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Go in Haste! Be Amazed! Treasure!
Integrated Catholic Life - Jan 17, 2017 at 11:04 pm By now most of you are probably aware of the depressing statistics regarding the “nones,” that is to say, those in this country who claim no religious affiliation. The most recent...
Doctor in the trenches witnesses strange ways faith responds to human suffering
Aleteia - Jan 17, 2017 at 11:00 pm Dr. Timothy Flanigan works in a field that brings him so close to human suffering that, as he puts it, it’s “cheek to jowl.” As a Brown Medical School professor with a specialty...
NFL star Ben Watson to speak at March for Life
Aleteia - Jan 17, 2017 at 11:00 pm New this year to the March for Life Rally in Washington DC is Baltimore Ravens tight end Benjamin Watson, father of five children and a former Super Bowl champion with the New...
5 Tips for the new Catholic
Aleteia - Jan 17, 2017 at 11:00 pm You think you know what’s going on. You’ve done all the prep, made the big decision to enter the Church, and now you’re a Catholic. But — haha! — you don’t know squat. It’s...
Sunday Soundbite for January 22, 2017
Franciscan Media - Jan 17, 2017 at 11:00 pm Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Cycle A
January 22, 2017
https://www.franciscanmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ssordA_3.mp3
Our Sunday cycle of Scripture readings this year...
Dare we admit there’s a war against Christians?
Aleteia - Jan 17, 2017 at 11:00 pm What do bombs, bigots and bureaucrats have in common? They are being used to harm, terrorize and kill Christians. Even a cursory online search will show that 2016 was a horrifying...
The 5 defects of Jesus
Aleteia - Jan 17, 2017 at 11:00 pm Vietnamese cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan’s extraordinary life deserves to be better known, particularly his great love for the Holy Eucharist. Imprisoned by the...
Sister Eugenia Bonetti: “Trafficking victims are primarily illiterate female minors”
Aleteia - Jan 17, 2017 at 11:00 pm February 8th, the feast day of St. Josephine Bakhita, will mark the International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking. “They are children, not slaves!” is the...
More than apostasy: What we’re not talking about with “Silence”
Aleteia - Jan 17, 2017 at 11:00 pm When I first read Silence in grad school, everybody wanted to talk about The Quandary. It was the same when I taught the book to high schoolers a few years later. They all wanted...
BREAKING: Three bishops launch ‘spiritual crusade’ urging Pope to rebuke Communion for adulterers
LifeSiteNews - Jan 17, 2017 at 11:00 pm Pope Francis must 'rebuke' pastoral guidelines that allow adulterers to receive Communion, the bishops write.
Bishop interprets Amoris Laetitia in manner consistent with prior papal teaching
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 17, 2017 at 10:35 pm Bishop Steven Lopes of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter has issued “A Pledged Troth,” a pastoral letter on Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia.
Prelate: Iraqi Christians don’t want ‘humanitarian corridor’
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 17, 2017 at 10:03 pm The Syriac Catholic archbishop of Mosul said that Iraqi Christians wish to live in harmony with others throughout the country and do not wish to be confined to a “humanitarian...
When Forgiveness and Charity are Seen as a Weakness
Journey of a Catholic Nerd Writer - Jan 17, 2017 at 9:54 pm As I've mentioned throughout the years, I was in cognitive-behavioral therapy (on and off for a couple of years) for my PTSD. It wasn't until about a year ago that my last...
Cardinal Dolan to offer prayer from Book of Wisdom at Trump inauguration
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 17, 2017 at 9:46 pm At President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York will offer a prayer for wisdom recorded in the Old Testament.
Josephine Sister seeks just outcome on Timor Gap
The Catholic Leader - Jan 17, 2017 at 9:32 pm JOSEPHITE nun and human rights advocate Josephite Sister Susan Connelly has urged Australians to maintain pressure on the Federal Government to negotiate a fair maritime boundary...
Obama Administration Refuses to Alter HHS Mandate
Creative Minority Report - Jan 17, 2017 at 9:26 pm Remember in July, the US Supreme Court remanded the HHS Mandate back to the drawing board, ordering them to find ways to accommodate the objections of religious organizations such...
Church destroyed in Sri Lanka
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 17, 2017 at 9:20 pm A group of Buddhists, led by a monk, recently destroyed a Protestant church in Paharaiya, Sri Lanka.
The fight over abortion law on the Isle of Man
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 17, 2017 at 9:04 pm Douglas, Isle of Man, Jan 17, 2017 / 08:04 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A member of the Isle of Man's legislature and a pro-choice campaign group are aiming to reform the island's...
Cardinal DiNardo on immigration: ‘we need not sink into the darkness of isolation’
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 17, 2017 at 9:00 pm In a statement supporting Pope Francis’s recent video message to immigrants in the United States, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo noted that “in the days and weeks ahead, there will be...
Background: Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 17, 2017 at 8:45 pm In 1908, Rev. Paul Wattson, then an Anglican religious in Graymoor, New York, began a Church Unity Octave with the support of Anglican and Catholic prelates, including Cardinal...
