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Mary’s Hands: How the Star of the Sea Inspires My Motherhood
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 28, 2016 at 11:04 pm Their hands were intertwined, mother and daughter. They hadn’t seen each other for months, though they talked frequently on the phone, and there was something in the twisting of...
Daily Lenten Reflection — Heaven and Earth Will Pass Away
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 28, 2016 at 11:03 pm “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away” (Matthew 24:35). How important it is to be reminded of our place and the place of creation in God’s Providence....
Catholic Quote of the Day — from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 28, 2016 at 11:02 pm “We must trust in the mighty power of God’s mercy. We are all sinners, but His grace transforms us and makes us new.” (Pope Benedict XVI, Twitter, February 10, 2013) Print this...
Encountering the Word — Ephesians 1:3-10
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 28, 2016 at 11:01 pm A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, ...
No Man Is an Island
Aleteia - Feb 28, 2016 at 11:00 pm As part of the Jubilee Year of Mercy, Aleteia has been sharing 56 ways we can show mercy in our everyday lives — a little more than one for each week of the year. This week has us...
Why We (Still) Home School
Aleteia - Feb 28, 2016 at 11:00 pm My wife and I home school our children for many reasons. Those reasons are moral. Educational. Financial. And they are all significant. But when Mater et Magistra asked me to...
Catholic Extension’s Mercy Video Project Highlights the Power of Prayer
Aleteia - Feb 28, 2016 at 11:00 pm For more than 110 years Catholic Extension has worked to support and strengthen dioceses across the United States that are financially struggling. The papal society is dedicated...
Communion for Divorced and Remarried Catholics: How Might Pope Francis Handle It?
Aleteia - Feb 28, 2016 at 11:00 pm VATICAN CITY — How will Pope Francis deal with the crucial and controversial question of Holy Communion for divorced and remarried Catholics in his upcoming post-synodal apostolic...
Western Hemisphere bishops seek ways to boost 'encounter with Christ'
OSV Daily Take - Feb 28, 2016 at 11:00 pm TAMPA, Fla. (CNS) -- Fourteen bishops from the United States, Latin America and Canada explored ways to invite the faithful into what Pope Francis has called "an encounter with...
A Supreme Court vacancy and a power struggle
OSV Daily Take - Feb 28, 2016 at 11:00 pm To no one’s particular surprise, the process of filling the Supreme Court vacancy created by Antonin Scalia’s death has morphed into a huge Washington-style power struggle. What...
Cardinal tells Australian abuse hearing he won't defend indefensible
OSV Daily Take - Feb 28, 2016 at 11:00 pm SYDNEY (CNS) -- The Vatican's prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy, Cardinal George Pell, told a special hearing of Australia's Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses...
Saying no to the Need-Needy
Aleteia - Feb 28, 2016 at 11:00 pm 10) Be generous enough to allow someone to help you; people need to feel needed.—56 Ways to Be Merciful in the Jubilee Year of Mercy This year, for whatever reason, has been a...
Photos from Memorial Mass for Justice Antonin Scalia
Jeff Geerling's Blog - Feb 28, 2016 at 10:44 pm Yesterday I was invited by a friend to photograph the Memorial Mass for Justice Antonin Scalia at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis. Justice Scalia was a Catholic first and...
Saint Pio Foundation
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 28, 2016 at 7:23 pm I am in Los Angeles for a fundraising event and concert in support of the Saint Pio Foundation which supports the magnificent hospital Italy and legacy of the great saint.
How...
Homily for the 4th Sunday in Lent, March 6, 2016, Year C
Big C Catholics - Feb 28, 2016 at 7:00 pm Fr. Charles Irvin
Senior Priest
Diocese of Lansing
(Click here for today’s readings)
There are three characters that in this parable Jesus is asking us to examine. Actually, Jesus...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 29/02/16
Catholic Herald - Feb 28, 2016 at 6:01 pm Pope Francis urged European countries facing a migrant crisis to “share the burden fairly” during his Angelus address on Sunday (full video).
The Pope prayed before the coffin of...
Pell admits the Church made “enormous mistakes” on sexual abuse
Vatican Insider - Feb 28, 2016 at 5:28 pm Cardinal George Pell has said the Church made serious mistakes in its handling of clerical sexual abuse, explaining there was a “predisposition” to believe priests rather than the...
Behold, Catholic beard balm (yes, it's a thing)
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 28, 2016 at 5:03 pm Seattle, Wash., Feb 28, 2016 / 04:03 pm (CNA).- What do you do with an excess of chrism and a plethora of Catholic men with beards?
Tony Vasinda, a director of faith formation at...
Hobby Lobby Founder David Green Endorses Marco Rubio: He is Prepared to be President
LifeNews.com - Feb 28, 2016 at 3:31 pm The company Hobby Lobby is synonymous with pro-life values. It’s case to stop the pro-abortion mandate in Obamacare ultimatly reached the Supreme Court after the company refused...
