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Data On Religious Affiliation of Super Tuesday Voters
The Religion Clause - Feb 26, 2016 at 6:05 am The Pew Research Center yesterday compiled data in post titled A Closer Look At Religion in the Super Tuesday States. It reports in part:Overall, nearly half of all people in the...
FFRF Sues Over Governor's Removal of Bill of Rights "Nativity" Display
The Religion Clause - Feb 26, 2016 at 6:00 am As previously reported, last December Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, as chairman of the Texas State Preservation Board, forced the executive director of the Board to remove from the...
Why Your Kids Should NOT Play Youth Sports
CatholicMom.com - Feb 26, 2016 at 6:00 am With somewhere between 10-15 million youth playing organized sports (this does not include high school), it seems like something you just do with your kids. They stay active,...
Medieval Catholicism was not as gloomy as the BBC portrays it
Catholic Herald - Feb 26, 2016 at 5:35 am BBC Iplayer is the most wonderful invention. When you flop onto the sofa late at night you can catch up with all the programmes you should have seen earlier. Just recently I have...
Suffering and Beauty
Dominicana - Feb 26, 2016 at 5:30 am I love discovering, when I travel, that people everywhere share the same universal questions. I spent last summer studying Spanish in Bogotá, Colombia, and found myself one...
Papal preacher devotes Lenten sermon to receiving God's word
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 26, 2016 at 5:25 am Father Raniero Cantalamessa, the Capuchin Franciscan friar who has served as preacher to the papal household since 1980, delivered a Lenten sermon on February 26 entitled “Receive...
Cardinal: interreligious dialogue counters modern deafness to God
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 26, 2016 at 5:14 am Addressing an interfaith conference in Qatar, the president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue said that “we have to teach the contents of our respective...
St. Louis Archdiocese disbands Catholic Committee on Girl Scouts
EWTN - US Latest News - Feb 26, 2016 at 5:06 am St. Louis, Mo., Feb 26, 2016 / 05:06 pm (EWTN News).- In response to what it calls the Girl Scouts' "increasingly
incompatible" views with Catholic teachings on marriage, life,...
Head of Ukrainian Catholic Church consoled by pope's words
Franciscan Media - Feb 26, 2016 at 5:00 am ROME (CNS) -- The head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church said he was consoled by Pope Francis' words of understanding and tenderness after he expressed the disappointment of...
Card. Sandri addresses conference on Christianity in the Middle East
News.va - Feb 26, 2016 at 4:56 am (Vatican Radio) Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, spoke on Thursday to an international conference organized by the German...
Fr Cantalamessa preaches second Lenten sermon on the Word of God
News.va - Feb 26, 2016 at 4:53 am (Vatican Radio) The preacher of the papal household, Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, gave the second Lenten sermon for the members of the Roman Curia gathered in the...
Did Pope Francis like to dance? And other questions from kids
EWTN - Vatican News - Feb 26, 2016 at 4:50 am Vatican City, Feb 26, 2016 / 05:02 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
In his first children's book Pope Francis touches on a variety of both lighthearted and sensitive topics from war and...
Christians helping migrants should not try to convert them, says cardinal
Catholic Herald - Feb 26, 2016 at 4:47 am Christians assisting migrants should love them “without hidden intentions” and not try to convert them, the prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith has said....
Daily Gospel Reflection for February 26, 2016
CatholicMom.com - Feb 26, 2016 at 4:30 am
Today’s Gospel: Matthew 21:33-43, 45-46
I often insert myself into the Bible stories, so when I first read this parable, I immediately identified with the Master’s servants. The...
Indonesia's bishops speak out against corruption
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 26, 2016 at 4:28 am The Bishops’ Conference of Indonesia has joined Muhammadiyah, the nation’s second-largest Muslim organization, in opposing legislation that would weaken the authority of an ...
India's Franciscans to seek freedom for 1,000 prisoners
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 26, 2016 at 4:03 am India’s Franciscans have agreed to seek the release of at least 1,000 prisoners during the jubilee year of mercy.
Negotiating with civil officials, the Franciscans will focus on...
Did Pope Francis like to dance? And other questions from kids
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 26, 2016 at 4:02 am Vatican City, Feb 26, 2016 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In his first children's book Pope Francis touches on a variety of both lighthearted and sensitive topics from war and...
Quick Takes Daybook: Lent, apps, and mercy
Snoring Scholar - Feb 26, 2016 at 4:00 am Dude. It’s Leeeeennnnnnnnnt.
Insert whiny voice. Insert kicking and screaming. Insert general discontent.
Probably means I have NEEDED Lent, huh?
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In my thoughts
Honestly, I...
Islamic leader: �terrorism is not part of Islam'
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 26, 2016 at 3:46 am The cleric honored by some Muslims as the leading Sunni authority said that “terrorism is not part of Islam,” according to an AsiaNews report.
Ahmed el-Tayeb, the grand imam ...
Patriarch Kirill: “A common moral revival can save the world”
Vatican Insider - Feb 26, 2016 at 3:27 am “A meeting between brothers” Pope Francis had called it, speaking to reporters on the flight that brought him from Cuba to Mexico after the historic meeting with Patriarch Kirill...
