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Daily Gospel Reflection for May 16, 2016
CatholicMom.com - May 16, 2016 at 4:30 am
Today’s Gospel: Mark 9, 14-29
This reading has special meaning for our family. Our eldest son had petit mal seizures, 30-40 episodes daily. The medication prescribed to suppress...
Pope visits with mentally disabled as part of �mercy Friday' initiative
Catholic Culture - World News - May 16, 2016 at 4:23 am Pope Francis made a visit on May 13 to the Il Chicco community, a residence for 18 persons with intellectual disabilities.
Il Chicco is one of over 140 communities associated with...
Pope Francis meets leaders from Bulgaria, Macedonia
EWTN - Vatican News - May 16, 2016 at 4:22 am Vatican City, May 16, 2016 / 04:22 pm (EWTN News).- Pope Francis on Monday morning held private audiences with the president
of Bulgaria and with the head of Macedonia's...
Program announced for papal journey to Armenia
Catholic Culture - World News - May 16, 2016 at 4:06 am The Holy See Press Office has released the schedule of Pope Francis’s upcoming apostolic journey to Armenia, which will take place from June 24 to 26.
Armenia, a nation of 3.0 ...
Alabama governor praised for signing bill to ban dismemberment abortions
Catholic Herald - May 16, 2016 at 3:59 am Alabama Gov Robert Bentley last week signed into law a bill to protect unborn children from dismemberment abortions, a measure that “is starting to transform the debate about...
Pope laments refugee crisis, shrinking middle class
Catholic Culture - World News - May 16, 2016 at 3:28 am The refugee crisis, poverty, and youth unemployment point to the need for an economic vision inspired by the Church’s social doctrine, Pope Francis told participants in a...
Fugitive former abbot wanted over abuse allegations arrested in Kosovo
Catholic Herald - May 16, 2016 at 3:27 am A former abbot of Ealing Abbey wanted over child sex abuse allegations has been arrested in Kosovo, according to local police sources.
Fr Laurence Soper was arrested in 2010 over...
Poland's prime minister meets with Pope
Catholic Culture - World News - May 16, 2016 at 3:02 am Pope Francis, who is scheduled to make an apostolic journey to Poland from July 25 to 31, received Prime Minister Beata Szydlo in a May 13 audience.
The Polish leader subsequently...
Marchers in Canada plead for lawmakers to drop assisted-suicide bill
Catholic Herald - May 16, 2016 at 2:40 am As the Canadian Parliament considered a bill legalising euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, thousands gathered last week for the annual National March for Life.
The march’s...
Pope Francis did not say he’d ordain women deacons, spokesman says
Catholic Herald - May 16, 2016 at 2:21 am Pope Francis “did not say he intends to introduce a diaconal ordination for women,” and he certainly did not speak about the ordination of women priests, the Vatican spokesman...
New Government Edict Escalates Bathroom War
Crisis Magazine - Church - May 16, 2016 at 2:10 am
The government of the United States has now officially declared war on sexuality itself and, in doing so, attacked the very idea of man made in the image of God. On Monday, May 9...
Tradition: Its Necessity and Its Discontents
Crisis Magazine - Church - May 16, 2016 at 2:00 am
I noted last month that living well is difficult apart from a definite and well-developed tradition of life. Otherwise we simply won’t know what we’re doing, and we’ll have to...
Happy Birthday Your Eminence!
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - May 16, 2016 at 12:25 am His Eminence Karl S.R.E. Card. Lehmann turns 80 today!
Such a landmark should not pass unnoticed.
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Billionaire Sheldon Adelson gives Trump $100 million boost
Catholic Online - Featured News - May 16, 2016 at 12:00 am Saying "Mr. Trump has created a movement in this country that cannot be denied," Sheldon Adelson has pledged at least $100 million to Trump's ...
Facebook censor scandal - What is Zuckerberg up to?
Catholic Online - Featured News - May 16, 2016 at 12:00 am Mark Zuckerberg is set to hold a meeting on Wednesday with Glenn Beck and Dana Perino to talk Facebook's censorship scandal.
'Let us not close our hears': Pope Francis speaks on Pentecost
Catholic Online - Featured News - May 16, 2016 at 12:00 am On Pentecost, Pope Francis praised missionary work as a massive work of mercy based on the desire for everyone to be saved and loved.
BREAKING: Victory for the Little Sisters of the Poor as Supreme Court unanimously sends case back to lower courts
Catholic Online - Featured News - May 16, 2016 at 12:00 am The Supreme Court has sent the Little Sisters of the Poor contraceptive mandate case back to the lower courts for a compromise. They have refused to ...
You won't believe the shocking things an atheist group is posting on billboards!
Catholic Online - Featured News - May 16, 2016 at 12:00 am Atheist group calls out the religious through the use of over 20 billboard ads in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Jesus' baptism site to be cleared of landmines
Catholic Online - Featured News - May 16, 2016 at 12:00 am Barbed wire, 5,000 landmines and danger signs written in Arabic, English and Hebrew surround the site believed to be the area Jesus was baptized in ...
Al-Qaeda's new hit list includes Bill Gates
Catholic Online - Featured News - May 16, 2016 at 12:00 am The latest issue of Al-Qaeda's propaganda magazine 'Inspire' claims the assassination of several American business leaders can be of use in the ...
