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On the Right to the Most Ideal Life Possible
Aleteia - Feb 7, 2016 at 11:03 pm Last week, the CDC released a statement that women should not consume alcohol during their fertile years unless they are using birth control. This is the latest and most extreme...
How 17 Saints Fought the Devil and Lived to Tell the Tale
Aleteia - Feb 7, 2016 at 11:03 pm Scripture, Church teaching and the writings of Church fathers and doctors affirm the existence of the Devil and other demons. So do the lives of the saints, and a new book by Dr....
Catholic Quote of the Day — from Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 7, 2016 at 11:02 pm “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” (Blessed Teresa of Calcutta) Print this entry
The Francis Wager: A Lenten Challenge for the Pope-Peeved
Aleteia - Feb 7, 2016 at 11:02 pm Some of us Catholics have a love/hate relationship with Pope Francis. There is a sense that his image is bruised, in part by self-inflicted wounds. Didn’t he diss large families?...
Encountering the Word – Colossians 3:12-15
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 7, 2016 at 11:01 pm A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience, forbearing one another and, if...
Faith in the Time of Thin Mints
Aleteia - Feb 7, 2016 at 11:00 pm When it comes to being Catholic, the very adult decision to “own one’s faith” comes with a few concessions. Outside of the predictable dedication to pray more and sin less,...
10 Fatal Relationship Mistakes
Aleteia - Feb 7, 2016 at 11:00 pm “This minuscule heart is a torturous thing.” Let’s listen to a declaration of love with Alanna Marie Boudreau, a beautiful declaration of “I’m sorrys” accompanied by sweet song....
A Millennial’s Guide to Lent
Aleteia - Feb 7, 2016 at 11:00 pm Growing up Catholic in the 1980s and ’90s, I was taught to do one thing during Lent: give up sweets. For most of my life, that is what I did each year, and I thought nothing about...
Personal Encounter: #UnboundAdventure Philippines Journal
CatholicMom.com - Feb 7, 2016 at 10:12 pm To enjoy all of my Philippines Journal entries and travel with me and Unbound, click here.
In the sight of the angels, I will sing your praises Lord. Psalm 138
I met some “angels...
Marco Rubio: In Your Heart You Know He's Trite
Commonweal - Feb 7, 2016 at 8:50 pm For some time now I've found myself resistant to the charms of Marco Rubio. At a certain level of abstraction, of course, I can grasp the possibility of a young Hispanic from an...
Homily for the 1st Sunday in Lent, February 14, 2016, Year C
Big C Catholics - Feb 7, 2016 at 7:00 pm Fr. Charles Irvin
Senior Priest
Diocese of Lansing
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Oscar Wilde was a much-celebrated Anglo-Irish literary figure, very witty… and very worldly....
Morning Catholic must-reads: 08/02/16
Catholic Herald - Feb 7, 2016 at 6:01 pm The Pope expressed “deep concern” over “the dramatic fate of civilian populations” in Syria in his Angelus address on Sunday (full video).
Germany needs “a reduction in the number...
7 Feb: Bl. Pius IX, Pope
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 7, 2016 at 6:01 pm The Martyrologium Romanum has this entry for 7 February:
16*. Romae, beati Pii papae Noni, qui, veritatem Christi, cui ab imo adhaesit, plane proclamans, multas instituit sedes...
Vatican financial reform aims to help the Church do its job better
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 7, 2016 at 5:23 pm Vatican City, Feb 7, 2016 / 04:23 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Vatican’s recent financial reforms have the common good – not just efficiency – as their end, said an economist on the...
The Pope's Traditional Masterstroke to bring Crowds to the Jubilee
Rorate Coeli - Feb 7, 2016 at 4:56 pm So...the 2016 Mercy Jubilee was not the popular success that had been foreseen. What was the solution?The Pope had the Capuchins bring to Rome from different points of Italy the...
Preparing, Prepared
Saint Louis Catholic - Feb 7, 2016 at 4:37 pm CharlestonBy Henry TimrodCalm as that second summer which precedes The first fall of the snow,In the broad sunlight of heroic deeds, The City bides the foe. As yet,...
Ash Wednesday, February 10, 2016, Year C
Big C Catholics - Feb 7, 2016 at 2:21 pm Jesus said: "Take care not to perform righteous deeds in order that people maysee them; otherwise, you... have no recompense from your heavenly Father"
Fr. Charles Irvin
Senior...
Peyton Manning Was Born With a Cleft Lip, Tragically Some Babies With Cleft Lips are Aborted
LifeNews.com - Feb 7, 2016 at 2:10 pm Today parents are sometimes pressured to abort simply because their unborn child has a cleft lip, a correctable condition. Physicians categorize it as a disability. Yet a...
Your Sunday Sermon Notes
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 7, 2016 at 2:06 pm Was there a good point or two from the sermon you heard for your Mass of Sunday obligation?
Let us know.
For the EF, I spoke of the move I am currently enduring and sorting and...
National Marriage Week
Communio - Feb 7, 2016 at 1:37 pm “National Marriage Week (Feb. 7-14) and World Marriage Sunday/Valentine’s Day (Sunday, Feb. 14) provide an opportunity to celebrate the gift and blessing of marriage and to affirm...
