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The Friday after Thanksgiving Day indult
Rorate Coeli - Nov 23, 2017 at 8:45 am
A friendly and tasty annual reminder that there is a strong argument to be made that there is no required abstinence from meat this Friday for our American readers.
While...
Student grilled for ‘transphobic’ thought crimes rips university ‘apology’: ‘they’re just embarrassed’
LifeSiteNews - Nov 23, 2017 at 8:21 am 'It’s not like they’ve taken a stance on anything,' says Lindsay Shepherd.
When you serve others, stay humble, Pope tells Franciscans
Catholic News Agency - General - Nov 23, 2017 at 8:20 am Vatican City, Nov 23, 2017 / 07:20 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis said on Thursday to always be humble when serving others, especially the least of these, remembering how much...
Teens, adults forsake comfort to experience way of life for homeless
Franciscan Media - Nov 23, 2017 at 8:14 am
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (CNS) — Though rain and high winds forced most of the 40 students and adults inside during the fifth annual “Homeless for a Night” campout at Good Shepherd Church...
PRAYER SUGGESTION: Archbp. Carroll’s “Prayer for Government”
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Nov 23, 2017 at 8:08 am Fathers, you might want to have everyone pray this after Mass on major public holidays in these USA. This, and other prayers, are deeply needed.
The following prayer was composed...
TROCANDO O MEU PELO NOSSO: Changing Mine for Ours
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Flávia Ghelardi writes from Brazil in English and Portuguese. Jump to the English version of this post.
“O amor deve facilitar-nos a dar...
Christ the King with the St Ann Choir in Palo Alto, California
New Liturgical Movement - Nov 23, 2017 at 7:00 am On Sunday, November 26, the Solemnity of Christ the King, the St Ann Choir will sing an Ordinary Form Latin Mass with Gregorian chant and the Missa Nisi Dominus by Ludwig Senfl (...
Pope Mass: Ideological colonization erases freedom, memory
News.va - Nov 23, 2017 at 6:16 am (Vatican Radio) Removing freedom, erasing memory, indoctrinating young people are the three indicators of cultural and ideological colonization throughout the ages. Those were the...
If church schools won’t fight the cult of gender ideology, who will?
Catholic Herald - Nov 23, 2017 at 6:10 am What a weird attitude we have to children today. We curtail their freedom when it comes to play and food and the rough-and-tumble of school life. We don’t let them run wild in the...
Can Catholic schools resist the new gender confusion?
Catholic Herald - Nov 23, 2017 at 6:10 am Two months ago, parents at Sacred Heart girls’ school in Hammersmith received an unexpected letter. “As a Catholic school,” wrote headteacher Marian Doyle, Sacred Heart must “...
‘The belief context has become much weaker’: an interview with Gabriele Finaldi
Catholic Herald - Nov 23, 2017 at 6:10 am Gabriele Finaldi talks of the National Gallery as if it were a cathedral. Its doors are open, all are welcome, no fee is charged. The galleries – long naves of paintings – instil...
UN Criminal Tribunal Convicts Mladić of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity In Bosnian Conflict
The Religion Clause - Nov 23, 2017 at 6:05 am Yesterday, in its final Trial Judgment, the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia announced that Ratko Mladić, former Commander of the Bosnian...
President Trump's Thanksgiving Proclamation
The Religion Clause - Nov 23, 2017 at 6:00 am Today is officially Thanksgiving. The Thanksgiving Day 2017 Proclamation issued last week by President Trump sets the date. It also recounts the history of the holiday and then...
Thanksgiving and Eucharist
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Readings for November 23, 2017: Thanksgiving Day
For Americans, the term “Thanksgiving”...
Cardinal DiNardo: This Thanksgiving, I am grateful for immigrants and refugees
Catholic News Agency - General - Nov 23, 2017 at 6:00 am Washington D.C., Nov 23, 2017 / 05:00 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In his Thanksgiving message, Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said he...
Grace Mugabe is part of a long tradition of over-powerful wives
Catholic Herald - Nov 23, 2017 at 5:35 am Powerful wives have never had a good press. If you go back to Tacitus, you may remember the career and spectacular death of Agrippina Minor, the wife of Claudius and the mother of...
Caldey abbot apologises over failure to report abuse allegations
Catholic Herald - Nov 23, 2017 at 5:03 am The abbot of Caldey has said he is “truly sorry” that allegations of child sexual abuse made against a monk were not passed on to police. Daniel van Santvoort acknowledged that...
Australia has voted for gay marriage – and religious freedom is already in peril
Catholic Herald - Nov 23, 2017 at 4:49 am Last week, in what prime minister Malcolm Turnbull called an “unprecedented exercise in democracy”, 12.7 million Australians (over 80% of eligible voters) voted on whether the law...
Pope Francis ‘to visit Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia next year’
Catholic Herald - Nov 23, 2017 at 4:49 am Pope Francis is planning a visit to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia next year, when the three Baltic nations celebrate their 100th anniversaries. Janis Siksnis, an adviser to Latvia...
The New Secular Puritan Covenant
Crisis Magazine - Church - Nov 23, 2017 at 4:20 am
Thanksgiving brings back memories for Americans of the Pilgrims and Puritans, carrying out their “errand into the wilderness” to build a “city on a hill,” surviving that first...
