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CU 324: We Tip Our Hats To You.

Catholic Underground - Oct 2, 2016 at 11:43 pm
This week we're back and dealing with email, bringing back nice, and what's with all the kids leaving the Church? All this and our picks of the week! The post CU 324: We Tip Our...

Pope waives five-year rule for inquiry into possible sainthood for Father Hamel

Aleteia - Oct 2, 2016 at 11:07 pm
Pope Francis has invoked a rarely-used exemption and waived the five-year waiting period before a cause for beatification can be initiated in the case of Father Jacques Hamel. He...

Once Upon a Day of Prayer | Rediscovering St. Thérèse

Integrated Catholic Life - Oct 2, 2016 at 11:04 pm
A Reflection on the Little Way of St. Thérèse Every month each Carmelite Sister steps aside from her daily service to God’s people and makes a one-day spiritual retreat. To most...

‘I talk to God. How come he never talks back?’

Aleteia - Oct 2, 2016 at 11:00 pm
  She’s all grown up now, but I still remember when my oldest daughter was a little girl lying in the littlest bed in the littlest room of our first little home in Falls Church,...

When you’re hurt too badly to pray, let the Spirit do the groaning

Aleteia - Oct 2, 2016 at 11:00 pm
42) Ask the Holy Spirit to groan for you when you cannot bring yourself to pray for someone who has done you an injury. — 56 Ways to Be Merciful During the Jubilee Year of Mercy...

Sammy Basso: The contagious strength to live despite premature aging syndrome

Aleteia - Oct 2, 2016 at 11:00 pm
Sammy Basso is almost 21 years old and is the longest-living of approximately one hundred young people in the world affected by Progeria (also known as Hutchinson-Gilford progeria...

Catholic and Orthodox find common ground in early Church understanding

Aleteia - Oct 2, 2016 at 11:00 pm
The group of scholars and Church leaders trying to forge a way towards the restoration of full communion between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches has come to a common ...

For Those Who Feel Stuck

Aleteia - Oct 2, 2016 at 11:00 pm
God always has our greatest good in mind. We may not always understand His path, but we’re called to trust. High on the mountain, tossed to the seas, I am remembered, You are for...

The last nine Hyeronimite Monks

Aleteia - Oct 2, 2016 at 11:00 pm
Before the Spanish Civil War, in the 19th century, the Order of Saint Jerome — the Hyeronimites, then numbered in the hundreds — was suppressed, and their properties — monasteries...

Open letter from a priest to a porn star: I understand your suffering

Aleteia - Oct 2, 2016 at 11:00 pm
Dear Amarna, Allow me to introduce myself: My name is Patxi Bronchalo, and I’m a priest—a small town priest. One of those whom you call “guardians of morality” (it sounds like we’...

What Pope Benedict XVI thinks we should wish for

Aleteia - Oct 2, 2016 at 11:00 pm
For a moment he was quiet. The small, slightly stooped figure in white with a shock of like-colored hair pouring out from under his zucchetto remained still. Standing in this...

How I learned white people are colored people too

Aleteia - Oct 2, 2016 at 11:00 pm
I’ll get to the title. But for now, start here: “White people make up roughly 62 percent of the U.S. population but only about 49 percent of those who are killed by police...

Dem: Chick-Fil-A Just Like Planned Parenthood

Creative Minority Report - Oct 2, 2016 at 10:11 pm
Speaking about Chick-fiil-A being the site of a voter registration drive, Susan McGrath, leader of the Stonewall Democrats and head of the Pinellas Democratic Party, reportedly...

Article on Covenant Appears

The Sacred Page - Oct 2, 2016 at 8:05 pm
My bibliographic article on the term "covenant" (Heb berith, Gk diatheke) has just appeared in the online publication, Oxford Bibliographies, from Oxford University Press.  The...

St. Ewald & Ewald: Saint of the Day for Monday, October 03, 2016

Catholic Online - Featured News - Oct 2, 2016 at 8:02 pm
Martyred Northumbrian brothers, one called "the Fair" and one called "the Dark", companions of St. Willibrord. From Northumbria, they were educated ...

Daily Readings for Monday, October 03, 2016

Catholic Online - Featured News - Oct 2, 2016 at 8:02 pm
Reading 1: Galatians 1:6-12, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 111:7-10, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 111:1-2, Gospel: Luke 10:25-37

Memore to St. Joseph: Prayer of the Day for Monday, October 03, 2016

Catholic Online - Featured News - Oct 2, 2016 at 8:02 pm
Remember, O most chaste Spouse of the Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who implored your help and sought your intercession was left ...

Full text: Pope Francis' in-flight press conference from Azerbaijan

Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 2, 2016 at 7:08 pm
Aboard the papal plane, Oct 2, 2016 / 06:08 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- During his flight from Baku, Azerbaijan to Rome on Sunday, Pope Francis gave a press conference to the journalists...

Morning Catholic must-reads: 03/10/16

Catholic Herald - Oct 2, 2016 at 6:01 pm
Pope Francis has given the green light to the Cause of Fr Jacques Hamel. The church where Fr Hamel was murdered reopened on Sunday (photos). Pope Francis has told Chaldean...

A cunning plan? Thousands of fraudulent ballots found! Guess for which party?

What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Oct 2, 2016 at 5:20 pm
Here is an interesting chess game being waged over the future of the nation. From Pamela Geller: “Tens of thousands” of fraudulent Clinton votes found in Ohio warehouse UPDATE:...
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