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Peyton Manning, “Class” of 2016
Aleteia - Feb 3, 2016 at 11:02 pm Author’s Note: I am an unabashed Peyton Manning fan for reasons outlined in my two pieces, “Regarding My Wife & Peyton Manning” and “Why Peyton Matters” and…here. ...
Catholic Quote of the Day — from Pope St. John Paul II
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 3, 2016 at 11:02 pm “We need a new apologetic, geared to the needs of today, which keeps in mind that our task is not to win arguments but to win souls, to engage not in ideological bickering but a...
Encountering the Word — Acts 17:16
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 3, 2016 at 11:01 pm A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols. ” (Acts 17:16)...
Good Man. Good Monk. Good Beer.
Aleteia - Feb 3, 2016 at 11:01 pm I first met Brother Augustine Wilmeth when he was one of the students where I served as chaplain. As a convert, he was intensely interested not only in his new Catholic faith but...
Human Traffickers May Have Taken Many of the “Unaccompanied Children” Who Crossed US Border
Aleteia - Feb 3, 2016 at 11:00 pm Remember the masses of unaccompanied children and youth that were pouring across the United States’ border with Mexico last year? Whatever happened to all those kids? According to...
Vacare Deo: What Will Fill the Spaces We Empty This Lent?
Aleteia - Feb 3, 2016 at 11:00 pm In a few days it’ll be Lent, and I will again hang in the oratory the small plaque with two words: Vacare Deo, to empty oneself for God. It’s a reminder for spiritual cleaning. As...
Fasting in Lent and Beyond: Let’s Make It a Tool to Evangelize
Aleteia - Feb 3, 2016 at 11:00 pm Prayer and comfortable living are incompatible. —St. Teresa of Avila After the joyful anticipation of Advent, the overwhelming cheer of Christmas, and the everyday optimism of...
Ethics Panel Recruited by FDA Gives Cautious Green Light to Three-Parent Babies
Aleteia - Feb 3, 2016 at 11:00 pm It might be “ethically permissible” to try to create babies that have genetic material from three people, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has...
Why I'm Throwing Away My Meg Cabot Books
Journey of a Catholic Nerd Writer - Feb 3, 2016 at 10:08 pm Once upon a time, a 16 year-old Emmy went to see The Princess Diaries on the big screen. Though she never dreamed about being a princess (no, she grew up a tomboy and dreamed...
Don’t Be a Super Bowl Catholic
St. Louis Areopagus - Archdiocesan Blog - Feb 3, 2016 at 10:04 pm You probably know that there is a really, really big football game coming up on Sunday. You might even be able to identify the teams playing, the starting quarterbacks, or the...
So is Conservatism or Likeability More Important?
Creative Minority Report - Feb 3, 2016 at 10:00 pm Ronald Reagan won and changed history. Dude rocked. And now the GOP is left trying to recreate his electoral victories. But I don't think the GOP can decide why Reagan won. Was it...
LIBS! University level liturgy course for YOU! BIG PUPPETS!
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 3, 2016 at 9:23 pm At the UConn Drama department:
Puppet Arts
Classes in puppetry were first taught at UConn in 1964 by Professor Frank W. Ballard, who had joined the faculty of Theatre Department...
UNESCO confirms Jordan site as place of Christ's baptism
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 3, 2016 at 7:36 pm With a formal ceremony on February 2, the UN's Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has acknowledged Al Maghtas, Jordan, as the site of Christ's Baptism,...
Mexico's violence, corruption, is not Our Lady's plan, Pope says on eve of visit
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 3, 2016 at 7:21 pm "I come to Mexico as a pilgrim, to look for something among the Mexican people," Pope Francis said in an interview with a Mexican news service as he prepares for his visit to the...
Russian Patriarch discourages high expectations for pan-Orthodox council
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 3, 2016 at 7:06 pm Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill has warned against what he regards as unrealistic expectations for the outcome of the pan-Orthodox council that is scheduled to be held in Crete...
How Politics Has Divided American Views of Islam
Commonweal - Feb 3, 2016 at 6:54 pm A survey by Pew Research Center has found a disturbingly sharp partisan divide in how Americans view Islam. Some 70 percent of Democrats agreed that the next president should "be...
Gang Member Charged With Two Murders for Killing His Pregnant Girlfriend and Her Unborn Child
LifeNews.com - Feb 3, 2016 at 6:16 pm In 2012 Kenneth Lee Hopkins was one of eight alleged members of a gang indicted in a federal conspiracy case that involved multiple robberies, according to the Tulsa World.
Having...
Indiana Committee Passes Bill to Make It Next State to Ban Abortions Based on Down Syndrome
LifeNews.com - Feb 3, 2016 at 6:03 pm Indiana pro-life legislators are resurrecting a bill to protect unborn babies from being discriminated against in the womb because of gender or a genetic abnormality.
The state...
20 Planned Parenthood Clinics Have Harvested Body Parts From Aborted Babies, Here’s the Proof
LifeNews.com - Feb 3, 2016 at 5:57 pm In October, Planned Parenthood told the New York Times that only two of its health centers nationwide supply “fetal tissue” to researchers – one in California and one in...
