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Things That Remit Venial Sins — The Traditional Liturgy Is Full of Them
New Liturgical Movement - Feb 8, 2016 at 9:00 am We are approaching the great penitential season of Lent. If we live the season as we ought, we will invariably think a good deal about sin — how we can avoid it, repent of it, get...
“What a bore clergy find the ‘Hymn to Love’ in I Corinthians 13…”
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 8, 2016 at 8:46 am From Fr. Hunwicke of Mutual Enrichment comes this brilliantly blistering entry. I am glad he’s on our side. And I am especially glad to have another defender of the pre-Lent...
Born at 27 weeks: Science said he would die; faith said he would live
LifeSiteNews - Feb 8, 2016 at 8:42 am '...even those born in difficult circumstances are destined to be here and they are the brightness in a dark situation. Nathaniel only proved to me further that abortion is murder...
Pope to visit Mexico as ‘missionary of mercy and peace’
Catholic Herald - Feb 8, 2016 at 8:39 am Pope Francis said his reasons for going to Mexico are “easy and simple,” and that he is visiting the country as “a missionary of mercy and peace.”
The Pope made the comments in a...
Shakespeare on Love: Seeing the Catholic Presence in Romeo and Juliet
CatholicMom.com - Feb 8, 2016 at 8:30 am Romeo and Juliet…sigh. I remember watching the Leonardo DiCaprio/Claire Danes version many times in middle school and high school. The romance! The passion! And fate! Oh, it was...
[VIDEO] Bishop Barron, George Weigel, and….Jim Gaffigan on the Image of Divine Mercy
Brandon Vogt - Feb 8, 2016 at 8:25 am Check out this beautiful new film tracing the history of the Image of Divine Mercy. It includes interviews with many Church leaders, such as Bishop Robert Barron, George Weigel,...
Abortion Activists Trash Doritos Super Bowl Commercial Because It “Humanizes Fetuses”
LifeNews.com - Feb 8, 2016 at 8:20 am The abortion activists to NARAL were demonstrably upset last night during the Super Bowl — and not because the Denver Broncos beat the Carolina Panthers in the big game seen bi...
More insight, less bias needed in media coverage of crosses on Texas police cars
GetReligion - Feb 8, 2016 at 8:15 am
Some Texas newspaper reports on Gov. Greg Abbott supporting the display of crosses on police cars have been pretty sketchy.
Sketchy as in half there.
Sketchy as in incomplete....
NARAL president: I had to abort my baby so I could achieve my ‘dreams’
LifeSiteNews - Feb 8, 2016 at 8:08 am Feminism: the ideology that says women are so weak they have to kill their babies to be successful.
Pope to Mexicans: ‘I come as a missionary of mercy and peace’
News.va - Feb 8, 2016 at 7:50 am
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent a greeting to the people of Mexico as they await his arrival telling them that he is travelling to the nation as a “missionary of mercy and...
Pontifical Commission on Minors concludes Plenary
News.va - Feb 8, 2016 at 7:50 am (Vatican Radio) The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors has released a communiqué at the end of its week-long Plenary Assembly at the Vatican. Dated February 8,...
Thursday's Paper Wraps Friday's Fish
The Reason for Our Hope - Feb 8, 2016 at 7:43 am That's an expression I grew up with in Nova Scotia. We ate fish on Friday's (I still do). The expression comes from the practice of wrapping leftovers in the newspaper of the day...
Catholic Herald readers win tickets to historic service at Hampton Court
Catholic Herald - Feb 8, 2016 at 7:35 am The winners of a Catholic Herald prize draw for tickets to attend Catholic vespers at Hampton Court Palace have been announced.
Mrs Mavis Smith of Canterbury, Kent and Mrs Lorna...
The Lord God Will Be Their Light
Dominicana - Feb 8, 2016 at 6:56 am While it is important to consider the mysteries of the life of the Lord as the Church’s calendar presents them to us, it is also helpful to contemplate them throughout the year....
Francis: “In Mexico I want to embrace the suffering”
Vatican Insider - Feb 8, 2016 at 6:19 am The Pope is going to Mexico from 12 to 18 February as a “missionary of mercy and peace” and to embrace “the suffering” in particular. Francis himself explained this in a video-...
Victim Advocate Is Asked To Take Leave From Pontifical Commission on Protection of Minors
The Religion Clause - Feb 8, 2016 at 6:05 am Crux reported Saturday that in the Vatican, British sexual abuse survivor Peter Saunders has been asked by other members of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors...
Prayer Corner: February 8, 2016
CatholicMom.com - Feb 8, 2016 at 6:00 am
Welcome to the CatholicMom.com Prayer Corner!
In this space, readers are invited to share their prayer intentions and give thanks for prayers answered. When requesting prayer,...
Recent Articles of Interest
The Religion Clause - Feb 8, 2016 at 6:00 am From SSRN:
John D. Moore, The First Amendment Case for Corporate Religious Rights, (16 Nev. L.J. 1 (2015)).
Micah Schwartzman, Chad Flanders & Zoe Robinson, The Rise of...
An enriching visit to a magnificent Ordinariate church
Catholic Herald - Feb 8, 2016 at 5:59 am On Saturday I was honoured to be invited to preach at St Agatha’s in Portsmouth, the Church of the Portsmouth Ordinariate Mission. I learned several things on my trip to St Agatha...
Amid religious freedom concerns, relief over Indiana bill's failure
EWTN - US Latest News - Feb 8, 2016 at 5:23 am Indianapolis, Ind., Feb 8, 2016 / 05:23 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- An Indiana anti-discrimination bill failed in the state senate because
it would have proved disastrous for religious...
