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A Familiar Voice
Dominicana - Apr 4, 2016 at 5:30 am My grandfather passed away suddenly when I was only five years old. Knowing my parents, I must have seen a lot of him as an infant, but we had been living in Germany for three...
Pope Francis: Be missionaries of God's love
News.va - Apr 4, 2016 at 5:25 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has put a video on his Instagram account. It went up on Divine Mercy Sunday. It was a short clip taken from his video-message to the Cuban people...
God’s ‘excess of mercy’ prompts conversion, says cardinal
Catholic Herald - Apr 4, 2016 at 5:12 am By sending his son into the world to suffer and die, God used an “excess of mercy” to vanquish human beings’ lack of mercy, said Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schonborn.
The...
Pope asks bishops to set up new charities to mark Year of Mercy
Catholic Herald - Apr 4, 2016 at 5:06 am Pope Francis has asked Catholic dioceses around the world to set up a permanent memorial of the Year of Mercy by establishing a hospital, home for the aged or school in an under-...
Polish bishops press for full abortion ban
Catholic Herald - Apr 4, 2016 at 4:43 am Poland’s Catholic bishops have called for a permanent ban on abortions to mark the anniversary of their country’s Christian conversion in AD 966.
“Each person’s life is protected...
Daily Gospel Reflection for April 4, 2016 - The Annunciation of the Lord
CatholicMom.com - Apr 4, 2016 at 4:30 am
Today’s Gospel: Luke 1, 26-38 – The Annunciation of the Lord
I’ll never forget the night I got my very first positive pregnancy test. We had been trying to conceive since our...
Francis meets traditionalist Society of St. Pius X leader, who seeks ‘full communion’ definition
Vatican Insider - Apr 4, 2016 at 4:28 am Pope Francis has met with the leader of a traditionalist group of Catholic bishops and priests who have been separated from the wider Church for decades in opposition to the...
Pope announces special collection for Ukraine
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 4, 2016 at 4:04 am At the conclusion of Divine Mercy Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis prayed the Regina Caeli and announced a special collection in all European parishes on April 24...
Mother Teresa was heroic – but maybe not for the reasons you think
EWTN - Vatican News - Apr 4, 2016 at 4:02 am Vatican City, Apr 4, 2016 / 04:02 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
There are many things about Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta that could be called heroic – her tireless service to the...
Mother Teresa was heroic – but maybe not for the reasons you think
Catholic News Agency - General - Apr 4, 2016 at 4:02 am Vatican City, Apr 4, 2016 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- There are many things about Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta that could be called heroic – her tireless service to the...
3 Easy Ways to Pray with Your Spouse
Snoring Scholar - Apr 4, 2016 at 4:00 am Do you pray with your spouse?
Sure you do. You go to church together, right? And there’s no higher form of prayer than what you do as you worship God.
And you probably bow your...
Pope encourages dioceses to establish �institutional expressions' of mercy
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 4, 2016 at 3:50 am At the conclusion of the prayer vigil in St. Peter’s Square on the eve of Divine Mercy Sunday, Pope Francis encouraged each diocese to consider establishing an “institutional ...
Little Sisters encouraged by Supreme Court order
Catholic Herald - Apr 4, 2016 at 3:42 am Immediately after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Zubik v Burwell on March 23 challenging the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive requirement, the second-guessing began...
Pope Francis: works of mercy are �hallmarks of the Christian life'
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 4, 2016 at 3:36 am Celebrating the Mass of the Second Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday) in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis said that “we are all called to become living writers of the ...
God's mercy makes us �restless' to reach out to those in need, Pope says at vigil
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 4, 2016 at 3:07 am Pope Francis presided at a prayer vigil in St. Peter’s Square on the eve of Divine Mercy Sunday and reflected on the manifold expressions of God’s mercy.
“God never ...
Homily: ‘God was full of surprises when it came to Mother Angelica’
Catholic Herald - Apr 4, 2016 at 3:02 am During the homily at the funeral of Mother Angelica, the nun was praised for espousing “a practical spirituality for the man in the pew”.
With Mother Angelica having been...
Vatican message: the Church proclaims Christian hope to those with autism
Catholic Culture - World News - Apr 4, 2016 at 2:46 am The Church proclaims hope to those with autism and their families, Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski, president of the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care, said in a message...
Mary's 'yes' to God changed history, Pope Francis says
EWTN - Vatican News - Apr 4, 2016 at 2:31 am Vatican City, Apr 4, 2016 / 02:31 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Pope Francis marked the Feast of the Annunciation on Monday by reflecting on the power of Mary's "yes" to God.
Re-evaluating Today’s Human Rights Regime
Crisis Magazine - Church - Apr 4, 2016 at 2:20 am
Everybody favors human rights—the US, the EU, the UN, the leaders of the Church, and indeed all respectable public figures.
But what are they? There doesn’t seem to be a good...
When Lady Day Falls on Good Friday
Crisis Magazine - Church - Apr 4, 2016 at 2:10 am
“Sad and rejoiced she’s seen at once, and seen
At almost fifty and at scarce fifteen;
At once a Son is promised her, and gone;
Gabriel gives Christ to her, He her to John…”
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