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Fr. Harrison: Palm Sunday Mass Mob at Historic St. Mary of Victories
St. Louis Areopagus - Archdiocesan Blog - Mar 21, 2016 at 3:24 pm Historic St. Mary of Victories Catholic Church in downtown, the second oldest church in the City of St. Louis, hosted a special “Mass Mob” on Palm Sunday, March 20. It was the 6th...
Muslim restorers feel history in work on mosaics above Jesus’ burial site
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Mar 21, 2016 at 3:22 pm JERUSALEM — It’s quiet and dark in the cavernous gallery above Jesus’ burial place in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
A student from the Jericho Mosaic Center cleans a...
Remembering Father Virgil
OSV Daily Take - Mar 21, 2016 at 3:17 pm A friend died this past week. He was 80 years old. He took his own life. I do not know if there is a more horrible sentence that one can write about a friend. It writhes with...
Media gag order: In Georgia religious liberty flap, one side is played up, the other shouted down
GetReligion - Mar 21, 2016 at 3:00 pm
So Georgia passed their hotly debated religious freedom bill, allowing faith-based objections to serving gays. What could be stronger than the voice of the people?
At least two...
Pro-Life Protester Who Yelled So Loudly He Disrupted Abortions Can’t Dismiss Lawsuit Against Him
LifeNews.com - Mar 21, 2016 at 2:48 pm The State of Maine is suing a pro-life protester for “disrupting health care services” with his yelling outside of a Portland abortion facility. Brian Ingalls, 26, recently made a...
PODCAzT 142: It’s Nazi Germany, it’s 1937, you are Catholic, and you are afraid. Mit brennender Sorge!
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Mar 21, 2016 at 2:38 pm Fr. John Hunwicke, at his fine blog Mutual Enrichment, reminds us all that on this liturgical day, Monday of Holy Week, in 1937…
… the Gestapo raided diocesan offices and...
Doctor Said He Was “Sorry” My Twins Had Down Syndrome, But I Wouldn’t Trade Them for Anything
LifeNews.com - Mar 21, 2016 at 2:35 pm Every child is special, and Jodi and Matt Parry know that even better than most parents. They are mum and dad to identical twin girls, Abigail and Isobel, who also have Down’s...
Citizen Obama
Commonweal - Mar 21, 2016 at 2:23 pm A snarling and disproportionately vocal segment of the populace will exult when Barack Obama leaves the White House in January 2017. Whether they will be correspondingly welcoming...
Breathless in Faith
CatholicMom.com - Mar 21, 2016 at 2:00 pm Since Thanksgiving, which is to say, since the start of this Liturgical Year, I have been running again. I started out slow, just a mile or so. Sometimes I would even stop to walk...
Easter Homily
Big C Catholics - Mar 21, 2016 at 1:53 pm Sunday's homily is usually published well in advance of the Sabbath. Due to the solemnity of Holy Week — and its remembrance of the final acts of Christ's earthly ministry;...
Must-see photos of Washington’s Planned Parenthood building demolished
LifeSiteNews - Mar 21, 2016 at 1:50 pm 'My prayer is that every Planned Parenthood will end up on the scrapheap of history like this!' Rev. Patrick Mahoney said.
Solemnity of St. Joseph marked at Norwalk
New Liturgical Movement - Mar 21, 2016 at 1:48 pm The Solemnity of St. Joseph was celebrated at St. Mary's Church (Norwalk, CT) with a 9 a.m. Missa Cantata, and a large congregation of parishioners and devotees. The mass was...
Holy Week at Kensington Carmelite Monastery, San Francisco Bay Area
New Liturgical Movement - Mar 21, 2016 at 1:39 pm Then Nuns at Prayer As much of the Paschal Triduum at the Carmel of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, will be in the traditional Dominican or Roman Rites, readers of...
Rule of St. Benedict on Lent
Saint Louis Catholic - Mar 21, 2016 at 1:32 pm Because the Feast of St. Benedict gives way this year to Holy Week, I wanted to post the great Saint's Rule as it applies to Lent. Though Lent is almost over, this excerpt is...
Dominican Stabat Mater
New Liturgical Movement - Mar 21, 2016 at 1:18 pm Nuns Singing in the Bologna MSAs Good Friday is approaching and many churches sing the Stabat Mater at Stations of the Cross, I thought it would be suitable to reprint the...
Twal: “There is no genocide of Christians going on in the Middle East”
Vatican Insider - Mar 21, 2016 at 1:08 pm “I do not agree with the use of the term ‘genocide of Christians’ to describe what is going on in the Middle East. The statement comes too late, when everything has already...
Why we Suffer and How to Respond
CatholicMom.com - Mar 21, 2016 at 1:00 pm
Why do we suffer? This is probably the most asked question, even if we don’t always ask it out loud. When we see suffering or experience it ourselves, many look up to God in...
Kasich: All You Deranged People Who Believe What I Say, Stop Doing That
Creative Minority Report - Mar 21, 2016 at 12:58 pm Y'know, I'm starting to think John Kasich is kind of a jerk who hates regular people. So Kasich said in numerous interviews that he would consider nominating Obama's nominee to...
Why are abortion advocates praising Obama’s SCOTUS nominee Merrick Garland?
LifeSiteNews - Mar 21, 2016 at 12:48 pm A deeper look into Merrick Garland shows that pro-lifers have every reason to hold the line against filling the vacancy until the next president has taken office.
Pope Francis receives Grand Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg
News.va - Mar 21, 2016 at 12:41 pm (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis received the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Henri Albert Gabriel Fèlix Marie Guillaume and his wife, Grand Duchess Maria Teresa Mestre, on Monday.
The...
