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Review: Arriving at Amen
Dominicana - May 11, 2015 at 6:30 am While scrupulous people like me like to know the rules so that we can keep up with them, saints know they fall short of their duties and ask for help and mercy. When God answers...
Vocations Discernment Group: Year of Consecrated Life
Diocese of Westminster - May 11, 2015 at 6:18 am Pope Francis has declared 2015 a year dedicated to the celebration and promotion of consecrated life in the Church.
Here in Westminster Diocese, we are marking The Year for...
Bishop Davies heartened by priests’ synod letter
Catholic Herald - May 11, 2015 at 6:17 am The Bishop of Shrewsbury has welcomed a letter signed by hundreds of Catholic clergy earlier this year, which called on the Family Synod to remain faithful to the Church’s...
Despite changes, 'genocide' of China's one-child policy endures, activists say
EWTN - US Latest News - May 11, 2015 at 6:17 am Washington D.C., May 11, 2015 / 06:17 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Human rights advocates told a congressional commission of the
"terrifying" practices of China's coercive one-child...
Pope Francis to Togo bishops: preserve the African family
News.va - May 11, 2015 at 6:10 am
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has told the bishops of Togo to preserve the “positive aspects” of family life in Africa and that these should be shared at the Synod on the family...
Pope: even today Christians are killed “in the name of God”
News.va - May 11, 2015 at 6:10 am
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis says that although Christians are still persecuted and killed in the name of God, the Holy Spirit gives them the strength to face martyrdom as they...
Cardinal Pell expects synod to ‘massively endorse’ Church teaching
Catholic Herald - May 11, 2015 at 6:05 am Cardinal George Pell has said he expects that the upcoming synod on the family to “massively endorse” the Church’s traditional teachings on Communion for divorced and remarried...
Jeb Bush Appeals To Conservative Christians At Liberty University
The Religion Clause - May 11, 2015 at 6:05 am On Saturday, likely Presidential contender Jeb Bush delivered the commencement address at Liberty University. (Video of full remarks). As reported by AP, Bush, a convert to...
Unfiltered: Protecting Your Children From the Scourge of Pornography
CatholicMom.com - May 11, 2015 at 6:00 am If you’re a parent, pornography is—or will be—a topic that you have to deal with at one point or another. The statistics are real and they are alarming. For example, did you know...
Recent Articles of Interest
The Religion Clause - May 11, 2015 at 6:00 am From SSRN:
Meital Pinto, The Right to Culture, the Right to Dispute and the Right to Exclude: A New Perspective on Minorities within Minorities, (Ratio Juris, 2015 Forthcoming)....
The Institution of the Rogation Days
New Liturgical Movement - May 11, 2015 at 6:00 am Today is the first day of the penitential observance known as the Lesser Rogations, and also, by coincidence, the feast of St Mamertus, bishop of Vienne in France, who first...
Relief items in short supply in landlocked Nepal
Franciscan Media - May 11, 2015 at 6:00 am KATHMANDU, Nepal (CNS) -- Anam Tamang was excited: A truck of earthquake relief supplies had finally arrived at Caritas Nepal headquarters in Kathmandu.
That was late May 6. By...
Castro says pope is so impressive he might start praying again
Franciscan Media - May 11, 2015 at 6:00 am VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- After spending close to an hour with Pope Francis, Cuban President Raul Castro told reporters he is so impressed by what the pope does and says that he might...
Africa's experience of family life must be heard at synod, Pope tells Togo's bishops
Catholic Culture - World News - May 11, 2015 at 5:43 am Pope Francis received Togo's bishops in audience on May 11 as part of their quinquennial ad limina visit to Rome.
The West African nation of 6.8 million is 20% Muslim, 15%...
Pope’s Morning Homily: Jesus Gave Us Holy Spirit So We Can Face, Handle All
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - May 11, 2015 at 5:28 am Even today, they kill Christians in the name of God, but the Holy Spirit gives the strength to bear witness until martyrdom. Pope Francis made this reflection this morning during...
Nun asks jury for mercy, to spare Boston bomber's life
EWTN - US Latest News - May 11, 2015 at 5:26 am Boston, Mass., May 11, 2015 / 05:26 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- In the defense's final move to save the life of convicted Boston
Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Sister Helen Prejean...
Pope places jubilee year under protection of Our Lady of Mercy
Catholic Culture - World News - May 11, 2015 at 5:25 am Pope Francis has placed the upcoming extraordinary jubilee year of mercy under the maternal protection of Our Lady of Mercy.
In a May 10 letter to the bishop of Savona-Noli, Italy...
Virtue now means thinking the right thing, rather than doing it
Catholic Herald - May 11, 2015 at 5:18 am Ed West, in his ruminations about the recent Conservative victory in the general election, points to a moral phenomenon of our times: virtue signalling. Please do read the...
Pope reflects on Christ's new commandment, lauds mothers, pro-life marchers
Catholic Culture - World News - May 11, 2015 at 5:03 am Reflecting on the day's Gospel reading at Mass (Jn. 15:9-17), Pope Francis devoted his May 10 Regina Caeli address to Christ's "new commandment" to "love one another as I have...
