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Pope Francis defends family as being made up of man and woman
Catholic Online - Featured News - Oct 29, 2017 at 12:00 am In a lengthy speech to civil and ecclesiastical leaders of Europe on Saturday, Pope Francis defended the family as being made up of a man and woman ...
Witch or Catholic Martyr? Many speculate the last 'witch' hanged in Boston was actually a Catholic martyr
Catholic Online - Featured News - Oct 29, 2017 at 12:00 am The last person hanged for witchcraft in Boston could be considered a Catholic martyr.
Talented Dominican Sisters stir emotions with chart-topping Christmas album
Catholic Online - Featured News - Oct 29, 2017 at 12:00 am Among other things, the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist have been known to appear on game shows and to chat with Oprah Winfrey on ...
Religious freedom, not secularism, key to Europe’s future, Vatican official says
Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 28, 2017 at 11:30 pm Rome, Italy, Oct 28, 2017 / 10:30 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In 2003, British Prime Minister Tony Blair was asked about his faith during a magazine interview. As Blair began to offer...
Give Full Assent to the Teachings of the Church
Integrated Catholic Life - Oct 28, 2017 at 11:04 pm This is an age of disbelief, material reductionism, and subjectivism. It is increasingly difficult to give our full assent to Holy Mother Church’s teaching because they are...
Encountering the Word — Luke 9:58
Integrated Catholic Life - Oct 28, 2017 at 11:01 pm “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.” (Luke 9:58) Please share on social media. Print this entry
Silence: A challenging but valuable discipline
Aleteia - Oct 28, 2017 at 11:00 pm Where we are most truly human is where we join with God.Not long ago, I did an eight-day silent retreat. In my community we do this every year. Afterward I Tweeted out a short...
What does your prayer book say about you?
Aleteia - Oct 28, 2017 at 11:00 pm To help you grow in your relationship with God, the value of a prayer book that speaks to you is beyond measure.Do you have favorite prayer book? Over the years I have used...
5 Facts about Satan you may not know
Aleteia - Oct 28, 2017 at 11:00 pm Can he predict the future? Move objects across the room?Satan and his demon followers are mysterious figures of the spiritual realm. They torment us on a daily basis, though...
Requiem for the Unborn
Aleteia - Oct 28, 2017 at 11:00 pm Photo of the Day: October 29, 2017The Requiem Mass celebrated by Bishop Sherrington and Holy Hour commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the 1967 Abortion Act, at Westminster...
What is the difference between a basilica and a cathedral?
Aleteia - Oct 28, 2017 at 11:00 pm And can a church be both at the same time? Occasionally, a Catholic in the United States — or elsewhere in the world — will encounter a church building that is not your typical...
The one teaching of John Paul II that will change your life
Aleteia - Oct 28, 2017 at 11:00 pm He not only taught it, he lived it out, even as a famous world-traveling pope.Pope St. John Paul II led an extraordinary life. From his time as a young priest in 1950s Poland...
Mourning a miscarriage: One mother’s poignant story
Aleteia - Oct 28, 2017 at 11:00 pm The evening Florence Malenfant found out she'd lost her baby will stay with her forever.Losing a child, even before it is born, is a painful ordeal that is difficult to get over....
The pro-life position is essentially a secular position
Aleteia - Oct 28, 2017 at 11:00 pm We religious pro-lifers have more allies than we may have thought, and more useful arguments as well.She’s never met anyone who says he’s pro-life just because his Church says so...
British Court Upholds Removal of Christian Social Work Student Over Facebook Comments
The Religion Clause - Oct 28, 2017 at 8:50 pm As reported by The Guardian and by a press release from Christian Concern, a British trial court judge yesterday upheld a decision by Sheffield University to remove graduate...
Mississippi Suit On Gay Marriage Recusals Is Reopened
The Religion Clause - Oct 28, 2017 at 8:06 pm In June, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed for lack of standing a challenge to Mississippi's broad Conscience Protection Act. (See prior posting.) In October, an en...
500 years of Protestant Revolution: CHRIST THE KING is the Anti-Luther
Rorate Coeli - Oct 28, 2017 at 7:48 pm Why did Pope Pius XI, when he establish the Feast of the Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ with his encyclical Quas Primas un 1925, not choose for it the last Sunday of the...
Cardinal Brandmüller: Defenders of Adultery are Excommunicated
OnePeterFive - Oct 28, 2017 at 6:09 pm One of the two remaining dubia cardinals, Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, has just given an interview to the prominent German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) which has...
'Tis the season: Dominican Sisters climb charts with new Christmas album
Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 28, 2017 at 5:10 pm , Oct 28, 2017 / 04:10 pm (CNA).- Among other things, the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist have been known to appear on game shows and to chat with Oprah Winfrey...
A priest’s prayers for before and after making his own confession
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Oct 28, 2017 at 4:25 pm From an old prayerbook for priests which I’ve had since before my ordination. They are dense with old wisdom.
Here are two prayers, in Latin and English, for priests, for before...
