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Texas Supreme Court: Cheerleaders' Battle With School District Not Moot
The Religion Clause - Jan 31, 2016 at 7:00 am In Matthews v. Kountze Independent School District, (TX Sup. Ct., Jan. 29. 2016), the Texas Supreme Court, without hearing or oral argument, held that a dispute between football...
Pope Francis: it's not us, but God who takes the first step
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 31, 2016 at 6:50 am Vatican City, Jan 31, 2016 / 05:50 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Sunday Pope Francis said that it’s the weak and vulnerable who are most valuable in God’s eyes, and stressed that it’s...
The Future of the Franciscans
Franciscan Media - Jan 31, 2016 at 5:00 am When he talks about his guitar-playing days, Mike Perry doesn’t neglect to mention that his guitar was a 12-string Epiphone—nothing too fancy, but a step up from the primitive...
Daily Gospel Reflection for January 31, 2016 - 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time
CatholicMom.com - Jan 31, 2016 at 4:30 am
Today’s Gospel: Luke 4:21-30 – Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Today’s Gospel shares a line that is often quoted, but not always understood. Here, Jesus shares a short history of...
What Don Bosco teaches us about the power of dreams
Catholic Herald - Jan 31, 2016 at 2:25 am Does God communicate with us through our dreams? St John Bosco thought so: he was shown God’s plan for his life in a dream when he was only nine years old. The vivid dream...
ASK FATHER: Reciting the Office or reading silently
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 31, 2016 at 12:01 am From a seminarian…
QUAERITUR:
I am a seminarian and I pray the EF Office faithfully. I know I have read somewhere that even when praying alone the words should actually be...
Do You Reveal Jesus When People See You?
Integrated Catholic Life - Jan 30, 2016 at 11:04 pm “As I have loved you, so you also should love one another” (John 13:34). In John 14:15, Jesus tells his apostles, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” In this passage...
The Catholic Priest Who Found Jesus Christ While Among the Muslims
Aleteia - Jan 30, 2016 at 11:04 pm One of the first times Father Humblot came into contact with Muslims was seeing the shadow of a “terrorist” during the war in Algeria. He was serving at the time in the French...
Catholic Quote of the Day — from G. K. Chesterton
Integrated Catholic Life - Jan 30, 2016 at 11:02 pm “ ‘The Church is not a thing like the Athenaeum Club,’ he cried. ‘If the Athenaeum Club lost all its members, the Athenaeum Club would dissolve and cease to exist. But when we...
A Year in the Word: “Here I am, Lord. Send Me!”
Aleteia - Jan 30, 2016 at 11:02 pm Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?” “Here I am,” I said. “Send me!” (Isaiah 6:8) The way we came to know love was that he laid down...
Pope Francis Mourns Casa Santa Marta Worker During Saturday Audience
Aleteia - Jan 30, 2016 at 11:01 pm VATICAN CITY — Christians are called to be missionaries of God’s mercy as this is the only way the Gospel will touch hearts and open them to receive the gift of love, Pope Francis...
Encountering the Word — 1 Corinthians 12:4-11
Integrated Catholic Life - Jan 30, 2016 at 11:01 pm A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of...
WATCH: Why America Needs A Slavery Museum
Aleteia - Jan 30, 2016 at 11:00 pm “…I am changed. I see now more clearly than ever, the dots across the timeline of history that led to our current situation of racism and the effect that it has across an entire...
Australian Catholics Call for Day of Prayer Against Human Trafficking
Aleteia - Jan 30, 2016 at 11:00 pm The Catholic Church of Australia is calling on its citizens not to be indifferent to human trafficking and take simple steps to combatting global injustice. The Australian...
Tennessee Appeals Court Invokes Ecclesiastical Abstention In Church Property Dispute
The Religion Clause - Jan 30, 2016 at 8:00 pm In Church of God In Christ, Inc. v. L.M. Haley Ministries, Inc., (TN App, Jan. 27, 2016), a Tennessee state appeals court in a 2-1 decision held that the ecclesiastical abstention...
Suit Seeks To Bring Marijuana Under American Indian Religious Freedom Act
The Religion Clause - Jan 30, 2016 at 6:50 pm Courthouse News Service reported this week that Oklevueha Native American Church leaders James "Flaming Eagle" Mooney and Joy Graves filed suit in an Oregon federal district court...
Fr Cipolla presents the new Norcia venture in the United States: Birra Nursia Monastic Beer
Rorate Coeli - Jan 30, 2016 at 5:16 pm By Father Richard CipollaThere are few places in this world that mean more to me spiritually than the monastery of St. Benedict in Norcia, Italy. My connection to the monastery...
Catholics crowdsource in hopes of rescuing alleged St. Kateri relic
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 30, 2016 at 5:13 pm Albany, N.Y., Jan 30, 2016 / 04:13 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Catholic faithful are banding together to help rescue a possible relic of St. Kateri Tekawitha in a strange – and...
The Book of Genesis in Stone
New Liturgical Movement - Jan 30, 2016 at 5:00 pm Since the Church traditionally begins to read the book of Genesis in the Divine Office on Septuagesima Sunday, I thought I would take the opportunity to end the week with some...
The Cost of the Gospels and the Synoptic Problem
Jimmy Akin.org - Jan 30, 2016 at 4:33 pm The question of how the costs producing the Gospels would have affected the choices that their authors made is almost totally ignored. We will seek to remedy this by looking at...
