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#GivingTuesday and You
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Nov 29, 2016 at 5:00 am Some are calling today #GivingTuesday
May I suggest two good options?
First, the Tridentine Mass Society of the Diocese of Madison, of which I am President, has been doing great...
Some Catholics are ‘unnerved’ by current events in the Church, says Cardinal Pell
Catholic Herald - Nov 29, 2016 at 4:58 am Cardinal George Pell has said that “a number of regularly worshipping Catholics” are “unnerved by the turn of events” in the Church.
In a talk at St Patrick’s Church, London,...
Pope Francis meets Stephen Hawking at Vatican science conference
Catholic Herald - Nov 29, 2016 at 4:42 am Pope addressed experts, including Prof Stephen Hawking, at a session of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (November 25-29) convened to discuss the impact of scientific knowledge...
Daily Gospel Reflection for November 29, 2016
CatholicMom.com - Nov 29, 2016 at 4:30 am
Today’s Gospel: Luke 1, 21-24
In this passage, I imagine Jesus sitting on a big rock next to a lake, surrounded by the Apostles, His simple, poor, fishermen friends. I can just...
“World Day of the Poor, a gesture for all”
Vatican Insider - Nov 29, 2016 at 4:30 am Not many get to launch an idea which then appears in black and white in a Pope’s Apostolic Letter. But Etienne Villemain invites us to look beyond: “I don’t think it was a...
Follow drug supply chains to corrupt banks, says Pope
Catholic Herald - Nov 29, 2016 at 4:20 am Pope Francis has condemned the corruption and incompetence that trap many innocent people in drug addiction.
The “vast, powerful networks” behind the drug trade kill not only...
Albanian artist builds Mother Teresa mosaic with staples
Catholic Herald - Nov 29, 2016 at 3:21 am An Albanian artist on Monday unveiled a portrait of Mother Teresa using staples, in a call for European countries to stop raising fences to shut their borders to refugees.
Built...
Miami archbishop recalls persecution of Catholics in Castro’s Cuba
Catholic Herald - Nov 29, 2016 at 3:20 am The Archbishop of Miami has recalled the suffering of persecuted Catholics in Cuba following the death of Fidel Castro.
On the day the news of Fidel Castro’s death spread,...
Mexican archdiocese: families afraid to report kidnappings
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 29, 2016 at 3:14 am The Archdiocese of Guadalajara, Mexico, has cancelled a program that registered the names of suspected kidnapping victims, explaining that families were afraid to provide personal...
Pope: ‘Grace, not money, must guide financial choices of religious’
Catholic Herald - Nov 29, 2016 at 3:10 am Just as “the habit does not make the monk,” taking a vow of poverty does not automatically mean a consecrated person lives with a detachment from material things, Pope Francis...
San Diego’s Bishop McElroy strongly encourages Communion for divorced/remarried
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 29, 2016 at 3:07 am Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego, California, has asked his priests to encourage Catholics who are divorced and remarried to consider whether “God is calling them to return to...
Catholic leaders in Holy Land pray for those hit by wildfires
Catholic Herald - Nov 29, 2016 at 2:44 am Catholic leaders in the Holy Land expressed solidarity with those affected by regional wildfires, which continued to burn after five days.
“We thank God for the fact that the...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 29/11/16
Catholic Herald - Nov 29, 2016 at 2:38 am Physicist Stephen Hawking met Pope Francis at a scientific gathering at the Vatican yesterday (video, full text).
A priest in Aleppo has asked his “powerless and fearful” flock to...
The Enemy That Won’t Be Named
Crisis Magazine - Church - Nov 29, 2016 at 2:10 am
Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, chosen by president-elect Trump to be national security adviser, again finds himself in the crosshairs of liberal ire. This time for calling Islam...
How the Catholic Church in Australia aims to enhance anti-abuse efforts
EWTN - World Catholic News - Nov 29, 2016 at 2:08 am Sydney, Australia, Nov 29, 2016 / 02:08 am (EWTN News/CNA).- In Australia, the Catholic Church has established a new independent non-profit to protect children and vulnerable...
What the Anointing of the Sick Is and Isn’t
Crisis Magazine - Church - Nov 29, 2016 at 2:00 am
In his article in Crisis, “The Anointing of the Healthy?,” Kevin T. DiCamillo contrasted a pre-Vatican II understanding of the sacrament of Extreme Unction with the rite now...
A couple of days ago I was being chewed out for praying for Castro because he was a butcher
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Nov 29, 2016 at 1:49 am It seems Trump called him a butcher too and that means I’m associated with Trump and since Trump is the locus of all evil in the universe I now have Trump cooties. Meh. Castro...
A reader has a Question about Hell
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Nov 29, 2016 at 1:42 am She writes: My brother is still struggling with belief in God, and one thing he said to me that I had trouble answering was “God creates us without our consent, and then we have...
How the Catholic Church in Australia aims to enhance anti-abuse efforts
Catholic News Agency - General - Nov 29, 2016 at 1:08 am Sydney, Australia, Nov 29, 2016 / 12:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In Australia, the Catholic Church has established a new independent non-profit to protect children and vulnerable...
Bad Lip Reading of Empire Strikes Back
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Nov 29, 2016 at 1:04 am I love these things:
