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Beatification Process For Father Hamel Fast-Tracked
Big C Catholics - Oct 4, 2016 at 8:08 am Pope Francis has authorized the Archdiocese of Rouen, Rev. Dominique Lebrun, to begin investigating a cause for the beatification of Father Jacques Hamel, the French priest killed...
Jesuits begin process to choose new superior
Catholic Herald - Oct 4, 2016 at 7:53 am Jesuits gathered in Rome to elect a new superior general were invited to draw on “the audacity of the improbable” during a Mass to open their general congregation.
The order’s...
Pope Francis' prayer intention for October is for Journalists
News.va - Oct 4, 2016 at 7:32 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has released his videomessage accompanying his monthly prayer intention for October. This month’s intention is for Journalists: That journalists, in...
St Francis of Assisi
Communio - Oct 4, 2016 at 7:17 am Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Mother Earth,who sustains us and governs us and who producesvaried fruits with colored flowers and herbs.
Praised be You, my Lord,through...
How to live out the Year of Mercy, according to this English bishop
EWTN - World Catholic News - Oct 4, 2016 at 7:17 am Brighton, U.K., Oct 4, 2016 / 07:17 am (EWTN News/CNA).- What is the proper Catholic response to the Jubilee Year of Mercy? Put simply, the answer is "action," Bishop Richard Moth...
How to live out the Year of Mercy, according to this English bishop
Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 4, 2016 at 7:17 am Brighton, U.K., Oct 4, 2016 / 06:17 am (CNA/EWTN News).- What is the proper Catholic response to the Jubilee Year of Mercy? Put simply, the answer is “action,” Bishop Richard Moth...
Pope visits earthquake-devastated town of Amatrice on feast of St. Francis
Aleteia - Oct 4, 2016 at 7:05 am VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis made a surprise visit to the earthquake-devastated town of Amatrice this morning, to pray with the residents on the feast day of his namesake, St....
US Supreme Court and states to revisit use of death penalty
Catholic Herald - Oct 4, 2016 at 7:04 am The United States, with its mixed record on the death penalty, is about to take a closer look at the issue this autumn with two cases before the Supreme Court and three...
Dear Self: How Holy Are You? How to Be Holy in One Not So Easy Step
CatholicMom.com - Oct 4, 2016 at 7:00 am
What does it mean to be holy? And how do we become holy?
These two questions burned in my mind for years as I moved from agnosticism to fundamentalist Protestantism, then home to...
A New Interview with Card. Sarah on Catholic World Report
New Liturgical Movement - Oct 4, 2016 at 7:00 am Robert Cardinal Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, recently gave an interview to the French newspaper La Nef, regarding...
A new, friendly bishop in Virginia -- and a loss of influence for Cardinal Wuerl?
Rorate Coeli - Oct 4, 2016 at 6:53 am For over a year, our readers in the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, where the traditional Latin Mass has flourished under Summorum Pontificum, have anxiously awaited the...
Dioceses of Anchorage, Arlington get new bishops from Pope Francis
Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 4, 2016 at 6:16 am Vatican City, Oct 4, 2016 / 05:16 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis has tapped two active bishops to head new dioceses, naming Bishop Paul D. Etienne of Cheyenne as the new...
Dioceses of Anchorage, Arlington get new bishops from Pope Francis
EWTN - Vatican News - Oct 4, 2016 at 6:16 am Vatican City, Oct 4, 2016 / 06:16 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
Pope Francis has tapped two active bishops to head new dioceses, naming Bishop Paul D. Etienne of Cheyenne as the new...
Pope names successor to retiring Alaska archbishop
Catholic Herald - Oct 4, 2016 at 6:15 am Pope Francis accepts the resignation of Archbishop Roger Schwietz of Anchorage, Alaska, and appointed Bishop Paul Etienne of Cheyenne, Wyoming, to be his successor.
Pope Francis...
Gay, transgender people deserve pastoral care, pope says
Franciscan Media - Oct 4, 2016 at 6:13 am Jaeynes Childers and Maria Balata, members of the Chicago Archdiocesan Gay and Lesbian Outreach, hold hands at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church June 19. (CNS photo/Karen Callaway,...
Irish archbishop: seek Pope Francis' 'revolution of tenderness', not legal abortion
EWTN - World Catholic News - Oct 4, 2016 at 6:09 am Dublin, Ireland, Oct 4, 2016 / 06:09 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- For Ireland's leading archbishop, Pope Francis' call for a "revolution of tenderness" is a ch
Total Upgrade: Gas Cubby is Finally Here!
CatholicMom.com - Oct 4, 2016 at 6:00 am
It has been almost three years since Fuelly bought the Gas Cubby app. Gas Cubby was one of the first apps I purchased when I got my iPod Touch, and I really wanted Fuelly to do...
New regulations will ‘enlarge Chinese government’s power over religions’, experts warn
Catholic Herald - Oct 4, 2016 at 5:47 am Catholic experts warned that new rules on religion in China could severely hamper the Church’s work by curbing its foreign contacts and imposing heavy penalties for unauthorised...
ASK FATHER: Do I have to confess everything if people might overhear?
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Oct 4, 2016 at 5:00 am From a reader…
Hi Fr. X: [I’m sorry. Fr. X is not available right now. May I be of help?]
I have a question for an Unreconstructed Ossified Manualist. [You’ve come to the right...
Pope visits Italy’s earthquake-hit areas: “I didn’t want to be a bother”
Vatican Insider - Oct 4, 2016 at 4:33 am “I didn’t come before because I didn’t want to be a bother, but from the first moment, I felt that I needed to come to you,” Pope Francis pronounced these words from a small...
