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Patriarch Béchara Raï: about my trip to Saudi Arabia
Vatican Insider - Dec 3, 2017 at 5:09 pm The wars provoked by external agents in Palestine, Iraq and Syria have destroyed us. And now, please spare us the melodrama of the Westerners asking us what can be done to save...
Recent Prisoner Free Exercise Cases
The Religion Clause - Dec 3, 2017 at 2:44 pm In Eckstrom v. Beard, (9th Cir., Nov. 30, 2017), the 9th Circuit affirmed the dismissal of an inmate's claim that the prison's book policy violates his free exercise rights.In ...
St. John Damascene on the Incarnation of Christ
Big C Catholics - Dec 3, 2017 at 2:38 pm Saint John of Damascus or Damascene, the last of the Greek Fathers, was an 8th century theologian and one of the principal defenders of the veneration of images against the...
Suit Challenges Illinois Law Allowing Public Funds to Be Used To Cover Abortions
The Religion Clause - Dec 3, 2017 at 2:26 pm Last week, various Illinois right-to-life groups and several Illinois legislators filed a taxpayer lawsuit in state court challenging House Bill 40 which is scheduled to go into...
Mountaintop Experiences
The Reason for Our Hope - Dec 3, 2017 at 2:17 pm In the Christian’s journey of faith and conversion, there are moments of profound encounter with the Lord. They are often referred to as "mountaintop experiences." Well, we had...
Daily Readings for Monday, December 04, 2017
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 3, 2017 at 2:10 pm Reading 1: Isaiah 2:1-5, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 122:8-9, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 122:1-4, Gospel: Matthew 8:5-11
Prayer of Praise and Thanks: Prayer of the Day for Monday, December 04, 2017
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 3, 2017 at 2:10 pm Blessed are you, Lord God:
Blessed are you for ever.
Holy is your name:
Blessed are you for ever.
Great is your mercy for your people: ...
Immaculate Conception Novena 2017 | Day 6
Big C Catholics - Dec 3, 2017 at 1:00 pm December 4, 2016Today we pray for healing; the healing of our relationships, minds and physical bodies. If you or someone you know is suffering and needs healing, know that many...
A visit from classic MZ: Concerning 2017's sort-of news about anti-Starbucks evangelicals
GetReligion - Dec 3, 2017 at 12:30 pm It's that time of year, again. I know that I keep saying that, but there's no way around it.
It's time for the annual alleged cursing of the Starbucks Holiday cup design.
Once...
Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Advent, December 10, 2017, Year B
Big C Catholics - Dec 3, 2017 at 12:12 pm Fr. Charles IrvinSenior PriestDiocese of Lansing(Click here for today’s readings)Last Sunday we considered the broad sweep of Advent and reminded ourselves that Advent begins with...
Prayer for the Advent Wreath Week Two
Big C Catholics - Dec 3, 2017 at 12:08 pm The lighting of the Advent candles symbolizes the hope that the coming Messiah represents in a world that very often seems dark, forbidding and hopeless. We do so because we are a...
The Milky Way’s Walk
The Catholic Astronomer - Dec 3, 2017 at 12:03 pm Unless we stop to think about it, Earth appears to be standing still. We do not feel our true speed of motion around the Sun of about 67,000 miles per hour. In turn, it is not...
First Sunday of Advent 2017
New Liturgical Movement - Dec 3, 2017 at 11:06 am Indeed, when the most holy Gregory poured forth prayers to the Lord, that he might give him the gift of music for the chants, then the Holy Spirit descended upon him in the...
Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate can't take postulates for 3 years (Discalced Carmelites benefit)
Rorate Coeli - Dec 3, 2017 at 10:28 am The tragic story of Francis' all-but-suppression of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate is well known to our readers. The Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate, we have now...
The Huron Carol reveals God’s name — by getting all the details wrong
Aleteia - Dec 3, 2017 at 10:00 am The song feels like another version of a beloved children’s book -- same plot, different illustrator.The Huron Carol isn’t like other songs which tell the story of the Nativity....
Why do you let us wander, O Lord?
Aleteia - Dec 3, 2017 at 9:27 am Advent Light: December 3, 2017, Day 1Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, with the mountains quaking before you… (Isaiah 63:19) The very first Mass reading for the...
Day 9 - Novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe for a New Culture of Life HD
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 3, 2017 at 9:15 am As we conclude our nine days of prayer, seeking the assistance of Our Lady of Guadalupe, let us ask the Lord of miracles, to bring an end to the ...
Day 8 - Novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe for a New Culture of Life HD
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 3, 2017 at 9:15 am Let us pray daily for Gospel humility �¢���� in our personal lives and in the life of the whole Church of Jesus Christ
Saint John Paul II made his ...
Day 7 - Novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe for a New Culture of Life HD
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 3, 2017 at 9:15 am Let us choose today to take our irreplaceable role in the ongoing struggle to end the culture of death and build a new culture of life.
In the ...
Day 6 - Novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe for a New Culture of Life HD
Catholic Online - Featured News - Dec 3, 2017 at 9:15 am In 1999, after a Synod of Bishops, the late Pope - now Saint issued that apostolic exhortation to the Church in America. We should all read and ...
