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Daily Gospel Reflection for August 22, 2016 - Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary
CatholicMom.com - Aug 22, 2016 at 4:30 am
Today’s Gospel: Matthew 23, 13-22 – Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Today we celebrate the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary. A queen is generally thought of as honored,...
Fugitive former abbot arrested over abuse allegations
Catholic Herald - Aug 22, 2016 at 4:16 am A former abbot of Ealing Abbey accused of child sex abuse offences has been arrested after returning to the UK from Kosovo following a five-year police search for him.
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Lawsuit can't violate NJ Catholic school's religious freedom, attorney says
EWTN - US Latest News - Aug 22, 2016 at 2:47 am Newark, N.J., Aug 22, 2016 / 02:47 pm (EWTN News).- A Catholic high school's attorney says the school fired its dean and
basketball coach because she violated Catholic teaching by...
When An Opera Is Like a Vatican II Liturgy
Crisis Magazine - Church - Aug 22, 2016 at 2:10 am
Years (and years) ago I went to an opera in Graz, Austria—I guess the American equivalent to this is going to see the Boston Red Sox play at Fenway Park (if you are a huge...
How Obergefell Continues to Warp Reality
Crisis Magazine - Church - Aug 22, 2016 at 2:00 am
The first reaction one might have to Henderson v. Adams, the June 30 decision of a federal district court declaring Indiana’s parenthood statutes unconstitutional because they...
South Sudan’s Christian leaders pray for peace
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 22, 2016 at 1:46 am Christian leaders in South Sudan gathered at the Anglican cathedral in Juba, the nation’s capital, on August 18 to pray for peace in the strife-torn land.
Pope Francis: Confession is encounter with God's 're-creating mercy'
EWTN - Vatican News - Aug 22, 2016 at 1:36 am Vatican City, Aug 22, 2016 / 01:36 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Pope Francis commended the sacrament of confession as the prime means of encountering God's mercy in his message sent...
Papal telegram for Waldensian synod
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 22, 2016 at 1:33 am Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, has sent a message expressing best wishes to the synod of the Waldensian-Methodist Church as it meets in Torre Pellice,...
One of Brisbane’s first Nigerian seminarians has been appointed to Holy See Secretariat of State
The Catholic Leader - Aug 22, 2016 at 1:22 am NIGERIAN priest Fr Anthony Ekpo, who was sent to serve the Brisbane archdiocese in a life-changing agreement ten years ago, has been called to work alongside Pope Francis in...
Liturgical week message: penitents should be encouraged to show compassion
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 22, 2016 at 1:19 am Pope Francis has consigned to an Italian bishop a message written by the Vatican’s Secretary of State for the 67th national liturgical week, which is taking place in Gubbio.
Nuncio: Pope would like to visit Belarus
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 22, 2016 at 12:29 am Archbishop Gábor Pintér, the new apostolic nuncio to Belarus, arrived in Minsk to begin his diplomatic mission and said that Pope Francis would like to visit the Eastern European...
Bishop Barron on the Queenship of Mary
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Aug 22, 2016 at 12:00 am It's easy to think the Church's great Marian feasts are sentimental or quaint. But really just the opposite is true. Here are Father Barron's reflections on today's Feast of the...
Christian persecution is real - emotional exhibit opens in Rome
Catholic Online - Featured News - Aug 22, 2016 at 12:00 am Aid to the Church in Need has opened an exhibit in Italy where visitors can share the experience of Christian persecution.
Pope Francis prays for victims of Turkish wedding attack
Catholic Online - Featured News - Aug 22, 2016 at 12:00 am A child believed to be between 12 and 14-years-old interrupted a wedding ceremony in Gaziantep, Turkey, killing 54 people, 22 of whom were under ...
Hillary Clinton's campaign aide a radical Muslim?
Catholic Online - Featured News - Aug 22, 2016 at 12:00 am Hillary Clinton is a favored presidential nominee by women everywhere - but are her supporters aware their beloved nominee's campaign aide worked for ...
'Right Before I Die': Photographer reveals heartbreaking truth on taboo topic
Catholic Online - Featured News - Aug 22, 2016 at 12:00 am Photographer Andrew George decided to interview and photograph people close to death for a project titled "Right Before I Die."
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Catholic Online - Featured News - Aug 22, 2016 at 12:00 amGetting Berned? Class action against Debbie Wassarman Schultz and DNC goes forward
Catholic Online - Featured News - Aug 22, 2016 at 12:00 am A suit against the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz will proceed. The class action was filed on behalf of Bernie ...
Massachusetts nun loses rosary to lesbian couple
Catholic Online - Featured News - Aug 22, 2016 at 12:00 am A Sister at the Daughters of Mary of Nazareth convent was mugged by a lesbian couple, who left with the nun's rosary.
Papal prayers for Turkey following terrorist attack
Catholic Culture - World News - Aug 21, 2016 at 11:56 pm Following the recitation of the Angelus on August 21, Pope Francis invited the crowd in St. Peter’s Square to pray a Hail Mary for “dear Turkey.”
