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Pontifical council to consider challenges women face in society and the Church
The Catholic Leader - Feb 1, 2015 at 4:19 pm VIOLENCE against women, cultural pressures regarding women’s physical appearance, attitudes that subjugate women or that ignore male-female differences, and the growing alienation...
A glimpse at the “hip hop Mass”
The Deacon's Bench - Feb 1, 2015 at 4:10 pm The photo above is now making the rounds on Facebook. It appears to come from an Episcopal liturgy that first became popular in the United States about a decade ago. Check out...
Mental Loops
Commonweal - Feb 1, 2015 at 2:23 pm The vivid expression “earworm” suggests a voice, perhaps a song, or some phrase or fragment, that plays unwanted in a continuous mental loop. Subliminal sometimes it maybe, but...
Why women stayed away from church after a birth
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Feb 1, 2015 at 2:22 pm Some traditional customs of the church can raise hackles. One of those of recent memory is something called “the churching of women.”
While no longer common in the church, this...
Why he’s no longer pro-life: the “misadventures of Tim Ryan”
The Deacon's Bench - Feb 1, 2015 at 2:02 pm The once pro-life congressman switched sides last week—and now here’s some reaction and analysis from Kristen Day of Democrats for Life in The Hill: His pronouncement is a...
Pope Francis to visit Bosnia amid suffering
News.va - Feb 1, 2015 at 1:15 pm (Vatican Radio) The expected arrival of Pope Francis in Bosnia-Herzegovina is expected to be welcomed by the country's heavily Catholic Croat community at a time when the nation...
Nuncio to Bosnia-Herzegovina welcomes news of Pope's visit
News.va - Feb 1, 2015 at 1:15 pm (Vatican Radio) Archbishop Luigi Pezzuto, Apostolic Nuncio to Bosnia-Herzegovina, has welcomed the news of Pope Francis’s upcoming visit to Sarajevo.
Speaking to Vatican Radio...
Wilson to Willson: God and Man at the Super Bowl
Catholic Vote - Feb 1, 2015 at 1:10 pm
Yes, Patriots fans, I know that Tom Brady is a cradle Catholic who wed supermodel Gisele Bundchen at St. Monica’s Catholic Church in Santa Monica, California (a wedding attended...
Memory eternal: Human-rights activist and, yes, Christian journalist Kenji Goto is gone
GetReligion - Feb 1, 2015 at 12:34 pm
First there was the beheading of Haruna Yukawa, a military consultant who had -- by all accounts -- lived a unique, if not troubled, life leading him the Middle East as a...
Being an Extraordinary Catholic is No Easy Task
Integrated Catholic Life - Feb 1, 2015 at 12:08 pm Being an extraordinary Catholic is no easy task, but Randy Hain’s new book Joyful Witness – How To Be An Extraordinary Catholic gives examples and insights of just those Catholics...
Pope: the Gospel doesn't oppress, but frees those enslaved to evil
EWTN - Vatican News - Feb 1, 2015 at 11:25 am Vatican City, Feb 1, 2015 / 11:33 am (EWTN News/CNA).- In his Sunday Angelus address Pope Francis pointed to the authority with
which Jesus preached, saying that his words in the...
WDTPRS Septuagesima Sunday: strength in time of oppression
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 1, 2015 at 11:19 am In the traditional Roman calendar this Sunday is called Septuagesima, Latin for the “Seventieth” day before Easter. This number is more symbolic than arithmetical. The Sundays...
Superbowl Sunday reminder: Football is bad for you.
Commonweal - Feb 1, 2015 at 11:18 am In a recent episode of HBO's Real Sports, Bryant Gumbel spoke with several members of the 1985 Chicago Bears, whose historically dominant season ended with a devastating rout of...
Pope: the Gospel doesn’t oppress, but frees those enslaved to evil
Catholic News Agency - General - Feb 1, 2015 at 10:33 am Vatican City, Feb 1, 2015 / 09:33 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In his Sunday Angelus address Pope Francis pointed to the authority with which Jesus preached, saying that his words in the...
CINOs
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Feb 1, 2015 at 10:15 am I point the attention of the readership to something at American Catholic. This is dreadful, but I sense that much of our struggle for our Catholic identity will be circumscribed...
Septuagesima Sunday
Saint Louis Catholic - Feb 1, 2015 at 9:29 am Today marks the beginning of the penitential ramp-up to the most penitential season of the year: Quadragesima, or Lent. As often happens, Septuagesima peaks its head in before...
February: The Holy Family
Homeschool Goodies - Feb 1, 2015 at 8:32 am Jesus, Mary and Joseph, in you we contemplate the splendour of true love, to you we turn with trust.
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What the Roman Curia will be schooled on during Lent
EWTN - Vatican News - Feb 1, 2015 at 8:00 am Vatican City, Feb 1, 2015 / 08:03 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
The Lenten spiritual exercises for the Roman curia will this year be preached by Fr. Bruno Secondin, a Carmelite, focused on...
Pope Francis to visit Sarajevo
News.va - Feb 1, 2015 at 7:35 am Pope Francis announced on Sunday that he intends to visit Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, on June 6.
The surprise announcement came as he addressed the crowds in St....
