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How to use an Advent wreath
Aleteia - Nov 26, 2017 at 11:00 pm A basic guide for those new to the tradition.Advent wreaths are a Christian tradition with roots in 16th-century Germany. They are seen both in churches and in homes and are an...
The floating church
Aleteia - Nov 26, 2017 at 11:00 pm Photo of the Day: November 27, 2017Chong Khnies, a floating village at the edge of the Tonle Sap Lake, is home to the Chong Khnies floating Catholic church in Cambodia. Located...
Adelaide Priest’s book promotes positive Christian marriages
The Catholic Leader - Nov 26, 2017 at 8:00 pm MARRIED couples who have shared bread with an Adelaide priest have contributed to a new book that shows the path to love is not smooth but always worthwhile. For years Monsignor...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 27/11/17
Catholic Herald - Nov 26, 2017 at 6:01 pm At the end of our life “we will be judged on love”, Pope Francis said at yesterday’s Angelus (full text, full video). The streamlined annulments process “must typically be...
The original Image of Divine Mercy: It's not where you might think
Catholic News Agency - General - Nov 26, 2017 at 5:33 pm Vilnius, Lithuania, Nov 26, 2017 / 04:33 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Among Catholic devotions, the Divine Mercy message is well-known: the iconic image of Christ, with rays of red and...
The 2017 Immaculate Conception of Mary Novena
Big C Catholics - Nov 26, 2017 at 5:17 pm We remind you that the Immaculate Conception Novena begins November 29th. The solemnity of the Immaculate Conception is an important day to reflect on Mary’s life and selfless...
Are Black Holes Among Us?
The Catholic Astronomer - Nov 26, 2017 at 4:50 pm Recently there was an interest lecture by Joe Silk at Johns Hopkins University and the Institute of Astrophysics at Paris on the topic of the nature of dark matter. In a nutshell...
Your Sunday Sermon Notes
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Nov 26, 2017 at 3:49 pm It’s the last Sunday of the liturgical year.
Were there any good points made in the sermon you heard today at the Holy Mass which fulfilled your Sunday Mass obligation?
Tell us...
King of Kings and Lord of Lords
New Liturgical Movement - Nov 26, 2017 at 3:25 pm Kevin Williamson sums up very nicely the spirit in which the feast of Christ the King was instituted in 1925; click here to read the whole article at National Review Online.To the...
Are we listening to Pope Francis when he asks us to turn off our mobile phone at Mass?
The Catholic Leader - Nov 26, 2017 at 3:00 pm I ATTENDED a first communion recently and was bemused to see a dozen mobile phones and cameras held aloft and flashing, at critical times during the Mass. It’s not that I haven’t...
Prayer for the Advent Wreath Week One
Big C Catholics - Nov 26, 2017 at 2:59 pm The lighting of the Advent candles symbolizes the hope that the coming Messiah represents in a world that very often seems dark, forbidding and hopeless. We do so because we are a...
Daily Readings for Monday, November 27, 2017
Catholic Online - Featured News - Nov 26, 2017 at 2:10 pm Reading 1: Daniel 1:1-6, Reading 1: Daniel 1:8-20, Responsorial Psalm: Daniel 3:52-56, Gospel: Luke 21:1-4
Prayer to Saint Anthony of Padua: Prayer of the Day for Monday, November 27, 2017
Catholic Online - Featured News - Nov 26, 2017 at 2:10 pm "Blessed be God in His Angels and in His Saints"
O Holy Saint Anthony, gentlest of Saints, your love for God and Charity for His creatures, made ...
Football and religion: Two subjects that are hard to pry apart in East Tennessee
GetReligion - Nov 26, 2017 at 12:20 pm Speaking of religion.
A long, sad and even tortured football season has come to an end here in the land of the University of Tennessee Volunteers, a season that began with the...
Homily for the First Sunday of Advent, December 3, 2017, Year B
Big C Catholics - Nov 26, 2017 at 12:12 pm Fr. Charles IrvinSenior PriestDiocese of Lansing(Click here for today’s readings)Advent begins with us looking at the eventual end of the world. The passage in today’s Gospel...
Sister shares heartbreaking story to lead youths closer to God
Franciscan Media - Nov 26, 2017 at 10:45 am
INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) — It wasn’t the story that the 20,000 Catholic youths were expecting to hear from a religious sister.
And the audience of young people inside Lucas Oil Stadium...
Pope Francis: What matters in the end is how well we loved
EWTN - Vatican News - Nov 26, 2017 at 8:07 am Vatican City, Nov 26, 2017 / 08:07 am (EWTN News/CNA).- On Sunday Pope Francis said that when the Final Judgment comes, what
will matter most is how much we loved God and others,...
“We will be judged on our love for the needy”
Vatican Insider - Nov 26, 2017 at 7:57 am “People were praying at that moment; we too, in silence, shall pray for them - Francis says at the Angelus - I am profoundli grieved fron last Friday's news of the massacre that...
Pakistan Troops Clash With Islamic Protesters Who Accuse Law Minister of Blasphemy
The Religion Clause - Nov 26, 2017 at 7:40 am According to a report yesterday from BBC News, the government of Pakistan has deployed troops to the city of Islamabad to deal with protesters who have been blocking a key highway...
Recent Prisoner Free Exercise Cases
The Religion Clause - Nov 26, 2017 at 7:30 am In Brooks v. Walsh, (9th Cir., Nov. 22, 2017), the 9th Circuit upheld a qualified immunity defense in an inmate's suit because "it would not have been clear to every reasonable...
