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Pope renews appeal for Aleppo
News.va - Sep 28, 2016 at 6:01 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has once again appealed for peace in Syria. At his General Audience on Wednesday, the Pope said, “dramatic news concerning the fate of the people of...
Preliminary Injunction Denied In Challenge To Grants To Churches
The Religion Clause - Sep 28, 2016 at 6:00 am Americans United reported Monday that a Massachusetts state trial court has denied a preliminary injunction in Caplan v. Town of Acton, Massachusetts, a suit challenging the town'...
Jesus Stands On Our Shore
CatholicMom.com - Sep 28, 2016 at 6:00 am Image: by Adrianna Calvo, AdriannaElkPhotography, via Pexels
I just love this gospel passage from John.
So the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord.” – John 21...
Thousands of students, parents ask Supreme Court to protect bathroom privacy
EWTN - US Latest News - Sep 28, 2016 at 5:37 am Washington D.C., Sep 28, 2016 / 05:37 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- More than 8,900 students, parents and school community members are
asking the U.S. Supreme Court to protect a restroom...
God’s mercy overcomes human desperation, Pope Francis says
Catholic News Agency - General - Sep 28, 2016 at 5:34 am Vatican City, Sep 28, 2016 / 04:34 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Wednesday Pope Francis said that Jesus’ salvific mission reaches its culmination on the Cross in his conversation with...
God's mercy overcomes human desperation, Pope Francis says
EWTN - Vatican News - Sep 28, 2016 at 5:34 am Vatican City, Sep 28, 2016 / 05:34 am (EWTN News/CNA).- On Wednesday Pope Francis said that Jesus' salvific mission reaches its
culmination on the Cross in his conversation with...
What’s the Point of a Priest?
Dominicana - Sep 28, 2016 at 5:30 am “Why does it take so long to become a priest?” I get this a lot. Many people seem to think, subconsciously, that a priest is just the guy you call to officiate at your wedding or...
Charity to sell cars used by the Pope to raise funds for Syrian refugees
Catholic Herald - Sep 28, 2016 at 4:59 am Three identical cars that Pope Francis used during his July visit to Poland are being auctioned online by a Catholic Church charity to fund support for Syrian refugees and Polish...
Francis and the good thief, a person who has been sentenced to death is an example to us
Vatican Insider - Sep 28, 2016 at 4:53 am The Church “is not just for the good or for those who appear to be good or believe themselves to be good, the Church is for everyone, preferably also for the bad, because the...
Daily Gospel Reflection for September 28, 2016
CatholicMom.com - Sep 28, 2016 at 4:30 am
Today’s Gospel: Luke 9, 57-52
Today’s reading in Luke seems harsh! We are not to go back, even to bury our dead? This makes me ponder my own past. A past without a clear...
Catechesis at the General Audience: Forgiveness on the Cross
News.va - Sep 28, 2016 at 4:03 am (Vatican Radio) At his General Audience on Wednesday, Pope Francis spoke about “Forgiveness on the Cross.”
Below, please find the English language summary of the Pope’s catechesis...
Dutch cardinal warns Canadian bishops about ‘slippery slope’ of euthanasia
Catholic Herald - Sep 28, 2016 at 4:02 am A Dutch cardinal warned Canadian bishops about the “slippery slope” of euthanasia, which has been legal in the Netherlands since 2002.
At first, only those at end of life with...
This Ohio mystic mentored Mother Angelica. Was she a saint?
Catholic News Agency - General - Sep 28, 2016 at 4:02 am Cleveland, Ohio, Sep 28, 2016 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Rhoda Wise, the mystic visionary and reputed stigmatic and miracle worker who played a key role in the life of Mother...
This Ohio mystic mentored Mother Angelica. Was she a saint?
EWTN - US Latest News - Sep 28, 2016 at 4:02 am Cleveland, Ohio, Sep 28, 2016 / 04:02 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Rhoda Wise, the mystic visionary and reputed stigmatic and miracle
worker who played a key role in the life of Mother...
Francis plays peacemaker for Anglicans
Vatican Insider - Sep 28, 2016 at 3:47 am Pope Francis will be playing the role of Anglican peacemaker when the Archbishop of Canterbury comes to Rome next week. The leader of the Anglican Communion is to be joined by...
California bishops urge voters to reject the death penalty
Catholic Herald - Sep 28, 2016 at 3:45 am The California Catholic bishops are urging voters to support a November ballot initiative that would outlaw the death penalty.
Proposition 62 would replace the maximum punishment...
Vatican: Georgia visit prevents Pope Francis from attending funeral of Shimon Peres
Catholic Herald - Sep 28, 2016 at 3:27 am Pope Francis will reportedly not travel to Israel on Friday to attend the funeral of Shimon Peres, despite an announcement to the contrary by Israel’s Foreign Ministry.
A...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 28/09/16
Catholic Herald - Sep 28, 2016 at 3:13 am Patriarch Louis Sako has appealed to the Kurdistan Regional Government to avoid “infighting”.
Cloistered Carmelite nuns in Chile are locked in a legal battle with a hydroelectric...
The World of Childish Unreality
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Sep 28, 2016 at 2:26 am One of the marks of childishness is the strange conviction that one’s will can really make reality conform merely through ones magical words or actions. So we see the child shut...
A Critical Look at Some Gun Control Proposals
Crisis Magazine - Church - Sep 28, 2016 at 2:20 am
The Missouri legislature recently passed (over a veto) some new gun laws. These laws clear the way for “Constitutional Carry”: anyone legally permitted to own a firearm can now...
