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St. Marguerite d’Youville: One of the greatest Catholic women yet to live in the New World

Aleteia - Oct 12, 2017 at 7:00 am
She could have despaired, but instead took her suffering and made it a springboard to serving others in pain.There are, in the canon of saints, those whose lives read like fairy...

Pro-Life is to be pro-Liturgical Life

Communio - Oct 12, 2017 at 6:30 am
A recent article by Peter Kwasniewski, “Why pro-life Catholics should strive for a higher and deeper life” caught my attention and I think you ought to read it. Kwasniewski states...

Luther would be horrified by the world he forged

Catholic Herald - Oct 12, 2017 at 6:10 am
A few years ago, a Lutheran friend sent me a link to her favourite website: Lutheran Satire. The brainchild of a US Lutheran pastor, it focuses on Church humour from a Lutheran...

Climate of fear: the new crackdown on Catholic theologians

Catholic Herald - Oct 12, 2017 at 6:10 am
Orthodox Catholics are facing “persecution” – and not from secularists, but from their fellow believers. That’s the startling claim made last week by Professor Josef Seifert, the...

How the Miracle of the Sun dazzled the sceptics

Catholic Herald - Oct 12, 2017 at 6:10 am
The Miracle of the Sun at Fatima, which took place exactly a century ago, on October 13, 1917, was one of the most stupendous, if not the most stupendous event of the 20th century...

Motherhood Matters Catholic Conference 4 Moms: Taking Care of Mom

CatholicMom.com - Oct 12, 2017 at 6:00 am
Copyright 2017 Tami Kiser. All rights reserved.   Moms, by their very nature, usually put the needs of their family before themselves. Moms typically eat lukewarm meals (on a good...

Ideas list: Make your Christmas shopping a support for religious communities

Aleteia - Oct 12, 2017 at 5:00 am
This list concentrates mostly on edibles, but also includes personal items, as well as something for the pet and art lovers out there.   Dear Katrina, Now is the time of year when...

Archdiocese criticises Jesuit university for organising ‘Coldplay Mass’

Catholic Herald - Oct 12, 2017 at 4:56 am
A Mexican archdiocese has distanced itself from a “Coldplay Mass” celebrated by a Jesuit university. The Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla advertised the Mass, promising that...

New Miami auxiliary is first Peruvian-born US bishop

EWTN - Vatican News - Oct 12, 2017 at 4:32 am
Vatican City, Oct 12, 2017 / 04:32 am (EWTN News/CNA).- On Thursday Pope Francis named Fr. Enrique Delgado, who has a background in economics, as an auxiliary bishop for the...

New Miami auxiliary is first Peruvian-born US bishop

Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 12, 2017 at 4:32 am
Vatican City, Oct 12, 2017 / 03:32 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Thursday Pope Francis named Fr. Enrique Delgado, who has a background in economics, as an auxiliary bishop for the...

Bishop Vasa on California fires: 'Our diocese has been hit hard'

Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 12, 2017 at 4:01 am
Santa Rosa, Calif., Oct 12, 2017 / 03:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- While firefighters in northern California are currently battling 17 wildfires in five counties, Bishop Robert Vasa of...

Bishop Vasa on California fires: 'Our diocese has been hit hard'

EWTN - US Latest News - Oct 12, 2017 at 4:01 am
Santa Rosa, Calif., Oct 12, 2017 / 04:01 am (EWTN News/CNA).- While firefighters in northern California are currently battling 17 wildfires in five counties, Bishop Robert Vasa of...

“Doctrine cannot be preserved without allowing it to develop” 

Vatican Insider - Oct 12, 2017 at 3:37 am
The theme that Pope Francis wanted to focus his attention on when he spoke at the meeting promoted by the Department for the New Evangelization was that of thedeath penalty and...

Daily Gospel Reflection for October 12, 2017

CatholicMom.com - Oct 12, 2017 at 3:30 am
Today’s Gospel: Luke 11:5-13 When I read this section of Luke, I think of two scenarios: the persistence of prayer, and the effectiveness of prayer. When one has a pressing need—...

Iowa district judge praised for upholding three-day wait for abortions

EWTN - US Latest News - Oct 12, 2017 at 3:23 am
Des Moines, Iowa, Oct 12, 2017 / 03:23 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- An Iowa judge upheld the state's three-day waiting period for abortions last week, drawing praise from local pro-life...

Coptic priest killed by assailant in Cairo (Ahram)

Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 12, 2017 at 3:10 am
One Coptic Orthodox priest was killed, and another wounded, by a lone assailant in a suburb of Cairo on October 12. Father Samaan Shehata was struck on the head with a cleaver;...

Love, and always love

Aleteia - Oct 12, 2017 at 3:00 am
St. Faustina

Peter Stockland at the Catholic Register

Catholic and Enjoying It! - Oct 12, 2017 at 2:50 am
gives me hope, not so much because he agree with me but because he has mercy on the weak and struggling, which is what the gospel is all about.

Could Jesus Learn Things?

Catholic and Enjoying It! - Oct 12, 2017 at 2:49 am
The second part of my series on Jesus and the Canaanite Woman.  Here’s a taste, read the rest at the link: Lt us continue with my reader’s remarks: The prepaschal Jesus was...

Pope Francis: revise catechism to show death penalty is ‘inadmissible’

Catholic Herald - Oct 12, 2017 at 2:39 am
The death penalty, no matter how it is carried out, “is, in itself, contrary to the Gospel,” Pope Francis said. Marking the 25th anniversary of the Catechism of the Catholic...
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