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'Beloved' Syria's new cardinal a sign of the Pope's closeness
Catholic News Agency - General - Nov 15, 2016 at 7:08 am Vatican City, Nov 15, 2016 / 06:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin has said that Francis’ decision to give a red hat to the longtime papal...
Bernini statue commissioned by Pope Alexander VII vandalised
Catholic Herald - Nov 15, 2016 at 7:06 am Police in Rome are investigating the apparent vandalism of the famed Elephant and Obelisk statue designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the Piazza della Minerva near the Pantheon in...
Book Notes: The Golden Princess and the Moon
CatholicMom.com - Nov 15, 2016 at 7:00 am
The books that changed me the most are the ones I read when I was young. They were mainly fairy tales. Stories that spoke to me about the greatness of the human heart, the...
Can Small-Scale Illumination Be Adapted for Large-Scale Liturgical Art?
New Liturgical Movement - Nov 15, 2016 at 7:00 am In response to a recent article in which I proposed the English Gothic style of the School of St Albans as a possible model for today, one reader asked what I felt was a...
To Abide in Jesus
Communio - Nov 15, 2016 at 6:48 am One of St. John’s favorite words is the Greek verb menos which is usually translated as “abide” or “remain” or “continue.” He uses this word more than all other New Testament...
Avoid becoming lukewarm Christians, their calm is deceitful and unhappy”
Vatican Insider - Nov 15, 2016 at 6:24 am God constantly seeks to awaken humans from their torpor, from their sleep. He seeks to rouse souls from their comfortable slumber. Christians need to be careful they do not become...
Court Holds Title VII Applies To Sexual Orientation Discrmination
The Religion Clause - Nov 15, 2016 at 6:15 am In U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Scott Medical Health Center, (WD PA, Nov. 4, 2016), a Pennsylvania federal district court held that Title VII's ban on...
Archbishop calls for bishops’ racism statement given election tension
Franciscan Media - Nov 15, 2016 at 6:11 am Atlanta Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, center, and other prelates applaud Nov. 14 after an address by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States, during...
British Court Says Sex Segregated Religious Schools OK Under Equality Act
The Religion Clause - Nov 15, 2016 at 6:10 am In Interim Executive Board of X School v Chief Inspector of Education, Children's Services And Skills, (EWHC (Admin), Nov. 8. 2016), a British trial court held that sex-segregated...
Suit Challenging Social Media Policing of Anti-Islamist Posts Is Dismissed
The Religion Clause - Nov 15, 2016 at 6:05 am In American Freedom Defense Initiative v. Lynch, (D DC, Nov. 9, 2016), the DC. federal district court dismissed a suit against the federal government by two anti-Islamist...
What to Put in the Shoes? A St. Nicholas Day List
CatholicMom.com - Nov 15, 2016 at 6:00 am Copyright 2016 Hannah Christensen. Designed by the author in Canva.
December 6th is always such an exciting day every year. As a child I remember gathering with my siblings the...
2015 Hate Crime Data Released
The Religion Clause - Nov 15, 2016 at 6:00 am Yesterday, the FBI released its report on Hate Crime Statistics 2015. The ADL which follows hate crime data closely has compiled a summary of the new report's findings and of...
Amid racial tensions, US bishops search for healing and peace
EWTN - US Latest News - Nov 15, 2016 at 5:39 am Baltimore, Md., Nov 15, 2016 / 05:39 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Race relations, racism, and violence were on the mind of the United States bishops during their fall general assembly in...
Migrants Council issues Message for Fisheries Day
News.va - Nov 15, 2016 at 5:11 am (Vatican Radio) The Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People has released a Message to mark World Fisheries Day, which is to be celebrated this...
Why It Matters How We Are Buried
Crisis Magazine - Church - Nov 15, 2016 at 5:02 am
The Jesuit retirement home where I have lived almost four years now usually has some seventy or eighty residents, all over seventy, all having already been blessed with many days...
Is Catholic social teaching the change voters want?
EWTN - US Latest News - Nov 15, 2016 at 5:01 am Washington D.C., Nov 15, 2016 / 05:01 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
American voters wanted change, says one third party presidential candidate who believes that Catholic social teaching...
Put Not Your Trust in Princes
Crisis Magazine - Church - Nov 15, 2016 at 4:50 am
Now that the election is over, the nation’s attention turns to the Trump presidency. Leaving the stage is an administration that made it public policy to assault religious...
“Re: Vampires” by John H. Watson, M.D.
Crisis Magazine - Church - Nov 15, 2016 at 4:45 am
NB: The circumstances surrounding my access to this manuscript are of such moment that their publication is impossible. Those involved in that unsavory affair can continue to...
Obama reads a “mean tweet” from Trump. Who’s laughing now?
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Nov 15, 2016 at 4:33 am This is from October, but I am just seeing it now. I thought I’d share.
Arrogance incarnate?
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Daily Gospel Reflection for November 15, 2016
CatholicMom.com - Nov 15, 2016 at 4:30 am
Today’s Gospel: Luke 19, 1-10
I’m often very judgmental when I think of other people acting in a way I feel is unchristian, yet go to church every week. But in church we learn...
