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Good Friday: Pope laments Christians �burned alive, throats slit and decapitated'
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 28, 2016 at 6:10 am Pope Francis presided at the Way of the Cross in the Colosseum on Good Friday evening.
The Pontiff concluded with a prayer in which he invoked the Cross of Christ 30 times.
He ...
More Recent Prisoner Free Exercise Cases
The Religion Clause - Mar 28, 2016 at 6:05 am In Greenhill v. Clarke, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 37439 (WD VA, March 23, 2016), a Virginia federal district court refused to grant a preliminary injunction to a Muslim inmate...
Mother Angelica stood in a great tradition of formidable nuns who got things done
Catholic Herald - Mar 28, 2016 at 6:02 am Mother Angelica, the foundress of the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), has died, fittingly on Easter Sunday. She had been incapacitated for some years by a stroke. There is...
Prayer Corner: March 28, 2016
CatholicMom.com - Mar 28, 2016 at 6:00 am
Welcome to the CatholicMom.com Prayer Corner!
In this space, readers are invited to share their prayer intentions and give thanks for prayers answered. When requesting prayer,...
Recent Articles of Interest
The Religion Clause - Mar 28, 2016 at 6:00 am From SSRN:
Avishalom Westreich, An International Perspective on Same-Sex Marriage Post Obergefell (and Some Thoughts on Legal Positivism as a Means of Reconciliation): The Israeli...
Reconcile with God, resurrect hope, pope urges at Easter
Franciscan Media - Mar 28, 2016 at 6:00 am VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Easter is a feast of hope, a celebration of God's mercy and a call to pray for and assist all who suffer, Pope Francis said before giving his solemn blessing...
Mother Angelica, founder of EWTN, dies after long illness
Franciscan Media - Mar 28, 2016 at 6:00 am BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (CNS) -- Mother Angelica, who founded the Eternal Word Television Network and turned it into one of the world's largest religious media operations, died March 27...
Horrific Easter bombing seen as a crossroad for Pakistan
EWTN - World Catholic News - Mar 28, 2016 at 5:56 am Lahore, Pakistan, Mar 28, 2016 / 05:56 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Religious freedom advocates have condemned the Easter Sunday bombing in Pakistan that killed more than 70, while...
Pope condemns 'cowardly' attack on Pakistani Christians
EWTN - Vatican News - Mar 28, 2016 at 5:52 am Vatican City, Mar 28, 2016 / 05:52 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Pope Francis on Monday mourned the loss of life in Pakistan, where more
than 70 people – mostly women and children -- were...
Pope Francis condemns terrorist attack against Pakistani Christians
News.va - Mar 28, 2016 at 5:50 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Easter Monday called for pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square to pause for a moment of prayer for the victims of the terrorist attack in Lahore, Pakistan...
Pope condemns 'cowardly' attack on Pakistani Christians
Catholic News Agency - General - Mar 28, 2016 at 5:48 am Vatican City, Mar 28, 2016 / 04:48 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis on Monday mourned the loss of life in Pakistan, where more than 70 people – mostly women and children -- were...
Pope dines with Roman priests
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 28, 2016 at 5:44 am For the fourth consecutive year, Pope Francis went to the apartment of Archbishop Giovanni Angelo Becciu on Holy Thursday following the morning Chrism Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica...
Holy Thursday: Pope washed feet of Christians, Muslims, and Hindu from 8 nations
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 28, 2016 at 5:15 am During the Mass of the Lord’s Supper at a refugee center in Castelnuovo di Porto, Pope Francis washed the feet of 12 persons from eight nations.
The 12, according to the Vatican...
Good Friday: papal preacher reflects on �existential and personal' reconciliation
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 28, 2016 at 4:43 am Pope Francis presided at the Celebration of the Passion of the Lord at St. Peter’s Basilica on Good Friday.
As is customary, the preacher to the papal household, Father Raniero ...
Daily Gospel Reflection for March 28, 2016
CatholicMom.com - Mar 28, 2016 at 4:30 am Today’s Gospel: Matthew 28, 8-15
They had seen the empty tomb. They had witnessed a miracle. They left in search of the other disciples, “fearful yet overjoyed.”
That’s what...
Francis laments 'cowardly and senseless' Easter killings in Pakistan
Vatican Insider - Mar 28, 2016 at 4:28 am Pope Francis has lamented what he has called the "cowardly and senseless" killings of at least 70 people, mostly Christians, celebrating the Easter holiday in a public park in...
Easter Sunday bombing aimed at Christians kills 70 people
Catholic Herald - Mar 28, 2016 at 4:23 am The death toll from a massive suicide bombing targeting Christians gathered on Easter in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore rose to 70 on Monday as the country started observing...
Belgian primate cautions against hatred of Islam
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 28, 2016 at 4:19 am The people of Belgium remain in a state of “shock” and “anguish” following the recent terrorist attacks, but are not vengeful, Archbishop Jozef De Kesel of ...
'The shenanigans' at Mother Angelica's first vows
Catholic News Agency - General - Mar 28, 2016 at 4:03 am Irondale, Ala., Mar 28, 2016 / 03:03 am (CNA/EWTN News).- If you picture a nun's first profession of vows, you probably picture a serene, peaceful affair with the sisters singing...
Benedict XVI responds to Mother Angelica's death
EWTN - Vatican News - Mar 28, 2016 at 3:54 am Vatican City, Mar 28, 2016 / 03:54 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Benedict XVI had a special response to Mother Angelica's death falling on Easter Sunday: "it's a gift."
