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Joy Lost, But Never Stolen
Aleteia - Apr 5, 2016 at 11:00 pm What can you have that can be lost but not stolen? I’ll give you a few minutes to think about that … Would you like a hint? It’s not anything physical … It’s joy. Joy can be lost...
Holy Week notes - On the tiny (but growing) number of TLM locations celebrating the pre-1956 Holy Week
Rorate Coeli - Apr 5, 2016 at 10:40 pm Palm Sunday procession at the FSSP personal parish in Rome, March 20, 2016.The prelate is Archbishop François Bacqué, Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus.One of the Holy Week "traditions"...
Ted Cruz Defeats Donald Trump by 16-Point Margin in Wisconsin After Pro-Life Endorsements
LifeNews.com - Apr 5, 2016 at 10:23 pm Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz handily defeated rival Donald Trump in Wisconsin — winning by 16 percentage points after multiple pro-life groups endorsed him. Media...
Cairns diocese reboots its website
The Catholic Leader - Apr 5, 2016 at 9:53 pm COMMUNICATION is the key attribute for Cairns diocese re-designed website www.cairns.catholic.org.au.Cairns diocese digital communications officer Vicki Crockett said the visually...
Five more join the Divine Word Missionaries
The Catholic Leader - Apr 5, 2016 at 9:12 pm FIVE young men have taken their perpetual vows as Divine Word Missionaries over the past year and all five will be sent out from Australia to take up missionary assignments in...
Dominicans have been on earth for 800 years
The Catholic Leader - Apr 5, 2016 at 9:06 pm In 1215 the Magna Carta was signed at Runnymede and in Rome the Fourth Lateran Council declared that no new religious order was to be founded unless it accepted an already...
Being Marta Von Trapp
The Catholic Leader - Apr 5, 2016 at 9:00 pm HOW does Marta Von Trapp make her big entrance on stage for the world’s favourite musical?With prayer, of course.“Well, we say our lines before we say our prayers, and then we say...
The day I put on my habit was the day I “put on Christ”
The Catholic Leader - Apr 5, 2016 at 8:56 pm NO matter how long I have followed Christ in religious life, I am officially called a Sister of St Paul de Chartres only from the day I took the religious habit – to “put on...
My journey on a convent crawl
The Catholic Leader - Apr 5, 2016 at 8:48 pm THE first question I ever asked a religious sister was, “What kind of face-wash do you use?” I was 14, and flabbergasted that anyone could look so luminous without make-up. The...
Immigration Department’s $6 million asylum seeker movie is at odds with Pope Francis’ Good Friday act
The Catholic Leader - Apr 5, 2016 at 7:54 pm POPE Francis humbly washed the feet of people seeking asylum during Holy Week while a taxpayer-funded film, commissioned by the Federal Government to deter asylum seeking, made a...
Sodalitium community declares founder is guilty of abuse accusations
Catholic News Agency - General - Apr 5, 2016 at 7:06 pm Lima, Peru, Apr 5, 2016 / 06:06 pm (CNA).- The superior general of the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae released on Tuesday a video statement confirming that the founder of the...
Catholic refugee advocates: End immigration detention of children
The Catholic Leader - Apr 5, 2016 at 6:36 pm REFUGEE advocates have demanded the Federal Government put an end to children ever being held in immigration detention again.The detention of children has been described as a...
UNFPA hands out 22,000 abortifacient kits to displaced Nigerian women
LifeSiteNews - Apr 5, 2016 at 6:33 pm The abortifacients are for 'the clinical management of rape.'
Question of the Week: April 5, 2016
CatholicMom.com - Apr 5, 2016 at 6:30 pm
Just over a week ago on Easter Sunday, Mother Angelica, a pioneer in Catholic media, passed away after a long illness. Many people have shared about the positive influence Mother...
China's Catholics worried about potential betrayal from Rome
The Busy Catholic - Apr 5, 2016 at 6:15 pm China's six million 'illegal' Catholics cautious of thaw between Vatican and Beijing
Villagers attend an underground Palm Sunday service in Youtong villager, Shijiazhuang. (Photo...
Fresh off victory, abortion lobbyists push for more in PEI
LifeSiteNews - Apr 5, 2016 at 6:09 pm ‘The abortion industry has a limitless demand for abortion,’ said Campaign Life Coalition.
Entrepreneur, father of nine to serve as dean of CUA business school
Catholic News Agency - General - Apr 5, 2016 at 6:03 pm Washington D.C., Apr 5, 2016 / 05:03 pm (CNA).- The Catholic University of America’s new dean of the School of Business and Economics says that he hopes to integrate the Church’s...
North Carolina's "Papers, Please" Bathroom Bill
Commonweal - Apr 5, 2016 at 5:56 pm In what seems like a case of legislative "gay panic," North Carolina hastily called its legislature into a special session March 23 for the first time in 35 years. The issue? The...
Obama admin warns Florida not to defund Planned Parenthood
LifeSiteNews - Apr 5, 2016 at 5:51 pm But Florida's only the latest in Obama's fight against the effort to defund the abortion giant.
Vatican to host first-ever conference to reevaluate just war theory, justifications for violence
Vatican Insider - Apr 5, 2016 at 5:30 pm The Vatican will be hosting a first of its kind conference next week to reexamine the Catholic Church’s long-held teachings on just war theory, bringing some 80 experts engaged in...
