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Novena to Saint Jude 2017 | Day 5
Big C Catholics - Oct 22, 2017 at 2:07 pm October 23, 2017Today we remember marriages in distress and families that face hardships or are undergoing difficulty. We pray for reconciliation and peace. May Saint Jude guide...
“I learned that when a person has decided to destroy you, he has no lack of words, spite, and hypocrisy”
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Oct 22, 2017 at 1:56 pm Inspired by something sent to me today from a Twitter feed. [UPDATE It’s also quoted by Matthew Schmitz at the Catholic Herald in June 2017 in a round up article about how much...
Pope offers clarifications on new process for liturgical translations
Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 22, 2017 at 1:43 pm Vatican City, Oct 22, 2017 / 12:43 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In a letter responding to questions raised by Cardinal Robert Sarah on the new process of translating liturgical texts from...
St. John of Capistrano, Franciscan Reformer and Defender of the Faith
Big C Catholics - Oct 22, 2017 at 1:39 pm Optional Memorial - October 23rdThe times were anything but good. It was the 14th century, and Europe was in the grip of incredible turmoil. The bubonic plague was raging, leaving...
“Our faith in the indefectibility of the Church is soon going to be tested and good people will legitimately choose different sides.”
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Oct 22, 2017 at 12:29 pm Last night I had a hard dream that I was part of a firefighting crew, the kind that tries to control wildfires, such as dangerously erupt especially in time of drought. The...
Reflection for the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, the Greatest Commandment
Big C Catholics - Oct 22, 2017 at 12:01 pm By Msgr. Bernard BourgeoisExodus 22:20-26; Psalm 18:11 Thessalonians 1:5c-10; Matthew 22:34-40“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” (Mt 22:36)Americans like...
Homily for the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 29, 2017, Year A
Big C Catholics - Oct 22, 2017 at 12:00 pm Fr. Charles IrvinSenior PriestDiocese of Lansing(Click here for today’s readings)A fundamental theme that runs throughout the entire Bible is this: “God offers, we respond.” God’s...
Former NPR CEO visits Jesusland! Returns with sobering media-bias truths for left and right
GetReligion - Oct 22, 2017 at 12:00 pm Oh my. What's a GetReligionista to do?
There are so many journalism and Godbeat think pieces from the past week that I would like to run in this Sunday slot. Some of them are...
Pope Francis: letter to Card. Filoni on World Mission Sunday
News.va - Oct 22, 2017 at 11:26 am
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent a letter to the Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, on occasion of the 2017 iteration...
Pope Francis at Angelus: on being Christian in the world
News.va - Oct 22, 2017 at 10:52 am
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis prayed the Angelus with pilgrims and tourists gathered in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday.
Addressing them ahead of the traditional prayer of Marian...
The Pope announces an extraordinary missionary month in October 2019
Vatican Insider - Oct 22, 2017 at 9:48 am “Accepting the proposal of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, I hereby call for an Extraordinary Missionary Month to be celebrated in October 2019, with the aim...
Pope Francis at Angelus: Church's mission entrusted to Pope St. John Paul II
News.va - Oct 22, 2017 at 9:39 am
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has proclaimed October, 2019 an “Extraordinary Missionary Month” to be marked and celebrated in the whole Church throughout the world, and entrusted...
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Whispers in the Loggia - Oct 22, 2017 at 9:31 am News at dawn on a Sunday? Sure, why not?For everything else flitting across your screens these days, folks, it helps to be discerning about what's genuinely important... ...and...
“Paying taxes is a required act to feel like citizens”
Vatican Insider - Oct 22, 2017 at 8:48 am “Paying taxes is a required act to feel like citizens" the Pope says at the Angelus and "Christians are called to commit themselves concretely in human and social realities...
Signs of the Spirit: App teaches blessings, how to pray in ASL
Franciscan Media - Oct 22, 2017 at 8:22 am VATICAN CITY (CNS) — When Sister Kathleen Schipani found out she was usually the very first person to teach deaf children to pray, she decided there had to be an app to fix that....
Francis corrects Sarah: Liturgical translations not to be “imposed” from Vatican
Vatican Insider - Oct 22, 2017 at 8:07 am In the correction, which takes the form of a letter to Sarah but the pope asks to be posted at the same websites where the cardinal's article first appeared, Francis makes clear...
In Magnum's Wake, Pope "Clarifies" Sarah. Again.
Whispers in the Loggia - Oct 22, 2017 at 7:33 am In an extraordinary push-back to one of his own Curial chiefs, the Pope has aimed to "explain simply, and hopefully clearly... some errors" in the understanding of Magnum...
Venezuelan bishops denounce pro-government bias in elections
Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 22, 2017 at 7:02 am Caracas, Venezuela, Oct 22, 2017 / 06:02 am (ACI Prensa).- The Venezuelan bishops' conference has criticized bias by the National Electoral Council in favor of the government of...
Nigeria, faithful see the “miracle of the sun” like in Fatima
Vatican Insider - Oct 22, 2017 at 6:44 am Exactly one hundred years have passed after the famous experience that took place during the last Marian apparition of Fatima, on 13 October 1917, when immediately after the three...
Pope Francis: putting God first doesn't mean avoiding reality
EWTN - Vatican News - Oct 22, 2017 at 6:18 am Vatican City, Oct 22, 2017 / 06:18 am (EWTN News/CNA).- On Sunday Pope Francis spoke on the importance of both fulfilling our
earthly duties and making God a priority, stressing...
