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If you fail to get elected, it will not be in vain
Catholic Herald - May 7, 2015 at 4:00 am Some politicians will wake up on May 8 and not know what to do. For the past five years, their attempts to ascend the greasy pole at Westminster have dominated their every waking...
Art review: The unsettling visions of a New York ad man
Catholic Herald - May 7, 2015 at 4:00 am Mac Conner: A New York Life
House of Illustration, until June 28
No more loneliness, no more beige, and certainly no more fabric rationing. Post-war New York was all about the...
The bishop who risks martyrdom every day
Catholic Herald - May 7, 2015 at 4:00 am Bishop Joseph Alessandro is short in stature, meek and softly spoken. But don’t be misled by appearances: he is a courageous man serving Christ and the Church in what has become...
In summoning the Church to a Year of Mercy, Pope Francis is calling on us to become living signs of love
Catholic Herald - May 7, 2015 at 4:00 am The image of the Risen Christ as the true vine beautifully describes those who have been brought to new life as his living branches. As the branch is sustained by the vine, so are...
Book review: How North Korea’s dictator kidnapped a film star
Catholic Herald - May 7, 2015 at 4:00 am A Kim Jong-il Production
by Paul Fischer
Penguin, £14.99
North Korea’s “Dear Leader”, Kim Jong-il, had a massive land army, an air force and scores of warships to protect him –...
Gay “Marriage” Now Threatens Ireland
Crisis Magazine - Church - May 7, 2015 at 3:56 am
On May 22 the Irish electorate will vote on a proposed amendment to the national constitution that would allow marriage to “be contracted in accordance with law by two persons...
The Importance of Myths and Fairy Tales for Christian Children
Crisis Magazine - Church - May 7, 2015 at 3:50 am
Many Christians believe that pagan myths and fairy tales are detrimental to Christian children. They fear that children will be lead astray from their upbringing, but really...
Scottish archbishop revives pilgrimage started in the 13th century
Catholic Herald - May 7, 2015 at 3:33 am Archbishop Leo Cushley of St Andrews and Edinburgh has announced the revival of a summer pilgrimage in honour of St Margaret of Scotland that dates back to the 13th century.
The...
Marriage is not about fancy clothes and nice flowers, says Pope
Catholic Herald - May 7, 2015 at 2:53 am A Christian marriage is not just a big ceremony held in a church with nice flowers, and everyone wearing fancy clothes and taking lots of pictures, Pope Francis has said.
Marriage...
Hey Western Washington! Mark Your Calendars!
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 7, 2015 at 2:44 am May 9 in the morning I will be speaking at St. Pius X parish in Mountlake Terrace on The Family as the Icon of the Blessed Trinity.
Then at 7:00 PM I will be speaking at Our Lady...
Monstrous: Prison for Profit Slave Systems
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 7, 2015 at 2:44 am The moment a civilization de-Christianizes, slavery rushes in to fill the vacuum. Ours is no exception.
May almighty God damn this filth.
Asking for serenity and nothing more?
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 7, 2015 at 2:40 am Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity offer a free download of Arthur Lee Land’s Serenity*# this Easter Season. Click here.
*Note: Not the spaceship.
#Music guaranteed not to...
Belgian bishop defends priest over ‘dog funeral’
Catholic Herald - May 7, 2015 at 2:32 am A Belgian bishop has defended a priest who held a prayer service for the grieving owners of a pet dog.
Bishop Rémy Vancottem of Namur insisted the ceremony was not a Catholic...
“I’m faster than a fish!”
Catholic and Enjoying It! - May 7, 2015 at 2:18 am “…Faster than a raindrop! Faster than a zoom of lightning!” – My five year old granddaughter Lucy the Cuteness, being awesome while biking
Italian police investigate Our Lord
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - May 7, 2015 at 2:00 am This is pretty interesting. Apparently the Italian police have been investigating Our Lord. HERE
Police Create Image of Jesus as a Child Using Shroud of Turin, coolComputer...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 07/05/15
Catholic Herald - May 7, 2015 at 1:25 am Church employees who remarry or enter same-sex civil unions will no longer automatically lose their jobs, the German bishops’ have ruled.
Pope Francis will visit Chile in 2016,...
Doubting Thomas and Mercy
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - May 7, 2015 at 12:00 am We often remember Thomas the Apostle as 'Doubting Thomas.' But as Fr. Michael Cummins reminds us today, Thomas was not a second-rate disciple. He was a man who had been hurt and...
Parish ‘stunned and saddened’
The Catholic Leader - May 6, 2015 at 11:07 pm By Paul Dobbyn CABOOLTURE’S Fr Wrex Woolnough said his parishioners have been “stunned and saddened” by the loss of five lives in the flash floods caused by the region’s recent “...
On Marriage, Leadership and Honoring Our Wives
Integrated Catholic Life - May 6, 2015 at 11:04 pm Marriage is in trouble everywhere, especially in our country where over half of marriages end in divorce. Our culture, so influenced by Hollywood and materialism, has set about...
One Family’s Novena to Italy—Day One
Integrated Catholic Life - May 6, 2015 at 11:03 pm Travel Journal Day One, May 7, 2015: Leaving Bismarck, North Dakota through Chicago to Rome. I have to admit I never really thought that I needed to see Italy or Rome or the...
