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Encountering the Word — John 14:15-17
Integrated Catholic Life - Mar 17, 2016 at 11:01 pm A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. This...
The Pastry No One Can Resist on St. Joseph’s Day
Aleteia - Mar 17, 2016 at 11:00 pm St. Joseph’s Day is March 19, and one of the traditional foods to celebrate the day is an Italian pastry called Sfingi di San Giuseppe. Sfingi (pronounced sfINgy) is basically a...
Former Lutheran Pastor: “Why I Am Becoming Catholic…”
Aleteia - Mar 17, 2016 at 11:00 pm For thirty years I labored away in parish ministry as a Lutheran pastor. Then for another four years, I was a district dean for the North American Lutheran Church (a supervisory...
We Are Not Subjects of the King but Children
Aleteia - Mar 17, 2016 at 11:00 pm You have opened the eyes of my heart. You opened the heavens and you sent your light. In his book Jesus of Nazareth, pope emeritus Benedict XVI said that Christ’s throne is the...
How to Pick a Catholic Bible
Aleteia - Mar 17, 2016 at 11:00 pm Let’s envision a common scene: shortly after the Easter Vigil a new convert walks into a Catholic bookstore and asks to see their bibles. A friendly sales associate points them...
Harvard Meets Pope Francis As Rome Hosts Model UN
Aleteia - Mar 17, 2016 at 11:00 pm VATICAN CITY — A privileged education is for the pursuit of wisdom and the service of others, especially the most vulnerable and disadvantaged, Pope Francis told university...
Damien Jurado’s Dizzying, Eerie and Ecstatic Journey
Aleteia - Mar 17, 2016 at 11:00 pm Damien Jurado’s intimate 2012 album Maraqopa and its 2014 sequel Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son gave us as broad a range of moods as music has to offer, from the drowsy...
Don't let the devil divide us, pope tells Neocatechumenal Way
OSV Daily Take - Mar 17, 2016 at 11:00 pm VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The church is holy, but the devil loves to tempt its human members to be proud and judgmental, which sows division, Pope Francis told members of the...
Politics Today: Looking for Messiahs in All the Wrong Places
Aleteia - Mar 17, 2016 at 11:00 pm Watching the bizarre personality cults being built around our political candidates, I’m wondering, “Has our country gone crazy?” Gone are the days of dull-but-decent candidates...
Kerry’s Finding of Genocide Against Christians Hailed by Human Rights Advocates
Aleteia - Mar 17, 2016 at 11:00 pm U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry declared Thursday that the Islamic State group is responsible for genocide against Christians and several other religious minorities in Syria...
Notre Dame Priest, Winner of Laetare Medal, Reportedly Commits Suicide
Creative Minority Report - Mar 17, 2016 at 10:14 pm This is the last thing you want to hear. Awful. Awful. Awful.Fox28:A priest on the faculty at the University of Notre Dame died Monday in San Antonio from an apparent suicide....
Palm (Passion) Sunday: 9 Things to Know and Share!
Jimmy Akin.org - Mar 17, 2016 at 9:40 pm Palm Sunday–or is it Passion Sunday?–marks the beginning of Holy Week.
This day commemorates not one but two very significant events in the life of Christ.
Here are 9 things you...
Dulcinea Variation Don Quixote Act 2
Homeschool Goodies - Mar 17, 2016 at 8:30 pm It's tutu time again!
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Iona’s Passion Play returns home for Easter
The Catholic Leader - Mar 17, 2016 at 8:25 pm FOR more than 50 years the Iona passion play has travelled Australia, and this year the iconic Easter event is returning to its birthplace, Iona College.Founded by Oblate Fr...
Spike in opioid-linked deaths demands action, Mass. bishops say
Catholic News Agency - General - Mar 17, 2016 at 7:55 pm Boston, Mass., Mar 17, 2016 / 06:55 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- There’s a major increase in opioid-related deaths in Massachusetts – and it demands an urgent response, said the state’s...
The Exhortation of Desolation is Coming And It's Gonna Be Bad
Creative Minority Report - Mar 17, 2016 at 7:36 pm According to La Stampa, the Apostolic exhortation following the synods, all two hundred friggin pages of it. will be signed this week and published in April.AND. IT. IS. GONNA. BE...
Mater Dolorosa, Ora pro Nobis!
Rorate Coeli - Mar 17, 2016 at 7:00 pm SassoferratoMater Dolorosa(On the Friday of Our Lady of Sorrows - Personal recess for several weeks)
March 18: Optional Memorial of St. Cyril of Jerusalem
Big C Catholics - Mar 17, 2016 at 6:45 pm Little is known about Cyril's early life prior to his episcopacy. He was born in c. 313 to a Christian family and spent his formative years in Jerusalem. Later, he belonged to a...
The Secret to Ending Euthanasia: Valuing the Elderly
CatholicMom.com - Mar 17, 2016 at 6:30 pm
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Life expectancy has increased significantly over the past several decades and people live longer now than they did even 50 years ago...
