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Top Ten Sales Pitches for Pope's Fiat
Creative Minority Report - Mar 16, 2016 at 11:24 pm One of the two Fiats Pope Francis used during his visit to New York in September of last year will be driven in the New York Saint Patrick’s Day Parade today. Monsignor Robert...
Simplify Your Life
Integrated Catholic Life - Mar 16, 2016 at 11:04 pm Do you ever feel overwhelmed with all of the stress, responsibilities and challenges in your daily life? If I am honest with myself, the times I feel most anxious or stressed are...
Daily Lenten Reflection — Love of one’s Neighbor
Integrated Catholic Life - Mar 16, 2016 at 11:03 pm “He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor” (St. Bede the Venerable). Who is our neighbor? Do we even know our neighbor? In both urban and...
Daily Catholic Quote from G. K. Chesterton
Integrated Catholic Life - Mar 16, 2016 at 11:02 pm “We do not really want a religion that is right where we are right. What we want is a religion that is right where we are wrong.” (G. K. Chesterton) Print this entry
The Bitter and Blazing Tyranny of Social Misunderstanding
Aleteia - Mar 16, 2016 at 11:00 pm Among a multitude of quotes and prayer snippets I find personally sustaining and universally relevant is William Penn’s, “O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not...
Why This Suicide? “Lord, If You Had Been There…”
Aleteia - Mar 16, 2016 at 11:00 pm (God’s) help consists in helping us accept his presence and closeness to us. Day after day, touched by his compassion, we can also become compassionate to others.—Pope Francis,...
A Heavenly Drinking Song for the Feast of St. Patrick
Aleteia - Mar 16, 2016 at 11:00 pm Oh when the saints go marching in, they will behold a lake of beer, and they all will dive right in. It may not be the first of February as the opening line of the song would...
The Miracles of St. Patrick—How He Really Converted Ireland to Christianity
Aleteia - Mar 16, 2016 at 11:00 pm Ireland, which never had the knowledge of God, but up till now always adored idols and things unclean — how are they now made a people of the Lord, and are called children of God...
Lament of a Control Freak
Aleteia - Mar 16, 2016 at 11:00 pm Hi. My name is Elizabeth, and I’m a control freak. Somewhere along the way I decided it was righteous, even noble, to force help on folks who seemed incapable of making good...
You Won’t Find These Irish Lifting a Pint on St. Patrick’s Day
Aleteia - Mar 16, 2016 at 11:00 pm In the public imagination, Christmas is associated with reindeer, Valentine’s Day with roses and chocolates and St. Patrick’s Day with drunken revelry. ’Tain’t necessarily so,...
WATCH: Young Man With Down Has a Message for the World
Aleteia - Mar 16, 2016 at 11:00 pm Peter Harteveld is a young man from Holland with Down syndrome, and he has a message for the world: He wants others to know that he is sad about prenatal screening and that people...
Passiontide 2016 Photopost - Part 2
New Liturgical Movement - Mar 16, 2016 at 10:39 pm Today, we have part 2 of the Passiontide Photopost for 2016, closing out our set of photoposts for this last period of lent. Thanks again to the readers who sent in pictures of...
Obama announces Supreme Court nominee, puts ball in Senate’s ‘court’
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Mar 16, 2016 at 8:32 pm When President Barack Obama announced Judge Merrick Garland as his Supreme Court nominee in the White House Rose Garden March 16, his praise for the candidate was coupled with an...
Obama's Nominee To Supreme Court Has Said Little On Religious Freedom Issues
The Religion Clause - Mar 16, 2016 at 6:11 pm Today President Obama nominated Chief Judge Merrick Garland to fill the seat of the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court. (President's remarks announcing the...
Yes, unborn babies can feel pain at 20 weeks, doctors testify
Catholic News Agency - General - Mar 16, 2016 at 5:27 pm Washington D.C., Mar 16, 2016 / 04:27 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- As the Senate considers a bill protecting unborn human life past 20 weeks of pregnancy, medical experts insist these...
Abortion Activist: Child Surviving Abortion Shouldn’t Necessarily Receive “All Available Medical Care”
LifeNews.com - Mar 16, 2016 at 5:26 pm Abortion activists believe the decision to kill an unborn baby in the womb should be between a woman and her doctor. However, some believe women and doctors should be able to make...
Audible Gasps Heard in Court as Woman Describes How She Killed Her Newborn Baby
LifeNews.com - Mar 16, 2016 at 5:10 pm A Staten Island prosecutor drew gasps on Monday as she described to the court how police found the body of a baby girl with her thumb next to her mouth in the trash last weekend....
Meet the op shop volunteers who have given $200,000 to Aussie international aid agency
The Catholic Leader - Mar 16, 2016 at 5:00 pm AGNES Hough was a nurse all her working life. When the 81-year-old retired 24 years ago she was snapped up to run a unique charity shop, and she’s been working there ever since.“I...
Muslims are pretty much like the rest of us: RNS steps lightly through new survey
GetReligion - Mar 16, 2016 at 5:00 pm
Despite the furor by Donald Trump and Ted Cruz over Muslims, those believers are pretty much like other Americans, according to a Religion News Service story on a new survey of...
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley: I’ll Sign Bill to Ban Abortions After 20 Weeks
LifeNews.com - Mar 16, 2016 at 4:36 pm South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is getting her pen ready to sign a bill that would protect unborn babies from painful, late-term abortions.
The pro-life governor told the...
