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Celebrating the Closing of the Year of Consecrated Life
Diocese of Westminster - Feb 18, 2016 at 3:24 am On the Feast of the Presentation, 2 February 2016, Cardinal Vincent celebrated the annual Mass for Consecrated Life. This celebration, however,
Aleppo bishop says �moderate' Syrian rebels are killing civilians
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 18, 2016 at 3:20 am A bishop in Syria’s largest city has lamented the killing of civilians by “moderate” Syrian rebels and said that Syrian government forces, backed by Russia, are ...
‘No more death, no more exploitation,’ Pope demands at US-Mexico border
Catholic Herald - Feb 18, 2016 at 3:18 am Pope Francis has demanded an end to the exploitation of migrants at a Mass near the US-Mexico border.
He pleaded on behalf of immigrants, while warning those refusing to offer...
Pope prays silently before cross on US-Mexico border
Catholic Herald - Feb 18, 2016 at 2:45 am Pope Francis has blessed a large cross in memory of all the people who have crossed the frontier between Mexico and the United States.
The Pope said nothing, but he clasped his...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 18/02/16
Catholic Herald - Feb 18, 2016 at 2:27 am Cardinal George Pell has said he is willing to meet abuse victims as he prepares for a video-link appearance before a royal commission on abuse.
Francis is flying back to Rome on...
Materialism, Positivism and the Politics of Modern Science
Crisis Magazine - Church - Feb 18, 2016 at 2:10 am
I was pleased to read in Crisis “The Origins of Modern Materialism,” in which Theodore Rebard notes the rediscovery of Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura in 1417 and its’ subsequent...
Why Natural Law is a Superior Guide to Life
Crisis Magazine - Church - Feb 18, 2016 at 2:00 am
Catholics talk about natural law, but what’s it all about?
Basically, it’s a system of principles that guides human life in accordance with our nature and our good, insofar as...
California church fights back against mandatory abortion funding
EWTN - US Latest News - Feb 18, 2016 at 2:00 am San Diego, Calif., Feb 18, 2016 / 02:37 am (EWTN News/CNA).- A California church is challenging a state mandate that requires elective abortion coverage in its health insurance...
California church fights back against mandatory abortion funding
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 18, 2016 at 1:37 am Washington D.C., Feb 18, 2016 / 12:37 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A California church is challenging a state mandate that requires elective abortion coverage in its health insurance...
LENTCAzT 09 – Thursday of the 1st Week of Lent: We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 18, 2016 at 12:01 am
It is Thursday in the 1st Week of Lent.
We have emerged from Lent’s “narthex” into the greater season.
These 5 minute podcasts are intended to give you a daily boost in your...
Brisbane seminarian fighting chronic fatigue syndrome returns to the seminary after four years
The Catholic Leader - Feb 18, 2016 at 12:00 am CHRIS Ledwich believes if he can write one essay, pray for longer than five minutes and exercise without collapsing this year, he’ll make it to the priesthood.The 29-year-old...
Love Springing From Mercy
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Feb 18, 2016 at 12:00 am Today, in this Year of Mercy, Dr. Tom Neal shares a story of mercy in action, a priest who visits a prisoner in solitary confinement and witnesses a remarkable transformation.
Praying to Win in South Carolina
Aleteia - Feb 17, 2016 at 11:04 pm The Republican presidential candidates have descended on my home state of South Carolina this week. They’re all buckling up their Bible belts, putting on their Sunday go-to-...
Biting My Tongue Because Lions Will Lie Down With the Lambs
Aleteia - Feb 17, 2016 at 11:03 pm We must admit that the practice of mercy is waning in the wider culture. In some cases the word seems to have dropped out of use. However, without a witness to mercy, life...
Daily Lenten Reflection — Designed for a Purpose
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 17, 2016 at 11:03 pm “Bestow on us, we pray, O Lord, a spirit of always pondering on what is right and of hastening to carry it out…” (Collect, Thursday of the First Week of Lent). We are not...
Catholic Quote of the Day — from St. John Vianney
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 17, 2016 at 11:02 pm “Oh, how I like those little mortifications that are seen by nobody, such as rising a quarter of an hour sooner, rising for a little while in the night to pray! but some people...
Adjusting to the Pass/No-Fail of Lent When I’m Used to All “A”s
Aleteia - Feb 17, 2016 at 11:02 pm I thought maybe I’d found a Lenten sacrifice cheat sheet this winter when I was reading The Journals of Father Alexander Schmemann, 1973-1983. In an entry dated Tuesday, Jan. 20,...
Feel Like a Number: Tinder’s Rankings Rob Us of Our Dignity
Aleteia - Feb 17, 2016 at 11:01 pm Has the gift of broadened technology begun to narrow us? It sounds almost apocalyptic, but as I read an article in The Atlantic titled “What Tinder and Halo Have in Common,” I...
Encountering the Word — John 8:10-11
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 17, 2016 at 11:01 pm A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture Jesus looked up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I...
