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On Doors, Windows, Fences, Bridges, and Walls
Crisis Magazine - Church - Feb 25, 2016 at 2:45 am
The recent spat of words between Pope Francis and Donald Trump over the relative merits of bridges and walls deserves some further comment. Both words, “bridge” and “wall,” have...
Ave Crux, Spes Unica!
Crisis Magazine - Church - Feb 25, 2016 at 2:40 am
“These fragments I have shored against my ruins.”
∼ T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
One of the happy discoveries I’ve made while traveling around Europe is that Cervantes was surely...
Pope Francis wants more dialogue with Islam. Is Egypt the key?
EWTN - Vatican News - Feb 25, 2016 at 1:25 am Vatican City, Feb 25, 2016 / 02:04 am (EWTN News/CNA).- For Pope Francis, dialogue with Islam is a core issue. He recently voiced hopes to meet a major Sunni leader: the Grand...
Pope Francis wants more dialogue with Islam. Is Egypt the key?
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 25, 2016 at 1:04 am Vatican City, Feb 25, 2016 / 12:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- For Pope Francis, dialogue with Islam is a core issue. He recently voiced hopes to meet a major Sunni leader: the Grand...
Helping find a cure
The Catholic Leader - Feb 25, 2016 at 12:00 am CARLY Galligan received her best birthday present inside a doctor’s surgery four years ago.After battling with leukaemia for five years, doctors announced on her 10th birthday...
Laying Down the Cross that Leads to Death
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Feb 25, 2016 at 12:00 am While “time” stalks us with menace like a prowling lion, and we live in a broken world that remains fixed in the clenched jaws of evil and sin, we still fight against that...
Catholics for Choice File Brief Against Religious Liberty
Creative Minority Report - Feb 24, 2016 at 11:16 pm The Supreme Court will be hearing Zubik v. Burwell, one of the most important religious liberty cases they've faced in years. Ironically and predictably, Catholics for Choice...
Daily Lenten Reflection — Be with the One you Love
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 24, 2016 at 11:03 pm “In these days he went out into the hills to pray; and all night he continued in prayer to God.” (Luke 6:12) Have you ever been separated from the one you love? Losing loved ones...
Encountering the Word — Psalm 139:23-24
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 24, 2016 at 11:01 pm A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting...
Discovery of 3,000-Year-Old Fabrics in Israel Sheds Light on Clothing Styles of Biblical Peoples
Aleteia - Feb 24, 2016 at 11:00 pm A new discovery in the desert of southern Israel is an “affirmation” of biblical texts, according to a member of a team that found 3,000-year-old fabrics. The “remarkably...
Chinese Communist Party Planning New Controls on Catholic Church
Aleteia - Feb 24, 2016 at 11:00 pm The Chinese Communist Party has made clear its latest strategy for controlling religious groups across China. Beijing has started to assign certificates detailing the secular name...
“Risen” and the Reality of the Resurrection
Aleteia - Feb 24, 2016 at 11:00 pm When I saw the coming attractions for the new film Risen – which deals with a Roman tribune searching for the body of Jesus after reports of the resurrection – I thought that it...
Why Mercy Makes Us Uncomfortable
Aleteia - Feb 24, 2016 at 11:00 pm In his second Encyclical, Dives in Misericordia … St. John Paul II highlighted the fact that we had forgotten the theme of mercy in today’s cultural milieu: “The present day...
Curious George is 75 Years Old!
Aleteia - Feb 24, 2016 at 11:00 pm They met, briefly, when they were young. With the manuscript of their first book, they fled the Nazis, riding on homemade bicycles. A year later, in America, Hans and Margaret Rey...
30 Lines from Chesterton to Help Restore Your Senses in a Crazy World
Aleteia - Feb 24, 2016 at 11:00 pm When we look at headlines and newsmakers, and people in leadership and media, it is tempting to throw our hands to heaven and think, The world is mad and out of control, and to...
The Sound of Generosity
Aleteia - Feb 24, 2016 at 11:00 pm Une nation née dans le sang, Est bénit pour mille ans. Jessica Dorsey’s music is just like her: energetic, joyful and full of life. Jessica immediately stands out for her voice,...
Papal Pathology
Making Things Visible - Feb 24, 2016 at 9:25 pm Elijah could not be happier with Cardinal Sarah. Elijah singlehandedly took on the prophets of Baal. He mocked them and he rejected their nonsense. In a similar statement of of...
Man Gets 10 Years for Killing His Unborn Baby, Tricking His Girlfriend Into Taking the Abortion Pill
LifeNews.com - Feb 24, 2016 at 6:22 pm When last we reported on Scott Bollig, a jury of seven men and five women had found the 32 year old of WaKeeney, Illinois, guilty of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder....
Paul VI, nuns and contraception: did Pope Francis get it right?
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 24, 2016 at 6:09 pm Vatican City, Feb 24, 2016 / 05:09 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- If Vatican watcher Sandro Magister is right, Pope Francis cited an urban legend about Blessed Paul VI’s alleged approval of...
