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Mary Reaches Out to Us: A Reflection for the Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A
Big C Catholics - Nov 12, 2017 at 12:00 pm By Fr. René J. Butler, M.S.Provincial Superior, La Salette Missionaries of North America(Proverbs 31:10-31; 1 Thessalonians 5:1-6; Matthew 25:14-30)The last verses of the Book of...
Homily for the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, November 19, 2017, Year A
Big C Catholics - Nov 12, 2017 at 12:00 pm Fr. Charles IrvinSenior PriestDiocese of Lansing(Click here for today’s readings)The gospel accounts of last weekend, this weekend and next weekend are all taken from the 24th and...
Thinker at Poynter.org proclaims: There's no need for 'balance' in abortion reporting
GetReligion - Nov 12, 2017 at 11:05 am
I've been thinking about this weekend think piece for quite some time.
The key to this post, according to journalists with whom I have discussed the topic, is that the think...
Murder on the Orient Express
Franciscan Media - Nov 12, 2017 at 10:56 am NEW YORK (CNS) — A formidable list of actors, including Albert Finney, Peter Ustinov and David Suchet, have taken on the role of Agatha Christie’s famed Belgian detective, Hercule...
Recent Prisoner Free Exercise Cases
The Religion Clause - Nov 12, 2017 at 9:48 am In Garner v. Muenchow, (7th Cir., Nov. 8, 2017), the 7th Circuit reversed a Wisconsin federal district court grant of summary judgment for defendants in a suit in which a Muslim...
Cardinal Parolin invokes God's wisdom on the US bishops
EWTN - US Latest News - Nov 12, 2017 at 9:38 am Baltimore, Md., Nov 12, 2017 / 09:38 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Speaking to the US bishops gathered for the opening Mass of their plenary assembly on Sunday, the Vatican Secretary of...
The Vatican calls for integral nuclear disarmament
News.va - Nov 12, 2017 at 9:12 am (Vatican Radio) The Vatican is calling for integral nuclear disarmament. According to the preliminary conclusions of a just-ended high level symposium entitled “Prospects for a...
Smoking and Saints
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Nov 12, 2017 at 8:51 am Pope Francis decided to ban, as of 2018, the sale of cigarettes in Vatican City (cheaper for employees which leads, of course, to a black market). Cigarettes are bad for people...
Pope at Angelus: 'charity fuels faith making it fruitful and credible'
News.va - Nov 12, 2017 at 8:30 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Sunday told the faithful that in order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, we must be ready to meet with the Lord.
Listen to the report by Linda...
WDTPRS – 23rd Sunday after Pentecost: SNIP!
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Nov 12, 2017 at 8:15 am During his Sunday Angelus address today, 12 Nov, the Pope asked the sort of question that Popes ought to ask, especially at this time of the liturgical year, when we focus more...
If you died today, are you ready? Pope Francis asks
EWTN - Vatican News - Nov 12, 2017 at 7:36 am Vatican City, Nov 12, 2017 / 07:36 am (EWTN News/CNA).- On Sunday Pope Francis encouraged people not to wait to reflect on their lives, but to ask themselves: If this was my last...
Friends of the Tridentine Mass in Jupiter, Florida
New Liturgical Movement - Nov 12, 2017 at 7:00 am NLM was asked to post the following announcement for our readers in Florida.If you are near the North Palm Beach county area, join us for Mass on Mondays at 12 pm in the chapel at...
“Faith alone is not enough, love for one's neighbour is needed”
Vatican Insider - Nov 12, 2017 at 6:45 am "The condition for being ready for the encounter with the Lord is not only faith, but a Christian life rich in love for one's neighbour," Francis says at today’s Angelus. To the...
If you died today, are you ready? Pope Francis asks
Catholic News Agency - General - Nov 12, 2017 at 6:36 am Vatican City, Nov 12, 2017 / 05:36 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Sunday Pope Francis encouraged people not to wait to reflect on their lives, but to ask themselves: If this was my last...
Daily Gospel Reflection for November 12, 2017 - 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
CatholicMom.com - Nov 12, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: Matthew 25:1-13 – 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
One of my favorite priests has a favorite saying: God has no grandchildren.
At first it seems a little cold – of...
I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.
Aleteia - Nov 12, 2017 at 3:00 am Pope Francis
Pope sends handwritten letter to blind soldier
Catholic Herald - Nov 12, 2017 at 1:53 am Pope Francis has sent a handwritten letter to a Colombian soldier who lost his sight during the country’s civil war. The Pope met Edwin Restrepo, a retired marine, during his...
The Future of the World NEEDS Families: Pope Francis sends dire message
Catholic Online - Featured News - Nov 12, 2017 at 12:00 am The future of the Church and the world is dependent on the good of the family, said Pope Francis in a video message Saturday.
Solanus Casey—Model for Our Times
Integrated Catholic Life - Nov 11, 2017 at 11:04 pm Venerable Solanus Casey, O.F.M. Cap. was a holy Catholic priest whose faith and passion for the Lord and his poor were deep and abiding; and guided by an absolute trust in God’s...
Encountering the Word — Matthew 25:13
Integrated Catholic Life - Nov 11, 2017 at 11:01 pm “Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.” (Matthew 25:13) Please share on social media. Print this entry
