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Germany's Merkel prefers 'new election' option (USA Today)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 22, 2017 at 3:11 am L’Osservatore Romano (11/22 Italian ed.) devoted its most prominent front-page coverage to this story.
US bishops' new child protection program aims to create culture of mindfulness (Catholic World Report)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 22, 2017 at 3:11 amArchbishop of Canterbury, Russian patriarch meet, sign joint declaration (Moscow Patriarchate)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 22, 2017 at 3:11 am The joint declaration, signed in Moscow on November 21, is devoted to the persecution of Christians in the Middle East.
Jesuit: 'We are in a time of the first ever mass conversions of Muslims' (National Catholic Register)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 22, 2017 at 3:11 am EWTN’s Father Mitch Pacwa cites Al Jazeera reports and conversations with Africans and others. “A large number of Muslims are receiving visions of Jesus and the Blessed Virgin...
Nigerian bishop: lack of good governance is causing poverty, underdevelopment (Daily Post)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 22, 2017 at 3:11 am With 186 million people, Nigeria is Africa’s most populous nation; it is 50% Muslim and 40% Christian, with 10% retaining indigenous beliefs.
Assad and Putin meet, as Russia pushes to end Syrian war (New York Times)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 22, 2017 at 3:11 am L’Osservatore Romano (11/22 Italian ed.) devoted front-page coverage to this story.
In Syria there are more deaths from lack of healthcare than from bombs (Catholic World Report)
Catholic Culture - World News - Nov 22, 2017 at 3:11 amSome grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.
Aleteia - Nov 22, 2017 at 3:00 am Alphonse Karr
Pope Francis denounces ‘ideological colonisation’
Catholic Herald - Nov 22, 2017 at 2:59 am Ideological colonisation is a form of persecution that seeks to obliterate the past, eradicate what makes people different and impose uniformity, Pope Francis said. Those who use...
Facing Squarely the Spiritual Roots of Contemporary Violence
Crisis Magazine - Church - Nov 22, 2017 at 2:10 am
Whenever we undergo another mass shooting or terrorist attack, I am struck by the stampede of blame that ensues in the media. The question that always surfaces for me in these...
Pope to Franciscans: embrace today’s lepers: the marginalized, migrants and unemployed
Vatican Insider - Nov 22, 2017 at 2:05 am “Open your hearts and embrace the lepers of our times!”, this is how the Pope addressed the Order of Friars Minor, stressing that the” Minors” (Lesser e.d.) of our time “are the...
7 Reasons I Love My Urban Parish
Crisis Magazine - Church - Nov 22, 2017 at 2:00 am
The answer to the question “What parish do you belong to?” is important where I live. Cincinnati is a town in which until the recent past “parish” was included on real estate...
Gumbleton on nuclear deterrence: US bishops should reassess peace pastoral
Vatican Insider - Nov 22, 2017 at 2:00 am One of the drafters of a landmark pastoral letter from the U.S. bishops that in 1983 offered a “strictly conditioned moral acceptance” of nuclear deterrence says it’s time to...
I don’t believe for a second…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Nov 22, 2017 at 1:52 am …that Zachary King was a “satanist high wizard”. Sorry, but I just don’t buy such claims without firm documentation. I hail from the world of Evangelicalism and I remember the...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 22/11/17
Catholic Herald - Nov 22, 2017 at 1:42 am The Pope has told the people of Bangladesh that he will bring Christ’s “message of reconciliation” when he visits them this month. Pope Francis denounced “ideological colonisation...
A reader has a question about the Fall and its effects
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Nov 22, 2017 at 1:36 am He writes: Hey I have a question about the Fall – I can understand that humans were given immortality and freedom from the troubles of the world by God as a preternatural gift,...
Pope: Ideological colonization is 'blasphemy' that leads to persecution
EWTN - Vatican News - Nov 22, 2017 at 1:22 am Vatican City, Nov 22, 2017 / 01:22 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- On Tuesday, Pope Francis blasted what he has often referred to as
"ideological colonization," which he said is a sin...
The Day Before Thanksgiving
Dominicana - Nov 22, 2017 at 1:00 am The day before Thanksgiving. Sleep in. Enjoy the warmth of the bed as it keeps away the chill in your room. Stay away from the world for a little longer this morning. No job...
Meet the winners of the 2017 Community Leader Awards
The Catholic Leader - Nov 22, 2017 at 12:30 am HOMELESS people across the Sunshine Coast will have a new reason to cheer for their biggest supporter, Nambour Catholic woman Annette Baker. The Nambour parishioner and member of...
Why Catholics Are So Bad at Evangelizing—And What Has to Change
OnePeterFive - Nov 22, 2017 at 12:01 am Image: The miracles of St. Francis Xavier (see full image here), by Peter Paul Rubens
Two good friends, fellow parishioners, are having coffee and donuts after High Mass one...
