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For the record: On Curial reform and Church decentralization.Secretariat of State and Congregation for Divine Worship face reform
Rorate Coeli - Feb 12, 2016 at 12:24 am Amidst everything that has been happening in the Church and the outside world, the latest meeting of the Council of Cardinals from February 8 to 9 went almost unnoticed. However...
LENTCAzT 03: Friday after Ash Wednesday
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 12, 2016 at 12:01 am
It is Friday after Ash Wednesday.
Remember your Friday Lenten obligations.
We are creeping into Lent through the “narthex” of these first few days.
With this audio offering, I am...
Mercy is Free, But Never Cheap
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Feb 12, 2016 at 12:00 am Mercy, like grace, is an undeserved favor. But while it is free, Dr. Tom Neal explains, it is never cheap. Mercy is always costly when it is permitted to be what it is, and...
Cultivating Gratitude
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 11, 2016 at 11:04 pm The other morning I woke up with a Scripture verse on repeat in my head. At first I couldn’t place it, but then I realized it was from Christ’s encounter with the Samaritan woman...
From “Shakespeare in Love” to the Resurrection: An Exclusive Interview with Joseph Fiennes
Aleteia - Feb 11, 2016 at 11:04 pm ROME — Believers and unbelievers alike will be captivated by the “dovetailing of pure creation and cinema with Scripture and the narrative of the Bible,” says the lead actor in...
Lucinda Williams Gives Up Her Ghosts
Aleteia - Feb 11, 2016 at 11:03 pm In Flannery O’Connor’s essay “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction“, the novelist reflected on what distinguishes Southern writers and their “penchant for writing...
Catholic Quote of the Day — from Blessed Paul VI
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 11, 2016 at 11:02 pm “The world calls for and expects from us simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility… Without...
The Doritos Commercial and the Revival of Voluntarism
Aleteia - Feb 11, 2016 at 11:02 pm I’m sure by now you’ve heard about the absurd reaction of the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) to the lighthearted Super Bowl commercial produced to advertise...
Encountering the Word — Mark 1:16-18
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 11, 2016 at 11:01 pm A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “And passing along by the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net in the sea; for they were fishermen. And...
A Cross Trampled and Rescued, Now Traveling With Me
Aleteia - Feb 11, 2016 at 11:01 pm In the madness of dismissal at the local high school, a silvery glint on the wet sidewalk caught my eye. I noticed it being kicked along by the high school freshmen running for...
US, Russia Announce Plan Possibly Leading to Syria Ceasefire
Aleteia - Feb 11, 2016 at 11:00 pm Could there finally be light at the end of the dark tunnel of the Syrian civil war? An agreement hammered out by the International Syria Support Group Thursday would mark the...
WATCH: A Young Father’s Trick for Getting His Baby to Sleep
Aleteia - Feb 11, 2016 at 11:00 pm When this pianist’s baby son, David, was having trouble falling sleeping because of an earache, the dad came up with an idea: to play Brahms Lullaby. His interpretation of the...
Join Your Voice With Heaven In A True Song of Freedom
Aleteia - Feb 11, 2016 at 11:00 pm Join your voice with heaven now make it loud. Ike’s got a unique voice that sings to everyone who looks to heaven to be truly free on earth. A freedom won after a battle with...
The Mexican Merchant Who Missed His Ordination and Wound Up a Martyr
Aleteia - Feb 11, 2016 at 11:00 pm San Felipe de Jesus may be the patron of Mexico City and one of the 26 Martyrs of Japan, but he reportedly began life as a frivolous boy and was later a reluctant priest. Born in...
Lenten Fasting
The Curt Jester - Feb 11, 2016 at 7:22 pm Complain that in the Latin Rite, fasting norms are rather wimpy when compared to Eastern Rite Catholics.
Someone reminds you that you can personally adopt their Lenten fast...
Q&A with Sr Thao Nguyen
The Catholic Leader - Feb 11, 2016 at 6:46 pm Sr Thao NguyenBorn in Vietnam, Sr Thao grew up as a teenager in Australia, which fashioned her adventurous mind. By the age of 23, she came to the Canossian convent to test out...
Thoth Sunday, Lundi Gras and Mardi Gras in New Orleans
The Catholic Foodie - Feb 11, 2016 at 6:41 pm
On Monday’s show… I brought you along with me to New Orleans for the Thoth parade for an on-the-street experience of Mardi Gras in New Orleans. We talk Lundi Gras (Fat Monday)...
Helping children to pray
The Catholic Leader - Feb 11, 2016 at 6:16 pm MOTHERS at a parish in Bundaberg have welcomed new faces into the community’s first catechesis centre for children this week.Known as The Atrium of the Good Shepherd, which uses...
Sighting in new crossbow a breeze
Catholic Hot Dish - Feb 11, 2016 at 6:09 pm Got my hands on my new Parker Bushwacker crossbow last week. I didn’t wait long to put it together and sight it in.
I found it simple to put together and easy to use. I really...
