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Help! I know my compulsive eating can’t be pleasing to God!
Aleteia - Dec 28, 2016 at 11:00 pm Dear Katrina, I’ve struggled with compulsive eating all my life. After years of diets, yo-yo weight loss and gain, in-patient and outpatient therapy, and prayer, I had bariatric...
“Eternal rest grant to them, O Lord…”
Aleteia - Dec 28, 2016 at 11:00 pm The bitterness of November’s elections was enough to make us glad to see the end of 2016, but added to the grimness of the politics (or as Pope Francis suggested, the lack of...
Sometimes we’re too busy to notice what God has done
Aleteia - Dec 28, 2016 at 11:00 pm Simeon was eager with anticipation. Many years earlier, God had promised a savior for the world and he badly wanted the savior to come. His people needed the Messiah. They had...
“Silence”: Has Scorsese finally found what he was looking for?
Aleteia - Dec 28, 2016 at 11:00 pm “What’s this line for?” An older woman put the question to me at a Manhattan movie theater, and I answered that we were told to wait in this line if we had tickets for Silence –...
‘Christmas is O-VAH!’
Aleteia - Dec 28, 2016 at 11:00 pm “Christmas is o-vah!” he shouted, in his thick New England accent. Those words, in that accent, and the whole story that followed, have become a yearly Christmas tale in my house...
WATCH: Don’t miss this performance of the “Typewriter” symphony
Aleteia - Dec 28, 2016 at 11:00 pm Who says the symphony always has to be serious? Here award-winning composer and pianist Malek Jandali performs his version of the “Typewriter,” in a live concert with the Atlanta...
Catholic Public School Teacher Forced to Facilitate Planned Parenthood Program
LifeNews.com - Dec 28, 2016 at 5:55 pm We recently received a disappointing ruling in the case of Bill Diss, a Portland, Oregon public school teacher who was fired after he objected to facilitating a Planned Parenthood...
Planned Parenthood Continues in Vain to give Excuses Why Hillary Clinton Lost
LifeNews.com - Dec 28, 2016 at 5:37 pm If you are Planned Parenthood and your all-time, all-time favorite pro-abortion presidential candidate loses to a pro-lifer running for office for the first time, there must be a...
Ultrasound Technician: “There is Nothing More Heart-Wrenching” Than Seeing Babies Who Will be Aborted
LifeNews.com - Dec 28, 2016 at 5:30 pm I put my probe down, find the head, then slide down to the bum. Fortunately, the baby is in a good position. “It’s definitely a boy!” I tell the mom and dad, as they peer over my...
Mom Gives Birth to Adorable Quintuplets After Years Struggling to Conceive
LifeNews.com - Dec 28, 2016 at 5:06 pm A Virginia couple received a long-awaited early Christmas gift this year after struggling with the heartbreak of infertility and a miscarriage.
Margaret Baudinet, 31, gave birth...
In Cleveland, LeBishop Calls It A Day
Whispers in the Loggia - Dec 28, 2016 at 4:59 pm (Updated 10.30am ET with presser video, etc.)While everyone's hopefully enjoying some Christmas downtime, even the Octave isn't stopping the US docket's most frenetic period of...
St. Louis Officials Want It to Be a “Sanctuary City” Where Women Can Easily Get Abortions
LifeNews.com - Dec 28, 2016 at 4:58 pm Fearing that overturning Roe v. Wade could be a real possibility, abortion advocates in St. Louis want to make the city a “sanctuary” for abortions.
St. Louis Public Radio reports...
Is the “12 Days of Christmas” Really a Secret Code?
ChurchPOP - Dec 28, 2016 at 4:35 pm It’s a common claim among Catholics these days that the English Christmas carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas” is a secret code
The post Is the “12 Days of Christmas” Really a...
The Obama Administration says what needs to be said about Israel and Palestine
Commonweal - Dec 28, 2016 at 4:22 pm Secretary of State John Kerry spoke today on the Israeli Occupation of Palestinian territory and the diminishing hope for a two-state solution.
Here is a transcript of that...
Back to bishops: Pope’s 2017 calendar filled with ‘ad limina’ visits
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Dec 28, 2016 at 4:06 pm For Pope Francis, the Year of Mercy will be followed by the Year of the "Ad Limina" Visits.
St. Aileran: Saint of the Day for Thursday, December 29, 2016
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 28, 2016 at 4:01 pm Monk, biographer, and scholar-also called Sapiens the Wise. Aileran was one of the most distinguished professors at the school of Clonard in Ireland. ...
Daily Readings for Thursday, December 29, 2016
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 28, 2016 at 4:01 pm Reading 1: 1 John 2:3-11, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 96:1-3, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 96:5-6, Gospel: Luke 2:22-35
I Came to You Late: Prayer of the Day for Thursday, December 29, 2016
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 28, 2016 at 4:01 pm I came to You late, O Beauty so ancient and new. I came to love You late. You were within me and I was outside where I rushed about wildly searching ...
Christmas 2016 Photopost - Part 1
New Liturgical Movement - Dec 28, 2016 at 4:00 pm As has been the case for the last couple of years, we have received a very large number of photographs of Christmas liturgies, and so we will be doing at least one other photopost...
