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Russian patriarch calls for peace in Caucasus
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 8, 2016 at 3:53 am Patriarch Kirill of Moscow appealed to Christian and Muslim leaders in Armenia and Azerbaijan to work for peace in the conflict over the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh, a...
European bishops' council laments plight of Roma
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 8, 2016 at 3:37 am The president of the Council of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe has issued a statement lamenting discrimination against the Romani (or Roma) people, who are sometimes referred...
Refugees are focus of Jewish-Catholic dialogue
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 8, 2016 at 3:25 am The International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee, the formal structure for dialogue between the Holy See and Jewish religious leaders, concluded a four-day biennial meeting in...
Cardinal Schönborn praises 'Amoris Laetitia' stance on gay marriage
EWTN - Vatican News - Apr 8, 2016 at 3:02 am Vatican City, Apr 8, 2016 / 03:02 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Pope Francis' new document on love in the family is welcome particularly
for its steadfast adherence to Church teaching on...
“Amoris Laetitia”, a new “constitution” for the family
Vatican Insider - Apr 8, 2016 at 2:57 am Nine chapters and 264 pages: The Apostolic Exhortation “Amoris Laetitia”, the “joy of love”, is a long and complex document with which Francis has chosen to conclude the...
Remarried Divorcees: Integration and evaluation on a case by case basis
Vatican Insider - Apr 8, 2016 at 2:56 am“We have been called to form consciences, not to replace them”
Vatican Insider - Apr 8, 2016 at 2:55 am The Church is “called to form consciences, not to replace them”. This is the key phrase for understanding Pope Francis’ post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation on the family. In many...
Brother of kidnapped priest is staying at home to pray and wait for ‘good news’
Catholic Herald - Apr 8, 2016 at 2:50 am The Indian government might have dispelled rumours of the Good Friday crucifixion of kidnapped Salesian Fr Thomas Uzhunnalil, but Mathew Uzhunnalil still worries.
“I am waiting...
Donald Trump is Bringing Out the Worst in Our Best
Crisis Magazine - Church - Apr 8, 2016 at 2:10 am
Donald Trump is driving everyone a bit batty. His foes and even his friends are all getting weary thinking about him and certainly talking about him. And his presence in this...
Happiness and Hell in The Twilight Zone
Crisis Magazine - Church - Apr 8, 2016 at 2:00 am
I am fairly confident that a deep theological reflection could be written about nearly every episode of The Twilight Zone (and I may make it a life project to do so). Rod Serling...
Q&A with Senator Joanna Lindgren
The Catholic Leader - Apr 8, 2016 at 1:00 am Senator Joanna Lindgren, the first Queensland LNP indigenous woman in the Senate, is the great-niece of the late, Senator Neville Bonner, who was the first indigenous Australian...
Brisbane education staff to witness the diversity of the Church at World Youth Day
The Catholic Leader - Apr 8, 2016 at 1:00 am AN excited group of young Brisbane Catholic Education pilgrims are in the final stage of preparations for the journey to the 31st World Youth Day in Krakow, Poland.The 20...
When We Don't See God Clearly
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Apr 8, 2016 at 12:00 am As Bishop Barron says, Christianity is ultimately a new way of “seeing the world.” Christ Hazell agrees, and today he encourages us to see God peeking out from behind the ordinary...
Read the FULL TEXT of AMORIS LAETITIA here
Catholic Online - Featured News - Apr 8, 2016 at 12:00 am POST-SYNODAL APOSTOLIC EXHORTATIONAMORIS LAETITIAOF THE HOLY FATHERFRANCISTO BISHOPS, PRIESTS AND DEACONSCONSECRATED PERSONSCHRISTIAN MARRIED ...
Pope Francis publishes, 'Joy of Love' a letter about faith and the family
Catholic Online - Featured News - Apr 8, 2016 at 12:00 am Today Pope Francis issued 'Amoris Laetitia,' a much anticipated letter in which he talks about issues central to the family including divorce, ...
Catholic Online is now offering a FREE download of Pope Francis' Apostolic Exhortation, 'AMORIS LAETITIA'
Catholic Online - Featured News - Apr 8, 2016 at 12:00 am Catholic Online is proud to offer you, direct from the Vatican, the FREE full PDF download of AMORIS LAETITIA, the post-synodal apostolic exhortation ...
MASS EXECUTION: ISIS slaughters nearly 2/3 of their recent captives
Catholic Online - Featured News - Apr 8, 2016 at 12:00 am ISIS is reported to have kidnapped 300 cement workers outside Damascus, Syria. Of the 300 workers, new reports indicate 175 have been killed.
Fr Tom's older brother speaks out on heartbreaking ISIS kidnapping
Catholic Online - Featured News - Apr 8, 2016 at 12:00 am As the entire world anxiously awaits a safe return of the ISIS kidnapped priest, Fr Thomas Uzhunnalil, his older brother continues to worry about the ...
Shocking sexual abuse of minors discovered in Taliban-run prisons
Catholic Online - Featured News - Apr 8, 2016 at 12:00 am Afghan intelligence operatives have discovered Taliban-run prisons in Helmand Province have been authorizing the sexual abuse of children - ...
Bernie Sanders invited to the Vatican to speak
Catholic Online - Featured News - Apr 8, 2016 at 12:00 am Democratic Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders will be visiting the Vatican next week to speak on economic issues and how to build en economy that ...
