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Pope reflects on Old Testament jubilee year
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 10, 2016 at 5:17 am Continuing his Wednesday reflections on mercy, Pope Francis devoted his Ash Wednesday general audience to the jubilee in the Old Testament.
“We learn from Scripture that the ...
Live in relationship with God the Father, Pope tells Pompei's youth
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 10, 2016 at 5:08 am Pope Francis has sent an audio message to the Territorial Prelature of Pompei in support of its Lenten youth initiative.
“Jesus asks us to do good for the sake of good,” he ...
Pope Francis Launches Lenten App for Young People
Aleteia - Feb 10, 2016 at 5:03 am VATICAN CITY — On Ash Wednesday, Pope Francis sent a special audio-message to young people, inviting them to live for their heavenly Father and not for what others think of them....
A chat with Joseph Fiennes – star of historical thriller 'Risen'
EWTN - World Catholic News - Feb 10, 2016 at 5:02 am Rome, Italy, Feb 10, 2016 / 05:02 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- The lead actor of "Risen," a film told through the eyes of a Roman
soldier who is forced to confront the resurrection of...
Meet & Support Tifany Jane: Our Unbound Child of the Month
CatholicMom.com - Feb 10, 2016 at 5:00 am
Editor’s note: We’re thrilled to again be partnering with our friends at Unbound to be a part of their mission serving families around the world! Unbound has joined us as a “...
Supreme Court, states give death penalty laws another look
Franciscan Media - Feb 10, 2016 at 5:00 am WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The death penalty in the United States is repeatedly getting hit by the pause button -- which doesn't mean it is going away anytime soon, but at the very least...
Cover penitents with a blanket of mercy, Pope tells Missionaries of Mercy
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 10, 2016 at 4:55 am Pope Francis has called upon priests who will serve as Missionaries of Mercy to cover their penitents with a blanket of mercy, as two of the sons of Noah covered the nakedness of...
Being honest about why we are fasting for Lent can be a penance in itself
Catholic Herald - Feb 10, 2016 at 4:36 am In her brilliant article in the latest Catholic Herald, Melissa Kite makes a bold point, “as we enter Lent, resolved to practise moderation it’s a struggle to think of something...
Pope Francis meets with Prime Minister of Iraq
News.va - Feb 10, 2016 at 4:35 am
(Vatican Radio) Before the General Audience on Wednesday, Pope Francis met with the Prime Minister of Iraq, Haydar al-Abadi. The meeting took place in the studio of the Paul VI...
What does the Patriarch – and Putin – have to gain from meeting the Pope?
Catholic Herald - Feb 10, 2016 at 4:34 am The forthcoming meeting between the Pope and the Moscow Patriarch, which is to take place in Cuba, has generated a huge amount of comment, which I will not summarise here. But it...
Daily Gospel Reflection for February 10, 2016 - Ash Wednesday
CatholicMom.com - Feb 10, 2016 at 4:30 am Today’s Gospel: Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18 – Ash Wednesday
When I hear Jesus’ words in the Gospel, I am a little puzzled and uncomfortable. I don’t think that I belong to the circle of...
Cardinals discuss curial changes, decentralization
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 10, 2016 at 4:28 am The Council of Cardinals—the body established by Pope Francis in 2013 to assist him in the reform of the Curia—has concluded its thirteenth meeting, which took place on ...
Ash Wednesday
Communio - Feb 10, 2016 at 4:21 am Ash Wednesday the first day of Lent. On this day, the observance of fast and abstinence begins. Pope St. Leo teaches that the main purpose for fasting is not that the body be...
Prelate decries North Korean rocket launch
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 10, 2016 at 4:09 am The chairman of the Philippine bishops’ public affairs committee has joined his nation’s government in condemning a North Korean rocket launch.
Referring to “the ...
BPAS launch campaign to legalise abortion on demand
Catholic Herald - Feb 10, 2016 at 4:02 am Pro-life organisations have expressed dismay following the launch of a campaign, led by the UK’s largest abortion provider, for the introduction of abortion on demand and up to...
Fraudster who claimed to be Pope’s banker jailed for 14 years
Catholic Herald - Feb 10, 2016 at 3:52 am A man who claimed he was the Pope’s banker in order to steal £73 million has been jailed for 14 years
Luis Nobre was part of a gang of conmen who posed as international financiers...
Pope appears in video on monthly prayer intention
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 10, 2016 at 3:49 am Pope Francis has appeared in a video designed to publicize his general prayer intention for February: “that we may take good care of creation-- a gift freely given-- cultivating...
Don’t judge sinners who want to repent, Pope tells ‘missionaries of mercy’
Catholic Herald - Feb 10, 2016 at 3:42 am On the eve of sending off “missionaries of mercy” to all corners of the globe, Pope Francis told his specially appointed men that the reassuring strength of God’s love — not the “...
Cardinal Parolin defends clerical celibacy
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 10, 2016 at 3:40 am Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, delivered the concluding address at a recent conference on clerical celibacy as a pathway to freedom.
Speaking at ...
Angela Merkel says she ‘can’t remember’ calling Pope Francis
Catholic Herald - Feb 10, 2016 at 3:32 am German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office has said she does not recall phoning Pope Francis to express her anger at Pope Francis’s speech in which he compared Europe to a “barren...
