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Escape from a puritan ‘wasteland’
Catholic Herald - Apr 14, 2016 at 5:30 am ‘There was something sinister in the very word Catholic,” said George Mackay Brown of his “anti-papist” upbringing. Brown was raised in a lukewarm Presbyterian family, where “all...
Be a witness to the very different path chosen by Jesus
Catholic Herald - Apr 14, 2016 at 5:30 am The Sundays of Easter describe an early Church alive with the presence of her Risen Lord. The Good News could not be contained within the narrow confines of Jerusalem. Soon it...
Program announced for papal trip to Lesbos
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 14, 2016 at 5:17 am The Holy See Press Office has announced the schedule of Pope Francis’s impending visit to the Greek island of Lesbos.
The April 16 visit will last for only six hours. After ...
The Heroic Minute Challenge: Day 11: Mortification, the Heroic Minute and Love
Saints 365 - Apr 14, 2016 at 5:09 am The experience I remember the most from the first time I ran the Heroic Minute Challenge two years ago was the following early morning encounter: Around 5AM, I was awoken by a...
Two years after Boko Haram's schoolgirl kidnappings, has anything changed?
EWTN - US Latest News - Apr 14, 2016 at 5:05 am Washington D.C., Apr 14, 2016 / 05:05 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Two years ago, radical Islamists with the militant group Boko Haram
stormed a school in Chibok, Nigeria, kidnapping 276...
Catholic Education is the Key to Pope Francis’ Plan for Renewing Families
Catholic Education Daily - Apr 14, 2016 at 5:00 am Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation released on Friday, Amoris Laetitia, “Love in the Family,” is the next step in a long plan for renewing Catholic families, Stephan Kampowski,...
Communist delusions show what happens when the religious impulse goes wrong
Catholic Herald - Apr 14, 2016 at 4:49 am I have recently been reading David Aaronovitch’s affectionate and mordantly humorous memoir, Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists, published by Jonathan Cape. As he makes...
Pope recalls anniversary of baptism of Poland
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 14, 2016 at 4:49 am From April 14 to 16, the Church in Poland is solemnly recalling the 1,050th anniversary of the nation’s baptism. Pope Francis has named Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s ...
Daily Gospel Reflection for April 14, 2016
CatholicMom.com - Apr 14, 2016 at 4:30 am
Today’s Gospel: John 6, 44-51
People are obsessed with bread, myself included! Have you ever stood in the grocery store bread aisle – I swear there are 65 types of bread. In...
Greek bishop fears violence in face of migrant crisis
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 14, 2016 at 4:24 am As Pope Francis and Orthodox leaders prepare to visit to the island of Lesbos, the president of the Catholic bishops’ conference in Greece feared the prospect of violence in the...
Will Pope Francis mend ties with the SSPX?
EWTN - World Catholic News - Apr 14, 2016 at 4:02 am Paris, France, Apr 14, 2016 / 04:02 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Bishop Bernard Fellay, head of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X,
has reportedly discussed several positive...
Will Pope Francis mend ties with the SSPX?
Catholic News Agency - General - Apr 14, 2016 at 4:02 am Paris, France, Apr 14, 2016 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Bishop Bernard Fellay, head of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X, has reportedly discussed several positive aspects...
We would accept Supreme Court’s offer on contraception mandate, say Little Sisters and others
Catholic Herald - Apr 14, 2016 at 3:56 am The religious nonprofits challenging the US government’s contraceptive mandate have said they would accept a new proposal to safeguard their freedom.
The groups, including the...
Prelates criticize tightening of Austrian border controls
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 14, 2016 at 3:49 am Two prelates have criticized Austria’s decision to build barriers and other structures at the Brenner Pass, on the nation’s border with Italy.
Calling for “welcome for ...
'We too are living in a time of martyrdom', Pope tells Scottish seminarians
EWTN - Vatican News - Apr 14, 2016 at 3:39 am Vatican City, Apr 14, 2016 / 03:39 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- The world continues to be "hostile to the Gospel," just as it was four centuries ago when St. John Ogilvie was martyred for...
“The Boss” Praised by Men Who Think They Are Women
Crisis Magazine - Church - Apr 14, 2016 at 3:30 am
As everyone in America knows by now, the old rocker Bruce Springsteen has canceled a concert in North Carolina, because the state passed a law preserving the status quo ante as...
Fideism: Bad in Literature as Well as Religion
Crisis Magazine - Church - Apr 14, 2016 at 3:25 am
Most of my work as an English professor at a small, religiously conservative teaching college in the Midwest consists of the duties called for in a generalist: freshman...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 14/04/16
Catholic Herald - Apr 14, 2016 at 1:52 am The Obama administration has said it could make further changes to the contraceptive mandate to resolve its dispute with the Little Sisters of the Poor.
US vice-president Joe...
School sports transgender policy bad for students, say Nebraska's bishops
Catholic News Agency - General - Apr 14, 2016 at 1:04 am Lincoln, Neb., Apr 14, 2016 / 12:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Nebraska’s body governing school athletics has failed to overturn a policy that will recognize gender identity rather than...
School sports transgender policy bad for students, say Nebraska's bishops
EWTN - US Latest News - Apr 14, 2016 at 1:04 am Lincoln, Neb., Apr 14, 2016 / 01:04 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Nebraska's body governing school athletics has failed to overturn a policy that will recognize gender identity rather than...
