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1,000 people go vegan for Lent, says animal welfare charity
Catholic Herald - Feb 10, 2016 at 3:19 am More than 1,000 people are taking up PETA’s Go Vegan and Feel Great for Lent pledge.
The animal welfare charity say that 1,200 people have signed up to the pledge – more than...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 10/02/16
Catholic Herald - Feb 10, 2016 at 3:04 am German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she has no recollection of making an “angry” phone call to Pope Francis after his speech to the European Parliament.
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When Teenagers Debate Abortion
Crisis Magazine - Church - Feb 10, 2016 at 2:10 am
“Are you planning to debate abortion in class?” asked our new principal. We were standing in the hallway near my classroom.
“Yes,” I said.
“Don’t,” she said.
“Why not?”
“Because...
Lent All Year Round?
Crisis Magazine - Church - Feb 10, 2016 at 2:00 am
For several years, every Ash Wednesday, I witnessed a curious spectacle: an openly dissenting Catholic lesbian teacher I worked with attended her only Mass of the year, early in...
Pope Francis sends first "Keep Lent" message to Pompeii
News.va - Feb 10, 2016 at 1:30 am
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Wednesday morning sent an audio-message to the young people of the Prelature of the Pontifical Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii.
It is the first...
Ash Wednesday
Saint Louis Catholic - Feb 10, 2016 at 12:30 am A blessed and spiritually profitable Quadragesima to you all.
LENTCAzT 01: Ash Wednesday
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 10, 2016 at 12:01 am
It is Ash Wednesday. For those bound by the law, it is a day of fasting and abstinence.
With this audio offering, I am beginning a series of daily 5 minute podcasts for Lent. ...
Ashes to Ashes...
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Feb 10, 2016 at 12:00 am Fr. Steve Grunow's homily for Ash Wednesday reflects upon what the cross of ashes on our foreheads reveals to us about ourselves during this season of Lent, as well as what it...
Grace Reaches You from the Most Unexpected Paths
Aleteia - Feb 9, 2016 at 11:30 pm Help this broken man when the road is long Write in me a melody so I can sing redemption’s song. On April 4, 1999, Pope John Paul II published his “Letter to Artists”: “Artists of...
A Lenten Reflection on Christ in the Desert
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 9, 2016 at 11:04 pm “…if anyone wishes to seriously exercise the spiritual life, he had better know that the company of people that hold our own faith and worship in our own churches is a most...
Daily Lenten Reflection — Into the Wilderness
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 9, 2016 at 11:03 pm “The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. And he was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to...
Encountering the Word — Matthew 4:1
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 9, 2016 at 11:01 pm A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.” (Matthew 4:23) Print this entry
Christian Leaders Beg for Help as Aleppo, Syria, Faces Humanitarian Crisis
Aleteia - Feb 9, 2016 at 11:00 pm The suffering that residents of the Syrian town of Madaya have experienced recently might be repeated on an exponential scale in one of Syria’s largest cities. Reuters reports...
Not Quite Ready for Lent? Francis de Sales Offers a Perfect Assist
Aleteia - Feb 9, 2016 at 11:00 pm So, it’s Ash Wednesday, and Lent is come. You’ve read a dozen articles suggesting what you might do, or not do; what you might remove from your life for 40 days or what discipline...
Sr. Eugenia Bonetti Rescues Trafficked and Prostituted Women; You Can Help
Aleteia - Feb 9, 2016 at 11:00 pm ROME — In part II of our interview on human trafficking with recently retired Australian ambassador to the Holy See, John McCarthy [see Part I here], we discuss how one Italian...
Loving the Unlikable: A Hard Discipline for Lent and the Year of Mercy
Aleteia - Feb 9, 2016 at 11:00 pm I won’t repeat the word he used because it was cruel. “I really don’t like [cruel word],” he had admitted. He had spent much of Sunday afternoon helping a woman he disliked set up...
Do We Really Need Another Lent?
Aleteia - Feb 9, 2016 at 11:00 pm “What should I give up for Lent?” I suspect that most earnest Catholics have been asking themselves that question for about a week or so. Now that Lent has arrived, and folks have...
A Few Choice Words From the (Not-Silent) Cloister
Aleteia - Feb 9, 2016 at 11:00 pm The vow of silence. It’s nearly as pervasive as the stereotype that all Italians are somehow involved in the mob or that everyone in New Jersey says “Joisey.” (After 25 years in...
WATCH: Sacred Moments from the Camino to Begin Your Lenten Pilgrimage
Aleteia - Feb 9, 2016 at 11:00 pm If you’ve ever walked the Camino de Santiago, this montage will bring back powerful memories, and if you’ve always wanted to make the Spanish pilgrimage, it will give you a taste...
St Eugene College – CURRICULUM LEADER (Head of Department) SCIENCE
The Catholic Leader - Feb 9, 2016 at 10:27 pm CURRICULUM LEADER (Head of Department) SCIENCE – Years 7 – 12, St Eugene College BurpengaryThe College is seeking a Curriculum Leader for SCIENCE Years 7-12. As this position is a...
