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This Week’s Connecting the Dots Bonanza!
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 3, 2016 at 1:16 am On Monday, Sherry Antonetti and I talked about family shenanigans and the theology of waiting around: On Tuesday, Michael Lichens and I discussed the cardinal and theological...
Over at Catholic Weekly…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 3, 2016 at 1:13 am …we are starting to discuss parables.
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Why the New Prolife Movement Actually Exists
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 3, 2016 at 1:00 am Austin Ruse wrote a hatchet piece on the NPLM a few days ago. Rebecca Bratten Weiss and Matthew Tyson reply. Very briefly. The New Prolife Movement exists because the leaders of...
Saints of the Old Testament: St. Sophonias
Rorate Coeli - Dec 3, 2016 at 12:29 am King Josias obeys the Holy Spirit's prompting to purge the land of false religion
Only two days after the commemoration of the prophet St. Naum, the traditional Roman Martyrology...
ADVENTCAzT 07: ‘If only things were different…”
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 3, 2016 at 12:29 am Here is ADVENTCAzT 07, for Saturday in the 1st Week of Advent.
These 5 minute offerings, to help you prepare for the upcoming feast as well as for your own, personal, meeting with...
Is Advent a Penitential Season? Busting a Common Myth
ChurchPOP - Dec 3, 2016 at 12:03 am Lent and Advent seem to have a lot in common: they both have violet as their liturgical color and they are both
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The Fast Comes Before the Feast
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 2, 2016 at 11:04 pm Christmas cards speak about it. Christmas carols sing about it. Even the angels at Bethlehem proclaimed it. “Peace on earth.” “The lion shall lie down with the lamb.” (Is 11...
Rohingya: The next ethnic cleansing you’re not hearing about
Aleteia - Dec 2, 2016 at 11:00 pm Is ethnic cleansing in progress right under everyone’s nose? Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan aims to find out today as he heads to Myanmar. Myanmar’s leader, Nobel Peace...
In her last interview, Florence Henderson reflected on the role of her life, Carol Brady
Aleteia - Dec 2, 2016 at 11:00 pm To hear of strong Catholic faith as the foundation of any actor’s life is noteworthy. When it’s a beloved American icon such as Florence Henderson, from one of the most popular TV...
“Believe,” an old-fashioned Christmas movie for a world so in need of one
Aleteia - Dec 2, 2016 at 11:00 pm It is generally accepted that the first Christmas movie ever made was the 1898 short film, Santa Claus, which, naturally enough, chronicled the visit of good Saint Nick to two...
This is not a camera trick: Artist performs Jack Johnson’s “Upside Down” upside down
Aleteia - Dec 2, 2016 at 11:00 pm Luca Fiore, the uber-talented guitarist (who holds the London GIGS Championship title to prove it), recently premiered his latest video: a cover of Jack Johnson’s “Upside Down.”...
Struggling with Advent? Maybe you’re doing it wrong!
Aleteia - Dec 2, 2016 at 11:00 pm “John the Baptist appeared, preaching in the desert of Judea and saying, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!… Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore...
When religion (Pope Francis) met science (Stephen Hawking)
Aleteia - Dec 2, 2016 at 11:00 pm [A surprising encounter took place between the pope, who holds that God’s mercy is infinite, and a scientist who rejects the existence of God due to the infinity of the Universe....
“Computer geek” takes one more step toward sainthood
Aleteia - Dec 2, 2016 at 11:00 pm On Thursday, November 24, 2016, Cardinal Angelo Scola closed the diocesesan phase in the canonization process for Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old Italian boy who died in 2006 of...
Gathering with the Orthodox for the Feast of St. Andrew
Cardinal Seán's Blog - Dec 2, 2016 at 8:09 pm Hello and welcome!
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
I was very happy to be able to spend Thanksgiving with my family in Miami.
And, of course, it was the day after...
Saint Bibiana, Virgin and Martyr
Regina Magazine - Dec 2, 2016 at 6:41 pm December 2 Today is the feast day of Saint Bibiana. Ora pro nobis. Father Francis Xavier Weninger, 1876 In the fourth century, there lived at Rome a virgin celebrated among the...
Saint Francis Xavier — His Wisdom in 10 Quotations
Big C Catholics - Dec 2, 2016 at 5:52 pm In Thee, O Lord, have I put my hope. Let me never be confounded
*** It is not the actual physical exertion that counts towards one’s progress, nor the nature of the task, but by...
Dear Patheos: Please never allow this obscenity on my page
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 2, 2016 at 5:16 pm We’ll be in for a lot of this Caesar-worshipping blasphemy now
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France Threatens Free Speech, Votes to Shuts Down “Misleading” Pro-Life Web Sites
LifeNews.com - Dec 2, 2016 at 5:05 pm Lawmakers in France have voted to ban supposedly “misleading” pro-life web sites.
From a European news web site:
After a heated debate, the French National Assembly has passed a...
The Truth: Women in China are Pressured to Abort or Abandon Their Babies
LifeNews.com - Dec 2, 2016 at 4:51 pm An article came out in the Washington Post yesterday entitled, “Researchers may have ‘found’ many of China’s 30 million missing girls.” The researchers – John Kennedy of the...
