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Is the Current Communion Fast Really Enough?
New Liturgical Movement - Feb 8, 2015 at 12:58 pm A few months ago I walked into my parish, and I was a little tired. I had spent a few hours in the middle of the night praying at our local abortion clinic for an end to abortion...
Your weekend think piece: Do you know, when you see a yarmulke, how to read between the lines?
GetReligion - Feb 8, 2015 at 12:38 pm
OK, it's flashback time.
Remember when you were in high school, on in college, and you could walk the halls of your school, or gaze around the cafeteria, and pretty much know who...
The stakes are high in Rome next week.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 8, 2015 at 12:21 pm This is a big week coming up in Rome. This could be a pivotal week in this pontificate.
Consider:
9-11 Feb – Meeting of the Gang of Nine
12-13 Feb – Consistory meetings of all...
Pope Francis' tough words against horrors of human trafficking
EWTN - Vatican News - Feb 8, 2015 at 12:10 pm Vatican City, Feb 8, 2015 / 12:37 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Pope Francis marked the Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human
Trafficking by calling on governments to remove this "...
When would we have to resist the Pope? Wherein Fr. Z Rants.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 8, 2015 at 11:55 am What do we do when legitimate authority gets something important wrong?
We respectfully resist legitimate authority.
Pope Francis does or doesn’t do, A, B or C. He doesn’t, for...
When men married multiple women in the Old Testament, was that okay with God? And more!
Jimmy Akin.org - Feb 8, 2015 at 11:55 am In this episode of Catholic Answers Live (hour 2 of 1/13/15), Jimmy answers the following questions:
My father-in-law started a lay movement in the church and was killed about 35...
What can Brian Williams do next? Here are 5 possibilities
The Deacon's Bench - Feb 8, 2015 at 11:50 am With Brian Williams announcing that he’s taking a leave from anchoring the NBC Nightly News — the duration, unspecified—we’re left to wonder what happens next. For him, the best-...
Pope Francis' tough words against horrors of human trafficking
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 8, 2015 at 11:37 am Vatican City, Feb 8, 2015 / 10:37 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis marked the Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking by calling on governments to remove this “...
The speakin’ deacon: thanks to divine Providence
The Deacon's Bench - Feb 8, 2015 at 9:39 am Spent a wonderful 24 hours in scenic, snowy Providence, Rhode Island Friday and Saturday, speaking to the convocation of deacons at the elegant Radisson Hotel at the airport....
WDTPRS Sexagesima Sunday: “that we may be fortified against every adverse thing”
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 8, 2015 at 9:25 am In the traditional Roman calendar this Sunday is called Sexagesima, Latin for the “Sixtieth” day before Easter. This number is more symbolic than arithmetical. Last week was the...
Recent Prisoner Free Exercise Cases
The Religion Clause - Feb 8, 2015 at 8:50 am In Patterson v. Linderman, (9th Cir., Feb. 3, 2015), the 9th Circuit upheld an inmate's suspension from the kosher meal plan for sharing or trading of food with other inmates.In ...
Once upon a time, to prevent ‘secret marriages’ and mix-ups
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Feb 8, 2015 at 8:29 am Did you know that the church frowns upon secret (clandestine) marriages? It’s not too fond of abrupt marriages either.
One of the biggest names in secret weddings in church...
Austerity marks the life of Archbishop Blazquez, Spain's next cardinal
EWTN - World Catholic News - Feb 8, 2015 at 7:50 am Valladolid, Spain, Feb 8, 2015 / 08:01 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Archbishop Ricardo Blazquez Perez' friends say one of his first
decisions as Archbishop of Valladolid was to set aside...
Pope Francis: Bring the light of the Word of God to the sick
News.va - Feb 8, 2015 at 7:41 am
(Vatican Radio) During his Angelus address on Sunday, Pope Francis spoke about Jesus’ ministry of preaching and healing.
In the day’s Gospel, Jesus heals many sick people who are...
'Rock star' cardinal talks big cities, small gestures
EWTN - Vatican News - Feb 8, 2015 at 7:40 am Vatican City, Feb 8, 2015 / 07:40 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle knows a thing or two about urban
evangelization. Ranked among the youngest cardinals in the...
Married Catholic priest: “I can’t be a good pastor if I’m a lousy dad or lousy husband”
The Deacon's Bench - Feb 8, 2015 at 7:28 am From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a story that will be familiar to a lot of deacons: On a January weeknight, Halyna Charron was finishing preparations of a dinner of spinach pie,...
Austerity marks the life of Archbishop Blazquez, Spain's next cardinal
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 8, 2015 at 7:01 am Valladolid, Spain, Feb 8, 2015 / 06:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Archbishop Ricardo Blazquez Perez' friends say one of his first decisions as Archbishop of Valladolid was to set aside...
Challenge To "Under God" In Pledge Rejected
The Religion Clause - Feb 8, 2015 at 7:00 am In American Humanist Association v. Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District, (NJ Super. Ct., Feb. 4, 2015), a New Jersey state trial court dismissed a lawsuit that claimed the...
Pope calls service to sick 'integral' to church, lambasts 'scourge' of trafficking
Vatican Insider - Feb 8, 2015 at 6:16 am
