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Some recommendations for basic apologetics materials
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 12, 2015 at 2:31 am A reader writes:
I wanted to drop you a note to tell you that, while you and I disagree vigorously about capital punishment, I appreciate very much your apologetic writings.
For...
Cuban bishops reveal dates of papal visit
Catholic Herald - May 12, 2015 at 2:27 am The Cuban bishops’ conference has announced that Pope Francis will visit the country from September 19 to 22
An advisory message posted on the bishops’ conference Facebook page on...
What Does “Sustainability” Really Mean?
Crisis Magazine - Church - May 12, 2015 at 2:15 am
The Pontifical Academy for Science’s summary of their recent conference on sustainability, itself anticipating our Holy Father’s (supposed) environmental encyclical, is suffused...
Paris: Day 3 – Water lilies and chicken
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - May 12, 2015 at 2:14 am As one does, we had a stroll in the Tuileries Garden.
Chestnuts are blooming.
We went to the Orangeries to see some Monet, the monumental water lily and pond panels from 1927...
How to Drink Like a Saint
Crisis Magazine - Church - May 12, 2015 at 2:10 am
While researching Drinking With the Saints, I was looking for what drinks I could recommend on certain feast days of the liturgical year. What I did not expect to discover was a...
Fr. Barron on the Avengers and Whedonesque Neitzscheanism
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 12, 2015 at 2:08 am I think he’s spot on.
What’s fascinating to me is how Whedon’s philosophy is locked in struggle with his art. His muse is often wiser than his head. So he imposes on his stories...
Peripheral Visions and Other Poetic Perceptions
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 12, 2015 at 2:07 am …is a new volume of poetry by reader Bruce Newman. Check out this lovely work!
John Oliver on the Brutal Schizophrenia of Our System Regarding Motherhood
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 12, 2015 at 2:01 am Families are precious, and we will punish you if you believe what we are saying right now. Money first. Mothers and children last.
Especially impressive is the demonstration,...
Martyrdom serves Christian unity, Pope Francis tells Coptic Orthodox patriarch
EWTN - Vatican News - May 12, 2015 at 1:02 am Vatican City, May 12, 2015 / 01:02 am (EWTN News/CNA).- In a message sent Sunday to the leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church,
Pope Francis said advances toward reconciliation are...
Martyrdom serves Christian unity, Pope Francis tells Coptic Orthodox patriarch
Catholic News Agency - General - May 12, 2015 at 1:02 am Vatican City, May 12, 2015 / 12:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In a message sent Sunday to the leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Pope Francis said advances toward reconciliation are...
Failing Your Way to Sanctity
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - May 12, 2015 at 12:00 am Jared Zimmerer explains today how a common thread among most saints is that they failed, and not just once or twice but again and again. But these failures were not stumbling...
Prayer Requests
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 11, 2015 at 11:11 pm A reader writes:
A little something I would like you to pass on to your readers if you wouldn’t mind. I am still so grateful to everyone who helped with prayers and financial help...
One Family’s Novena to Italy—There’s more to Pisa…
Integrated Catholic Life - May 11, 2015 at 11:03 pm Travel Journal Day 6 — There’s more to Pisa than a tower that leans. Try to think of something else in Pisa besides the Leaning Tower. It’s hard I know. For sure the Tower is...
Encountering the Word — Luke 24:13-14
Integrated Catholic Life - May 11, 2015 at 11:01 pm A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “That very day two of them were going to a village named Emma′us, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and talking with each other about all these...
In Chilling Lawsuit, Pregnant Satanist Sues Over Abortion Restrictions
Creative Minority Report - May 11, 2015 at 10:26 pm A 22 year old pregnant Satanist going by the name "Mary" is claiming in a new lawsuit that the state’s waiting period for abortion stands against her religion.She's appealing to...
Sr. Helen Prejean: A powerful addition for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev defense
OSV Daily Take - May 11, 2015 at 10:09 pmJournalist Wants to Make Sure Ted Cruz is Cuban Cuban
Creative Minority Report - May 11, 2015 at 8:45 pm Fresh off attempting to prove Ted Cruz isn't American born and therefore ineligible for the presidency, journalist Mark Halperin attempts to prove that Cruz isn't Cuban enough....
Miracle of forgiveness
The Catholic Leader - May 11, 2015 at 8:00 pm By Eva-Maria Kolmann CARMELITE Father Aurelio Gazzera was almost lynched by an angry mob in Central African Republic. He prayed the Rosary as rocks pelted his car and furious...
Anthony Kennedy and the ‘millennia’ of marriage
LifeSiteNews - May 11, 2015 at 6:37 pm Justice Kennedy seems to realize that the male-female union has always been fundamental to the definition of marriage.
Ready, set, STOP: on being still with Jesus
CatholicMom.com - May 11, 2015 at 6:30 pm
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I’ve been getting up early lately.
Life starts at the crack of dawn here, or just before. As soon as the first hint of daylight...
