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Communio - Oct 3, 2016 at 7:07 am The month of October is dedicated to the Holy Rosary. It is a profound prayer and a way to drawn closer to Christ by being a child of Mary, the Mother of God. Today, we...
Joy in the Mourning
CatholicMom.com - Oct 3, 2016 at 7:00 am Photo credit: Lisa A. Schmidt. All rights reserved.
My smile is presently bigger as October ushers in many events and celebrations that simply make me happy. But it’s also a...
Looking to Start Conversations or Enrich Catechesis? Check Out These Quotation Sheets
New Liturgical Movement - Oct 3, 2016 at 7:00 am Have you ever wanted a two-page handout with great quotations on various liturgical “hot topics”? Something you could use at a youth group or Juventutem gathering, an RCIA meeting...
Tolerance is good for society, the soul, pope says at Azerbaijani mosque
Franciscan Media - Oct 3, 2016 at 6:14 am Pope Francis walks with Sheik Allahshukur Pashazade, the region’s chief imam, during a meeting with representatives of other religious communities at the Heydar Aliyev mosque in...
Real Politics
Commonweal - Oct 3, 2016 at 6:03 am In 1973, just long enough after Roe v. Wade for the abortion clinics to have opened, a close friend of mine got his girlfriend pregnant and she had an abortion. My friend and his...
Vermont law blasted for pushing doctors to discuss 'benefits' of suicide
EWTN - US Latest News - Oct 3, 2016 at 6:01 am Montpelier, Vt., Oct 3, 2016 / 06:01 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- A medical ethics group and a Christian doctors' group have challenged
Vermont regulators who say that doctors must tell...
Prayer Corner: October 3, 2016
CatholicMom.com - Oct 3, 2016 at 6:00 am
Welcome to the CatholicMom.com Prayer Corner!
In this space, readers are invited to share their prayer intentions and give thanks for prayers answered. When requesting prayer,...
Vatican opens Cause of nun who saw Host turn blood-red
Catholic Herald - Oct 3, 2016 at 5:48 am A London nun who saw the Eucharist turn to bloody flesh in the hands of a priest is to be put on the road to sainthood by Pope Francis.
The Vatican has agreed to open the Cause...
Georgian Catholics started from zero. What's next after the papal visit.
EWTN - World Catholic News - Oct 3, 2016 at 5:05 am Tbilisi, Georgia, Oct 3, 2016 / 05:05 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- The tiny community of the Catholic Church in Georgia was barely surviving just decades ago. Now it has an opportunity to...
Archbishop to public officials: Rely on the Holy Spirit
EWTN - US Latest News - Oct 3, 2016 at 5:02 am Washington D.C., Oct 3, 2016 / 05:02 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Amidst the current environment of "political polarization," one
archbishop exhorted public officials on Sunday not to be...
BFR1001: Designated Survivor
SQPN - Podcast Network - Oct 3, 2016 at 4:55 am
In this episode: 1001 Launch of Trideo EN, a review of Designated Survivor with Kiefer Sutherland, Beatifications and stigmata, Star Trek and Alien Life.
The post BFR1001:...
Pro-life investigators now face a year in jail for exposing Planned Parenthood in California
LifeSiteNews - Oct 3, 2016 at 4:43 am Gov. Jerry Brown signed A.B. 1617 on Friday.
Daily Gospel Reflection for October 3, 2016
CatholicMom.com - Oct 3, 2016 at 4:30 am
Today’s Gospel: Luke 10, 25-37
The text from the Gospel today is, without a doubt, a profound biblical passage for reflection. Its verses present the essential principles of...
Vandal destroys statues in four Roman churches
EWTN - World Catholic News - Oct 3, 2016 at 4:02 am Rome, Italy, Oct 3, 2016 / 04:02 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Italian police have arrested a 39-year-old Ghanaian man who entered several historic churches in central Rome Sept. 30 and...
World Cup 2014 influenced timing of Benedict XVI’s resignation, says aide
Catholic Herald - Oct 3, 2016 at 3:58 am The long-time personal aide to Benedict XVI has said the retired pope had hoped to stay in the papacy until 2014 but resigned a year earlier because of the World Cup.
Mgr Georg...
Normandy church where Fr Hamel was murdered by ISIS reopens
Catholic Herald - Oct 3, 2016 at 3:02 am The Normandy church where Islamic extremists cut a priest’s throat and used nuns as human shields reopened on Sunday for the first time since the attack, with a special cleansing...
Europe’s neglect of immigrants’ religiousness
Vatican Insider - Oct 3, 2016 at 3:00 am Francis reminded a desolate Europe, wounded by a spiritual and moral crisis, threatened by widespread individualism and overwhelmed by a mass influx of migrants, that “the roots...
Three cardinals sign statement defending magisterial teaching on the sacraments
Catholic Herald - Oct 3, 2016 at 2:52 am Six bishops, three of them cardinals, have signed a statement reaffirming the Church’s teachings on marriage and morality.
The Declaration of Fidelity to the Church’s Unchangeable...
How to Curtail Judicial Activism
Crisis Magazine - Church - Oct 3, 2016 at 2:15 am
I hear frequently in this year’s election campaign that Supreme Court appointments should be the key consideration in the choice between the presidential candidates. That’s...
Mercy: A Call to Repentance
Crisis Magazine - Church - Oct 3, 2016 at 2:10 am
As the Year of Mercy nears completion, I find myself bewildered by mercy’s many faces. I have listened to nearly a year’s worth of homilies and proclamations exhorting me to a...
