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Pope Francis encourages Greek bishops in hard times
News.va - Feb 5, 2015 at 5:30 am (Vatican Radio) Faced with the “prolonged economic-financial crisis” which has hit Greece particularly hard, the country’s clergy should not tire of encouraging everyone to have...
Pope at Santa Marta: Servants of the Kingdom
News.va - Feb 5, 2015 at 5:30 am (Vatican Radio) The Church must proclaim the Gospel "in poverty" and the people proclaiming it must have the sole aim of alleviating the miseries of the poor, never forgetting...
Evangelize and promote the common good, Pope tell Greek bishops
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 5, 2015 at 5:27 am Pope Francis received the Catholic bishops of Greece in audience on February 5 and emphasized the importance of evangelization, especially of the young, and promotion of the...
Pope tells bishops: your priority is to protect children, not to avoid scandal
Catholic Herald - Feb 5, 2015 at 5:21 am The leaders of the world’s bishops’ conferences and religious orders must ensure that they are doing everything possible to protect children and vulnerable adults from abuse and...
The irony in anti-discrimination – why Catholic bishops won't back ENDA
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 5, 2015 at 5:16 am Washington D.C., Feb 5, 2015 / 04:16 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Even with religious freedom provisions added, LGBT discrimination laws are unlikely to draw support from Catholic bishops...
The irony in anti-discrimination – why Catholic bishops won't back ENDA
EWTN - US Latest News - Feb 5, 2015 at 5:15 am Washington D.C., Feb 5, 2015 / 06:15 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
Even with religious freedom provisions added, LGBT discrimination laws are unlikely to draw support from Catholic bishops...
Pope Francis exhorts Church leaders to cooperate with sexual abuse commission
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 5, 2015 at 5:13 am Pope Francis urged bishops and superiors of religious institutes to offer "close and complete cooperation" with the recently-established Pontifical Commission for the Protection...
USCCB committee chair calls upon bishops to highlight National Marriage Week
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 5, 2015 at 5:04 am Bishop Richard Malone of Buffalo, the chairman of the Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, has asked his...
Daily Gospel Reflection for February 5, 2015
CatholicMom.com - Feb 5, 2015 at 5:00 am
Today’s Gospel: Mark 6:7-13
Memorial of Saint Agatha, Virgin and Martyr
Jesus didn’t send the Twelve out with much—no food, no sack, no money in their belts, today’s gospel tells...
A good shepherd is sometimes rude to his flock
Catholic Herald - Feb 5, 2015 at 5:00 am It wasn’t the bunnies that caught my attention. Pope Francis’s airborne “rabbits” remark was only the latest episode of a now-established practice, the press conference which is...
Saint of the Week: Ss Cyril and Methodius (February 14)
Catholic Herald - Feb 5, 2015 at 5:00 am Born in Macedonia in the ninth century, these Byzantine brothers changed the course of European history by bringing Orthodox Christianity to the Slavs of the Balkans. They have...
Book review: Why people really become Catholics
Catholic Herald - Feb 5, 2015 at 5:00 am Becoming Catholic
by David Yamane, OUP, £25Buy here
The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) was officially mandated for use in America by the national conference of...
The hug that could change history
Catholic Herald - Feb 5, 2015 at 5:00 am When I first read that the Pope had met and embraced a transgender man, I was overjoyed. How better to breathe life into his stated view, as I was reminded at Mass on the very...
Francis is the greatest ally women have
Catholic Herald - Feb 5, 2015 at 5:00 am Does Pope Francis have a problem with women? Liberal opinion-formers certainly seem to think so. Indeed, the Holy Father’s “woman problem” crops up in headlines from all over the...
The priestly ‘hit squad’ that uplifted England
Catholic Herald - Feb 5, 2015 at 5:00 am I was invited recently to give a talk to the University of Cambridge Catholic Chaplaincy’s Graduate Society. On a typically East Anglian winter afternoon, with the light dying...
Art review: The painter whose work never stops moving
Catholic Herald - Feb 5, 2015 at 5:00 am Rubens and His Legacy: Van Dyck to Cézanne
Royal Academy, London, until April 10
In its scale and daring, Rubens and His Legacy: Van Dyck to Cézanne at the Royal Academy is of...
Ukrainians need peace, pope says
Franciscan Media - Feb 5, 2015 at 5:00 am
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The only word worthy of being heard in the throes
of war is "peace," and there is nothing more scandalous than a nation
made up of Christians engaged in...
Slovak bishops urge yes vote in referendum on marriage, sex education
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 5, 2015 at 4:58 am Stating that "not all generations have the opportunity to decide the future of their homeland," the bishops of Slovakia have urged the faithful to support a measure on marriage...
Report: Islamic State opens market to sell plundered Christian property
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 5, 2015 at 4:38 am The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has opened a market in Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, to sell property stolen from Christian homes and churches, according to a report...
Chaldean patriarch decries divisions, other problems within Church
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 5, 2015 at 4:30 am In a message issue on the second anniversary of his patriarchal election, the head of the Chaldean Catholic Church lamented divisions and other problems within his Eastern...
