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ASK FATHER: Must the priest wear the cassock to celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Oct 18, 2017 at 11:47 am From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
Is the cassock required for a priest to wear a cassock under his vestments when celebrating the Extraordinary Form Mass?
I did not think so, and I know...
Today’s Trumpian Assault on Common Human Decency
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Oct 18, 2017 at 11:47 am A reader writes: “I read today that John Kelly evidently went to some lengths to keep his son’s death in Afghanistan private. Even when called to give a speech commemorating the...
This just in! Lutheran left tests theory that progressive doctine is key to church growth
GetReligion - Oct 18, 2017 at 11:33 am
From the first days of this blog, I have argued that religion-beat professionals need to dedicate more coverage to theological, doctrinal and cultural issues on the religious...
After Pro-Life Advocates Pray at New Abortion Clinic, It Cancels Every Abortion Appointment
LifeNews.com - Oct 18, 2017 at 11:21 am A well-attended press conference and candlelight prayer vigil were held by pro-life activists at the Wildwood Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where abortionist LeRoy Carhart...
ASK FATHER: What is a “privileged altar”?
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Oct 18, 2017 at 11:02 am From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
I’ve occasionally seen high altars inscribed with the phrase, “altare privilegiatum.”
1) What does (did?) this mean and how did an altar become...
Is it time to embrace being average?
Aleteia - Oct 18, 2017 at 11:00 am Are you a jack of all trades, master of none? Celebrate it!When I was little, I was going to be a prima ballerina, or Sherlock Holmes — the best of the very best. Yet, the only...
Retrouvaille
The Reason for Our Hope - Oct 18, 2017 at 10:59 am This French word means “rediscovery”. It has been used for the past forty years as the name to designate a very beautiful and extraordinary apostolate to married couples, who are...
Oregon Residents Forced to Send $20 Million to Planned Parenthood and $500,000 For Abortions There
LifeNews.com - Oct 18, 2017 at 10:50 am One of our pro-life representatives did some investigating into the relationship between the Oregon Health Plan and Planned Parenthood. What Rep. Bill Post found wasn’t good. I’ve...
Against the Culture of Death
Commonweal - Oct 18, 2017 at 10:49 am Against the Culture of Death
By John GehringOctober 18, 2017
Karen Clifton is the Executive Director of Catholic Mobilizing Network. She began her work against the death penalty...
U.S. foreign aid is a ‘weapon for population control’: pro-life leader
LifeSiteNews - Oct 18, 2017 at 10:43 am Catholic agencies also support programs that offer hidden financial assistance for contraception.
George Soros’ Daughter Donates $500,000 to Planned Parenthood’s Political Group
LifeNews.com - Oct 18, 2017 at 10:42 am George Soros, one of the richest old white men in the world, is well known as a donor to Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion groups.
Soros has given tens of millions of...
Priest who signed the Filial Correction: It was ‘the Catholic thing to do’
LifeSiteNews - Oct 18, 2017 at 10:39 am 'Our Catholic Faith tells us that this is the step we need to take out of love for the Holy Father and the Church.'
STYLE Savvy: Functional Does Not Mean Boring
CatholicMom.com - Oct 18, 2017 at 10:30 am Via Pixabay (2017), CC0 Public Domain
When it comes to organizing, there’s STYLE, and then there’s style. The first one is a process, one that takes personal styles (I need to see...
Climate change is ‘the biggest scientific fraud ever perpetrated’: scientist
LifeSiteNews - Oct 18, 2017 at 10:10 am 'The truth is, nobody really knows what’s going to happen to the climate in the future.'
On the immensity of space
The Catholic Astronomer - Oct 18, 2017 at 10:09 am The Total Solar Eclipse of August 21, 2017 - fly along with the shadow! from Eclipse2017.org on Vimeo. Not quite two months ago I spent a late morning and early afternoon watching...
World Mission Sunday 2017
Big C Catholics - Oct 18, 2017 at 10:01 am Since 1926, the third Sunday of October has been set aside for the Catholic Church the world over to renew its commitment to the task of evangelizing all nations, as called to by...
4 Icons of Mary attributed to St. Luke the Evangelist
Aleteia - Oct 18, 2017 at 10:00 am Various traditions claim the Gospel writer drew one or more portraits of the Virgin Mary from life.According to tradition St. Luke was a very talented young man. He not only wrote...
How does Pope Francis choose bishops of important dioceses?
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Oct 18, 2017 at 9:58 am Italian vaticanista Andrea Gagliarducci writes regularly a column at his place called “Monday Vatican”. You should read him.
Today, however, he has a piece at CNA about how Pope...
Somalis were already long-suffering people, pope laments in prayer for Saturday’s victims
Aleteia - Oct 18, 2017 at 9:58 am Francis repeats: Violence in name of religion gravely offends God, who is peace and source of peaceToday during the general audience, Pope Francis condemned Saturday’s twin bomb...
Philippine Cardinal Vidal dies aged 86
Catholic Herald - Oct 18, 2017 at 9:56 am Cardinal Ricardo Vidal of Cebu, Philippines, has died at the age of 86 after a series of health complications. In a telegram to Archbishop Jose Palma of Cebu, Pope Francis...
