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Question of the Week: Holy Week, 2016
CatholicMom.com - Mar 22, 2016 at 3:30 pm
In his Sunday homily, our deacon urged everyone to attend as many of the Triduum liturgies as possible to commemorate the events that mark Jesus’ Passion, death and resurrection...
SSPX leader: talks with Vatican continue, with Pope's support
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 22, 2016 at 3:29 pm The head of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) reports that conversations with the Vatican are continuing, and that Pope Francis has supported efforts to promote ...
Instead of Having Yourself Crucified, Practice Mercy, Bishops Tell Filipinos
Aleteia - Mar 22, 2016 at 3:29 pm It’s become one of the oddest TV spectacles for general viewers in the West on Good Friday: scores of Filipinos hanging from crosses in imitation of Jesus. And they use real nails...
Late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart sends fourth girl to hospital in four months: eyewitnesses
LifeSiteNews - Mar 22, 2016 at 3:17 pm Pro-life leaders are calling for his license to be suspended while authorities conduct a full investigation.
Archbishop Fisichella explains Pope's choice to wash feet of refugees
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 22, 2016 at 3:15 pm By washing the feet of refugees during the Mass of the Lord's Supper on Holy Thursday, Pope Francis is dramatizing the need to show respect for every person, argues Archbishop...
Priest-activist killed in Congo- had opposed illegal mineral trade
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 22, 2016 at 3:09 pm As Assumptionist priest who had led the fight against the exploitation of local mineral reserves in the Democratic Republic of Congo was killed on March 20, reportedly by members...
Madonna’s on-stage sexual abuse of minor girl exposes our culture’s ills: youth leader
LifeSiteNews - Mar 22, 2016 at 3:09 pm Society moves forward when women are accepted for their minds, their talents, their femininity, and their spiritual purity.
'Good Friday came early' – Catholic bishops mourn Brussels attacks
Catholic News Agency - General - Mar 22, 2016 at 3:06 pm Brussels, Belgium, Mar 22, 2016 / 02:06 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Holy Week terrorist attacks in Brussels on Tuesday led the city's bishops to mourn and reflect on the deadly...
HOLY THURSDAY: What is the foot washing ceremony and why does it matter?
Catholic Online - Featured News - Mar 22, 2016 at 3:00 pm Why did Jesus wash the Disciples' feet? It seems like such a humiliating task, yet it's also personal, almost intimate. That Jesus performed this ...
LIGHT A CANDLE FOR BRUSSELS
Catholic Online - Featured News - Mar 22, 2016 at 3:00 pm Join us in prayer for those who have suffered violence in Brussels, Belgium today. We invite you to light a candle for those who we've lost and for ...
Islam vs. The World: WORLD WAR 'ISLAM' HAS BEGUN (WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES)
Catholic Online - Featured News - Mar 22, 2016 at 3:00 pm The Third World War has begun, in spite of the fact that few people recognize it. The conflict isn't between communist and free, as we long expected, ...
St. Toribio Alfonso de Mogrovejo: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Catholic Online - Featured News - Mar 22, 2016 at 3:00 pm Bishop and defender of the rights of the native Indians in Peru, Born in Mayorga, Spain, he studied law and became a lawyer and then professor at ...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Catholic Online - Featured News - Mar 22, 2016 at 3:00 pm Reading 1: Isaiah 50:4-9, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 69:33-34, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 69:8-10, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 69:21-22, Responsorial ...
Prayer for the Church the Authorities, Etc...: Prayer of the Day for Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Catholic Online - Featured News - Mar 22, 2016 at 3:00 pm (Composed by Archbishop Carroll in 1800.)
We pray Thee, O Almighty and Eternal God,
who through Jesus Christ hast revealed Thy glory to all ...
My Daughter Survived the Abortion, 22 Years Later I’m So Glad She Did
LifeNews.com - Mar 22, 2016 at 2:59 pm I looked at the plus sign on the pregnancy test in disbelief… This couldn’t be happening. Just a short month before, I’d been told by an ob/gyn that I would need fertility...
North Carolina holding special session to overturn Charlotte ‘gender identity’ ordinance
LifeSiteNews - Mar 22, 2016 at 2:57 pm Governor Pat McCrory, a Republican, called the ordinance 'local government overreach.'
House of Lords balks at 'genocide' declaration
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 22, 2016 at 2:56 pm The British House of Lords blocked a move to declare that the Islamic State is guilty of genocide.
The proposal-- introduced as an amendment to the Immigration Bill-- fell by a...
CM Hangout #21: Catholic Faith Journey, Blogging, and Lenten Lessons with Kimberly Cook
CatholicMom.com - Mar 22, 2016 at 2:54 pm
This week on CatholicMom.com’s CM Hangout Podcast, co-hosts Erika Marie and Lisa Jones Hang Out with Kimberly Cook and chat all about blogging, Kimberly’s Catholic Faith Journey...
Why Don’t Suicide Prevention Efforts Also Decry Assisted Suicide?
LifeNews.com - Mar 22, 2016 at 2:52 pm Suicide prevention specialists continue to try and pretend that the ubiquitous pro-suicide advocacy in the media and popular culture doesn’t have an adverse impact on the field...
RNS looks at Mormon art: Vastly interesting, but what's the news hook right now?
GetReligion - Mar 22, 2016 at 2:45 pm
Ten years ago, I got to spend a whole day in Temple Square in downtown Salt Lake City, wandering about the gorgeous gardens and visiting all the sites that a non-Mormon could get...