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Behold the Lamb of God!
Integrated Catholic Life - Jan 13, 2017 at 11:04 pm The Protestant Church is all about the Bible; the Catholic Church is all about the Sacraments. Right? Not exactly. When it comes to personal Bible reading, Protestants often put...
Daily Catholic Quote — from St. Catherine of Siena
Integrated Catholic Life - Jan 13, 2017 at 11:02 pm “Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.” (St. Catherine of Siena; Sermon in a Sentence, John P. McClernon, Ignatius 2004) The...
Darth Vader: The beloved gargoyle of Washington National Cathedral
Aleteia - Jan 13, 2017 at 11:00 pm Some sources attribute the use of gargoyles to a legend linked to the life of St. Romanus, the 7th-century bishop of Rouen. According to legend, St. Romanus managed to subdue a...
“O Sanctissima”: the centuries old hymn still popular today
Aleteia - Jan 13, 2017 at 11:00 pm O Sanctissima is a prayer written in the 18th century, but the song set to the prayer is still vastly popular today. The author, who is unknown, dedicated these beautiful verses...
“Hello, is your dad there? This is Jesus”
Aleteia - Jan 13, 2017 at 11:00 pm A mom and dad went out one night for dinner. They were a Christian couple, trying to live a life of virtue and impart good formation to their children. They left their...
Meet the top Catholic artists from around the world
Aleteia - Jan 13, 2017 at 11:00 pm Just over a year ago, on the feast of St. Cecilia, Cecilia Music was born. And she was born with a twofold mission: promoting Catholic artists, and more broadly, promoting music...
Girl’s live-streamed suicide prompts disgust and dismay
Aleteia - Jan 13, 2017 at 11:00 pm Perhaps millions of internet users saw a live stream of a 12-year-old Georgia girl committing suicide five days after Christmas, and 40,000 people saw it on YouTube before the...
The lure of virtual reality: Entertainment may never be the same
Aleteia - Jan 13, 2017 at 11:00 pm The future of gaming and entertainment is here. What used to be confined to flight simulators and military training exercises is now hitting the mainstream and has turned into a...
A Hollywood star reminded me “How easy it was to fall in love with Jesus”
Aleteia - Jan 13, 2017 at 11:00 pm John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world… Now I have seen and testified that he is the Son of God.” —...
Saints of the Old Testament: St. Malachias, prophet
Rorate Coeli - Jan 13, 2017 at 10:59 pm With the conclusion of the Octave of the Epiphany of Our Lord yesterday, the Church now recalls a courageous defender of the doctrine of the Trinity, St. Hilary of Poitiers, and...
RECENT POSTS and THANKS to readers, benefactors
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 13, 2017 at 10:19 pm I made a change to the sharing buttons plugin. I think the blog loads a little faster now. Perhaps you could make greater use of the buttons? Pretty please?
I am deeply grateful...
William Peter Blatty, Exorcist Author, Dead at 89. RIP
Creative Minority Report - Jan 13, 2017 at 9:07 pm If you have a moment, please say a prayer for author William Peter Blatty and his family.William Peter Blatty, the novelist and Oscar-winning screenwriter most famous for landmark...
Remembering Father Michael Scanlan
Cardinal Seán's Blog - Jan 13, 2017 at 8:04 pm Hello and welcome,
I want to begin this week noting the passing of Father Michael Scanlan,TOR.
He was an outstanding churchman who, in the 1970s, was named president of what was...
Double Dare You
Commonweal - Jan 13, 2017 at 7:24 pm I recently tallied (in my head) the number of people that I have personally fired in my long career and realized that it was about 100. Most of these were from layoffs. Some...
Week One: "The Hidden Power of Kindness": Introduction
Saints 365 - Jan 13, 2017 at 7:23 pm Welcome!!!I'm so glad your joining this Book Club - as you know the book we'll be reading is Father Lawrence Lovasik's The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls...
Vatican newspaper publishes Maltese bishops’ guidelines endorsing Communion for ‘remarried’
LifeSiteNews - Jan 13, 2017 at 6:45 pm 'L'Osservatore Romano' published directives from the bishops in Malta instructing the divorced and civilly remarried to follow their conscience on the receiving the sacraments.
Italian Archbishop: “In 10 years we will all be Muslims because of our stupidity.”
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 13, 2017 at 6:16 pm Meanwhile, an Italian bishop had something interesting to say.
I hope the Maltese read this after the way their bishops went to the zoo. HERE
This is an Emeritus Archbishop… so...
ACTION ALERT: Tell Congress to Stop the Nation’s Capital From Legalizing Assisted Suicide
LifeNews.com - Jan 13, 2017 at 6:08 pm On January 12, 2017, Congressman Brad Wenstrup (R-Oh.) and Senator James Lankford (R-Ok.) introduced a joint measure aimed at protecting the residents of the District of Columbia...
How the Catholic author of 'The Exorcist' saw good and evil
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 13, 2017 at 6:06 pm Washington D.C., Jan 13, 2017 / 05:06 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- William Peter Blatty, whose fictionalized vision of demonic possession and Catholic exorcism transfixed a great swath of...
Maltese Bishops Go To The ‘Amoris laetitia’ Zoo: Disaster… inexcusable nonsense… green-lighting sacrilege
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 13, 2017 at 5:51 pm Earlier today I had a great misfortune to read a statement from the Bishops of Malta which is a complete disaster. I was going to post about it tomorrow, but canonist Ed Peters...
