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Demented celebration takes place in Syria after Brussels terrorist attack
Catholic Online - Featured News - Mar 23, 2016 at 12:00 am After the Brussels airport attack, ISIS claimed responsibility, then released images of how they celebrated their "success."
'To all, I ask that you persevere in prayer': Pope Francis asks us to pray for ISIS militants
Catholic Online - Featured News - Mar 23, 2016 at 12:00 am Pope Francis calls us to pray for the victims of the Brussels attack and their families - and for the ISIS militants and their families, who have ...
Combox decorum: a metaphor
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Mar 22, 2016 at 11:17 pm Friends, just because you have some anonymity in these interwebs, that doesn’t give you free reign to be all crabby, and, you know, go at each other with knives in the combox.
It...
The Order and Symmetry in the Rosary
Integrated Catholic Life - Mar 22, 2016 at 11:04 pm I have been praying the Rosary ever since a lady named “Cookie” sent me a hand-made set of beads in the mail as a gift. I remember looking at the necklace contraption wondering...
Daily Lenten Reflection—Spy Wednesday and a Sense of Gratitude
Integrated Catholic Life - Mar 22, 2016 at 11:03 pm “Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them.” (Mark 14:10) Today is known as Spy Wednesday for it is believed that...
Catholic Quote of the Day — from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Integrated Catholic Life - Mar 22, 2016 at 11:02 pm “Only when we meet the living God in Christ do we know what life is. We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God....
Encountering the Word — Romans 11:15
Integrated Catholic Life - Mar 22, 2016 at 11:01 pm A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?” (Romans 11:15) Print...
Easter Must Wait; Let Us First Go to the Cross
Aleteia - Mar 22, 2016 at 11:00 pm Are you ready for Easter? I hope not. Let me explain. If, by “ready for Easter” we mean: I’m just so tired of Lent and I can’t wait to go back to all the stuff I “gave up” for...
“Gospel Hospitality” and One Refugee Family From Syria
Aleteia - Mar 22, 2016 at 11:00 pm When Kate Newton saw the photos of Aylan Kurdi, the Syrian toddler who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea last September, she began educating herself about the Syrian refugee crisis...
A Dying Friend, the Mass and the Witness in the Pub
Aleteia - Mar 22, 2016 at 11:00 pm Someone very dear to me was rushed to the emergency room two Sundays ago and found to be dying. My wife and I drove out to be with him and have sat for hours in his room on the...
National Pro-Life Group Organizes Good Friday Prayer Vigils Outside Abortion Clinics
Aleteia - Mar 22, 2016 at 11:00 pm This Friday many Christians will be in churches, commemorating the crucifixion of Christ. But in about 70 locations around the U.S., Christian and other pro-life activists will...
How Our “Holy Week of Darkness” Makes Our Kids Light up for Christ
Aleteia - Mar 22, 2016 at 11:00 pm In the Easter Vigil Mass, the pinnacle of the Church’s liturgy, one of my favorite moments is the singing of the Exultet. This ancient prayer poetically weaves through salvation...
Songs for Holy Week: Praying With a Broken Heart
Aleteia - Mar 22, 2016 at 11:00 pm “Now every step is grace. Only you could start a fire on such an empty mountainside.” Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Sarah Hart wrote the song “Praying With a Broken Heart” in...
A Launching Pad of a Parish
Aleteia - Mar 22, 2016 at 11:00 pm This may surprise those Catholics who compile dossiers on the outrages committed by fellow parishioners’ children — and those parents fearful that their broods have become objects...
Mercy for the Taking: Lining up to Confess
Aleteia - Mar 22, 2016 at 11:00 pm Monday, I took advantage of “Reconciliation Monday” in the greater New York area and went to confession at my favorite spot for the sacrament, St. Francis of Assisi, in midtown...
Record number brave the shave at St Columba’s
The Catholic Leader - Mar 22, 2016 at 10:08 pm SQUEALS of delight rang out at St Columba’s School, Wilston, as hair fell to the ground.Hair clippers buzzed as student after student made their way to the stage.Then the roar...
MS sufferer Fiona Ward prepares for emotional journey to walk again
The Catholic Leader - Mar 22, 2016 at 10:00 pm BUNDABERG mum Fiona Ward is hopefully five weeks away from walking without a cane or using a wheelchair for the first time in a year.The mother of three and parishioner at Holy...
Abbott to give public lecture for scholarship commemorating former headmaster
The Catholic Leader - Mar 22, 2016 at 9:00 pm FORMER prime minister Tony Abbott will help launch a memorial scholarship that pays tribute to his Sydney school headmaster, the late Jesuit Father Gregory Jordan.Mr Abbott will...
If That Stone Hadn't Been Moved
Creative Minority Report - Mar 22, 2016 at 7:41 pm I just came back from a Living Stations of the Cross done wonderfully by the eighth graders at our Catholic school. So moving. I couldn't help but think how different the world...
