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Explosive device in New York subway jolts commuters
Aleteia - Dec 11, 2017 at 8:22 am Several non-life-threatening injuries reportedA suspect is in custody, and there have been several non-life-threatening injuries, following an explosion in a New York City subway...
Wonders Never Cease
Commonweal - Dec 11, 2017 at 8:20 am Wonders Never Cease
By Marilynne RobinsonDecember 11, 2017
I place the origins of modern intellectual tradition in the seventeenth century for the purposes of this discussion,...
ASK FATHER: Mass obligation when there’s treacherous ice and I’ve fallen before.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 11, 2017 at 8:14 am From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
A woman in my 60s now, having had a couple of bad falls one requiring surgery, the other requiring weeks of bedrest . . . the church parking lot and...
Our culture is unfriendly to attachment parenting, so let’s change that
Aleteia - Dec 11, 2017 at 8:00 am Drop the mom guilt and put the pressure where it belongs! I’m always a little wary of studies that show how babies are only able to become optimal people through constant effort...
Franklin Graham isn't preaching in England for another nine months, but already he's getting trashed
GetReligion - Dec 11, 2017 at 8:00 am
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised at how one-sided some British newspapers can be, since we're talking about a land in which advocacy, partisan journalism is the norm.
However, I...
“No to complaints and grudges, learn to let yourself be consoled by God”
Vatican Insider - Dec 11, 2017 at 7:48 am “The Lord came to console us, so let Him do it. Hold no complaints nor grudges. Nor bitterness. We shall not “stew feelings” in the broth of resentment. We must be careful not to...
Pope Francis: Health care is part of the Church’s mission
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 11, 2017 at 7:48 am Vatican City, Dec 11, 2017 / 06:48 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Just as Jesus healed people during his earthly mission, care for the sick is a mission the entire Church is called to take...
New Polish PM: My dream is to re-Christianise the EU
Catholic Herald - Dec 11, 2017 at 7:36 am Poland’s likely next prime minister has called on the European Union to return to its “proper values” and traditional Christian roots. Mateusz Morawiecki, who is expected to be...
When Things Don't Go As Planned: An Advent Reflection
CatholicMom.com - Dec 11, 2017 at 7:30 am By Bento Coelho da Silveira (MatrizNet) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Life has a way of turning out different than we plan. As a matter of fact, if you want to give God a...
Australian Catholic Youth Festival draws tens of thousands
EWTN - World Catholic News - Dec 11, 2017 at 7:10 am Sydney, Australia, Dec 11, 2017 / 07:10 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- The Church in Australia kicked off Advent with a Catholic Youth Festival in Sydney last weekend, drawing some 20,000...
A beautiful prayer to place your life in God’s hands
Aleteia - Dec 11, 2017 at 7:00 am Blessed Charles de Foucald invites us to say: Let only your will be done in me ... Father, I abandon myself into your hands; do with me what you will. Whatever you may do, I...
Soros money means legal trouble for Amnesty's Ireland abortion campaign
EWTN - World Catholic News - Dec 11, 2017 at 7:00 am Dublin, Ireland, Dec 11, 2017 / 07:00 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Amnesty International is in no position to oppose an Irish law against
foreign political funding now that it is under...
Time for the Soul to Absorb the Mysteries — Part 2: The Offertory and the Canon
New Liturgical Movement - Dec 11, 2017 at 7:00 am Last week, we looked at how the traditional Roman Rite, from the entrance to the Gospel, gives ample “time for the soul to absorb the mysteries.” Today I shall speak of how the...
US Embassy in Jerusalem, the “Patriarchs’ revolt” lets loose
Vatican Insider - Dec 11, 2017 at 6:39 am The US Administration’s decision to move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem did not only unleash the anger of the Arab people and the outrage of governments in...
Antagonists In Same-Sex Marriage Saga will Now Face Each Other In 2018 Election
The Religion Clause - Dec 11, 2017 at 6:15 am In 2015, Rowan County, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis was at the center of the battle over same-sex marriage as she was held in contempt for refusing to allow her office to issue...
Resignations and appointments (12/9) (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 11, 2017 at 6:12 am Pope Francis named a Massachusetts-born Capuchin Franciscan friar as bishop of a Japanese diocese.
Papal audiences (12/9) (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 11, 2017 at 6:12 am In separate audiences, Pope Francis received the prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, the new Nigerian ambassador, the apostolic nuncio in Mozambique, the officers of the...
Prelates comment on religious freedom of Colorado baker in Supreme Court case (USCCB)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 11, 2017 at 6:12 am Click here for additional coverage of the case.
More Challenges To FEMA's Policy On Disaster Aid To Religious Facilities
The Religion Clause - Dec 11, 2017 at 6:10 am As three churches filed an appeal with the 5th Circuit (full text of Emergency Motion) after a Texas federal district court refused to enjoin a FEMA Policy Guideline that bars...
Fight Over Religious Artifacts Becomes Part of the Catalonian Independence Battle
The Religion Clause - Dec 11, 2017 at 6:05 am An unanticipated development flowing from Spain's takeover of the Catalonian government is Spain's move to retrieve 44 religious artifacts housed in Catalonia’s Museum of Lleida....
