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Daily Gospel Reflection for September 27, 2016 - St. Vincent de Paul
CatholicMom.com - Sep 27, 2016 at 4:30 am
Today’s Gospel: Luke 9, 51-56 – St. Vincent de Paul
In today’s reading, the Samaritans “would not receive [Jesus], because his face was set toward Jerusalem.” Jesus didn’t look...
Colombian peace agreement is start of change, says Vatican official
Catholic Herald - Sep 27, 2016 at 4:17 am An agreement to end Latin America’s last armed conflict is the start of a process of positive change for Colombia, Cardinal Pietro Parolin said hours before the government and...
A priest and his love for Syrian refugees
Catholic News Agency - General - Sep 27, 2016 at 4:11 am Los Angeles, Calif., Sep 27, 2016 / 03:11 am (CNA).- The needs of Father David Bedrossian’s parish are unique.
While many priests grapple with budgetary concerns and a desire to...
Catholic Church in Mexico alleges smear campaign against three murdered priests
Catholic Herald - Sep 27, 2016 at 3:41 am Mexico’s Roman Catholic Church on Monday harshly criticised what it called a campaign to smear three priests murdered in less than a week by suggesting the victims had been...
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Pope Francis: Feeling hopeless? Don't drink - pray!
EWTN - Vatican News - Sep 27, 2016 at 3:32 am Vatican City, Sep 27, 2016 / 03:32 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Feelings of spiritual desolation, or a lack of will to live, should be
combated with prayer, not with sleeping pills or...
Scorsese’s Jesuit epic gets December US release
Catholic Herald - Sep 27, 2016 at 3:17 am Martin Scorsese’s Silence, a historical drama about faith in feudal Japan, will open in time to qualify for the Academy Awards.
Paramount Pictures said on Monday that Silence will...
The Darwinism of Hollywood Filmmakers
Crisis Magazine - Church - Sep 27, 2016 at 3:10 am
HBO’s animal rights documentary Unlocking the Cage, now playing in art theaters across the country, is a signature piece for the respected cable outlet. Although it is not the...
“Where Do You Get Your News?”
Crisis Magazine - Church - Sep 27, 2016 at 3:00 am
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
∼ T.S. Eliot, Choruses from the Rock
A little over a decade ago, I sat behind...
Benedictine abbot was at Arnold Palmer’s bedside when he died
Catholic Herald - Sep 27, 2016 at 2:45 am Benedictine Archabbot Douglas Nowicki of St Vincent’s Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, was with Arnold Palmer when the golfing great died on September 25 in Pittsburgh.
It wasn...
John Oliver Does an Excellent Job…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Sep 27, 2016 at 2:42 am …of cutting through the impenetrable haze of scandals and explaining what they are about and tu quoque fallacies and moral equivalency argument really just don’t cut the mustard:
Morning Catholic must-reads: 27/09/16
Catholic Herald - Sep 27, 2016 at 2:35 am Colombia’s historic peace deal is only the “beginning of a still open process of change”, Vatican Cardinal Pietro Parolin has said at a Mass in Cartagena.
The conflict in Aleppo...
Trump and the Pro-life Right
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Sep 27, 2016 at 2:34 am Podcaster speaks common sense to prolife people about why support for Trump is a catastrophically bad move for the prolife movement. It will, if experience means anything, be...
Cardinal Parolin, in Colombia, welcomes peace accord
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 27, 2016 at 1:49 am As the Colombian government and rebels and representatives of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army signed an accord to end their 52-year conflict, the Vatican’...
For the Council of Cardinals, curia reform is an experiment in flexibility
Catholic News Agency - General - Sep 27, 2016 at 1:08 am Vatican City, Sep 27, 2016 / 12:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- How does Pope Francis carry forward the reform of the Roman Curia? Gradually, step by step, by trial and error, according...
For the Council of Cardinals, curia reform is an experiment in flexibility
EWTN - Vatican News - Sep 27, 2016 at 1:08 am Vatican City, Sep 27, 2016 / 01:08 am (EWTN News/CNA).- How does Pope Francis carry forward the reform of the Roman Curia? Gradually, step by step, by trial and error, according...
Mexico: smear campaign alleged against murdered priests
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 27, 2016 at 12:49 am A spokesman for the Archdiocese of Mexico City said that state governments have engaged in a smear campaign against three recently murdered priests.
Catholic Charities urges Senate to address Flint lead contamination
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 27, 2016 at 12:22 am Sister Donna Markham, the president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, has called upon the Senate to address ongoing lead contamination in Flint, Michigan.
Catholic school sued for not permitting same-sex dance date
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 27, 2016 at 12:03 am A former student of a Catholic high school in Memphis has filed a $1-million suit because the school’s principal told him he could not bring a date of the same sex to a dance.
St. Vincent de Paul and the Tricky Balance Between Frugality and Charity
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Sep 27, 2016 at 12:00 am Today is the feast of St. Vincent de Paul, a man known for his extraordinary service. Ellyn von Huben examines how he uniquely balanced the demands of frugality and charity.
