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Bizarre move: Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople writes editorial for L'Osservatore Romano endorsing Amoris Laetitia.Revisiting the contrasting positions of Moscow and Constantinople at the Synod of 2015
Rorate Coeli - Dec 3, 2016 at 1:01 pm In what is surely one of the most bizarre twists in the debate on Amoris Laetitia, Pariarch Bartholomew, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople, has penned an editorial...
Veneral Sky Show
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 3, 2016 at 12:39 pm The Moon and Venus are at it again in the early evening sky. They are just a few degrees apart. However, given your Moon’s crescent state, you may be able to see some great Earth...
First the Fast, Then the Feast: Reflection for the Second Sunday of Advent
CatholicMom.com - Dec 3, 2016 at 12:30 pm
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Readings for December 4, 2016: Second Sunday of Advent
Reflection on #Sunday #Gospel by @dritaly: examine the biblical notion of peace....
The Sound of Silence
Saint Louis Catholic - Dec 3, 2016 at 11:14 am Hello, darkness, my old friend.More and more in the squishy center of the Church are coming to grips with reality. Francis' silence on the dubia of the four Cardinals risks...
Partnership enlivens parish, school, gives seminarians pastoral insights
Franciscan Media - Dec 3, 2016 at 10:51 am Blake Dubroc, studying for the priesthood for the Diocese of Lafayette, La., plays soccer in New Orleans with a child at the St. Rita Parish picnic Oct. 9. (CNS photo/Peter Finney...
Many numbers, one result: What polling can and cannot do
Franciscan Media - Dec 3, 2016 at 10:40 am A man signs in to vote in the John Bailey Room at St. Francis Xavier Church in Washington Nov. 8. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Four years ago around this time,...
WDTPRS – 2nd Sunday of Advent: LIONS!
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 3, 2016 at 9:54 am “We escape neither the Enemy lion nor the glorious Lion of Judah”!
Our Collect (once called the “Opening Prayer”) for the 2nd Sunday of Advent was not in the pre-Conciliar...
Tom Wolfe, foe of pompous elites, targets Darwinian evolution, so where are the religious responses?
GetReligion - Dec 3, 2016 at 9:33 am Perpetually white-suited Tom Wolfe is a both a novelist and “new journalism” pioneer who applies fictional techniques to non-fiction with trademark florid verbiage. He gladly...
What marriage is and what it isn’t
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 3, 2016 at 9:15 am I have turned back the clock to June 2016 to find a post at the blog of canonist Ed Peters, who also – to our benefit – comments on these electronic pages.
Peters breaks it down...
Video 1 of Roundtable on Deacons, Women, and the Call to Serve
Commonweal - Dec 3, 2016 at 8:57 am A roundtable on deacons and women, which I posted about earlier here at dotCommonweal, has now been made into a three-part video. The discussion, sponsored by the Fordham Center...
Pope to global economic leaders: Remember the dignity of the human person
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 3, 2016 at 8:45 am Vatican City, Dec 3, 2016 / 07:45 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In an unprecedented event, Fortune 500 CEOs, members of the Time 100 and non-profit, academic, religious and labor leaders...
Praise Moments: O Holy Night
CatholicMom.com - Dec 3, 2016 at 8:30 am
This week’s Praise Moment features Catholic musician Abigail Winzer. Born in 1999 in Charlotte, North Carolina, Abigail Winzer has spent her life developing her God given talent...
Immaculate Conception Novena 2016 | Day 5
Big C Catholics - Dec 3, 2016 at 7:02 am December 3, 2016Today we pray for those suffering from financial hardship. Whatever difficulties result, we pray that this hardship bring people together rather than tear them...
Pope Francis' letter to dying girl read aloud at her funeral
EWTN - Vatican News - Dec 3, 2016 at 7:01 am Vatican City, Dec 3, 2016 / 07:07 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Pope Francis has again captured the hearts of the world, with a
tear-jerking letter to a young Italian girl dying from...
Join our SQPN Masterclass!
SQPN - Podcast Network - Dec 3, 2016 at 6:40 am
Have you ever wanted to learn how to podcast, how to produce webvideos or how to start a blog? In our first SQPN Masterclass on December 3, Fr. Roderick and Dom Bettinelli share...
Pope Francis' letter to dying girl read aloud at her funeral
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 3, 2016 at 6:07 am Vatican City, Dec 3, 2016 / 05:07 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis has again captured the hearts of the world, with a tear-jerking letter to a young Italian girl dying from...
Pope Francis meets with Fortune-Time Global Forum
News.va - Dec 3, 2016 at 6:02 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Saturday greeted participants of the Fortune-Time Global Forum. The Forum brings together Fortune 500 and Time 100 leaders, who were discussing...
Daily Gospel Reflection for December 3, 2016 - St. Francis Xavier
CatholicMom.com - Dec 3, 2016 at 4:30 am
Today’s Gospel: Matthew 9:35B-10:1, 5A, 6-8 – St. Francis Xavier
The Lord wants us to enter the mission fields to compassionately proclaim, “The Kingdom of God is at hand.” Yet...
Ad Orientem - How’s It Going?
New Liturgical Movement - Dec 3, 2016 at 2:53 am Two weeks ago, I received the following message from a priest friend who runs two parishes: “Today was the last Sunday with versus populum Novus Ordo Masses at our parishes...
Reminder: Rorate Caeli Purgatorial Society
Rorate Coeli - Dec 3, 2016 at 2:00 am This is our monthly reminder to please enroll Souls of the Rorate Caeli Purgatorial Society. We now stand at 76 priests saying weekly or monthly traditional Latin Masses for the...
