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Review: Little Sins Mean A Lot
CatholicMom.com - Oct 30, 2017 at 6:00 am
Sometimes I get asked to review books, and sometimes I seek out publishers and I ask them if I may review a book. This is a book I immediately asked to review after I saw the...
How to tell a Romanesque church from a Gothic one
Aleteia - Oct 30, 2017 at 6:00 am The main architectural difference is in the arches. To some, anything built between the much contested “Fall of Rome” and the Renaissance falls under “medieval architecture,”...
Recent Articles of Interest
The Religion Clause - Oct 30, 2017 at 6:00 am From SSRN:
Michael J. T. McMillen, Enforceability of Certain Promises, Particularly Unilateral and Pre-Closing Promises: Secular and Shari'ah Concepts, (2017 Proceedings of...
Victoria’s Requiem for 4 Voices on All Souls in Littleton, Colorado4
New Liturgical Movement - Oct 30, 2017 at 6:00 am The FSSP parish of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Littleton, Colorado will celebrate High Mass on All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day, both starting at 7 pm. On All Saints, the music...
Catholics praying Hail Mary removed by Police from Brussels Cathedral during "Reformation Celebration"
Rorate Coeli - Oct 30, 2017 at 5:37 am It must be one of the most shameful episodes of our shameful hierarchy of atrocious bishops.
In Brussels Cathedral, the 500 years of the hideous acts of heresiarch Luther were...
What caused the Reformation? A Catholic explainer
EWTN - World Catholic News - Oct 30, 2017 at 5:36 am Washington D.C., Oct 30, 2017 / 05:36 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- One fated Halloween, 500 years ago, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses
to the door of Wittenberg Castle in a dramatic...
Cardinal Wuerl: Francis’ liturgical translation reform is ’what the council said’
Vatican Insider - Oct 30, 2017 at 5:31 am In decentralizing authority from the Vatican to bishops’ conferences for the translation of texts for the Catholic Church’s liturgies from Latin into local languages, Pope Francis...
Boston archdiocese rescinds ban on pro-life petitions (Catholic Action League)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 30, 2017 at 4:10 am Reacting to public protests, the Boston archdiocese has reversed a policy that barred pro-life activists from collecting signatures on church property for a measure that seeks an...
Santa Fe's Archbishop Wester apologizes for 'betrayal of trust' on sexual abuse (New Mexican)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 30, 2017 at 4:10 amDublin archdiocese withholds statistics amid mounting shortage of priests (Irish Catholic)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 30, 2017 at 4:10 am The Diocese of Dublin, facing an increasingly acute shortage of priests, has declined to make public the annual figures involving priestly retirements. One figure is available,...
Papal homily: good pastors are close to their people (Vatican Radio)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 30, 2017 at 4:10 am In his homily at morning Mass on October 30, Pope Francis criticized clerics who are more interested in building relationships with powerful people than in bringing comfort to...
Knights of Columbus praise plan to send US aid direct to persecuted Christians
Catholic Herald - Oct 30, 2017 at 3:52 am Carl Anderson, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, praised the decision by the Trump administration to provide direct U.S. aid to persecuted Christians in the Middle East...
Daily Gospel Reflection for October 30, 2017
CatholicMom.com - Oct 30, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: Luke 13:10-17
I never have to worry about the rules in my house. You see, I have a Rule Abiding Citizen living with me, and he is six years old.
At that most...
Our Guardian Angel is the friend we do not see, but whose presence we feel
Aleteia - Oct 30, 2017 at 3:00 am "He accompanies us on our earthly journey to heaven." -- Pope Francis
The Long, Twisted Story of All Hallow’s Eve
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Oct 30, 2017 at 2:39 am Everybody knows that Halloween is just the baptized pagan feast of Samhain, right? Everybody’s wrong. Here: have some actual history, courtesy of Yr. Obdt. Svt.: One game some...
How Protestants Still Get Justification Wrong
Crisis Magazine - Church - Oct 30, 2017 at 2:15 am
The Protestant Reformation’s 500th anniversary is likely to inspire the usual appraisals of where Protestants and Catholics have lingering disagreements and where there is now...
Same-sex “Marriage” Opens the Door to Polyamory
Crisis Magazine - Church - Oct 30, 2017 at 2:10 am
An ominous portent haunts the dissenting opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges. Chief Justice John Roberts, relying on the old maxim that it’s valid to infer from what has happened to...
British court upholds university's expulsion of student who wrote that same-sex marriage is sinful (The Guardian)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 30, 2017 at 2:10 am Sheffield University expelled the student from its master’s program in social work after he wrote on Facebook that “same-sex marriage is a sin whether we like it or not. It is God...
Indiana court rules that sex offenders are not banned from churches (Religion Clause)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 30, 2017 at 2:10 amEgypt: Coptic priest conducts sit-in in his closed church (Watani)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 30, 2017 at 2:10 am Watani is a weekly Egyptian newspaper.
