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Prayer Corner: September 26, 2016
CatholicMom.com - Sep 26, 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,...
New Guam Law Lifting Abuse Limitation Period Will Likely Force Archdiocese Into Bankruptcy
The Religion Clause - Sep 26, 2016 at 6:00 am AP reports that Guam Governor Eddie Calvo on Friday signed Substitute Bill No. 326-33 (full text) which retroactively eliminates the statute of limitations for civil suits...
The Hidden Life
Integrated Catholic Life - Sep 26, 2016 at 5:38 am When I retired from a public work life, I found a hidden life had many lessons to teach… When I was a new mom, I slipped away for a silent weekend retreat. Before we adjourned on...
Look at me, really
Dominicana - Sep 26, 2016 at 5:30 am Annoyance was the only way to describe it. Day after day this past summer in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, I walked six blocks from our priory to the office where I was...
The new Orthodox-Catholic agreement is a landmark – but there’s a long way to go
Catholic Herald - Sep 26, 2016 at 5:23 am As of last Thursday, the Joint Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church announced that it had reached substantial agreement on the...
Syrian children to unite in prayer for an end to violence
EWTN - World Catholic News - Sep 26, 2016 at 5:17 am Aleppo, Syria, Sep 26, 2016 / 05:17 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Christian and Muslim children of Aleppo, Syria will gather together in
prayer on October 6 to plead for an end to the...
Daily Gospel Reflection for September 26, 2016
CatholicMom.com - Sep 26, 2016 at 4:30 am
Today’s Gospel: Luke 9, 46-50
I have been an overachiever for as long as I can remember. As a child, I almost always excelled in school and I always followed the rules. I did...
Pope backs opposition to Mexico’s same-sex marriage proposal
Catholic Herald - Sep 26, 2016 at 3:44 am Pope Francis has voiced support for Mexican bishops and citizens opposing the Government’s push to legalise same-sex marriage.
At his weekly Sunday blessing, the Pontiff said he...
This priest who was martyred in a concentration camp is now a blessed
EWTN - World Catholic News - Sep 26, 2016 at 3:29 am Würzburg, Germany, Sep 26, 2016 / 03:29 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Fr. Engelmar Unzeitig, a priest of the Mariannhill Mission society who was interred in the Nazi's Dachau concentration...
Third priest in a week found dead in Mexico
Catholic Herald - Sep 26, 2016 at 2:39 am A missing Mexican priest was found shot dead off the side of a highway in western Mexico days after he was kidnapped from his parish residence, state prosecutors said on Sunday....
My College Succumbed to the Totalitarian Diversity Cult
Crisis Magazine - Church - Sep 26, 2016 at 2:35 am
On my way to work at Providence College, I pass by two notable murals painted on concrete retaining walls to edify motorists passing by. One of them is executed in the brightly...
In Search of Joseph Pearce’s England
Crisis Magazine - Church - Sep 26, 2016 at 2:10 am
Be careful what you read—it may change you, for better or worse.
In the case of Joseph Pearce, his early reading made him a violent white supremacist. It also landed him in jail...
Mexico: kidnapped priest found dead
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 26, 2016 at 2:10 am A priest who was abducted last week from his parish in the Mexican state of Michoacan has been found dead of gunshot wounds.
Pope recalls World Day of the Deaf
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 26, 2016 at 1:57 am During his September 25 Angelus address, delivered in St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis recalled that the day was the World Day of the Deaf.
Pope backs Mexican bishops’ defense of life, marriage
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 26, 2016 at 1:46 am On September 25, at the conclusion of Mass in St. Peter’s Square for the jubilee of catechists, Pope Francis delivered a brief Angelus address in which he expressed support of the...
Finding silence in the secular setting
The Catholic Leader - Sep 26, 2016 at 1:00 am SATURDAY-morning breakfast writing club was the closest encounter I have had to a “religious experience” at university. What made this so special was not what people said, rather...
‘Angel of Dachau’ beatified
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 26, 2016 at 12:59 am A German priest known as the “angel of Dachau” was beatified as a martyr in Würzburg, Germany, on September 24.
Focus on the essential message of the faith, Pope tells catechists
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 26, 2016 at 12:36 am Pope Francis celebrated a Mass for the jubilee of catechists on September 25 and encouraged them to focus on the proclamation of the Risen Lord.
Author who claims discrimination by printer refusing to print book accepts decision, says he won’t take action
The Catholic Leader - Sep 26, 2016 at 12:05 am AUSTRALIANS’ right to freedom of speech is on the line, according to Queensland doctor David van Gend, after a commercial printer refused to print his new book on the same-sex...
Pope receives families of victims of terrorist attack in France
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 26, 2016 at 12:04 am Pope Francis met with the relatives of the victims of the July 14 attack in Nice, France, in which Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a Tunisian, drove a truck into a crowd, killing 87...
