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Seoul: Holy Doors open at Korean Martyrs shrines
News.va - Feb 27, 2016 at 12:05 pm The Archdiocese of Seoul has opened three Holy Doors in as many shrines dedicated to the early martyrs of the Korean Catholic Church to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the...
Pope Francis prayed at Vatican employee's coffin before meeting new president of Argentina
EWTN - Vatican News - Feb 27, 2016 at 11:41 am Vatican City, Feb 27, 2016 / 12:04 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Before meeting with the president of Argentina Saturday, Pope Francis stopped by the funeral of Miriam Wuolou, a Vatican...
27 Feb: St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows – Patron of Handgunners, seminarians, novices
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 27, 2016 at 11:36 am Today is the feast of St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, Gabriel Possenti, according to the calendar of the Novus Ordo. In the older, traditional Missal we find that 28 February...
China has become aware of Pope Francis' "soft-globalpower"
Vatican Insider - Feb 27, 2016 at 11:35 am After "decades of frozen ties", many converging signs seem to witness "a slow but significant change in relations" between China and the Vatican. Differences remain, but "experts...
“This is the child that God wants to give to France.”
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 27, 2016 at 11:27 am At the Getty Museum in Los Angeles there is now a splendid exhibit of tapestries of Louis XIV of France.
This exhibit prompted a friend to forward the following about the birth of...
Msgr. Paul Tighe, of the Council for Culture, consecrated a bishop
News.va - Feb 27, 2016 at 11:13 am (Vatican Radio) Long-time Vatican official Msgr. Paul Tighe was consecrated a bishop on Saturday afternoon in a ceremony presided over by the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal...
WDTPRS – 3rd Sunday of Lent (2002MR): the Lenten march
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 27, 2016 at 11:06 am Roman Station: St. Lawrence outside the walls
An examination of our conscience is a humbling experience. When we look to see who really are inside, we can have different...
NPR puff piece on transgender church leaves lots and lots of predictable gaps
GetReligion - Feb 27, 2016 at 11:05 am
Recently, I wrote about one unusual congregation (Mark Driscoll's Trinity Church) starting up in Phoenix and now here's another, at the opposite end of the theological pole. The...
Pope Francis prayed at Vatican employee's coffin before meeting new president of Argentina
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 27, 2016 at 11:04 am Vatican City, Feb 27, 2016 / 10:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Before meeting with the president of Argentina Saturday, Pope Francis stopped by the funeral of Miriam Wuolou, a Vatican...
Is a Catholic concept of mercy at the heart of true Islam?
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 27, 2016 at 10:23 am Vatican City, Feb 27, 2016 / 09:23 am (CNA).- Professor Saeed Khan, an expert in Islam, has said that mercy is central to the Muslim faith – a mercy with roots in Catholicism and...
Pope to Confindustria: the company puts the person at the center
Vatican Insider - Feb 27, 2016 at 10:03 am It is important that the company “put the person at the center, the quality of relationships, the truth of a commitment to building a more just world, a world truly for all,” said...
Pope Francis meets with Minister-President of Thüringen
News.va - Feb 27, 2016 at 9:10 am
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Friday met with Bodo Ramelow, the Minister-President of the German state of Thüringen.
Ramelow is the first politician from the Left Party – which...
You can't get last rites if you plan to kill yourself, says Canadian archbishop
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 27, 2016 at 7:27 am Ottawa, Canada, Feb 27, 2016 / 06:27 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Legal assisted suicide will soon arrive in Canada, prompting a Catholic archbishop to reflect on what the last rites mean...
Pope Francis meets new President of Argentina
News.va - Feb 27, 2016 at 7:25 am
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Saturday morning received in audience the President of Argentina, Mauricio Macri, who subsequently met with the Vatican’s Secretary of State,...
Pope Francis to Confindustria business people: ‘Justice excludes every favoritism’
News.va - Feb 27, 2016 at 7:25 am
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Saturday met with members of the Italian association of manufacturing companies, Confindustria, calling them to reflect together on the ethics of...
The Gist: Make 'Em Laugh
CatholicMom.com - Feb 27, 2016 at 7:00 am
Photo courtesy of CatholicTV.
Season five of the CatholicTV Network’s series for Catholic women, The Gist, airs this fall with all-new shows. Tune in every Tuesday morning at 11...
How is Your Latin OF Doing?
New Liturgical Movement - Feb 27, 2016 at 7:00 am Last month, in response to this article by Mons. Charles Pope at the National Catholic Register, warning that many EF congregations may not be growing, or even shrinking, I posed...
The Condemnation of Action Française and the Birth of Vatican II
Rorate Coeli - Feb 27, 2016 at 6:55 am Nearly a year ago we posted Prof. de Mattei’s reflections on the ralliement of Pope Leo XIII, a dangerous ecclesiastical policy that was reversed by St. Pius X. Today we are happy...
What Do You Want in a Health Care System?
Commonweal - Feb 27, 2016 at 6:13 am I am find a lot of articles about people wanting "single payer" or a continuation/improvement of Obamacare or the destruction of Obamacare and its replacement by something else. ...
Hope for Mexico: one bishop's reflection on the papal visit
EWTN - World Catholic News - Feb 27, 2016 at 6:09 am Rome, Italy, Feb 27, 2016 / 06:09 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- For Bishop Oscar Cantú of Las Cruces, Pope Francis had a simple message to tell the people of Mexico: "you are not forgotten...
