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The Los Angeles Times misses wrestler's prayer refrain: 'Christ is in me, I am enough'
GetReligion - Aug 23, 2016 at 8:20 am Does anyone have time for yet another Rio 2016 religion-news post?
One of the responses that your GetReligionistas hear when we criticize the faith-shaped holes in mainstream news...
Judge allows lawsuit against Catholic school by staffer fired over gay union
LifeSiteNews - Aug 23, 2016 at 8:18 am Kate Drumgoole was dismissed after administrators found out about her same-sex union.
Pope wants more lay leadership in Rome, Archbishop Farrell says
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 23, 2016 at 8:11 am "The Holy Father would like to see lay people much more involved in the administration of the Church in Rome," says the newly appointed prefect of the dicastery for Laity, Family...
Pro-Life Activist: “Decapitating Children in Abortion is The Same as ISIS Brutalizing People”
LifeNews.com - Aug 23, 2016 at 8:10 am A liberal news outlet bashed pro-life Liberty Council Chairman Mat Staver this week after he exposed the brutality of abortion by likening it to terrorists.
Staver recently spoke...
Cardinal Burke, in interview, says Pope Francis encouraged his candor
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 23, 2016 at 8:08 am In an interview with the Religion News Service, Cardinal Raymond Burke strongly rejects the notion that he is an opponent of Pope Francis.
China's Catholic population hitting plateau after years of rapid growth
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 23, 2016 at 8:04 am After a period of rapid growth, the Catholic population in China has reached a plateau, and the number of new priestly and religious vocations is dropping, a leading researcher...
Man Who Killed 6 People in Brutal Murders Charged With Killing Pregnant Woman’s Unborn Baby
LifeNews.com - Aug 23, 2016 at 8:03 am A man allegedly responsible for a gruesome mass-murder at a home in Alabama has been charged with killing six people, including a pregnant woman and her unborn child, the AP...
Daily Reading for Thursday, August 25th, 2016 HD
Catholic Online - Featured News - Aug 23, 2016 at 8:00 am Reading 1, First Corinthians 1:1-9
1 Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and Sosthenes, our brother,
2 to the church ...
Papal message thanks Poland's Catholics for World Youth Day welcome
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 23, 2016 at 7:55 am Pope Francis has sent a message to Church leaders in Poland, expressing his gratitude for World Youth Day and "your warm welcome and the zeal with which my visit was prepared."
New Bishop of Memphis appointed by Pope
Catholic Herald - Aug 23, 2016 at 7:41 am Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop J Terry Steib of Memphis, Tennessee, and has appointed as his successor Auxiliary Bishop Martin Holley of Washington.
Bishop...
EF Mass for the Exaltation of the Cross in the Bronx
New Liturgical Movement - Aug 23, 2016 at 7:36 am On September 14, the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, an EF Solemn High Mass will be offered at 7:30 p.m. at Church of the Holy Rosary in Northeast Bronx. This will be...
Don't bring back the death penalty, New Mexico bishops plead
Catholic News Agency - General - Aug 23, 2016 at 7:34 am Albuquerque, N.M., Aug 23, 2016 / 06:34 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Catholic bishops of New Mexico are speaking up against a proposal to reintroduce capital punishment in the state,...
Don't bring back the death penalty, New Mexico bishops plead
EWTN - US Latest News - Aug 23, 2016 at 7:34 am Albuquerque, N.M., Aug 23, 2016 / 07:34 am (EWTN News/CNA).- The Catholic bishops of New Mexico are speaking up against a proposal to
reintroduce capital punishment in the state...
The Time I Told Mother Teresa No
CatholicMom.com - Aug 23, 2016 at 7:00 am Warning: The following story is thoroughly and strangely Catholic. Skeptics forewarned.
By Manfredo Ferrari (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons
My husband and I hoped...
Bishop Holley Goes To Graceland – Pope Taps DC Aux. for Memphis
Whispers in the Loggia - Aug 23, 2016 at 6:07 am As Cardinal Theodore McCarrick gradually returns to kicking after knee-replacement surgery earlier this month, the spoils just keep coming for his onetime top aides.Six days after...
New Mexico’s bishops oppose governor’s plan to reinstate death penalty
Catholic Herald - Aug 23, 2016 at 6:05 am The Catholic bishops of New Mexico in an August 18 statement said they oppose Republican Gov Susana Martinez’s plan to reinstate the death penalty and called on the legislature to...
In Discovery, Most Documents Fail Clergy-Penitent Privilege
The Religion Clause - Aug 23, 2016 at 6:00 am In McFarland v. West Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, Lorain, Ohio, Inc., (OH App., Aug. 22, 2016), an Ohio appeals court affirmed in part and reversed in part a trial court's...
Reflections of Faith: Part Three
CatholicMom.com - Aug 23, 2016 at 6:00 am
Photo via Pixabay (2016), CC0 Public Domain.
Child of faith
One of my favorite lines in the Bible is Luke 18:16. “But Jesus called the children to him and said, “Let the little...
Gates of mercy difficult to enter with bloated pride, pope says
Franciscan Media - Aug 23, 2016 at 6:00 am VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The "narrow
gate" to salvation described by Jesus isn't narrow because God is oppressive,
but because pride bloats Christians and prevents them from entering...
Saint Rose’s Christian Kool-Aid
Dominicana - Aug 23, 2016 at 5:30 am “Don’t drink the kool-aid!” Saint Paul tells us in the Epistle for today’s Mass. He warns the Thessalonians “not to be shaken out of [their] minds suddenly” by doomsday cultists...
