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Encountering the Word — John 21:7
Integrated Catholic Life - Sep 25, 2016 at 11:01 pm A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “That disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, ‘It is the Lord!’ When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his clothes, for he was...
Hollywood star Loretta Young rebelled against studio pressure to have abortion
Aleteia - Sep 25, 2016 at 11:00 pm Classic Hollywood star Loretta Young led a successful acting career from 1917-1961, earning two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her achievements in film and television....
How Pope Francis challenged us in Philly: Looking back, one year later
Aleteia - Sep 25, 2016 at 11:00 pm It’s been a year since Pope Francis visited the United States. In the run-up to the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia he was primarily coming here for, I had the joy of...
God and the harvest
Aleteia - Sep 25, 2016 at 11:00 pm Her small, soft hand plunged into the soil. Deep into it. Dark, rich and loamy, she almost couldn’t help herself. And as my instinct was to stop my exuberant 7-year-old daughter...
Now is the time to rally around Pope Francis
Aleteia - Sep 25, 2016 at 11:00 pm My book, What Pope Francis Really Said, has started shipping and not a moment too soon, it seems. The book defends Pope Francis at a time when a lot depends on defending him. The...
5 Surprisingly simple tips to make your children more creative
Aleteia - Sep 25, 2016 at 11:00 pm Psychologists and child development experts suggest tempering our parental anxieties and excessive attentions, and allowing children to discover for themselves what really...
Feast for the eyes: Coldplay’s latest video is a surreal fantasy
Aleteia - Sep 25, 2016 at 11:00 pm Up&Up is the third single from Coldplay’s acclaimed new album, A Head Full of Dreams, which, to many fans’ disappointment, is quite possibly the band’s last, as frontman Chris...
What my dying friend is teaching everyone around her about faith
Aleteia - Sep 25, 2016 at 11:00 pm A woman diagnosed with the return of cancer, this time at stage four, comes every week for choir practice. When she told me of her diagnosis, I wanted to weep for her, but...
WATCH: Puerto Rico’s most vulnerable children find a mother figure in Melva Arbelo Mangual
Aleteia - Sep 25, 2016 at 11:00 pm For her work of extending God’s love to vulnerable and abused children, Melva Arbelo Mangual is Catholic Extension’s 2016–2017 recipient of the Lumen Christi Award. She is the ...
Want Hope? Check out the Sisters of Life Postulants
Creative Minority Report - Sep 25, 2016 at 9:37 pm On September 10th, the Sisters of Life family grew! With great joy, they welcomed fifteen new postulants, along with their families. They hail from every corner of the country,...
How do we bring people back to the Church? Focus on teenagers
The Catholic Leader - Sep 25, 2016 at 7:30 pm YOUTH minister Steve Allgeyer is convinced the Catholic Church will “come alive” if parishes put more energy into reaching teenagers.Mr Allgeyer is the vice-president of ministry...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 26/09/16
Catholic Herald - Sep 25, 2016 at 6:01 pm Time spent helping others “is time given to Jesus”, the Pope said at a Mass for the Jubilee of Catechists on Sunday (full text, full video).
“You can respond to the assaults of...
“God is proclaimed through the love and encounter between persons”
Vatican Insider - Sep 25, 2016 at 5:56 pm In the homily pronounced on the occasion of the Jubilee of Catechists on Sunday 25 September, Francis underlined once again what it means to announce the Gospel in a post-...
Our elders are lonely – do we care?
Catholic News Agency - General - Sep 25, 2016 at 5:02 pm Denver, Colo., Sep 25, 2016 / 04:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- It was August in Rome, the dog days of summer, and most people had left the Eternal City for the beach or another summer...
Novena to Saint Thérèse of Lisieux 2016 | Day 5
Big C Catholics - Sep 25, 2016 at 4:52 pm September 26, 2016Saint Therese of Lisieux, you said that you would spend your time in heaven doing good on earth.Your trust in God was complete. Pray that He may increase my...
Optional Memorial of Sts. Cosmas and Damian, Martyrs
Big C Catholics - Sep 25, 2016 at 4:34 pm Beheading Of Saint Cosmas And Saint Damian, Fra Angelico, c. 1439.September 26th, is the feast of Saints Cosmas and Damian, 3rd century martyrs, and brothers born in Arabia, who...
Sts. Cosmas & Damian: Saint of the Day for Monday, September 26, 2016
Catholic Online - Featured News - Sep 25, 2016 at 4:02 pm Sts. Cosmas and Damian were brothers, born in Arabia, who had become eminent for their skill in the science of medicine. Being Christians, they were ...
Daily Readings for Monday, September 26, 2016
Catholic Online - Featured News - Sep 25, 2016 at 4:02 pm Reading 1: Job 1:6-22, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 17:6-7, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 17:1-3, Gospel: Luke 9:46-50
Rite of Exorcism: Prayer of the Day for Monday, September 26, 2016
Catholic Online - Featured News - Sep 25, 2016 at 4:02 pm The priest delegated by the Ordinary to perform this office should first go to confession or at least elicit an act of contrition, and, if ...
Saint Firmin, Bishop and Martyr
Regina Magazine - Sep 25, 2016 at 3:43 pm September 25 Today is the feast day of Saint Firmin. Ora pro nobis. Saint Firmin was the son of a senator and a native of Pampeluna in Navarre. With his father he was taught the...
