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Lenten Prayer: Making a Human Connection More Real with the CRS Rice Bowl App
CatholicMom.com - Feb 3, 2015 at 6:00 am
Lent is almost upon us, and Catholic Relief Services has released an update to the Rice Bowl app for the 40th anniversary of the Rice Bowl program. Last year, I was thrilled with...
New head of Swiss Guard
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 3, 2015 at 5:59 am Following a January 31 Mass celebrated by the Vatican's Secretary of State, the leadership of the Pontifical Swiss Guard passed from Col. Daniel Anrig, commander since 2008, to...
Holy See to UN: stop ignoring attacks on Christian women, girls
EWTN - US Latest News - Feb 3, 2015 at 5:41 am New York City, N.Y., Feb 3, 2015 / 06:08 am (EWTN News/CNA).- The Holy See's delegation to the United Nations has warned that
Christians face "extinction" in some regions of armed...
Vatican press conference on international day against human trafficking
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 3, 2015 at 5:39 am At a Vatican press conference that took place on February 3, Cardinal Peter Turkson and four religious sisters discussed the upcoming international day against human trafficking....
NY Times: Catholics fear wave of church attacks in India
The Deacon's Bench - Feb 3, 2015 at 5:36 am Details: A series of episodes at churches over the last two months has prompted Roman Catholics here to worry about a deliberate campaign of violence, and to call on Prime...
Urgent prayer for a baby’s life
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Feb 3, 2015 at 5:33 am A reader writes:
I’m a private tutor at a university; I also help at the Newman Center and conduct Bible studies with students and so forth. One of my Catholic students… his...
Campaigners ‘fear the worst’ as MPs prepare to vote on three-parent babies
Catholic Herald - Feb 3, 2015 at 5:13 am A leading pro-life charity has said it “fears the worst” as MPs prepare to vote on whether to change the law to allow three-parent babies.
MPs will vote later today on an...
Holy See to UN: stop ignoring attacks on Christian women, girls
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 3, 2015 at 5:08 am New York City, N.Y., Feb 3, 2015 / 04:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Holy See’s delegation to the United Nations has warned that Christians face “extinction” in some regions of armed...
Daily Gospel Reflection for February 3, 2015
CatholicMom.com - Feb 3, 2015 at 5:00 am
Today’s Gospel: Mark 5:21-43
Optional Memorial of Saint Blaise, Bishop and Martyr
Optional Memorial of Saint Ansgar, Bishop
In this Gospel, Jesus demonstrates His divinity by...
Pope recognizes martyrdom of Archbishop Romero
Franciscan Media - Feb 3, 2015 at 5:00 am After decades of debate within the church, Pope Francis formally recognized that Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero was killed "in hatred of the faith" and not for purely...
Dachau: �the largest cemetery of Catholic priests in the world'
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 3, 2015 at 4:49 am 2,579 Catholic priests, seminarians, and religious were deported from across Europe to the Dachau concentration camp, according to a newly published French book.
1,034 of them,...
Sunday will be the first International Day of Prayer against Human Trafficking
EWTN - Vatican News - Feb 3, 2015 at 4:49 am Vatican City, Feb 3, 2015 / 04:49 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- The Vatican has organized the first-ever international day of prayer and
reflection against human trafficking, in hopes...
Stockpile food as election approaches, Church in Nigeria advises
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 3, 2015 at 4:35 am Concerned about continued terrorist attacks from the Islamist organization Boko Haram, the Nigerian bishops' relief and development agency is advising residents of some areas of...
Pope calls religious to �docility and obedience'
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 3, 2015 at 4:21 am Pope Francis celebrated Mass in St. Peter's Basilica on the evening of February 2, the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, and called upon religious to be docile and ...
New cardinal profile: Archbishop Charles Maung Bo
Catholic Culture - World News - Feb 3, 2015 at 4:09 am Eighth on the list of new cardinals announced by Pope Francis on January 4 is Archbishop Charles Maung Bo, 66, of Yangon (Rangoon), a city of 5.2 million that is the largest in...
Are You Ready for Lent?
Verbum Blog - Logos Bible Software - Feb 3, 2015 at 3:58 am Join the 2015 Lenten Journey!
Pope Francis, in one of his general audiences last year, prayed that “each individual member of the faithful and every Church community will...
The three parent baby ‘debate’ that the Today programme should be ashamed of
Catholic Herald - Feb 3, 2015 at 3:54 am This morning began very painfully for anyone who had the misfortune to catch Bishop Lee Rayfield of Swindon speak on the Today programme after the 7am news bulletin.
Today there...
Faith under siege: fifth Catholic church vandalized in New Delhi over two months
EWTN - World Catholic News - Feb 3, 2015 at 3:41 am New Delhi, India, Feb 3, 2015 / 04:01 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Unidentified persons broke into St. Alphonsa parish in the Indian
capital New Delhi during the early hours of Monday...
Catholic Quote of the Day — from Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 3, 2015 at 3:30 am “God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what...
Leeds teacher Ann Maguire to be honoured by stars at Sadler’s Wells
Catholic Herald - Feb 3, 2015 at 3:26 am The daughter of Ann Maguire will join ballet dancers in paying tribute to the Leeds schoolteacher.
The inaugural Ann Maguire Gala, hosted by acclaimed dancers Darcey Bussell and...
