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How Trump get Christians to distort their own teachings
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 14, 2016 at 7:49 pm As I have argued in this space before, the only actual fruit of Catholics throwing their lot in with cynical “prolife conservative” politicians like Donald Trump is that the...
The Problem With Conservatism
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 14, 2016 at 7:05 pm Twenty years ago J. Budzisewski penned a diagnosis of the diseases which have led to the current state of American conservatism on life support. American conservative Christians...
Everything can be taken from you – except your conscience, says former political prisoner
Catholic News Agency - General - May 14, 2016 at 6:54 pm New York City, N.Y., May 14, 2016 / 05:54 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Everyone must be true to their own conscience, a religious freedom advocate and former political prisoner told a...
Francis: Being God’s children is in our DNA
Vatican Insider - May 14, 2016 at 5:32 pm “We are not God’s orphans, we are his children”. So, as children of the same good and merciful Father we can see each other as brothers and sisters whose differences can only...
Preet Bharara, Prosecutors and the Press
Commonweal - May 14, 2016 at 5:11 pm The United States attorney in Manhattan, Preet Bharara, is currently the subject of a good deal of adulation in New York-based news media, both local and national. He is very...
Nearing 50 years of legal abortion, U.K. pro-lifers take a stand
Catholic News Agency - General - May 14, 2016 at 4:50 pm Birmingham, England, May 14, 2016 / 03:50 pm (CNA).- Thousands of men, women, and children took to the streets of Birmingham on Saturday to take a stand for the unborn and to...
Escape from Homeworkland and Other Updates
Journey of a Catholic Nerd Writer - May 14, 2016 at 4:49 pm Can you hear the angels singing? They are singing because I've finally caught up with all the reading assigned for my Historical Books of the Old Testament course! YES! Everyone...
Mary, First Guardian of the Faith…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 14, 2016 at 3:54 pm …is under discussion over at the Register.
Pentecost Sunday | 2016
Big C Catholics - May 14, 2016 at 3:50 pm The Coming of the Spirit. [Acts 2:1-4]
When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together. And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong...
St. Dymphna: Saint of the Day for Sunday, May 15, 2016
Catholic Online - Featured News - May 14, 2016 at 2:25 pm Dymphna was born in Ireland sometime in the seventh century to a pagan father and devout Christian mother. When she was fourteen, she consecrated ...
Prayer to St. Dymphna - Hope: Prayer of the Day for Sunday, May 15, 2016
Catholic Online - Featured News - May 14, 2016 at 2:25 pm Good St. Dymphna, you placed all your hope in Christ's promises, and sacrificed even your life in that hope. The Lord, God, rewarded your constancy ...
Daily Readings for Sunday, May 15, 2016
Catholic Online - Featured News - May 14, 2016 at 2:25 pm Reading 1: Acts of Apostles 2:1-11, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 104:34, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 104:1, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 104:24, ...
“The world they say is new is as old as the Devil himself”
Rorate Coeli - May 14, 2016 at 1:09 pm François de CharetteJulien Le BlantExecution of François de Charette“Our Fatherland is our villages, our altars, our tombs and all that our fathers loved before us. Our...
“Therefore, let us not sleep, as others do; but let us watch, and be sober.”
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - May 14, 2016 at 1:09 pm In a field one summer’s day a Grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to its heart’s content. An Ant passed by, bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was...
Wine? Juice? Water? Wheat bread? What should be served at Holy Eucharist?
GetReligion - May 14, 2016 at 1:00 pm
GORDON’S QUESTION:
Why do some Christians use (unfermented) grape juice or leavened bread in Communion since what was on the table at the Last Supper was almost certainly...
Reflection for Pentecost: Powerful Gifts, Freely Given to All
CatholicMom.com - May 14, 2016 at 12:30 pm
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Readings for May 15: Pentecost
As a teen, I thought the clergy were supposed to do everything. We...
WDTPRS – Vigil of Pentecost (1962MR): from gerbils to lions
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - May 14, 2016 at 12:12 pm Can you believe that today is already the Vigil of Pentecost?
COLLECT (1962MR):
Praesta, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus: ut claritatis tuae super nos splendor effulgeat; et lux tuae...
26 May – NYC – Corpus Christi Mass and Procession
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - May 14, 2016 at 11:35 am If you are within striking distance of Manhattan, consider attending the beautiful Corpus Christi procession which the vibrant, famed, phoenix-like Church of the Holy Innocents...
I am pretty tired of this B as in B, S as in S.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - May 14, 2016 at 10:29 am A few inflammatory points by way of introduction.
First, there are those who say that many of the problems in the Church today can be traced back to the influence of a kind of “...
Missing former Benedictine abbot arrested in Kosovo
Vatican Insider - May 14, 2016 at 9:50 am A former Benedictine abbot who went missing after police said they wanted to investigate him in relation to child sex abuse allegations has been found after a five year search. ...
