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When you stop doing things for fun, you might as well be dead.
Aleteia - Sep 29, 2017 at 3:00 am Hemingway
How Nazi secularism crushed the souls of ordinary Germans
Catholic Herald - Sep 29, 2017 at 2:56 am Patrick West’s bracing interpretation of Nietzsche, Get Over Yourself, which I blogged about on Monday, took me straight back to my student days when I first discovered this most...
Fr Tom Uzhunnalil returns home, meets Indian prime minister
Catholic Herald - Sep 29, 2017 at 2:30 am An Indian Catholic priest returned to India on Thursday after being freed from 18 months of captivity by unknown kidnappers in Yemen. Fr Tom Uzhunnalil arrived in the Indian...
New York diocese warns students: don’t kneel during national anthem
Catholic Herald - Sep 29, 2017 at 2:20 am A Catholic diocese in suburban New York has issued a warning to its three high schools that students and spectators cannot kneel or otherwise protest when the national anthem is...
‘Amoris Laetitia’ is built on traditional Thomist morality, Pope says
Catholic Herald - Sep 29, 2017 at 2:13 am Seeing, understanding and engaging with people’s real lives does not “bastardise” theology, rather it is what is needed to guide people toward God, Pope Francis told Jesuits in...
Orlandi case, about Father Lombardi’s investigation
Vatican Insider - Sep 29, 2017 at 2:10 am On February 22nd, 2012, Pietro Orlandi (Emanuela’s brother) was at “Chi l’ha visto?” an investigative news TV programme aired in Italy, where families ask the watching TV public...
James Martin SJ Thinks You’re a Nazi
Crisis Magazine - Church - Sep 29, 2017 at 2:10 am
Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego wrote a column about James Martin SJ that said Martin’s critics are a cancer on the Church, that criticism of his work is driven by homophobia...
What Does Sir Walter Scott Say About Love of Country?
Crisis Magazine - Church - Sep 29, 2017 at 2:00 am
There is part of a poem by Sir Walter Scott often titled “My Native Land.” Back when poetry was appreciated and even memorized, its first lines were well known. It went:
Breathes...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 29/09/17
Catholic Herald - Sep 29, 2017 at 1:38 am The biggest danger to the Pope today are “opportunists, careerists and false friends” concerned with “their own financial interests and self-advancement”, Cardinal Gerhard Müller...
Cardinal Parolin: Iraqi Christians are called to be 'artisans' of reconciliation
Catholic News Agency - General - Sep 29, 2017 at 1:21 am Rome, Italy, Sep 29, 2017 / 12:21 am (CNA/EWTN News).- During a conference on rebuilding Christian villages on the Plains of Nineveh, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro...
Cardinal Parolin: Iraqi Christians are called to be 'artisans' of reconciliation
EWTN - World Catholic News - Sep 29, 2017 at 1:21 am Rome, Italy, Sep 29, 2017 / 01:21 am (EWTN News/CNA).- During a conference on rebuilding Christian villages on the Plains of
Nineveh, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro...
Naming Angels
Dominicana - Sep 29, 2017 at 1:00 am As a kid, I loved looking up the meanings of names, especially of my family and friends. Take Sandra for instance, which is a shortened form of Alexandria, coming from the...
Sharing the Word for September 29, 2017
Franciscan Media - Sep 29, 2017 at 12:00 am Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, Archangels
September 29, 2017
Daily Reading from the USCCB: Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14
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Defend Us in Battle: Benedict XVI and Pope Francis Consecrated the Vatican to Michael the Archangel
Catholic Online - Featured News - Sep 29, 2017 at 12:00 am On Friday, July 4, 2013 Pope Francis was joined by Pope emeritus Benedict XVI in the gardens for a ceremony during which the Holy Father blessed a ...
Celestial Intercession
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Sep 29, 2017 at 12:00 am Today we celebrate the feast of the Archangels, St. Michael, St. Gabriel, and St. Raphael! Br. Ignatius Weiss offers a reflection on the virtues of these celestial intercessors...
What does the Catholic Church say about vaccines? Woman faces jail for refusing to vaccinate child
Catholic Online - Featured News - Sep 29, 2017 at 12:00 am A woman faces jail time for contempt of court, should she refuse a judge's order to vaccinate her nine-year-old son. Rebecca Bredow is facing her ...
BEWARE: Investegation reveals Facebook will sell you to the highest bidder
Catholic Online - Featured News - Sep 29, 2017 at 12:00 am The Russians purchased $100,000 worth of ads on Facebook to spread misinformation during the 2016 presidential election, and Facebook knew it. This ...
Dads Make All The Difference
Catholic Online - Featured News - Sep 29, 2017 at 12:00 am While our culture tells us that the role of fathers is easily replaceable, evidence proves otherwise. All of a mother's good intentions and ...
The Importance of a Regular Daily Devotional Time
Catholic Online - Featured News - Sep 29, 2017 at 12:00 am Do I have a daily devotional time? Do I realize how important it is? Those are good questions to ask.
I need more messy saints…
Integrated Catholic Life - Sep 28, 2017 at 11:04 pm I am looking for some messy saint stories. You know, the type of story that shows the person made a fool of themselves, or chose poorly, or even… sinned. Perhaps it sounds weird—...
