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Church groups welcome German bishops’ changes to employment rules
Catholic Herald - May 13, 2015 at 4:19 am Catholic organisations in Germany have welcomed changes to their Church’s employment rules, meaning that staff will no longer face being fired for remarrying without an annulment...
Pope Francis Gives Three Ingredients for Family Living
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - May 13, 2015 at 4:08 am Pope Francis has given families some practical advice during this morning's General Audience in St. Peter's Square.
Continuing with his catecheses on the family, the Holy Father...
God will judge us on how we care for the environment, says Pope
Catholic Herald - May 13, 2015 at 4:07 am The powerful of the earth will face God’s judgment and will be asked to account for how they cared for the poor and how they cared for the environment, Pope Francis has said.
“The...
If Raúl Castro truly wants to return to the faith, he must change Cuba’s vicious ways
Catholic Herald - May 13, 2015 at 3:51 am After a recent meeting with Pope Francis in the Vatican, the President of Cuba, Raúl Castro said: “I will resume praying and turn to the Church again, if the Pope continues in...
Francis adviser attacks ‘capitalists’ opposed to Pope’s environment encyclical
Catholic Herald - May 13, 2015 at 3:16 am Pope Francis’s closest adviser has criticised “movements in the United States” hostile to the pontiff’s forthcoming document on the environment, saying the criticism was caused by...
Vatican and 'State of Palestine' agree to treaty safeguarding religious liberty
EWTN - Vatican News - May 13, 2015 at 3:13 am Vatican City, May 13, 2015 / 03:13 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- The Holy See and the State of Palestine have agreed on the text of a
treaty regarding the life and activity of the Church...
Dutch Court Rules Dementia Patient *Must* be Euthanized
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 13, 2015 at 2:41 am What is marketed as freedom in the culture of death quickly becomes force exerted to kill the weak.
If you believe the same thing won’t be done here should we buy euthanasia as “...
Why Our Lady loves the number 13
Catholic Herald - May 13, 2015 at 2:34 am According to the diocese of Leiria-Fátima, Pope Francis plans to visit Fatima in 2017, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Our Lady’s apparitions to three shepherd children.
98...
Christian marriage – it's 'demanding but magnificent,' Pope says
EWTN - Vatican News - May 13, 2015 at 2:28 am Vatican City, May 13, 2015 / 02:28 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
In his audience closing out the Togolese bishops' ad Limina visit to Rome, Pope Francis on Monday encouraged solid faith...
Jeb Bush Says that, Knowing What He Knows Now, He Would Have Launched the Iraq War
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 13, 2015 at 2:20 am Laura Ingraham responds: “There has to be something wrong with you.”
W is Jeb’s chief Middle East expert, according to Jeb.
The all-out Republican effort to elect Hillary...
The Ransom of Red Chief, Christian Edition
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 13, 2015 at 2:16 am Kidnapper releases kid who won’t stop singing gospel song.
I missed this when it happened, but it’s never to late to celebrate!
Morning Catholic must-reads: 13/05/15
Catholic Herald - May 13, 2015 at 2:15 am God will judge “the powerful of the Earth” who damage the environment and make the poor go hungry, Pope Francis said at a Mass marking the start of the Caritas general assembly...
Benedict XVI: ‘The Church must reach out as shepherds to the whole world’
Catholic Herald - May 13, 2015 at 2:03 am The Church must reach out as shepherds to the whole world, Benedict XVI has said in a letter to his former Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.
The Pope Emeritus wrote...
Fishwrap is afraid of the “Credo” priests letter
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - May 13, 2015 at 2:02 am Michael Sean Winters at the National Schismatic Reporter (aka Fishwrap) is upset that over 800 priests and some bishops signed a letter asking that traditional Catholic doctrine...
Questions about the Betrayal by Judas
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 13, 2015 at 2:01 am A reader writes:
I’ve been reading the gospel narratives of the Last Supper tonight, and an ongoing confusion with a part of the story has resurfaced. I thought maybe you, and...
General Audience: three key expressions for family life
News.va - May 13, 2015 at 1:43 am “May I?”, “thank you”,
“pardon me”. The “three key expressions for family life” were proposed
by Francis to the faithful who
took part in the General Audience of Wednesday, 13...
New book faces up to social media
The Catholic Leader - May 13, 2015 at 1:12 am By Emilie Ng CATHOLICS struggling to navigate social media for the Church can find Scripture-based inspiration in a new book by journalist Beth Doherty. Commissioned by the...
After theft, Argentines donate prized possessions, wedding rings for new monstrance
Catholic News Agency - General - May 13, 2015 at 1:03 am Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 13, 2015 / 12:03 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Large numbers of the faithful are donating gold and silver belongings to forge a new monstrance after a theft in...
Sharing the Catholic voice
The Catholic Leader - May 13, 2015 at 12:59 am By Emilie Ng CATHOLIC communicators revitalised their mission to spread the Gospel message in media at the recent Australian Catholic Communications Congress in North Sydney from...
Our Lady of Fatima and Coincidences
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - May 13, 2015 at 12:00 am Today marks the feast of Our Lady of Fatima, when we commemorate Mary's appearances to three shepherd children at Fátima, Portugal in 1917. Ellyn von Huben examines the...
