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Papal prayers for refugees, Syria
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 29, 2016 at 4:36 am Following his February 28 Angelus address, Pope Francis called for prayers for refugees.
“My prayer, and undoubtedly yours as well, always includes the dramatic situation of ...
Daily Gospel Reflection for February 29, 2016
CatholicMom.com - Feb 29, 2016 at 4:30 am
Today’s Gospel: Luke 4, 24-30
In today’s Gospel Jesus rebukes his own people—the people of his hometown Nazareth—because of their hardness of heart. He challenges them for their...
Pope Francis: God awaits our conversion
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 29, 2016 at 4:28 am Reflecting on the day’s Gospel reading at Mass (Lk. 13:1-9), Pope Francis devoted his February 28 Angelus address to God’s patience in awaiting our conversion.
Christ ...
Place the person at the center of enterprise, Pope tells Italian businessmen
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 29, 2016 at 4:06 am Pope Francis challenged 7,000 members of the General Confederation of Italian Industry (Confindustria) to create a “real alternative the consumer model of profit at all costs” ...
Jewish and Muslim perspectives offered at Vatican Symposium
Vatican Insider - Feb 29, 2016 at 3:58 am Ten years after Benedict XVI’s first Encyclical,“Deus caritas est”, the Pontifical Council of Cor Unum, (created on the impetus of that Encyclical), organized a two day symposium...
Argentina's new president meets with Pope
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 29, 2016 at 3:48 am Pope Francis received President Mauricio Macri of Argentina in audience on February 27.
Macri, who assumed office in December, gave the Pope a poncho, a cross, and Argentine music...
Focolare in Asia: 50 years of building unity
Vatican Insider - Feb 29, 2016 at 3:33 am It is a story of friendship, of profound insight, of harmonies, of discreet work in proclaiming the Gospel of peace, and welcoming of the poor: this is the Focolare Movement in...
Pope visits drug-treatment center as part of �Friday of mercy' initiative
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 29, 2016 at 3:28 am Pope Francis made an unannounced visit on February 26 to the San Carlo community, a treatment facility for drug addicts operated by the Italian Center for Solidarity.
Accompanied...
Vatican paper lauds Spotlight as brave, not anti-Catholic
EWTN - Vatican News - Feb 29, 2016 at 3:28 am Vatican City, Feb 29, 2016 / 03:28 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- The film Spotlight, which won the Oscar for best picture on Sunday, is a courageous movie that is not anti-Catholic, the...
Pope to Oriental Orthodox leader: Ecumenism of martyrs calls us to unity
EWTN - Vatican News - Feb 29, 2016 at 3:04 am Vatican City, Feb 29, 2016 / 03:04 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Today's martyrs have become "the seed of Christian unity," Pope Francis said Monday during an audience with the leader of...
Presidential Politics and the Death of Character
Crisis Magazine - Church - Feb 29, 2016 at 2:50 am
In his 1974 book, The Roots of American Order, which he viewed as his contribution to America’s Bicentennial, the great scholar Russell Kirk said that the virtue and dignity of a...
Oscar-winner calls on Pope to ‘protect children and restore the faith’
Catholic Herald - Feb 29, 2016 at 2:46 am One of the producers of Spotlight, which won the Oscar for best picture at Sunday night’s ceremony, used his acceptance speech to call on Pope Francis and the Vatican to protect...
Trump and the Idolatry of Gigantism
Crisis Magazine - Church - Feb 29, 2016 at 2:45 am
Donald Trump is obsessed with winning big.
“We’re going to win so much. And I say it and I mean it. We’re going to win so much,” Trump said in a stump speech that had all the...
Trent’s Last Case by E. C. Bentley: First Among Mysteries?
Crisis Magazine - Church - Feb 29, 2016 at 2:40 am
London, 1936.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was dead, leaving the President’s Chair of the Detection Club vacant.
Under deep mourning, the bereaved club members assembled to nominate...
When are we human beings?
The Catholic Leader - Feb 29, 2016 at 1:28 am Marking the beginning of human life has become unnecessarily complex. But for women who have lost a child, whether early in a pregnancy or at the cusp of birth, the definition of...
Rome's US seminary welcomes new rector
EWTN - US Latest News - Feb 29, 2016 at 1:14 am Rome, Italy, Feb 29, 2016 / 01:14 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- The Pontifical North American College (NAC) on Sunday officially installed its new rector, Fr. Peter Harman.
If They Can Do It, So Can You: A Video to Inspire You Today
Aleteia - Feb 29, 2016 at 12:59 am Artist: Mandisa Just hold tight, fix your eyes on the one who holds your life. “If they can do it, so can you.” That’s what Mandisa wanted people to say to themselves when they...
LENTCAzT 20 – Monday of the 3rd Week of Lent: We have not the pluck
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 29, 2016 at 12:37 am
It is the Monday of the 3rd Week of Lent.
These 5 minute podcasts are intended to give you a daily boost in your discipline during this holy season, Lent.
http://www.wdtprs.com...
Felix Bisextilis!
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 29, 2016 at 12:05 am It is Leap Year Day. In Latin this is bisextilis.
For this intercalary day in the Roman Martyology we find this:
When there isn’t a 29 February, the saints are observed on 28...
Experiencing the Sacraments in Middle Earth
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Feb 29, 2016 at 12:00 am One quality of J.R.R. Tolkien’s work is what he described as a mythopoetic life, one he not only wrote about but lived. Jared Zimmerer reflects on the mythopoetic theme in a new...
