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Kids + Pets = Joyful Spirituality
CatholicMom.com - Feb 25, 2016 at 8:30 am
Money might have been tight in our large family and life a bit messy, but our lives were filled with activity and fun because God’s creatures were part of our lives. Animals...
The New York Times probes (sort of) the heart of Bernie Sanders, a 'non-Jewish Jew'
GetReligion - Feb 25, 2016 at 8:25 am Once again, it's time to talk about the media coverage of Bernie Sanders and his now you see it, now you don't approach to Judaism. The New York Times headline is pretty...
"Love before the world": the Pope answers questions from children
News.va - Feb 25, 2016 at 8:21 am Vatican City, 25 February 2016 (VIS) – "L'amore prima del mondo" ("Love before the world") is the title of a book published by Rizzoli, in the form of 31 letters and drawings sent...
3 Simple Ways Families Can Serve the Poor
CatholicMom.com - Feb 25, 2016 at 8:19 am
A personal encounter with those in need often changes our perspective. Photo by Lisa M. Hendey
Today’s gospel passage from Luke 16 challenges us out of our comfort zone and...
Mass at Santa Marta - A name or an adjective
News.va - Feb 25, 2016 at 8:17 am Are we open to others and capable of mercy,
or do we live locked up within ourselves, slaves to our selfishness? On
Thursday morning, 25 February, the Gospel parable of the rich...
Thomas Aquinas College Still Hopeful as SCOTUS Hearing on Contraceptive Mandate Case Approaches
Catholic Education Daily - Feb 25, 2016 at 8:15 am In recent weeks, many commentators have speculated on the potential outcomes of U.S. Supreme Court cases following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, but Dr. Michael McLean,...
“Christians do not close themselves off in a bubble of banquets and vanity”
Vatican Insider - Feb 25, 2016 at 8:06 amKnights of Columbus, In Defense of Christians mount genocide petition
OSV Daily Take - Feb 25, 2016 at 7:41 am WASHINGTON (CNS) -- As a mid-March deadline approached for U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to make a decision on whether to make a declaration of genocide in the Middle East,...
'Torture works'? Not really, say former interrogators
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 25, 2016 at 7:30 am Washington D.C., Feb 25, 2016 / 06:30 am (CNA).- Countering claims by some politicians that torture is an acceptable part of the fight against terrorism, experts in ethics and...
Small Success: A Surprise
CatholicMom.com - Feb 25, 2016 at 7:00 am
This week, we had a lousy Sunday. I mean, we struggled to get to Mass on time. (Like pulled into the parking lot and the clock says 9:06). So I can either haul everyone into Mass...
Making New Memories in the LeBaron
New Liturgical Movement - Feb 25, 2016 at 7:00 am Fictionally, let’s presume an elderly great uncle has just passed, and YOU are set to inherit his 1987 Chyrsler LeBaron sedan. He was a dentist, and the car was garaged and only...
Wine to Gladden the Heart
Dominicana - Feb 25, 2016 at 6:55 am Thou dost cause the grass to grow for the cattle, and plants for man to cultivate that he may bring forth food from the earth, and wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make...
Pope: It is a grace to see the poor who knock at our hearts
News.va - Feb 25, 2016 at 6:50 am (Vatican Radio) To truly live our faith, we must recognize the poor who are near to us. In them, Jesus Himself knocks at the door of our heart: that was Pope Francis' message...
A plea to the US Secretary of State: Recognize anti-Christian genocide
EWTN - US Latest News - Feb 25, 2016 at 6:43 am Washington D.C., Feb 25, 2016 / 06:43 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- The U.S. must not ignore the Islamic State's genocide of Christians. That is the position of a petition drive and...
What dying patients can teach us about the meaning of life
Catholic Herald - Feb 25, 2016 at 6:30 am Only Love Remains by Attilio Stajano, Clairview Books, £14.99
Attilio Stajano, a volunteer in a palliative care department of a Brussels hospital, writes that his book has been...
The new push to end priestly celibacy
Catholic Herald - Feb 25, 2016 at 6:30 am The Catholic Church is once again embroiled in arguments about whether priestly celibacy has a place in today’s world. As Catholicism in most Western countries faces a rapidly...
Does religious life have a future?
Catholic Herald - Feb 25, 2016 at 6:30 am Those of us who entered religious life just after Vatican II will probably remember it in the words of Wordsworth after the French Revolution: “Bliss was it in that dawn to be...
The Father looks for repentance as a farmer looks for fruit on a cherished fig tree
Catholic Herald - Feb 25, 2016 at 6:30 am “I have seen the miserable state of my people in Egypt. I mean to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians and bring them up out of that land to a land rich and broad, a...
Amicus Briefs Supporting Government In Zubik Case Are Filed
The Religion Clause - Feb 25, 2016 at 6:10 am Feb. 17 was the deadline to file amicus briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the government's position in Zubik v. Burwell and its companion cases which challenge the...
