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Pope Francis on the Eucharist and the grace to love
Catholic Online - Featured News - Oct 30, 2017 at 12:00 am On Sunday Pope Francis reflected on Jesus' command to love God above all things, and your neighbor as yourself, saying that it is in the Eucharist ...
It's Time for Catholics to Embrace Halloween
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Oct 30, 2017 at 12:00 am As we near All Hallows Eve, aka Halloween, we fired some questions at the walking encyclopedia that is Father Steve Grunow, and he responded with everything you ever wanted to...
The Least Religious Generation in U.S. History
Integrated Catholic Life - Oct 29, 2017 at 11:04 pm A REFLECTION ON JEAN TWENGE’S “IGEN” Jean Twenge’s book iGen is one of the most fascinating—and depressing—texts I’ve read in the past decade. A professor of psychology at San...
Communion to the remarried, Müller, “There can be mitigating factors in guilt”
Vatican Insider - Oct 29, 2017 at 11:01 pm With the apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis, relying on the two Synods of Bishops on the family of 2014 and 2015, attempted to give both a theological and...
Hero therapy dog saves 5-year-old from miles away
Aleteia - Oct 29, 2017 at 11:00 pm The dog was acting strangely, even though Sophie was miles away at school.One day in December 2015, 5-year-old Sadie Brooks said goodbye to her beloved yellow Labrador, Hero, a...
Grace makes no sense, and God is unreasonable
Aleteia - Oct 29, 2017 at 11:00 pm That's what I thought, until a dog's death and some snowshoes helped me to see ...On Monday morning Max, one of my two beloved Newfoundland dogs, passed away after a brief but...
These might be the two most valuable manuscripts of Christianity
Aleteia - Oct 29, 2017 at 11:00 pm One of them is Irish. The other one resides in Italy. Why is that not surprising?Not much is known of the life and works of Saint Ceolfrid. Venerated in both the Catholic and the...
500 Years later, has the internet made Luthers of us all?
Aleteia - Oct 29, 2017 at 11:00 pm It all started when Luther’s post went viral.We have many misconceptions about Martin Luther, the religious founder whose 95 theses about the Catholic Church, posted on October 31...
Is the phrase “hocus pocus” a parody of the priest’s words at Mass?
Aleteia - Oct 29, 2017 at 11:00 pm It has been used by magicians around the world for hundreds of years.The popular Halloween phrase “hocus pocus” is strange in the English language and generally thought to be a...
The Icon of the Virgin Mary at the Panagia Kanala
Aleteia - Oct 29, 2017 at 11:00 pm Photo of the Day: October 30, 2017The Litany of the Holy Icon of Virgin Mary of Kanala (Panagia Kanala of Kythnos), the relics of Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki and the Holy Icon...
The St. Benedict Medal Prayer of Exorcism
Aleteia - Oct 29, 2017 at 11:00 pm A simple prayer that packs a powerful (spiritual) punchMany are familiar with the Jubilee Medal of St. Benedict, a sacramental of the Church that is known for its ability to...
The one kind of sugar that can actually make cancer spread
Aleteia - Oct 29, 2017 at 11:00 pm But a study also found some good news about what you can continue to eat ... Here’s something horrible to ruin your Halloween candy-binge: eating too much sugar can turn treatable...
Possibilities of sacraments to the “irregulars”, here is what is traditional
Vatican Insider - Oct 29, 2017 at 11:00 pm The wide-ranging essay written by Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller as a preface to the book that collects the lectures and reflections of Professor Rocco Buttiglione on the...
Nineveh Plain, the Chaldean Church: No to the Baghdad-Kurdish dispute
Vatican Insider - Oct 29, 2017 at 10:00 pm Seven months have already passed since the entire city of Mosul and the whole plain of Nineveh have been freed from the dominion of the Jihadists of the so-called Islamic State (...
Sacred Music Workshop - Long Island, NY
New Liturgical Movement - Oct 29, 2017 at 9:30 pm On Saturday, December 2nd, Heitor Caballero, the director of sacred music at St. Agnes Church in NYC, will present a sacred music workshop at Our Holy Redeemer Parish in Freeport...
Feast of Christ the King
Saint Louis Catholic - Oct 29, 2017 at 7:50 pm I hope you all had a blessed feast day. The preface from today says it all very well:IT IS truly meet and just, right and profitable, for us, all times, and in all places, to give...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 30/10/17
Catholic Herald - Oct 29, 2017 at 7:01 pm Pope Francis reflected on “God’s ‘dream’ for man” at yesterday’s Angelus (full text, full video). Christians are called to revive Europe’s conscience, the Pope said on Saturday (...
Court Resolves Factional Religious Split Using "Neutral Principles" Approach
The Religion Clause - Oct 29, 2017 at 6:57 pm In Kelley v. Garuda, (Nassau Cty. NY Sup. Ct., Oct. 2, 2017), a New York trial court, deferring to resolutions passed by the Governing Body Commission of the International Society...
Recent Prisoner Free Exercise Cases
The Religion Clause - Oct 29, 2017 at 6:09 pm In Abdullah v. Cohen, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 174961 (D NJ, Oct. 23, 2017), a New Jersey federal district court dismissed without prejudice an inmate's suit alleging that hie was...
Principal – St Colman’s, Home Hill
The Catholic Leader - Oct 29, 2017 at 6:00 pm Principal St Colman’s School, Home Hill Commencing January 2018 The Principal of St Colman’s School has accepted a senior leadership role in Townsville, providing a fantastic...
