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The transcendental world of Emily Dickinson, in a single poem
Aleteia - Nov 28, 2017 at 5:00 am The pain Emily Dickinson describes is pain you might initially be able to ignore. But it’s relentless. This World is not Conclusion This World is not Conclusion. A Species stands...
Pope stresses peace in unscheduled meeting with Burma's religious leaders
Catholic News Agency - General - Nov 28, 2017 at 4:50 am Yangon, Burma, Nov 28, 2017 / 03:50 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In an impromptu meeting on Tuesday morning, Pope Francis urged religious leaders in Burma to work toward peace, each...
Wonderful: Fraternity of St. Peter at the PBS Newshour
Rorate Coeli - Nov 28, 2017 at 4:27 am Wonderful report on the FSSP, their Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary, and their new CD at the flagship news program of American public television channel PBS:
Christians are deemed ‘dangerous and offensive’, says former Liberal Democrat leader
Catholic Herald - Nov 28, 2017 at 4:18 am Faithful Christians in Britain today are seen as “dangerous and offensive”, according to former Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, who resigned earlier this year following media...
In Jakarta, the bishops remember the important role played by the Church in Indonesian history (AsiaNews)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 28, 2017 at 4:11 am At a recent meeting, the bishops emphasized national unity and harmony amid rising Islamist extremism.
Religious bodies call on UK government to support stateless people (World Methodist Council)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 28, 2017 at 4:11 am “’Stateless’ people without legal status cannot leave the UK because no country will accept them,” said the signatories. “But without status, they don’t have permission to work in...
Gujarat bishops warn that secular democracy is at risk in elections (Fides)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 28, 2017 at 4:11 am Urging the faithful to pray the Rosary, the bishops of the western Indian state warned that “nationalist forces are about to conquer the country”—a reference to increasingly...
Head of Caritas India: works of mercy should be expressions of faith (AsiaNews)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 28, 2017 at 4:11 am By instituting the World Day of the Poor, Pope Francis “raised humanitarian work and charitable activity to a new level of compassion and mercy,” said Father Frederick D’Souza. “...
World Council of Churches leadership issues statements on Zimbabwe, Iraq, nuclear weapons (World Council of Churches)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 28, 2017 at 4:11 am Over 500 Protestant and Orthodox communities belong to the World Council of Churches, founded in 1948. Its leaders recently met in Jordan, where King Abdullah “reiterated that...
Nicaragua: cardinal laments killing of 2 boys by military (Fides)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 28, 2017 at 4:11 am Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes also asked the government to return the bodies of the boys to their families so that they could receive a Christian burial.
Vatican releases postage stamps on Reformation, St. Francis of Sales (Vatican Radio)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 28, 2017 at 4:11 am The Reformation stamp, released on 10/31, portrays Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon at the foot of the Cross.
Over 100 priests gather for Mass for peace in Baja California (Fides)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 28, 2017 at 4:11 am A Mexican bishop decried the “human barbarism” of 900 murders in the state of Baja California Sur over the past 3 years.
Pope sends telegrams to heads of state from aboard papal flight to Myanmar (Vatican Radio)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 28, 2017 at 4:11 amCardinal Parolin: the small Christian communities of Myanmar, Bangladesh need Pope's encouragement (Vatican Radio)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 28, 2017 at 4:11 am Cardinal Parolin is the Vatican’s Secretary of State.
Rohingya in Myanmar: the Pope calls for “respect for each ethnic group”
Vatican Insider - Nov 28, 2017 at 4:02 am He never utters the word Rohingya, the ethnic group of Islamic religion that lives in Myanmar and has been subjected to discrimination and persecution. But the reference in his...
Francis meets Aung San Suu Kyi in the ghost city
Vatican Insider - Nov 28, 2017 at 3:31 am Pope Francis arrived in Nay Pyi Taw in the capital of Myanmar, the fortress city that appears as a ghost town and where, since 2005, the center of political and military power of...
Bali volcano erupts: Mount Agung's ash cloud leaves thousands stranded (Newsweek)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 28, 2017 at 3:11 am L’Osservatore Romano (11/27-11/28 Italian edition) devoted front-page coverage to this story.
Free speech for crisis pregnancy centers? The Supreme Court will decide (BreakPoint)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 28, 2017 at 3:11 amMigrants drown, hundreds rescued off Libyan coast (Reuters)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 28, 2017 at 3:11 am L’Osservatore Romano (11/27-11/28 Italian edition) devoted front-page coverage to this story.
New round of Syria talks opens in Geneva (Al Jazeera)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 28, 2017 at 3:11 am L’Osservatore Romano (11/27-11/28 Italian edition) devoted front-page coverage to this story.
