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Morning Catholic must-reads: 09/11/17
Catholic Herald - Nov 9, 2017 at 1:32 am Cardinal Gerhard Müller has denied saying that “there are exceptions about Communion for the remarried” (original Italian). Bishops in Togo have expressed alarm at the “ethnic and...
Pope encourages Ukrainian seminarians to peace, ecumenism
EWTN - Vatican News - Nov 9, 2017 at 1:16 am Vatican City, Nov 9, 2017 / 01:16 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Meeting with the community of a Ukrainian Greek Catholic seminary in Rome on Thursday, Pope Francis encouraged them build up...
Heresy of the Day: Antinomianism
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Nov 9, 2017 at 1:12 am 1 :one who holds that under the gospel dispensation of grace (see 1grace 1a) the moral law is of no use or obligation because faith alone is necessary to salvation 2 :one who...
Like Mother Cabrini, treat migrants with charity and justice, Pope says
Catholic News Agency - General - Nov 9, 2017 at 1:08 am Vatican City, Nov 9, 2017 / 12:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis praised St. Frances Cabrini in the preface to a book about her life for her foresight in addressing the needs...
The Beauty of the Particular
Dominicana - Nov 9, 2017 at 1:00 am Remember your creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come. -Ecclesiastes 12:1 Margarita loved the country. She was a city girl herself, but after gang...
American Catholic Radio for November 13-19, 2017
Franciscan Media - Nov 9, 2017 at 12:30 am American Catholic Radio: Journey With Christ–Faith, Worship, Witness
Week of November 13, 2017 — Program #17-47
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Feast of the Dedication of St. John Lateran Basilica
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Nov 9, 2017 at 12:00 am November 9 is the Feast of the Dedication of St. John Lateran Basilica in Rome. Fr. Steve Grunow offers his homily on the significance of this day, both within the life of the...
A victory for life, doctors report world's earliest successful premature birth - at 21 weeks
Catholic Online - Featured News - Nov 9, 2017 at 12:00 am In a victory for life, the world's most premature baby to survive continues to grow and thrive in San Antonio, Texas.
Archbishop Chaput encourages priests to defend marriage
Catholic Online - Featured News - Nov 9, 2017 at 12:00 am Priests must uphold the lifelong covenant of marriage as "a message of liberation, even when it's difficult," Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of ...
Pope John Paul I is now 'Venerable'
Catholic Online - Featured News - Nov 9, 2017 at 12:00 am The Vatican on Thursday announced that Albino Luciani - better know as Pope John Paul I - has moved forward on the path to sainthood, and can now ...
Italian media reports on @BishopMorlino of @MadisonDiocese and on Card. Müller
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Nov 8, 2017 at 11:20 pm At the Italian site La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana there are two stories which merit attention.
First, they report on the current kerfuffle stirred by the Left against Most Reverend...
Have in-law problems? Here’s your patron saint
Aleteia - Nov 8, 2017 at 11:00 pm St. Adelaide was exiled by her in-laws, and worked hard to heal the division.Betrayal from within the family is usually the hardest to bear. We expect to be maligned by our...
St. Louis Martin Novena: For depression, anxiety and mental disorders
Aleteia - Nov 8, 2017 at 11:00 pm Perhaps due to strokes, the father of St. Therese suffered from a decline in mental state in his later life.[Editor’s note: Noticing that many of his friends seemed to be...
10 Lessons I learned about relationships from not walking down the aisle
Aleteia - Nov 8, 2017 at 11:00 pm Advice from a woman who called off her wedding before it was too late. My wedding was 100 days away. Dress bought. Deposits made. Honeymoon booked. While the event planner in me...
Dozing off during prayer? Here are some ways to control that
Aleteia - Nov 8, 2017 at 11:00 pm "Holy rest" is a gift, sometimes, but if sleeping becomes habitual, it can rob you of solace and more.Dear Katrina, I recently read a really sweet story where Pope Francis...
Heroes of the cloth: Marveling at the stuff our priests are made of
Aleteia - Nov 8, 2017 at 11:00 pm Catholic priests are human and fallible, like everyone. But sometimes they're outright heroes.Several years ago, at her now defunct blog the Crescat, Aleteia’s resident advice...
Pope Francis and the garbage collector
Aleteia - Nov 8, 2017 at 11:00 pm Photo of the Day: November 9, 2017At the General Audience in St. Peter’s Square on November 8, 2017, Pope Francis warmly greeted Maximiliano Acuña, an Argentine garbage collector...
Bruce Springsteen taps the Bible for inspiration
Aleteia - Nov 8, 2017 at 11:00 pm The Boss turns to both the Old and New Testament in his song lyrics, says scholar.In his memoir published last year, Bruce Springsteen says that while he is no longer a practicing...
Why hating cilantro is really a hidden evolutionary advantage
Aleteia - Nov 8, 2017 at 11:00 pm Taste is among many dominant traits that evolved in humans to protect us.Here’s a question: do you have big lips? If you do, congratulations — you get to pass that enviable...
Australia picked to help rebuild shattered Christian town Qaraqosh
The Catholic Leader - Nov 8, 2017 at 8:00 pm CHRISTIANS rebuilding their homes in devastated Qaraqosh could soon receive financial support from Australians concerned about the diminishing presence of Christianity in Iraq....