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Archdiocesan unified scholarship application a success so far
Saint Louis Review - St. Louis News - Feb 22, 2016 at 1:44 pm
Dave Luecking | daveluecking@archstl.org
With just a week remaining, the archdiocese's unified application process for scholarships has been a rousing...
‘FAFSA frenzy’ event at Fontbonne University helps families with forms
Saint Louis Review - St. Louis News - Feb 22, 2016 at 1:42 pm
Dave Luecking | daveluecking@archstl.org
Whether incoming or returning, college students and their parents have numerous opportunities to get help...
ASK FATHER: Father told me not to genuflect when passing tabernacle during Mass
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 22, 2016 at 1:31 pm From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
I was serving at Mass in the OF today, and before Mass, my priest approached me and told me that, when crossing from one side of the altar to the other,...
February 22nd – Solemnity of the Chair of Saint Peter
Big C Catholics - Feb 22, 2016 at 1:23 pm This feast brings to mind the mission of teacher and pastor conferred by Christ on Peter, and continued in an unbroken line down to the present Pope. We celebrate the unity of the...
Peters on reactions and claims about Francis’s off-the-cuff contraception remark
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 22, 2016 at 1:22 pm From the canonist Ed Peter’s fine blog In The Light Of The Law. He doesn’t have a combox over there and doesn’t mind if we use his stuff here. DO, however, go over there to his...
Cecile Richards: Defunding Planned Parenthood hurts ‘expectant mothers and newborns’
LifeSiteNews - Feb 22, 2016 at 1:14 pm Cecile Richards' head-scratching chutzpah.
Kalamazoo bishop offers prayers, Mass in wake of shooting spree
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 22, 2016 at 1:09 pm Kalamazoo, Mich., Feb 22, 2016 / 12:09 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Bishop Paul J. Bradley of the Diocese of Kalamazoo, Mich. offered his prayers and condolences for the victims of a...
Archbishop blesses 'thrones of mercy'
The Busy Catholic - Feb 22, 2016 at 12:58 pm Prelate inaugurates new confessionals installed in St. Anthony of Padua Church
Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB, prepares to sprinkle holy water on
new confessionals as Deacon...
One of the Smallest Surviving Babies in the World, 10-Ounce E’layah Faith, Heads Home
LifeNews.com - Feb 22, 2016 at 12:53 pm Second-trimester and late-term abortions are legal in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and other nations around the world. So when a very premature baby is born, it’s a...
Girl Born With Only Half a Heart is Full of Joy to Meet Pope Francis
LifeNews.com - Feb 22, 2016 at 12:44 pm Sabrina Puig is an 8 year old with a special condition: She was born with only half a heart. When the opportunity arose for the young girl to see Pope Francis on Sunday during his...
NOTE TO READERS: Registration, comments, Snail Mail and Email
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 22, 2016 at 12:43 pm Even as you read this, the blog is under siege by vile spammers trying to register to post their putrid slime.
I have logs that show me what’s going on.
The drawbridge is raised....
Five ways to share God’s mercy
CatholicMom.com - Feb 22, 2016 at 12:30 pm Group of Young Mothers Relaxing In Cafe (Dollarphotoclub.com)
In this Year of Mercy, Pope Francis encourages us to show God’s mercy through our witness. The Holy Father called...
How Catholics remembered Justice Scalia at his funeral Mass
EWTN - US Latest News - Feb 22, 2016 at 12:15 pm Washington D.C., Feb 22, 2016 / 12:19 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- At a funeral Mass on Saturday, Catholics recalled the late Supreme Court
Justice Antonin Scalia as a man of deep faith...
Catholic Leader: Cut Ties With Girls Scouts Over Its Planned Parenthood Connection
LifeNews.com - Feb 22, 2016 at 12:03 pm To buy or not to buy? As Girl Scout cookie season comes around again, many pro-lifers are asking people to consider the ties between the girls group and the abortion industry...
Amnesty International Calls Abortion a Human Right, Compares Banning Abortion to “Torture”
LifeNews.com - Feb 22, 2016 at 11:53 am In a recent article, the human rights organization Amnesty International attacked El Salvador’s abortion ban, likening it to “torture.”
El Salvador does not allow abortion in any...
Bishop Bradley decries shootings in Kalamazoo, prays for victims
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Feb 22, 2016 at 11:53 am Expressing shock and sadness, Bishop Paul Bradley of Kalamazoo offered prayers for the six people who were killed and two others who were injured by a gunman in the western...
Chair of Saint Peter
Communio - Feb 22, 2016 at 11:48 am For many this feast is not that important, and one hears some rather dismissals of the feast by the priest who offers Mass on this day. The theology, in fact, is quite important...
The ‘Risen’ movie: an unbeliever confronts the empty tomb
LifeSiteNews - Feb 22, 2016 at 11:39 am 'Risen' will challenge audiences to confront, with Clavius, the question that defies doubters to this day: If Jesus is dead, then where is the body?
Planned Parenthood Sued for Doing 23 Illegal Abortions Without License Wants Lawsuit Dismissed
LifeNews.com - Feb 22, 2016 at 11:33 am A Kentucky Planned Parenthood abortion facility that was caught doing abortions without a license is claiming a lawsuit against them is politically motivated and wants it...
ASK FATHER: Lace during Lent
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 22, 2016 at 11:19 am From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
I was wondering what the rules are if any about wearing lace albs or cottas [surplices] by priests during Lent. Is there a prohibition on lace being worn...
