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Vatican: No, bishops are not being told to cover up abuse
EWTN - Vatican News - Feb 11, 2016 at 2:42 am Vatican City, Feb 11, 2016 / 02:42 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Media reports are wrong to claim that the Vatican is telling new bishops
that they don't have to report sexual abuse, Holy...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 11/02/16
Catholic Herald - Feb 11, 2016 at 2:40 am The joint declaration that Patriarch Kirill and Pope Francis will sign tomorrow was agreed “late last night”, Interfax has reported.
The Catholic Church in Brazil has rejected a...
Four reasons why Pope Francis will meet with Patriarch Kirill
EWTN - Vatican News - Feb 11, 2016 at 1:41 am Vatican City, Feb 11, 2016 / 02:08 am (EWTN News/CNA).- The first, historic meeting between a Pope and a Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church does not come from nowhere. Both...
What does an 'Ice Mass' look like?
EWTN - US Latest News - Feb 11, 2016 at 1:17 am Houghton, Mich., Feb 11, 2016 / 01:17 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
When snow falls on the campus of Michigan Tech University, Catholic students don't stay boarded up in their dorm rooms...
Four reasons why Pope Francis will meet with Patriarch Kirill
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 11, 2016 at 1:08 am Vatican City, Feb 11, 2016 / 12:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The first, historic meeting between a Pope and a Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church does not come from nowhere. Both...
Springs Welling Up to Eternal Life
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Feb 11, 2016 at 12:00 am Today is the Feast Day of Our Lady of Lourdes. Fr. Steve Grunow reflects upon the apparition of Our Lady to the young St. Bernadette and the symbolic nature of the healing waters...
Fasting: What Good Is It to Abstain From Meat If You Devour Your Brother?
Aleteia - Feb 10, 2016 at 11:04 pm In the words of St. John Chrystostom: “The value of fasting consists not only in avoiding certain foods, but in renouncing all sinful attitudes, thoughts and desires. Those who...
The Clarity of Simon Peter’s Example
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 10, 2016 at 11:04 pm And when he had ceased speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch” (Luke 5:4). As I sat in 7:30 am Mass this past Sunday, one of our...
A Crisis Within the European Migrant Crisis? Missing Children
Aleteia - Feb 10, 2016 at 11:03 pm Europe was overwhelmed in 2015 with refugees from trouble spots around the Middle East and Africa. Now there is concern that many of the children who came in the waves of migrants...
My Kids Are Not the Distraction at Mass; I Am
Aleteia - Feb 10, 2016 at 11:02 pm Get up. Get dressed. Rouse all 10 kids from sleep. Get the lunches made. Get breakfast made. Get the teens out the door. Make sure they have coats and gloves and that the 16-year-...
The Oldest Form of Consecrated Life Is Also the Newest, and It’s Growing!
Aleteia - Feb 10, 2016 at 11:02 pm The world doesn’t realize it — could perhaps hardly imagine it — but earlier this month consecrated virgins from every continent, from a wide variety of life circumstances and...
Catholic Quote of the Day — from Pope St. John Paul II
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 10, 2016 at 11:02 pm “To believe in Jesus is to accept what he says, even when it runs contrary to what others are saying. It means rejecting the lure of sin, however attractive it may be, in order to...
Encountering the Word — Acts 8:29-31
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 10, 2016 at 11:01 pm A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “And the Spirit said to Philip, ‘Go up and join this chariot.’ So Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and asked, ‘Do...
I Couldn’t Understand the Cross Until Jesus Explained It to Me
Aleteia - Feb 10, 2016 at 11:01 pm Thus the Cross of Christ is God’s judgement on all of us and on the whole world, because through it he offers us the certitude of love and new life.—Pope Francis, Misericordiae...
WATCH: The Three Practices of Lent
Aleteia - Feb 10, 2016 at 11:00 pm “Even now,” declares the LORD, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.”—Joel 2:12 Bishop Robert Barron, an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of...
What if Pain Were to Lead Us to Happiness?
Aleteia - Feb 10, 2016 at 11:00 pm Blessed be Your name, On the road marked with suffering, Though there’s pain in the offering… The story of Cristina Scuccia has gone around the globe. A young lady, a religious...
Australian IVF clinics under scrutiny for misleading clients on success rates
LifeSiteNews - Feb 10, 2016 at 9:27 pm 'We certainly have found instances of information being put on the websites and being given to consumers that we think is misleading,' stated Rod Sims.
This Lent, an opportunity to help Middle East Christians
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 10, 2016 at 8:12 pm New Haven, Conn., Feb 10, 2016 / 07:12 pm (CNA).- A gift of 40 dollars in Lent could help persecuted Christians and other refugees in the Middle East, thanks to the latest appeal...
See You At Easter
Saints 365 - Feb 10, 2016 at 7:09 pm I'll be heading into the desert with the Lord for Lent this year on a blogging and social media hiatus.. See you all at Easter! Thanks for reading!
