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Pope devotes 2018 World Day of Peace message to migrants and refugees (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 27, 2017 at 5:11 am “Migrants and refugees: men and women in search of peace” is the theme of the Pope’s message for the World Day of Peace, which will take place on January 1. Click here for the...
Papal audiences (11/25) (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 27, 2017 at 5:11 am In separate audiences, the Pontiff received the new Portuguese ambassador, the prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, the secretary of the Congregation for the Institutes of...
Pope Francis arrives in Burma
Catholic Herald - Nov 27, 2017 at 5:09 am Pope Francis has arrived in Burma for a three-day visit that is likely to be overshadowed by claims of ethnic cleansing against the country’s government. The Pope is scheduled to...
#GivingTuesday – November 28, 2017
The Catholic Astronomer - Nov 27, 2017 at 4:57 am
Celebrate Worldwide Generosity with Us! Help us support one of our favorite outreach programs; every year the Vatican Observatory Foundation gives hundreds of astrophoto...
US tax reform bill could repeal Johnson Amendment
EWTN - US Latest News - Nov 27, 2017 at 4:38 am Washington D.C., Nov 27, 2017 / 04:38 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
The Johnson Amendment, a 1954 provision which prohibits churches and nonprofit groups from making public endorsements of...
California: school founded by Dominican sisters in 1850 drops Catholic affiliation (Marin Independent Journal)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 27, 2017 at 4:11 am The religious community that oversees the school (the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael) made the decision. Earlier this year, the school’s administration removed Catholic statues...
Holy See opens nunciature in Malaysia (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 27, 2017 at 4:11 am Malaysia, a nation of 31 million, is an officially Muslim nation. 61% of its people are Muslim, while 20% are Buddhist, 9% are Christian, and 6% are Hindu. The Substitute of the...
Papal audiences (11/24) (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 27, 2017 at 4:11 am In separate audiences, the Pope received the prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, an...
English bishop criticizes 'draconian' crackdown on pro-life vigils (Catholic Herald)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 27, 2017 at 4:11 amPope leads prayer service for peace in South Sudan, DR Congo (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 27, 2017 at 4:11 am Click here for a video of the prayer service, which took place in St. Peter’s Basilica on 11/23.
Nun beatified in Argentina (MadreCatalinaDeMaria.com)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 27, 2017 at 4:11 am Mother Catalina de María Rodríguez (1823-96), profiled in this article, founded the Slaves of the Heart of Jesus.
Another parish goes ‘ad orientem’ at Advent
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Nov 27, 2017 at 4:00 am A while back I posted about the first TLM celebrated in decades at a famous North Side Chicago Church, St. Stanislaw Kostka. HERE
Now I’ve received additional good news about...
Help a Franciscan Friar of the Immaculate -- and sanctify your family
Rorate Coeli - Nov 27, 2017 at 3:30 am As we did last year when he was setting up his new hermitage, we once again ask our readers to help a priest of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate (FFI), now living as a...
Pope addresses Franciscans, reflects on 'minority' (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 27, 2017 at 3:11 am St. Francis wanted his followers to be called “friars minor,” and Pope Francis reflected on “minority” in an address to members of the Franciscan families of the First Order and...
Fidelity to God leads to change, Pope says in message on social doctrine (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 27, 2017 at 3:11 am The Pope made his remarks in a video message to the Italian bishops’ 7th Festival of the Social Doctrine of the Church, whose theme was “fidelity is change.”
Saudi Islamic affairs ministry delegation meets Pope at Vatican (Al Arabiya)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 27, 2017 at 3:11 am Al Arabiya is a Dubai-based television news channel. The meeting was the Pope’s only announced audience on November 22.
Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart, and not in the mind.
Aleteia - Nov 27, 2017 at 3:00 am Lionel Hampton
“They say it's too hot...”
Vatican Insider - Nov 27, 2017 at 2:22 am Pope Francis landed at Yangon airport after a ten-and-a-half-hour flight. The Pope boarded the Alitalia Airbus at 21.30 on Sunday, and took off 35 minutes later from Fiumicino. ...
True Diversity Found in the Unity of Christ
Crisis Magazine - Church - Nov 27, 2017 at 2:10 am At the school where I used to teach, diversity has become the word of faith, an intellectual idol to conjure by. It does not mean that you study a variety of cultures. It couldn’t...
Sed Contra, Bishop Barron
Crisis Magazine - Church - Nov 27, 2017 at 2:00 am
Bishop Robert Barron’s work is the gold standard for Catholic evangelization. I met him while he was the theologian-in-residence at the North American College in Rome during my...
