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Pope Francis to Curia: Your job is to be faithful
EWTN - Vatican News - Feb 23, 2016 at 1:23 am Vatican City, Feb 23, 2016 / 01:23 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Pope Francis celebrated the feast of the Chair of St. Peter with a
reflection and Mass for members of the Roman Curia,...
Father Lombardi steps down from Vatican Radio amid media reform
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 23, 2016 at 1:08 am Vatican City, Feb 23, 2016 / 12:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- As the process of reforming the Vatican's communications is carried out, Fr. Federico Lombardi will step down as director...
LENTCAzT 14 – Tuesday of the 2nd Week of Lent: Benedict XVI’s Final Angelus
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 23, 2016 at 12:01 am
It is Tuesday of the 2nd Week of Lent.
These 5 minute podcasts are intended to give you a daily boost in your discipline during this holy season, Lent.
http://www.wdtprs.com/...
The Feast that is the Sacraments
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 22, 2016 at 11:04 pm Four elements stand out in the traditional Catholic doctrine of what a sacrament is. Fundamentalism is suspicious of all four. A sacrament is “a sign that effects what it...
Praying for Politicians, Presidents and Queens
Aleteia - Feb 22, 2016 at 11:04 pm One of the charming things about being an Anglican were the petitions in the Book of Common Prayer for “HMQ” aka Her Majesty the Queen. How quaint and Queenly is this beautiful...
5 Ways the Devil Attacks During Lent
Aleteia - Feb 22, 2016 at 11:03 pm The Lord said to satan, “Very well, all that he has is in your power; only do not lay a hand on him.” – Job 1:12 I don’t know about you but ever since I returned to the Church, I...
Daily Lenten Reflection — Christ’s Teaching on Humility is not Optional
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 22, 2016 at 11:03 pm “Whoever exalts himself will be humbled; but whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” (Matthew 23:12) Jesus is not humble, he is humility. Jesus is not transcended by his...
How to Put Out A Better Parish Newsletter
Aleteia - Feb 22, 2016 at 11:02 pm Parish newsletter editors are an under-appreciated subset of the journalistic inky cohort, those people who try to write informative copy and fit it to available space. It ain’t...
Catholic Quote of the Day — from Pope Francis
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 22, 2016 at 11:02 pm “Jesus Christ is the face of the Father’s mercy. These words might well sum up the mystery of the Christian faith. Mercy has become living and visible in Jesus of Nazareth,...
Encountering the Word — John 14:27
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 22, 2016 at 11:01 pm A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be...
A Bride of Christ on Her 29th Birthday
Aleteia - Feb 22, 2016 at 11:01 pm She lay still, with lips pressed against the cold, hard sanctuary floor of Our Lady of the Rosary church. The priest intoned solemn prayers as she silently remained in cruciform....
The Secret Privilege of “Offering it Up”
Aleteia - Feb 22, 2016 at 11:00 pm We Catholics who grew up straddling the cusp of the conciliar divide may have a vague memory of the phrase “offer it up.” It was advice frequently given by the sisters who taught...
Petition Urges Secretary of State to Name Middle East Christians as Genocide Victims
Aleteia - Feb 22, 2016 at 11:00 pm As news broke Monday of a plan for a ceasefire in Syria, observers are still fearful that the US State Department will ignore Christians in an expected designation of genocide in...
Pope: Being Christian is doing God's will, not just talking the talk
OSV Daily Take - Feb 22, 2016 at 11:00 pm By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- For a Christian, talk is cheap; the faith requires concretely doing God's will and serving the least as well as those...
Trump Supporting Pol Says Pope Francis is the Anti-Christ
Creative Minority Report - Feb 22, 2016 at 10:30 pm A state rep from New Hampshire said that Pope Francis is the anti-Christ in a Facebook post. Nice, huh? She wrote it on the day that Pope Francis criticized Donald Trump's...
Write for Australia’s best Catholic newspaper
The Catholic Leader - Feb 22, 2016 at 9:54 pm CALLING ALL YOUNG WRITERS!Got something to say about your generation?Want to explain what it means to be a young Catholic?Then maybe you’re meant to write for The Catholic Leader...
Tradition, Scripture, The Magisterium, and the Development of Doctrine
Making Things Visible - Feb 22, 2016 at 8:53 pm It seems to me there are several different camps out there with an opinion about the development of doctrine. Please recognize that I am generalizing based on discussions I have...
Why Are the Gospels Called “Gospels”?
Jimmy Akin.org - Feb 22, 2016 at 8:48 pm God may have created man in his image, but there is a well-known tendency among biblical scholars to re-create Jesus in their own image.
The tendency is particularly notable among...
Hagia Sophia: “it is fortunate you are here now”
Quartermaster of the Barque - Feb 22, 2016 at 8:29 pm This past New Year’s Eve, I found myself stranded in Istanbul, Turkey. My final destination was Rome and Assisi, but an irresistibly cheap fare (that included what was supposed to...
