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Morning Catholic must-reads: 09/10/17
Catholic Herald - Oct 8, 2017 at 6:01 pm Pope Francis identified “the great novelty of Christianity” at yesterday’s Angelus (full text, full video). Senior Australian bishops have visited the Vatican to discuss “the...
Blessed John Henry Newman on Faith
Big C Catholics - Oct 8, 2017 at 5:20 pm Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of...
Why this young woman spoke up against 'Men for Choice'
Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 8, 2017 at 5:02 pm Washington D.C., Oct 8, 2017 / 04:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Men are often told they have no voice in the abortion debate, yet an ongoing program, “Men for Choice”, seeks to amplify...
Pope: What’s new and different about Christianity? Our God of mercy who takes no revenge
Aleteia - Oct 8, 2017 at 2:41 pm Says there's only one thing that can get in the way of his "tenacious and tender" willPope Francis says the novelty of Christianity is in revealing the kind of God, who, even when...
Daily Readings for Monday, October 09, 2017
Catholic Online - Featured News - Oct 8, 2017 at 2:35 pm Reading 1: Jonah 2:1, Reading 1: Jonah 2:11, Reading 1: Jonah 1:1-16, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 2:2-5, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 2:8, Gospel: Luke ...
Hundreds of thousands pray rosary at Polish border
Catholic Herald - Oct 8, 2017 at 2:21 pm Polish Catholics held rosaries and prayed together along the country’s 2,000-mile border on Saturday, appealing to the Virgin Mary and God for salvation for Poland and the world...
Saint Denis and Companions, Early French Martyrs
Big C Catholics - Oct 8, 2017 at 1:13 pm On October 9th, is the optional memorial of Saint Denis, a 3rd century apostle of Gaul, one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers who was invoked particularly in the Middle Ages against...
Bl. John Henry Newman, Convert and Cardinal
Big C Catholics - Oct 8, 2017 at 1:01 pm Optional Memorial - October 9thJohn Henry Newman, one of the great Christian intellectuals of the 19th century, was born in London in 1801, and baptized in the Church of England....
For global 'peripheries,' poverty can lead to online exploitation
EWTN - World Catholic News - Oct 8, 2017 at 12:52 pm Rome, Italy, Oct 8, 2017 / 12:52 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- While the challenge of protecting children online is one faced throughout the world, Church leaders from Asia and Africa said...
For global 'peripheries,' poverty can lead to online exploitation
Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 8, 2017 at 12:52 pm Vatican City, Oct 8, 2017 / 11:52 am (CNA/EWTN News).- While the challenge of protecting children online is one faced throughout the world, Church leaders from Asia and Africa...
Homily for the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 15, 2017, Year A
Big C Catholics - Oct 8, 2017 at 12:00 pm Fr. Charles IrvinSenior PriestDiocese of Lansing(Click here for today’s readings)For a moment I would like you to imagine yourself at a party, maybe a party that you have been to...
Why show up in person? CNN and its scoop on evangelical plea for Trump to slam alt-right
GetReligion - Oct 8, 2017 at 11:33 am It's time for a trip into my thick guilt file of news pieces that I wanted to get to a week ago (or more). However, most of my work this past week focused on Las Vegas, for...
The Mountain Between Us
Lisa Hendey.com - Oct 8, 2017 at 10:43 am Based on the book by Charles Martin, The Mountain Between Us is a love story wrapped up in a survivalist adventure. Idris Elba and Kate Winslet are compliments to a vast pallet...
Australian bishops meet in Rome as Church reels from recent crisis
Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 8, 2017 at 10:17 am Vatican City, Oct 8, 2017 / 09:17 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Last week, Church leaders from Australia traveled to Rome to meet with Vatican authorities to discuss the various crises...
Australian bishops meet in Rome as Church reels from recent crisis
EWTN - Vatican News - Oct 8, 2017 at 10:16 am Vatican City, Oct 8, 2017 / 10:16 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Last week, Church leaders from Australia traveled to Rome to meet with Vatican authorities to discuss the various crises...
Pope pledges church commitment to fight child abuse online, offline
Franciscan Media - Oct 8, 2017 at 10:06 am VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Acknowledging how often the Catholic Church failed to protect children from sexual abuse, Pope Francis pledged “to work strenuously and with foresight for the...
Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost
Regina Magazine - Oct 8, 2017 at 9:18 am Today is the Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost by Fr. Francis...
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Court Dismisses Challenge To "In God We Trust" On Currency
The Religion Clause - Oct 8, 2017 at 9:00 am In Mayle v. United States, (ND IL, Sept. 29, 2017), an Illinois federal district court rejected challenges by a Satanist to the use of "In God We Trust" on U.S. currency. The...
Pope Angelus: The novelty of Christianity is God's mercy
News.va - Oct 8, 2017 at 8:00 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis during his Angelus address on Sunday told pilgrims in St Peter’s Square that the great novelty of Christianity is a God who, though disappointed by...
Pope Francis dedicates October to praying for the unemployed
Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 8, 2017 at 7:50 am Vatican City, Oct 8, 2017 / 06:50 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Having dignified work is a topic Pope Francis has continuously returned to since his election, and it surfaced again in his...
