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On Royal Pilgrimage
Crisis Magazine - Church - Aug 23, 2016 at 5:20 am
The hour was early and the season summer. In the brightness of the morning air, and with the silence of the city streets all around, I set out.
In this Year of Mercy, I was on...
I was snobbish about Mrs Brown’s Boys, until I watched it
Catholic Herald - Aug 23, 2016 at 5:16 am I have been a tremendous snob about the Irish comedy programme shown on BBC television, Mrs Brown’s Boys, which has been voted the best British sitcom of the 21st century. Ghastly...
Personal Identity is Not Chosen
Crisis Magazine - Church - Aug 23, 2016 at 5:15 am
Brexit and the Trump movement, with their emphasis on the decisive importance of national identity, show that explicit identity politics has spread to all points of the political...
Pope Francis taps DC auxiliary as the new Bishop of Memphis
Catholic News Agency - General - Aug 23, 2016 at 4:58 am Vatican City, Aug 23, 2016 / 03:58 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Tuesday the Vatican announced that Pope Francis has named Martin D. Holley, currently Auxiliary Bishop of Washington D.C...
Pope Francis taps DC auxiliary as the new Bishop of Memphis
EWTN - Vatican News - Aug 23, 2016 at 4:58 am Vatican City, Aug 23, 2016 / 04:58 am (EWTN News/CNA).- On Tuesday the Vatican announced that Pope Francis has named Martin D.
Holley, currently Auxiliary Bishop of Washington D.C...
Fragment of Christ's Cross stolen from California church
EWTN - US Latest News - Aug 23, 2016 at 4:41 am San Fernando, Calif., Aug 23, 2016 / 04:41 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
A fragment from what is believed to be the True Cross of Christ, stolen from its home beneath a picture. It's a...
Daily Gospel Reflection for August 23, 2016
CatholicMom.com - Aug 23, 2016 at 4:30 am
Today’s Gospel: Matthew 23, 23-26
This short Gospel reflection is more of those “woes” to the Pharisees. Do you form a vivid image in your mind about these men? I know I do. I...
Reflections on Mother Teresa from her 'Apostle of the Rosary'
EWTN - World Catholic News - Aug 23, 2016 at 4:29 am Rome, Italy, Aug 23, 2016 / 04:29 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Women's rights activist Reggie Littlejohn is known for her fierce work
fighting forced abortion and gendercide in China,...
Pope Francis: ‘Encounter God’s mercy in Confession’
Catholic Herald - Aug 23, 2016 at 4:18 am God’s mercy is poured out upon the repentant so that they can change and grow, Pope Francis has said.
“All liturgy is a place where mercy is encountered and accepted in order to...
A look at the crisis of the Church in Germany
Catholic News Agency - General - Aug 23, 2016 at 4:04 am Berlin, Germany, Aug 23, 2016 / 03:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The plummeting number of priestly vocations in the Catholic Church in Germany is raising questions about the roots of...
A look at the crisis of the Church in Germany
EWTN - World Catholic News - Aug 23, 2016 at 4:04 am Berlin, Germany, Aug 23, 2016 / 04:04 am (EWTN News/CNA).- The plummeting number of priestly vocations in the Catholic Church in Germany is raising questions about the roots of...
Filipino bishops demand justice amid government’s violent crackdown on drug crime
Catholic Herald - Aug 23, 2016 at 3:45 am Catholic and Protestant bishops in the Philippines have called for a “deeper analysis” of the spate of killings in the country that have been linked to the government’s anti-...
Towards Lund: Catholics and Lutherans, between purification of memory and globalisation
Vatican Insider - Aug 23, 2016 at 2:17 am On 31 October, Francis will visit the Swedish city of Lund to join various representatives of the Lutheran Church in a ceremony being held to commemorate the 500th anniversary of...
Relic of Cross stolen from San Francisco church
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 23, 2016 at 1:58 am A relic of the true Cross was stolen recently from a parish in San Francisco.
Former NY cathedral offers burial plot for $7M
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 23, 2016 at 1:39 am In an effort to raise funds for a church restoration, the Basilica of Saint Patrick's Old Cathedral in New York is offering a six-person burial plot in its crypt in return for a...
Ayatollah welcomes papal remarks on Islam and violence
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 23, 2016 at 1:23 am A leading Iranian religious figure welcomed Pope Francis’s recent comments in which he denied that Islam is tied to terrorist violence.
As Philippines drug war escalates, bishops call for justice
Catholic News Agency - General - Aug 23, 2016 at 1:02 am Manila, Philippines, Aug 23, 2016 / 12:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Amid President Rodrigo Duterte's fierce war against the underworld of drugs in the Philippines, the country's...
As Philippines drug war escalates, bishops call for justice
EWTN - World Catholic News - Aug 23, 2016 at 1:02 am Manila, Philippines, Aug 23, 2016 / 01:02 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Amid President Rodrigo Duterte's fierce war against the underworld of
drugs in the Philippines, the country's...
Paul Stevenson, the Australian psychologist who blew whistle on Nauru: It’s worse than prison
The Catholic Leader - Aug 23, 2016 at 1:00 am PAUL Stevenson’s dealt with the trauma of the Port Arthur massacre, the Bali bombings and the Boxing Day tsunami but none of it compares with what he’s seen on Nauru and Manus...
#IstandwithSimchaFisher
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Aug 23, 2016 at 12:11 am Msgr. Charles Pope, has a piece warning us to prepare for persecution. Prophetic considering that a very good Catholic woman named Simcha Fisher, faithful to the Catholic Church,...
