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As if to illustrate my point…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 7, 2015 at 1:22 am about the deranged, anti-Catholic thing that so much of the “faithful conservative” Catholic subculture has become, First Things publishes this festival of crazy contempt for...
Dear The Internet: I cannot live without one of these
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 7, 2015 at 1:21 am Since I cannot live without this, I regard this as health care. How do I convince President Obama to make you pay for this? Please advise.
A cultural focus for Pope Francis' Portuguese cardinal
EWTN - World Catholic News - Jan 7, 2015 at 1:15 am Lisbon, Portugal, Jan 7, 2015 / 02:00 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Pope Francis' selection of Patriarch Manuel Macario do Nascimento
Clemente of Lisbon as a new cardinal will bring to the...
A cultural focus for Pope Francis' Portuguese cardinal
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 7, 2015 at 1:00 am Lisbon, Portugal, Jan 7, 2015 / 12:00 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis’ selection of Patriarch Manuel Macario do Nascimento Clemente of Lisbon as a new cardinal will bring to the...
Egyptian President Attends Coptic Christmas Service
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 7, 2015 at 12:18 am Egypt’s President Abdel Fattal al-Sisi attended Christmas services at St. Mark’s Coptic Cathedral on Tuesday evening, marking a first in Egypt’s history. The Coptic Orthodox...
The Illusion of Immortality and a Dislocated Shoulder
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Jan 7, 2015 at 12:00 am At the beginning of a new year, Fr. Michael Cummins suggests that it might be helpful to reflect on the fifteen "spiritual diseases" identified by Pope Francis.
The Art of Catholic Charity
Integrated Catholic Life - Jan 6, 2015 at 11:01 pm The Gospel in the Secular Culture I don’t know anyone who doesn’t like art, and really, what’s not to like? Art, in all of its forms, inspires us and expresses who we are as a...
ABp Wenski - Support Gay Marriage and You're Fired
Creative Minority Report - Jan 6, 2015 at 10:46 pm Archbishop Wenski to Archdiocesan employees: Support gay marriage and you're fired. Amen.The Archdiocese of Miami is warning employees that they could be fired for any conduct...
Archbishop threatens to fire staff who support same-sex marriage
The Deacon's Bench - Jan 6, 2015 at 10:15 pm Kathy Schiffer has the scoop: Archbishop Thomas Wenski, archbishop of Miami, has warned archdiocesan employees that any action in support of Florida’s now-legal same-sex marriage...
Grisly Nativity scene vandalism draws prayerful response
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 6, 2015 at 10:07 pm Boston, Mass., Jan 6, 2015 / 09:07 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A vandal’s placement of a decapitated pig’s head at a Nativity scene at a Catholic church in Massachusetts shocked locals,...
Binding and Loosing
Jimmy Akin.org - Jan 6, 2015 at 9:56 pm Just a quick note to keep track of something of apologetic interest.
I’m currently continuing my project of summarizing Josephus’s Jewish War, and there is a passage in it in...
So Much for "My Body, My Choice"
Creative Minority Report - Jan 6, 2015 at 9:55 pm The state of Connecticut has removed a 17 year old girl (known as Cassandra C.) from her parents and is forcing her to receive chemotherapy, according to news reports.Oddly, no...
Blessed Epiphany!
Saint Louis Catholic - Jan 6, 2015 at 9:43 pm Just read this tidbit in The Liturgical Year:"There was another custom, which originated in the Ages of Faith, and which is still observed in many countries. In honour of the...
I Was Accepted to Christendom's Grad School!
Journey of a Catholic Nerd Writer - Jan 6, 2015 at 7:36 pm It started off like a normal day. I got up. I received a call that my godson's surgery went well. I prayed the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary while cooking breakfast. I...
Attentive, tireless, courageous – this is Christian life, Pope says on Epiphany
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 6, 2015 at 6:24 pm Vatican City, Jan 6, 2015 / 05:24 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Like the Magi who followed the star from the East, Christians are called to follow the light of the Gospel attentively,...
Mario Cuomo, 1932-2015: His Controversial Legacy
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 6, 2015 at 6:15 pm New York City, N.Y., Jan 6, 2015 / 05:15 pm (National Catholic Register).- Mario Cuomo, the three-time governor of New York who sought to justify Catholic lawmakers’ tolerance of...
Federal court: Michigan firm Autocam not required to provide abortion coverage
LifeSiteNews - Jan 6, 2015 at 6:10 pm The Thomas More Society has won the lengthy lawsuit in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby ruling.
Pope meets with Holocaust survivors after general audience (Video)
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 6, 2015 at 6:00 pm To view the video click here.
Pope's Angelus Address on Solemnity of the Epiphany
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 6, 2015 at 6:00 pm At the end of the Holy Mass, celebrated in the Vatican Basilica, on the Solemnity of the Lord’s Epiphany, Pope Francis appeared at the window of his study in the Apostolic Vatican...