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Question of the Week: Where Do You Volunteer?
CatholicMom.com - Sep 24, 2016 at 6:00 am
Volunteers: schools, communities and churches can’t get along without them. If there were no volunteers, our parishes would have no catechists, our children’s soccer teams wouldn...
Olivia and the Little Way: A 5-Star Read, Says My Daughter
Snoring Scholar - Sep 24, 2016 at 5:59 am Olivia and the Little Way is a book I read back when Fern was a toddler…and I so enjoyed the fact that she not only whipped through it in a day or two over the summer, but that...
Pope meets with Hospital Sisters of Mercy
News.va - Sep 24, 2016 at 5:35 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Saturday held an audience with the “Hospital Sisters of Mercy,” and encouraged them in their mission despite challenges posed by secular culture....
Card. Toppo will be special Papal envoy to the XI Plenary Assembly of the FABC
News.va - Sep 24, 2016 at 5:35 am (Vatican Radio) The Holy Father has appointed the Card. Telesphore Placidus Toppo, Archbishop of Ranchi (India), as his special envoy to the XI Plenary Assembly of the Federation...
Archbishop Gomez: It's time to end the death penalty
EWTN - US Latest News - Sep 24, 2016 at 5:04 am Los Angeles, Calif., Sep 24, 2016 / 05:04 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Californians should vote for Proposition 62, a ballot measure to end the
death penalty, the Archbishop of Los...
Daily Gospel Reflection for September 24, 2016
CatholicMom.com - Sep 24, 2016 at 4:30 am
Today’s Gospel: Luke 9, 43B-45
Just before this Gospel begins, Peter, James, and John witnessed Jesus cast a demon out of a boy. The day before that, they witnessed the...
BFR1000: Episode 1000
SQPN - Podcast Network - Sep 24, 2016 at 3:30 am
In this 1000th episode of The Break, Father Roderick takes you back to the place where it all began. And he has a special announcement!
The post BFR1000: Episode 1000 appeared...
Catholic event aims to answer 'challenging' sexuality questions with charity
EWTN - US Latest News - Sep 24, 2016 at 1:02 am Phoenix, Ariz., Sep 24, 2016 / 01:02 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
A Catholic-run conference aims to help clergy, lay ministers, and medical and mental health professionals provide better...
Latest St. Thomas-St. John’s clash not all football
Catholic Hot Dish - Sep 24, 2016 at 12:58 am St. Thomas and St. John’s have a college football rivalry at its peak when they take the field Saturday.
Yet, neither the players nor the fans can ignore the somber tone of the St...
“O God, you are so big!” Maronite English liturgical translations: Devastation!
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Sep 24, 2016 at 12:01 am For decades we Latin Church Catholics in the English speaking world suffered from hideous liturgical translations, prepared by ICEL.
Remember what they were like? Here is the...
Protecting Our Addictions
Integrated Catholic Life - Sep 23, 2016 at 11:04 pm Temperance. For older American, that word conjures up images of Carrie Nation shattering bottles of gin to usher in Prohibition. But the word temperance does not mean abstinence...
Daily Catholic Quote — from C. S. Lewis
Integrated Catholic Life - Sep 23, 2016 at 11:02 pm “It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is...
Encountering the Word — Proverbs 17:22
Integrated Catholic Life - Sep 23, 2016 at 11:01 pm A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones.” (Proverbs 17:22) Print this entry
What my stint as a plus-sized model taught me about modesty
Aleteia - Sep 23, 2016 at 11:00 pm During the course of dissertation research that would eventually become my book, Fashioning Fat, it seemed to me that the best way to understand the fashion industry would be to...
A single a phrase helped save my marriage
Aleteia - Sep 23, 2016 at 11:00 pm On paper, Richard Paul Evans seemed like he should be one of the happiest men on earth. A father of five, the wildly successful fiction writer, whose name is often atop the New...
Rabbi Brener’s weapon against the burden of routine
Aleteia - Sep 23, 2016 at 11:00 pm “There’s a first time for everything” says Pynchas Brener, who has been the chief Ashkenazi rabbi of the city of Caracas, Venezuela since 1967. This simple truth, which at first...
In Autumn, the church calendar helps to increase the flame of our faith
Aleteia - Sep 23, 2016 at 11:00 pm The end of September and beginning of October are marked by a series of memorials and commemorations that vividly illustrates the diversity of the universal Church. From the...
Why no one should feel comfortable on election day, or after
Aleteia - Sep 23, 2016 at 11:00 pm We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. —Abraham Lincoln, Second annual message to Congress Each election I walk out of my polling station thinking...
Cruz Endorses Trump So Why are Trump Supporters Attacking Him?
Creative Minority Report - Sep 23, 2016 at 9:25 pm I seriously don't get this. I understand why the #NeverTrumpers are ticked at him. I do. But I don't get why are so many Trump supporters are attacking Ted Cruz on the day he...
Blessed Pope Paul VI on Saint Padre Pio's Example
Big C Catholics - Sep 23, 2016 at 8:14 pm On February 20, 1971, three years after the death of Padre Pio, Pope Paul VI, speaking to the Superiors of the Capuchin Order, said of him:Look what fame he had, what a worldwide...
