this the wall that Mexico built on the border of Guatemala....
Brick by Brick: D. Venice (FL) – new TLM parish
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 29, 2017 at 6:52 pm From a reader:
Today it was announced that Bishop Frank Dewayne of the Diocese of Venice, FL has given permission for a non territorial parish for the Latin Mass. The pastor will...
Mu View For Awhile: Weird Airport Edition
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 29, 2017 at 6:35 pm I am in Denver. What a strange airport. I’ve only been through Denver 3 times (I think) and each time I like this airport less.
I think an undergrad designed it. Who thought...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 30/01/17
Catholic Herald - Jan 29, 2017 at 6:01 pm If more people were poor in spirit “there would be fewer divisions, conflicts and polemics”, Pope Francis said at yesterday’s Angelus (full text, full video).
The Pope has...
Saint Gildas, Monk
Regina Magazine - Jan 29, 2017 at 5:48 pm January 29 Today is the feast day of Saint Gildas. Ora pro nobis. Gildas is said to have been born in the Clwyd valley in north Wales around 500 AD. (2) Sometimes he is called “...
Why the Vatican thinks priests should learn about art, beauty
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 29, 2017 at 5:02 pm Vatican City, Jan 29, 2017 / 04:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Ugly churches with bad acoustics don't do justice to the richness and beauty of the liturgy – and it's this connection...
Saint Francis de Sales
Regina Magazine - Jan 29, 2017 at 4:46 pm January 29 Today is the feast day of Saint Francis de Sales. Ora pro nobis. His father, François de Sales de Boisy, and his mother, Françoise de Sionnaz, belonged to old Savoyard...
