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40 Ideas to Get the Most out of Lent
CatholicMom.com - Feb 9, 2016 at 6:00 am Lent is supposed to be a season of a successful journey through the desert of penance to a new land and a new, deeper, intimacy with God. But often, we find ourselves going back...
Church's State Court Suit Challenges California Mandate For Health Insurance Abortion Coverage
The Religion Clause - Feb 9, 2016 at 6:00 am A La Mesa, California church last week filed suit in state court against the California Department of Managed Health Care challenging a state requirement that all health insurance...
Pope received phone call from an ‘angry Angela Merkel’ after Europe comments
Catholic Herald - Feb 9, 2016 at 5:36 am The Pope has told an Italian newspaper that he received an angry phone call from Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany after comparing Europe to a “barren woman”.
In a speech to the...
Bishop ‘encouraged’ by David Cameron’s plan for prison reform
Catholic Herald - Feb 9, 2016 at 5:35 am The lead bishop for prisons in England Wales has said he was “very encouraged” by David Cameron’s recent speech on prison reform.
On Monday, the Prime Minister announced “the...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 09/02/16
Catholic Herald - Feb 9, 2016 at 5:34 am Pope Francis has revealed that he received an “angry” phone call from Angela Merkel after his speech to the European Parliament.
The Pope’s trip to the US-Mexico border will “make...
For Love Alone
Dominicana - Feb 9, 2016 at 5:30 am There’s something beautiful in love stories, something that sparks our interest. We want the boy to get the girl, and the maiden to find true love and in that love, happiness....
Prominent US curial official named nuncio
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 9, 2016 at 5:30 am Pope Francis has appointed Msgr. Peter Wells, a Tulsa priest who has served as Assessor for General Affairs of the Vatican’s Secretariat of State since 2009, as the apostolic...
Lutheran leaders emphasize �quest for unity' with Catholic Church
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 9, 2016 at 5:12 am The leaders of the Lutheran World Federation have issued a statement welcoming Pope Francis’s upcoming trip to Sweden to commemorate the anniversary of the Reformation.
“It ...
When Pope Francis Meets Patriarch Kirill: Will Eradicating Human Trafficking Be on the Agenda?
Aleteia - Feb 9, 2016 at 5:04 am VATICAN CITY — At this week’s Sunday Angelus, Pope Francis called the Christian faithful to set aside February 8, the feast of St. Josephine Bakhita (1869-1947) — a Sudanese-born...
Cover sins with the blanket of mercy, Pope Francis tells priests
EWTN - Vatican News - Feb 9, 2016 at 5:03 am Vatican City, Feb 9, 2016 / 05:03 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Pope Francis met with 650 of the 1,000 priests who've been chosen as
Missionaries of Mercy, telling them to show the...
Papal commission on sex abuse votes that member take leave
Franciscan Media - Feb 9, 2016 at 5:00 am VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The papal commission on child protection voted that one of its members -- a survivor of abuse and victims' advocate -- take a leave of absence and consider...
Pope-patriarch meeting historic, but substance is key
Franciscan Media - Feb 9, 2016 at 5:00 am WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The planned Feb. 12 meeting in Cuba between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church will be a historic event, those involved in...
Russian Orthodox bishops emphasize that doctrine cannot be changed
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 9, 2016 at 4:57 am In a statement concluding a recent two-day meeting in Moscow, the bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church emphasized the immutability of doctrine.
The bishops cited Archbishop...
Film highlights Soviet brutality against Polish nuns
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 9, 2016 at 4:33 am Les Innocentes—a French film being released in the United States as Agnus Dei—premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in late January.
Based on a true story, director Anne ...
Cardinal council wraps up prep work on new Vatican departments
EWTN - Vatican News - Feb 9, 2016 at 4:33 am Vatican City, Feb 9, 2016 / 04:33 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- As Pope Francis' ongoing process of reform continues to move forward,
his council of advisers have finished their proposals...
Daily Gospel Reflection for February 9, 2016
CatholicMom.com - Feb 9, 2016 at 4:30 am
Today’s Gospel: Mark 7, 1-13
Things were really different in the time of Jesus, because there were people who went “by the book” in how they followed the laws and traditions. And...
“Forgive in abundance, if you always condemn you act like the devil”
Vatican Insider - Feb 9, 2016 at 4:29 am Please, in the confessional, do not scold people. May he who comes seeking peace for his soul, find a peace-giving father who says to him: God loves you.” Standing on the ambon at...
New nuncio to Botswana, South Africa 'humbled' by appointment
EWTN - Vatican News - Feb 9, 2016 at 4:07 am Vatican City, Feb 9, 2016 / 04:07 am (EWTN News/CNA).- On Tuesday it was announced that Pope Francis has appointed Msgr. Peter
Bryan Wells, the highest ranking American in the...
Maltese bishop rues �privatization' of Confession
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 9, 2016 at 4:01 am Writing in L’Osservatore Romano, a Maltese bishop called upon confessors to be merciful and to see themselves more as doctors than as judges.
Noting that the Second Vatican ...
Young, white Americans are addicted to this (and what Catholics should do about it)
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 9, 2016 at 4:00 am Providence, R.I., Feb 9, 2016 / 03:00 am (National Catholic Register).- When recent headlines marked a spike in drug overdoses for white, middle-class Americans, the news saddened...
