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Maggie's Organics Creates Custom Socks for Pope Francis' Global Campaign in Support of Migrants and Refugees
CatholicMom.com - Oct 18, 2017 at 7:30 am Photo credit: Lauren Caroll/CRS. Courtesy of Maggie’s Organics. Used with permission. All rights reserved.
Maggie’s Organics, a longtime pioneer in fair trade and organic apparel...
Daily Gospel Reflection for October 18, 2017 - St. Luke, Evangelist
CatholicMom.com - Oct 18, 2017 at 7:19 am Today’s Gospel: Luke 10:1-9
Notice that Jesus instructed his disciples to pray before they went ahead of Him to nearby towns, to ask the Master of the harvest to send worthy...
Father James Martin and human respect (The Catholic Thing)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 18, 2017 at 7:10 am Alan Anderson notes that Father James Martin is identified by a friend as the “chaplain” to The Colbert Report. “How pleasing your words must be to the world.”
Religions should unite to promote peace, care for environment, Pope says (Vatican Radio)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 18, 2017 at 7:10 am Speaking on October 18 to a delegation from the ecumenical group Religions for Peace, Pope Francis said: “Religions, with their spiritual and moral resources, have a specific and...
England's Buckfast Abbey to celebrate 1,000 years of foundation
EWTN - World Catholic News - Oct 18, 2017 at 7:01 am Plymouth, England, Oct 18, 2017 / 07:01 am (EWTN News/CNA).- In 2018 one of England's historic monasteries will celebrate the millennium year of its foundation, offering a prime...
England's Buckfast Abbey to celebrate 1,000 years of foundation
Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 18, 2017 at 7:01 am Plymouth, England, Oct 18, 2017 / 06:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In 2018 one of England's historic monasteries will celebrate the millennium year of its foundation, offering a prime...
Our Lady of Gietrzwald: Poland’s only approved Marian appearance
Aleteia - Oct 18, 2017 at 7:00 am Like the Woman of Lourdes, she called herself the Immaculate Conception.There is only one approved Marian apparition from Poland, and this year marks the 140th anniversary of the...
Short Forms of the Readings: Distorting the Gospel?
New Liturgical Movement - Oct 18, 2017 at 7:00 am As chance would have it, this last Sunday (OF: 28th Sunday per annum, Year A; EF: 19th Sunday post Pentecosten) the Gospel reading was the same in both forms of the Roman Rite:...
Blade Runner 2049
Franciscan Media - Oct 18, 2017 at 6:49 am Misogyny hangs over “Blade Runner 2049” (Warner Bros.) as blithely as the thick yellow fog of the post-apocalyptic Los Angeles it portrays.
While that’s hardly unusual for science...
St Luke
Communio - Oct 18, 2017 at 6:41 am “Luke’s Gospel is marked by a special concern for the poor, the marginalized, women, and social outcasts. His account of the nativity, with its stress on the faith of Mary,...
Court Bars Enforcement of Most of Trump's Third Travel Ban
The Religion Clause - Oct 18, 2017 at 6:20 am In State of Hawaii v. Trump,(D I, Oct. 17, 2017), a Hawaii federal district court issued a nation-wide temporary restraining order barring enforcement of most portions of the ...
Israeli Court Fines Online "Jews-Only" Job Site
The Religion Clause - Oct 18, 2017 at 6:15 am In Israel yesterday a Jerusalem trial court fined the online "Jewish Job List" NIS 40,000 ($11,371) for violating employment discrimination laws. The site which lists jobs for...
California Governor Vetoes Expanded Labor Protections For Employees of Religious Organizations
The Religion Clause - Oct 18, 2017 at 6:10 am On Oct. 15, California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed AB-569 (full text of bill) that would have expanded the employees who are protected against dismissal for their reproductive...
Pope taps Joliet auxiliary to head Evansville diocese
EWTN - Vatican News - Oct 18, 2017 at 6:08 am Vatican City, Oct 18, 2017 / 06:08 am (EWTN News/CNA).- On Wednesday the Vatican announced that Joseph M. Siegel, until now
auxiliary bishop of Joliet, will be taking the reins in...
Pope taps Joliet auxiliary to head Evansville diocese
Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 18, 2017 at 6:08 am Vatican City, Oct 18, 2017 / 05:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Wednesday the Vatican announced that Joseph M. Siegel, until now auxiliary bishop of Joliet, will be taking the reins in...
Plaintiff Argues that "Make America Great Again" Hat Is Religious Expression
The Religion Clause - Oct 18, 2017 at 6:05 am The Gothamist this week reports that a plaintiff in a New York lawsuit against a West Village bar is defending against a motion to dismiss by claiming that his wearing of a "Make...
Central Americans fleeing violence can't return home yet, bishops warn
EWTN - US Latest News - Oct 18, 2017 at 6:04 am Washington D.C., Oct 18, 2017 / 06:04 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- As a temporary immigration permit program for families fleeing violence in Honduras and El Salvador is set to expire,...
World responds to 7-year-old cancer patient’s Halloween wish
Aleteia - Oct 18, 2017 at 6:00 am People from all over are taking part in "Brocktober." Brock Chadwick is a 7-year-old boy from Maine who is being treated for glioblastoma multiforme, an aggressive form of cancer...
Church Feeding Homeless Denied Preliminary Injunction Because No Harm Imminent
The Religion Clause - Oct 18, 2017 at 6:00 am In Compassion Church, Inc. v. City of Davenport, Iowa, (SD IA, Oct. 16, 2017), an Iowa federal district court refused to issue a preliminary injunction to prevent interference...
