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Boston Archdiocese makes amazing progress with stunning new project
Catholic Online - Featured News - Jan 11, 2017 at 12:00 am Two of Boston's church's have joined forces to refresh the old and temporary into something new and permanent.
Why does the Catholic University of America have a collection of over 600 Ethiopian magic scrolls?
Catholic Online - Featured News - Jan 11, 2017 at 12:00 am With a recent gift of more than 600 handmade leather manuscripts, the Catholic University of America is now home to one of the most important ...
Belarus may ban religious symbols in medical settings
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 10, 2017 at 11:49 pm Doctors and other medical personnel in Belarus may soon be forbidden to display icons in their offices or wear religious symbols such as crosses.
Priest missing in Mexico
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 10, 2017 at 11:08 pm A priest of the Diocese of Saltillo, Mexico, disappeared on January 3.
Luck, Serendipity and Blessings
Integrated Catholic Life - Jan 10, 2017 at 11:04 pm Sometimes I encounter something wonderful just accidentally and I think “That sure was lucky!” For instance, I might happen to glimpse a gorgeous sunset only because I had to wait...
Faith more important than makeup to these Catholic girls
The Catholic Leader - Jan 10, 2017 at 11:00 pm IT’S not all about make-up and trendy clothes. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. Young ladies in St Joseph’s Parish, Stanthorpe, in Toowoomba diocese, have collaborated to form a...
Meet the patron saint of difficult marriages and separated spouses
Aleteia - Jan 10, 2017 at 11:00 pm Five hundred years before Henry VIII, there was a king of England who strove to follow the laws of the Catholic Church and pledged to remain chaste for the rest of his life. This...
Basketful of kittens religion? No!
Aleteia - Jan 10, 2017 at 11:00 pm It was what I think of as a basketful of kittens line. The intended reader goes “Awwwww” and stops thinking. I picture him clasping his hands in front of his chest, and then...
WATCH: Student’s twice-rejected ad for Adidas goes viral
Aleteia - Jan 10, 2017 at 11:00 pm “Old age, in particular, is a time of grace in which the Lord will renew His call: He calls us to preserve and transmit the faith, calls us to pray, especially to intercede; calls...
NY’s hero cop Steven McDonald, who lived an example of forgiveness, dies at 59
Aleteia - Jan 10, 2017 at 11:00 pm New York City Police Detective Steven McDonald, who forgave the young man who shot him, leaving him paralyzed for life, has died at the age of 59. In the almost 31 years since the...
Remembering my days as an altar “boy”
Aleteia - Jan 10, 2017 at 11:00 pm The other day I found an old picture from my grade school days. It showed our parish church packed with us kids from the school and parishioners. I had forgotten even having it...
5 Saints whose patronage came from the way they died
Aleteia - Jan 10, 2017 at 11:00 pm From St. Clare being the patron of television to St. Lidwina being the patron of roller skating, there seems to be an intercessor for each and every one of our needs. But just how...
Can we have any hope for a happy new year?
Aleteia - Jan 10, 2017 at 11:00 pm “When will God bring this awful 2017 to an end?” That’s neither a typographical error nor a rhetorical flourish. I’m not speaking of recently-departed and little-lamented 2016. I’...
Viral tweet: Ohio teen puts on a suit before meeting his baby niece for the first time
Aleteia - Jan 10, 2017 at 11:00 pm @Iris_Elisabeth_ mutual respect pic.twitter.com/Sejcfn5Rhx — iris kessler (@Iris_Elisabeth_) January 4, 2017 “If an individual is to accept himself, someone must say to him: ‘It...
St. Augustine’s concubine speaks
Aleteia - Jan 10, 2017 at 11:00 pm In his Confessions, Augustine of Hippo — one of the most important Church Fathers in Western Christianity — refers to the woman he lived with, his concubine, as “the one.” We know...
Sunday Soundbite for January 15, 2017
Franciscan Media - Jan 10, 2017 at 11:00 pm Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Cycle A
January 15, 2017
https://www.franciscanmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ssordA_2.mp3
“Ordinary Time” is simply the “in-between”...
USCCB initiative issues action alert on immigration
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 10, 2017 at 10:38 pm Justice for Immigrants, an initiative of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, has urged Catholics to contact their representatives and senators, asking them to “...
This Dominican sister just celebrated her 110th birthday
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 10, 2017 at 10:08 pm Dax, France, Jan 10, 2017 / 09:08 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Dominicans have posted on their social media a greeting for the 110th birthday of Sister Marie Bernadette, “the oldest...
Parents warned about dangerous online trends
The Catholic Leader - Jan 10, 2017 at 10:00 pm THE leader of a peak body for Catholic parents has urged mums and dads to monitor their children’s online activity closely following the death of a 13-year-old boy from an...
