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Prayer for Vocations to the Priesthood

Diocese of Westminster - Apr 14, 2016 at 8:15 am

God our Father, You give us the Sacraments as signs and instruments of your love and mercy. Draw from amongst your disciples in the Diocese of Westminster men who are willing to...

Washington Post probes heart of Stephen Curry and finds family (with hint of faith)

GetReligion - Apr 14, 2016 at 8:15 am

That Stephen Curry, how does that guy do what he does? I mean, 402 three-pointers? #Seriously? Lots of people are asking these questions right now and, I am pleased to say, some...

Pope Francis' Message for World Day of Prayer for Vocations

Diocese of Westminster - Apr 14, 2016 at 8:06 am

It is my great hope that, during the course of this Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, all the baptized may experience the joy of belonging to the Church and rediscover that the...

Pro-life youth rally to demand California AG resign over Daleiden raid

LifeSiteNews - Apr 14, 2016 at 7:37 am

'Everyone here today stands with David and we will not be silenced.'

Small Success: All She Wants is Time

CatholicMom.com - Apr 14, 2016 at 7:00 am

Yesterday, my daughter turned nine. She’s lived in this family, with seven before her and two after her long enough to know how I work. How this family works. She announced two...

Call for Icon Painters for the Ukrainian National Shrine of the Holy Family

New Liturgical Movement - Apr 14, 2016 at 7:00 am

A former student of mine, a graduate of Thomas More College in New Hampshire, who is now studying at CUA and attends the Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Family in...

As America’s culture war hits fever pitch, religious freedom is ever more precarious

Catholic Herald - Apr 14, 2016 at 6:53 am

The effective national legalisation of same-sex marriage in America has unleashed a full-blown culture war across the individual states. As a response to last year’s Supreme Court...

“Pope is going to Lesbos to remind us of who our neighbours are”

Vatican Insider - Apr 14, 2016 at 6:47 am

“We are showing the face of a hard-hearted Europe.” This was what the Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn had to say when he heard the news from Brenner about the...

Pope Francis to Scots College: be courageous, merciful priests

News.va - Apr 14, 2016 at 6:41 am

(Vatican Radio) Offer your lives “completely” to the Lord; “we too are living in a time of martyrdom, and in the midst of a culture so often hostile to the Gospel:” that’s the...

Be docile to the Holy Spirit - Pope Francis at Casa Santa Marta

News.va - Apr 14, 2016 at 6:41 am

(Vatican Radio) One must be docile to the Holy Spirit, said Pope Francis Thursday at Mass in his residence of Casa Santa Marta, and one must not resist Him. Pope Francis warns...

Canadian archbishop: assisted suicide makes the elderly fear hospitals

Catholic Herald - Apr 14, 2016 at 6:35 am

The spectre of assisted suicide is leading ageing people to “fear an institution that should be the last thing they should ever fear – a hospital,” Edmonton Archbishop Richard...

Chinese Court In First Ruling of Its Kind Rejects Same-Sex Marriage

The Religion Clause - Apr 14, 2016 at 6:10 am

A court in China yesterday ruled that same-sex marriages are not legal. As reported by the New York Times, this is the first case of its kind adjudicated in China. In a decision...

Suit Challenges District's Definition of Catholic Schools

The Religion Clause - Apr 14, 2016 at 6:05 am

Wisconsin Watchdog reports that a state court lawsuit was filed last week claiming that Wisconsin's Friess Lake School District infringed the religious freedom of 3 students when...

Book Notes: Blue-Eyed Doll

CatholicMom.com - Apr 14, 2016 at 6:00 am

Did you think that the custom of classroom pen-pal letter exchanges and sending “Flat Stanley” on trips around the world made its educational debut in the 21st century? Deanna...

Court OK's Distribution of Gospel Tracts At Motorcycle Rally

The Religion Clause - Apr 14, 2016 at 6:00 am

In McMahon v. City of Panama City Beach, Florida, (ND FL, April 12, 2016), a Florida federal district court issued a preliminary injunction to allow plaintiff to hand out...

'VatiLeaks' trial: Author says he had duty to publish private documents

Franciscan Media - Apr 14, 2016 at 6:00 am

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- An Italian journalist said he was given private documents by a Vatican official detailing problems with financial reforms and that he had a duty to publish...

Trip to Greece humanitarian, not political, Vatican spokesman says

Franciscan Media - Apr 14, 2016 at 6:00 am

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In a "humanitarian and ecumenical gesture," not a political one, Pope Francis was to join Orthodox leaders in personally meeting with hundreds of refugees...

Norway's Lutheran church approves same-sex marriage

Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 14, 2016 at 5:30 am

The Church of Norway-- the Lutheran body to which nearly three-quarters of Norwegians belong-- has approved church weddings for homosexual couples. Same-sex marriage became ...

Pope Francis ventures into uncharted waters

Catholic Herald - Apr 14, 2016 at 5:30 am

Reaction to Amoris Laetitia, the long-awaited apostolic exhortation on the family, shows that its short-term effect has been to stoke the flames of an ongoing and sometimes...

Film: A dangerously whimsical riff on the New Testament