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The Holy Father's Prayer Intentions for January 2017
Big C Catholics - Dec 27, 2016 at 12:01 pm Beginning in 2017, the Pope will present one prepared prayer intention per month, rather than two. A second prayer intention related to current events will be added each month....
ASK FATHER: What’s up with the ‘penitential wand’ and indulgences?
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 27, 2016 at 12:00 pm From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
I recently read about the indulgences formerly attached to being touched by the ‘penitential wand’ in Rome in the Raccolta. I’ve been trying to find more...
Daily Reading for Thursday, December 29th, 2016 HD
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 27, 2016 at 11:59 am Reading 1, First John 2:3-11
3 In this way we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.
4 Whoever says, 'I know him' without ...
Amazing Video Has Children With Down Syndrome Bringing the Nativity to Life
LifeNews.com - Dec 27, 2016 at 11:48 am Every Christmas season brings new, heartwarming projects to the public spotlight: stories of incredible giving, stories of hope and sacrifice, stories of new life.
This Christmas...
TOB Tuesday: Original Solitude
Big C Catholics - Dec 27, 2016 at 11:25 am Editor's note: Each Tuesday we will feature posts discussing Saint John Paul the Great's Theology of the Body; his reflection on our nature and life as persons made in the image...
ACTION ITEM! Support Our Lady of Hope Clinic – MATCHING GRANT
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 27, 2016 at 11:16 am
I have an ACTION ITEM for you good readers. You have been generous to causes I have mentioned in the past. Sometimes people have a hard time finding causes to support. This is...
Saint John, the Apostle and Evangelist
Regina Magazine - Dec 27, 2016 at 11:12 am December 27 Today is the feast day of Saint John. Ora pro nobis. “At that time: Jesus said to Peter Follow me. Turning round, Peter saw following them the disciple whom Jesus...
Planned Parenthood Received 300,000 Donations Since Donald Trump Won, So It Doesn’t Need Our Money
LifeNews.com - Dec 27, 2016 at 10:50 am Planned Parenthood has been cashing in big from its heavy losses in the Nov. 8 election.
The abortion giant spent $30 million to back pro-abortion candidates for federal and state...
27 Dec – St. John Evangelist: “We must deny to Protestantism any right to use the Bible, much more to interpret it.”
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 27, 2016 at 10:50 am Today, being the Feast of the Evangelist John, we have a special blessing for wine and other libations. I wrote about that HERE. We have this blessing because of an...
No actual news? No problem as elite paper puts Bible Belt city under Islamophobia microscope
GetReligion - Dec 27, 2016 at 10:37 am Muslims in a Bible Belt town hold their breath https://t.co/8JyBEtaF1k
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 27, 2016
What do the kind people of Murfreesboro, Tenn., a city...
No public ‘correction’ of Pope, Cardinal Brandmüller says
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 27, 2016 at 10:35 am Cardinal Walter Brandmüller—one of the four cardinals who submitted dubia to Pope Francis regarding the interpretation of Amoris Laetitia—has said that any “correction” of the...
Abortion Robs Us of Special People: What if These Actors Had Never Been Born?
LifeNews.com - Dec 27, 2016 at 10:24 am In this era of remakes, it’s often interesting to see how an actor or actress attempts to re-define a role. Whether it’s a television adaptation of “Hairspray,” “Grease,” or “...
Meditation on the Sleep of the Infant Jesus
Saint Louis Catholic - Dec 27, 2016 at 10:09 am A wonderful Canticle by St. Alphonsus Liguori, translated by Rev. R.A. Coffin, found in The Liturgical Year. If you don't own The Liturgical Year, you really ought to put it on...
Biblical curse may hit America after another betrayal against Israel HD
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 27, 2016 at 10:09 am Biblical curse may hit America after another betrayal against Israelhttp://bit.ly/2hkSMmL
By Marshall Connolly (CALIFORNIA ...
BFR1012: This was 2016
SQPN - Podcast Network - Dec 27, 2016 at 10:00 am
Looking back on the year: the year of the Rotterdam Marathon, decluttering, the year of Trideo, the year of LEGO, the year of the viral videos, the year of Patreon.
The post...
The Miracle of Christmas: Abiding Faith in the Unseen World
CatholicMom.com - Dec 27, 2016 at 10:00 am
Copyright 2016 Ginny Kochis. All rights reserved.
Christmas reminds me of my father. It’s what made him happiest, followed closely by slow, deliberate summertime puttering at my...
The Littlest Martyrs
CatholicMom.com - Dec 27, 2016 at 10:00 am
“The Massacre of the Innocents” by Giotto (1305) via WikiArt, Public Domain.
We’re done with the maelstrom of holiday parties and frantic gift shopping; we’ve scavenged the after...
Woman Says: I Aborted My Two Babies Because I “Had a Bad a Childhood”
LifeNews.com - Dec 27, 2016 at 10:00 am About a month ago, LifeNews published a piece about Candice Russell, a Texas woman who claimed she was “forced” to fly to California to abort her unborn child.
This week, Russell...
Feast of St. John
Saint Louis Catholic - Dec 27, 2016 at 9:59 am We pray to thee, O holy Apostle! for the Church of God. She was planted and watered by thy labours, embalmed with the celestial fragrance of thy virtues, and illumined by thy...
