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ASK FATHER: Can absolution be granted when no purpose of amendment exists?
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 15, 2017 at 7:02 pm Under another entry here a commentator asked:
Can absolution be granted where no purpose of amendment exists? If granted, with no purpose of amendment, does it even ‘take’?
No....
Inspiration and Gratitude
Journey of a Catholic Nerd Writer - Jan 15, 2017 at 6:17 pm Very quietly, I took a couple of days off social media and it went unnoticed... and it was bliss! I've been doing my best to stay off social media though it's not always easy....
Morning Catholic must-reads: 16/01/17
Catholic Herald - Jan 15, 2017 at 6:01 pm Young migrants must be guaranteed “protection and defence, as well as integration”, Pope Francis said at yesterday’s Angelus (full text, full video).
Only a blind man could deny...
Dinner and a warm place to sleep: How Rome is reaching out to the homeless
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 15, 2017 at 5:02 pm Rome, Italy, Jan 15, 2017 / 04:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- As colder weather settled over Rome last week, two area charities have found ways to reach out to those without food or...
Lismore’s faithful are united in prayer for the ordination of their new bishop next month
The Catholic Leader - Jan 15, 2017 at 4:00 pm LISMORE diocese is united in prayer for its new bishop Carmelite Father Gregory Homeming in the lead-up to his episcopal ordination on February 22. Pope Francis appointed Fr...
Sharing the Word for January 16, 2017 – Second Week in Ordinary Time – Year 1
Franciscan Media - Jan 15, 2017 at 3:00 pm Monday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time
January 16, 2017
Daily Reading from the USCCB: Hebrews 5:1-10
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"Habemus Mamam" – Amid US Immigrants' Fears, Francis Sends A "Message of 'Pope'"
Whispers in the Loggia - Jan 15, 2017 at 2:36 pm As papers across the country lead with local takes on this Sunday before a Presidential Inauguration unlike any these United States have seen – at least since the Jacksonian Age...
Pope Francis extols Italian-American patron saint of migrants
Aleteia - Jan 15, 2017 at 2:04 pm VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Sunday appealed for better treatment of child-migrants, as he praised their patroness, Italian-American Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, who died 100...
Pope Francis: visit to Santa Maria a Setteville parish
News.va - Jan 15, 2017 at 1:25 pm (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis said Mass at the Roman parish of Saint Mary in Setteville on Sunday afternoon. The Holy Father made a pastoral visit to the parish, leaving the...
Canonist Ed Peters on The Maltese Fiasco
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 15, 2017 at 1:04 pm Distinguished canonist Ed Peters, at his indispensable blog In The Light Of The Law, has posted in the wake of what we must now call…
The Maltese Fiasco
The Bishops of Malta...
Bigoted in Seattle? Anschutz-owned festival group blasted by Seattle Weekly
GetReligion - Jan 15, 2017 at 1:00 pm
Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival is an annual end-of-the-summer party that takes over the area around Seattle Center every Labor Day weekend. It’s mainly art and music and an event...
Novena of Reparation for Roe vs. Wade and an End to Abortion 2017 | Day 3
Big C Catholics - Jan 15, 2017 at 12:23 pm January 16, 2017While legislation and public witness are important to end abortion, our most powerful weapon is prayer. From the Priests for Life website:The Catholic bishops of...
If you're tempted to gossip, 'bite your tongue,' Pope Francis says
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 15, 2017 at 12:19 pm Vatican City, Jan 15, 2017 / 11:19 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis Sunday traveled to a parish on the outskirts of Rome where he visited a priest suffering from a severe form of...
Recent Prisoner Free Exercise Cases
The Religion Clause - Jan 15, 2017 at 12:00 pm In Aguilar v. Lemke, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 2526 (ND IL, Jan. 5, 2017), an Illinois federal district court allowed an inmate to move ahead with his claim that his placement in...
FSSP Seminary at Buxheim Charterhouse
New Liturgical Movement - Jan 15, 2017 at 11:31 am Here’s something that has been sitting in my “to do” file for while, partly because there are so many good photos in this set that it was really difficult to make a selection....
Homily for the 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, January 22, 2017, Year A
Big C Catholics - Jan 15, 2017 at 11:30 am Fr. Charles IrvinSenior PriestDiocese of Lansing(Click here for today’s readings)When Jesus heard that John the Baptist had been arrested, he withdrew to Galilee. He left His...
Our Lady of Banneux
Regina Magazine - Jan 15, 2017 at 10:31 am January 15 Today is the feast day of Our Lady of Banneux. Ora pro nobis. OUR LADY TO MARIETTE BECO AT BANNEUX, FEBRUARY 15, 1933 BANNEUX IS AN unremarkable village on the edge of...
Saint Paul, The First Hermit
Regina Magazine - Jan 15, 2017 at 10:23 am January 15 Today is the feast day of Saint Paul, the first Hermit. Ora pro nobis. by Bishop Richard Challoner, 1841 Abridged from his Life written by St Jerome This Saint was...
Saint Peregrine Novena 2017 | Day 1
Big C Catholics - Jan 15, 2017 at 9:55 am January 16, 2017Day 1 – Pray for us, that we will not let sickness bring us to despair.Saint Peregrine is the patron saint of cancer patients. He was known for his holiness and...
US bishop disappointed over new policy toward Cuban migrants
EWTN - US Latest News - Jan 15, 2017 at 8:02 am Washington D.C., Jan 15, 2017 / 08:02 am (EWTN News/CNA).- On Friday, the U.S. bishops' migration chair criticized the Obama
administration's denial of decades-old special...
