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New book about Pope Francis contains 14 interviews with prelates, relatives, friends (Zenit)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 12, 2018 at 3:01 am Deborah Castellano Lubov’s “Other Francis” features interviews with Cardinals Gerhard Müller, George Pell, Timothy Dolan, and others. The preface by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the...
Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.
Aleteia - Jan 12, 2018 at 3:00 am Fulton J. Sheen
German bishop suggests blessing same-sex unions
Catholic Herald - Jan 12, 2018 at 2:49 am The vice president of the German bishops’ conference has called for a debate on whether Catholic clergy should bless same-sex unions. “I’m concerned with fundamental questions of...
Pro-life groups sue Canadian government over funding
Catholic Herald - Jan 12, 2018 at 2:16 am Faith-based groups and pro-life organisations are mobilizing to fight a new federal government policy that allows summer job grants only for employers who endorse abortion. The...
Why Church Teachings on Chastity are Undeniably True
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jan 12, 2018 at 2:10 am
Many years ago, in one of the standard editions of The Tempest that I had ordered for my students, I read an angry little essay whose proximate target was the mage Prospero,...
UN welcomes Korea talks which can build confidence and trust (ABC News)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 12, 2018 at 2:01 am L’Osservatore Romano (January 12 Italian edition) devoted prominent front-page coverage to this story.
Colombia president recalls peace negotiators from Ecuador after ELN attacks (Agencia EFE)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 12, 2018 at 2:01 am L’Osservatore Romano (January 12 Italian edition) devoted front-page coverage to this story. The Colombian conflict, which began in 1964 and has led to the death of over 175,000...
Papal audiences (1/10-1/11) (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 12, 2018 at 2:01 am In separate audiences, the Pontiff received the military ordinary for Argentina, the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the president of the International...
Rohingya children trapped in 'appalling' conditions in Myanmar's Rakhine state (UN News Centre)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 12, 2018 at 2:01 am L’Osservatore Romano (January 12 Italian edition) devoted prominent front-page coverage to this story.
Trump says fairer deal might coax US back into the Paris climate accord (Reuters)
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 12, 2018 at 2:01 am L’Osservatore Romano (January 12 Italian edition) devoted front-page coverage to this story.
How Amoris Laetitia Reduces Moral Culpability for Sin
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jan 12, 2018 at 2:00 am
In June 2016, the distinguished Austrian philosopher and friend of Pope John Paul II, Joseph Seifert, published a highly critical yet charitable essay on Amoris Laetitia (AL)...
The Alleged Intelligence of Trump
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 12, 2018 at 1:37 am As a result of Trump loudly acclaiming himself a “stable genius” last week, I wound up having an conversation with my chum, David Curp, who teaches 20th century Eastern European...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 12/01/18
Catholic Herald - Jan 12, 2018 at 1:05 am Pope Francis may meet abuse victims privately in Chile, the Vatican has hinted (Dave Sherwood). Nigerian police have rescued six kidnapped nuns. A homeless man who called himself...
Christian vs. Christianist: Shithole Edition
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 12, 2018 at 1:03 am Christian: For consider your call, brethren; not many of you were wise according to the flesh, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth; but God chose what is foolish...
Discernment
Dominicana - Jan 12, 2018 at 1:00 am The word discernment usually implies privacy. We often speak of it as an activity that is uniquely my own, as I try to scrutinize God’s will for me, or hear the voice of the Lord...
DISGUSTING LBGT story reveals something about homosexualist agenda in the Church. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 12, 2018 at 12:01 am This is disgusting, but it is necessary for you to know.
A forward, which I have offered before:
I’ve argued here – often – that the homosexualist agenda has been patiently...
Sharing the Word for January 12, 2018
Franciscan Media - Jan 12, 2018 at 12:00 am Friday of the First Week in Ordinary Time
January 12, 2018
Daily Reading from the USCCB: Mark 2:1-12
https://www.franciscanmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/SW_011510_II.mp3...
Courageous police rescue six hostage nuns in Nigeria
Catholic Online - Featured News - Jan 12, 2018 at 12:00 am During a two day police operation, six women religious who were captured in Nigeria's Edo state two months ago were released unharmed on Saturday, ...
The Beatitudes contain the secret of happiness!
Catholic Online - Featured News - Jan 12, 2018 at 12:00 am A parish priest in South Carolina has developed a beatitude challenge that seeks to combat cultural misunderstanding of happiness and encourage ...
Twitter to ban 'way of talking' - could this include Christian speech?
Catholic Online - Featured News - Jan 12, 2018 at 12:00 am Social media censorship is on the rise, prompting fears that Christian speech could be stifled. Recently, a Twitter engineer was caught on camera ...
