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How can you tell if someone is demon-possessed?
Catholic News Agency - General - Mar 17, 2016 at 7:01 am Rome, Italy, Mar 17, 2016 / 06:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Recognizing the difference between a person who's possessed and a person struggling with a mental illness or other infirmity...
How can you tell if someone is demon-possessed?
EWTN - World Catholic News - Mar 17, 2016 at 7:01 am Rome, Italy, Mar 17, 2016 / 07:01 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Recognizing the difference between a person who's possessed and a person
struggling with a mental illness or other...
Small Success: Saying "Thank You"
CatholicMom.com - Mar 17, 2016 at 7:00 am From the past week:
I know God breaks into our lives every day. Last week, God opted to remind me: you are not in charge, I am not done with you, and I am always everywhere in all...
What’s inside this week’s magazine?
Catholic Herald - Mar 17, 2016 at 6:21 am Cover Story…
Gerard Russell says Mother Teresa’s nuns were victims of Yemen’s deadly politics
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Foot-washing breaks boundaries, says Thomas O’Loughlin
Jenny McCartney...
Kansas Passes Law Allowing Student Religious Groups To Limit Membership To Adherents
The Religion Clause - Mar 17, 2016 at 6:10 am The Kansas legislature yesterday gave final passage to SB 175 (full text) that is designed to allow student religious groups at colleges and universities to restrict their leaders...
Suit Against Dearborn Police On Forced Hijab Removal Is Withdrawn
The Religion Clause - Mar 17, 2016 at 6:05 am Last July, a Muslim woman filed a federal lawsuit against the Dearborn, Michigan police department charging that she was required to remove her headscarf (hijab) while being...
When God Chooses Your Lenten Penance
CatholicMom.com - Mar 17, 2016 at 6:00 am Image credit Michele Faehnle 2016.
In early February, when my family and I were discussing our Lenten plans, my husband suggested I give up my computer. “You’re addicted to that...
Many Claims of Non-Liturgical Navy Chaplains Are Dismissed; Several Claims Survive
The Religion Clause - Mar 17, 2016 at 6:00 am In In re Navy Chaplaincy, (D DC, March 16, 2016), a challenge to Navy procedures for selection and promotion of chaplains that has wound its way through the courts for over 16...
A Passion drama that lacks a sense of mystery
Catholic Herald - Mar 17, 2016 at 6:00 am Risen (12A, 107 mins, ★★★), set in 33AD, tells the story of Christ’s Crucifixion and Resurrection from an unusual perspective: that of an ambitious, battle-hardened Roman tribune...
Why foot-washing still shocks us
Catholic Herald - Mar 17, 2016 at 6:00 am Foot-washing has attracted more attention among Catholics recently than at any time in the past 1,500 years. Since his election in 2013, Pope Francis has emphasised the practice...
Mother Teresa’s martyrs
Catholic Herald - Mar 17, 2016 at 6:00 am Mother Teresa’s care home in Yemen’s southern city of Aden was opened in 1992, when its saintly founder was herself ailing. Sixty people, all elderly and many wheelchair-bound,...
At the moment of Jesus’s death we are embraced by God’s mercy
Catholic Herald - Mar 17, 2016 at 6:00 am Traditionally the liturgy of Holy Week begins outside the parish church with the blessing of palms. The subsequent procession into church, during this Year of Mercy, takes on an...
Liam Lawton on St. Patrick
Franciscan Media - Mar 17, 2016 at 6:00 am Beyond the colorful tales of snakes and shamrocks, what do we know about the real person? We turned to an Irish priest for answers, and found one with a story of his own. To...
Pope: “Hope sustains us so we don’t drown in life’s darkest moments”
Vatican Insider - Mar 17, 2016 at 5:41 am It is a humble but at the same time “strong”, essential and encouraging virtue that pulls us out of sad and difficult moments in life. It saves us from “drowning” in life’s...
Honor Roll School Hosts Conference Examining ‘Foundational Document on Catholic Education’
Catholic Education Daily - Mar 17, 2016 at 5:36 am Rhodora J. Donahue Academy in Ave Maria, Fla., a Catholic Education Honor Roll 2014 School of Excellence, is preparing to host a conference in May to examine and discuss the...
Lions and Wolves and Lambs, Oh My!
Dominicana - Mar 17, 2016 at 5:27 am “I am sending you out as lambs among wolves” -Luke 10:3 “It is right to make known the gift of God and his eternal consolation. It is right to spread abroad the name of God...
Fight root causes of terrorism, bishop says following Ankara bombing
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 17, 2016 at 5:18 am Following a car bomb explosion in Ankara that killed 37 people and injured over 100, the apostolic vicar of Anatolia said that “terrorism must be fought at its roots, not in its...
Open yourselves to friendship with Christ, Irish prelate says in St. Patrick's Day message
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 17, 2016 at 5:01 am Archbishop Eamon Martin, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, has issued his annual St. Patrick’s Day message.
“Although a small number of people attempt to drag ...
Obama to visit Havana's cathedral
Catholic Culture - World News - Mar 17, 2016 at 4:55 am President Barack Obama will visit Havana’s cathedral on Palm Sunday and meet with Cardinal Jaime Ortega, according to an Associated Press report.
The visit will take place on the...
Cardinal Sarah: ‘Priests are not obliged to wash women’s feet on Holy Thursday’
Catholic Herald - Mar 17, 2016 at 4:46 am Priest are not obliged to wash the feet of women during the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday, the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the...
