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Sharing the Word for October 6, 2017
Franciscan Media - Oct 6, 2017 at 12:00 am Friday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time
October 6, 2017
Daily Reading from the USCCB: Baruch 1:15-20
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JUST AS EVIL: Internet pornography is the 'neon coliseum' of the modern age
Catholic Online - Featured News - Oct 6, 2017 at 12:00 am It's well-known that in ancient Rome hundreds of thousands of people would pile into the stacked layers of stone seating in the Colosseum to watch ...
Our Lady of the Rosary and the Battle of Lepanto
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Oct 6, 2017 at 12:00 am Tomorrow is the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. Fr. Steve Grunow talks about the origin of this Feast Day, tracing its inception back to the historic Battle of Lepanto and...
America's fatal obsession with guns
Catholic Online - Featured News - Oct 6, 2017 at 12:00 am "It's the worst mass shooting in modern American history."
Trump hints war is coming, but where?
Catholic Online - Featured News - Oct 6, 2017 at 12:00 am President Trump has dropped a hint that a major military operation is coming. While posing for photos with military staff and their wives at a state ...
Genocide survivor asks USA to protect Christian, Yazidi minorities
Catholic Online - Featured News - Oct 6, 2017 at 12:00 am A Yazidi survivor of the ISIS genocide urged members of Congress on Tuesday to help recover young girls and boys who were enslaved and sold by ...
Califorina betrays the Union, and the people, by declaring itself a rogue, sanctuary state
Catholic Online - Featured News - Oct 6, 2017 at 12:00 am California is defying the federal government by declaring itself a sanctuary state. The move sets up a conflict between the liberal state and the ...
On Pilgrimage
Integrated Catholic Life - Oct 5, 2017 at 11:04 pm This time last week, I was on pilgrimage in Italy. One of my favorite parts of my job is leading trips to places in important to our Catholic faith. While you might assume it’s my...
How do you dispose of old sacramentals?
Aleteia - Oct 5, 2017 at 11:00 pm When your rosary breaks or your crucifix falls apart, what should be done?Catholics who frequently use sacramentals (brown scapulars, St. Benedict medals, blessed rosary beads, ...
Henry lived one year — the most beautiful year of our lives
Aleteia - Oct 5, 2017 at 11:00 pm "Henry, with his flawed body, was the best recipient of our marital love," say Ania and Karol Jurkowski.Everything was fine throughout the pregnancy. Ania felt great; she took...
Pope John Paul II changed the world from his knees, says biographer
Aleteia - Oct 5, 2017 at 11:00 pm Papal biographer George Weigel says saint's example of living "out" from prayer is example for the rest of us.These days a lot of movies that come out on DVD include a bonus...
Celebrating the beauty of the liturgy
Aleteia - Oct 5, 2017 at 11:00 pm Photo of the Day: October 6, 2017A nun from the Community of Jerusalem plays the dulcimer at the Celebration of Holy Mass at the Abbey of Mont Saint Michel, which is located...
‘Blade Runner 2049’: Wonder as you watch
Aleteia - Oct 5, 2017 at 11:00 pm Like its predecessor, 'Blade Runner 2049' has a lot going on underneath its slickly produced surface.“The world will never starve for want of wonders, but only for want of wonder...
After more than a century, wolves are back in Rome
Aleteia - Oct 5, 2017 at 11:00 pm Some descendants from the legendary Roman lupa have been spotted in the vicinity of the Eternal City.According to legend, Rome’s founders, Romulus and Remus, the twin sons of Mars...
“Saintly” police officers’ handling of disturbance at bank goes viral (PHOTO)
Aleteia - Oct 5, 2017 at 11:00 pm And teaches us a thing or two about compassion.So often, we get to hear of all that is wrong in the world, so when the Montebello police shared a recent post of their officers...
The real reason Hell is so terrifying
Aleteia - Oct 5, 2017 at 11:00 pm An eternal fire is nothing compared to this haunting feature.A common image of Hell presents us with a vision of souls burning alive for all eternity. However, this image is only...
Cardinal Pell's court date set for next March (Daily Telegraph)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 5, 2017 at 10:10 pm At an October 6 procedural hearing, an Australian court announced that a hearing on sex-abuse charges against Cardinal George Pell will take place in March 2018. The court has...
Vatican to continue ties with Taiwan despite Beijing's protect (South China Morning Post)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 5, 2017 at 10:10 pmPhilosopher Josef Seifert on "The Persecution of Orthodoxy" (First Things)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 5, 2017 at 10:10 pmEpiscopal appointments (Vatican Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 5, 2017 at 9:10 pm Father Thanh Thai Nguyen named to become new auxiliary bishop of Orange, California.
