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Vatican family czar: We will develop marriage programs ‘promoting Amoris Laetitia’
LifeSiteNews - Nov 29, 2016 at 8:00 am Implementing the controversial Apostolic Exhortation is a priority for Cardinal Kevin Farrell.
President-Elect Donald Trump Names Pro-Life Rep. Tom Price as HHS Secretary
LifeNews.com - Nov 29, 2016 at 7:44 am President-elect Donald Trump has named yet another pro-life advocate to a key position that would have oversight concerning pro-life policies. Today he named pro-life Congressman...
The Pope has already answered the four cardinals’ questions, says Fr Spadaro
Catholic Herald - Nov 29, 2016 at 7:27 am Fr Antonio Spadaro has said that the questions raised by four cardinals following the publication of Amoris Laetitia, have already been answered.
The editor-in-chief of La...
Pope: Christian humility is the virtue of “the childlike”
News.va - Nov 29, 2016 at 7:09 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis said on Tuesday that true Christian humility is the virtue of the childlike and is never a theatrical humility. His words came at his morning Mass...
Tom Price appointment to head HHS met with pro-life applause
EWTN - US Latest News - Nov 29, 2016 at 7:09 am Washington D.C., Nov 29, 2016 / 07:09 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Pro-life groups praised President-elect Donald Trump's announcement that he would name Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) to be the...
Nigerian Catholics reflect on mercy: God never fails to forgive
Catholic News Agency - General - Nov 29, 2016 at 7:04 am Benin City, Nigeria, Nov 29, 2016 / 06:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- As the Catholic Church’s Year of Mercy came to a close, a gathering of Nigerians took the time to reflect on God’s...
Grief isn't Seasonal, but Advent is the Season for Grief
CatholicMom.com - Nov 29, 2016 at 7:00 am
Photo copyright Brigitte Tohm (2016) via Unsplash, CC0 Public Domain.
Grief isn’t seasonal.
It doesn’t get carted off with rotting pumpkins or brushed aside by the Advent...
The Scandal of the Missing Haloes! A Case of Chronic Halo-tosis?
New Liturgical Movement - Nov 29, 2016 at 7:00 am Observant readers will have noticed that in a recent post, I showed an icon of the Transfiguration in which the three Apostles do not have haloes, both as they are led up to and...
Free Presbyterians vow to protest if Pope visits Northern Ireland
Catholic Herald - Nov 29, 2016 at 6:45 am Leaders of the Free Presbyterian Church in Ireland have vowed to launch protests if the Pope visits Northern Ireland in 2018.
Following reports that during a private meeting...
Please Support Commonweal on #GivingTuesday
Commonweal - Nov 29, 2016 at 6:42 am #GivingTuesday is a national effort to encourage nonprofit donations on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, and I hope you’ll take a moment and support us here at Commonweal.
In...
Canonical trial of accused Guam archbishop has begun, successor reports
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 29, 2016 at 6:40 am Archbishop Anthony Apuron of Agana, Guam, who was suspended after multiple charges of sexual abuse, is now facing a canonical trail in Rome, his designated successor revealed.
Peace Be with You
Franciscan Media - Nov 29, 2016 at 6:32 am Image: Flickr
Peace be within your walls,
and security within your towers.
For the sake of my relatives and friends I will say, “Peace be within you.”
For the sake of the house of...
Cardinals’ questions about Amoris Laetitia already answered: Father Spadaro
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 29, 2016 at 6:30 am The questions submitted by four cardinals about the interpretation of Amoris Laetitia have already been answered, according to Father Antonio Spadaro.
Cardinal Pell defends four cardinals for asking ‘significant’ questions
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 29, 2016 at 6:20 am Cardinal George Pell has come to the support of the four cardinals who have submitted dubia about the interpretation of Amoris Laetitia.
Homework or Cleaning?
Creative Minority Report - Nov 29, 2016 at 6:18 am Yesterday, I told my kids that we were all cleaning after they finished their assignments. Curiously, they all seemed to take a verrrrry long time with their work. Hmmmmmm.Update...
Pope: May Christians have a “childlike” not “theatrical” humility
Vatican Insider - Nov 29, 2016 at 6:17 am “grand”. In his homily for this morning’s mass at St. Martha’s House, Pope Francis recalled that the Lord gives preference to the virtue of humility. But genuine humility, not a...
Four cardinals could be stripped of status for questioning papal document, says Vatican archbishop
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 29, 2016 at 6:06 am The dean of the Roman Rota has said that Pope Francis, if he wanted, could remove four prelates from the College of Cardinals as punishment for submitting and publicizing their...
Nigerian Catholics reflect on mercy: God never fails to forgive
EWTN - World Catholic News - Nov 29, 2016 at 6:04 am Benin City, Nigeria, Nov 29, 2016 / 06:04 am (EWTN News/CNA).- As the Catholic Church's Year of Mercy came to a close, a gathering of
Nigerians took the time to reflect on God's...
The Wonder of Woman
CatholicMom.com - Nov 29, 2016 at 6:00 am
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The height of comic book popularity coincided with the ravages of World War II in which survivors longed for virtue to triumph, and...
Pakistan Sentences 5 To Death In Killing of Christian Couple Over Supposed Qur'an Burning
The Religion Clause - Nov 29, 2016 at 6:00 am Last Wednesday a judge on Pakistan's Anti-Terrorism Court imposed the death sentence on five Muslims for torturing and killing a Christian couple who, it was alleged, had burned...
