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Church Turned Upside Down - "Why are the enemies of Catholic Truth the main defenders of Pope Francis?"
Rorate Coeli - Jan 4, 2015 at 5:09 pm Those who had attacked the pontificate of Benedict XVI now find themselves defending that of Francis. While Catholic writers such as Messori and Socci are blastd by Avvenire [the...
CU Weekly 283: State of the Apostolate 2014
Catholic Underground - Jan 4, 2015 at 4:00 pm This Week, Fr. Chris Decker, Jeff Blackwell, Kathleen Lee and Fr. Ryan Humphries discussed
The State of the CU 2014
The Past 10 years in the CU
Fr. Ryan is stepping down as...
Mario the pre-conciliar Catholic
Commonweal - Jan 4, 2015 at 3:06 pm At Mass this morning, we remembered Mario Cuomo in our prayers. May he rest in peace. He was a brilliant, thoughtful, gifted politician, and a good man. He could powerfully...
Fire tears through Queens church before Little Christmas: “I’m in shock”
The Deacon's Bench - Jan 4, 2015 at 2:51 pm Shrine at Our Lady of Sorrows (from parish website) From the In My Backyard Desk, via The New York Post: Flames tore through a Catholic church in Queens early Sunday, stunning...
Lemons --> Lemonade
Creative Minority Report - Jan 4, 2015 at 2:22 pm Making lemons into lemonade. Today I got a flat tire taking my daughter to a soccer game. Tire was toast, so I put a new tire on the car. But I kept the flat tire because I...
Sacra Liturgia USA 2015 Registration Page is Open
New Liturgical Movement - Jan 4, 2015 at 1:57 pm The registration page is now open on the Sacra Liturgia USA webpage. Click on "Conference" in the dropdown menu and you'll see a button on the right side with the form labeled "...
Christmas 2014 Photopost - Part 3
New Liturgical Movement - Jan 4, 2015 at 1:42 pm Our third and final photopost for Christmas of 2014. Don’t forget to send in your photos of Epiphany celebrations!Mass of St Stephen, Damenstiftkirche (FSSP) - Munich, GermanyHoly...
The Consistory... Starring "The Peripheries"
Whispers in the Loggia - Jan 4, 2015 at 1:30 pm Even if the path to the Pope's Senate is now rather different than it's been, for another 20 designates, it's time to take that walk... past Lord only knows how many infuriated...
Myanmar and Tonga among countries represented by cardinals-to-be
Vatican Insider - Jan 4, 2015 at 12:53 pmMy View For Awhile: Roads to Rome Edition
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 4, 2015 at 12:28 pm I am waiting for my first flight of the new year. Oh joy.
Weather is not good here, but I built in extra time for delays.
Meanwhile, I have pulled up the funeral of the murdered...
With Friends Like These....
Commonweal - Jan 4, 2015 at 12:15 pm "Jerusalem — Jewish settlers attacked American consular officials Friday during a visit the officials made to the West Bank as part of an investigation into claims of damage to...
Pope Francis names 20 new cardinals from ‘every continent’
Catholic Herald - Jan 4, 2015 at 11:26 am Pope Francis has named 15 cardinal-electors “from 14 nations of every continent, showing the inseparable link between the Church of Rome and the particular churches present in the...
Sitting down with the would-be assassin of St. John Paul II
GetReligion - Jan 4, 2015 at 11:19 am
The Italian newspaper La Repubblica reports that Mehmet Ali Agca was arrested after he returned to the scene of his May 1981 crime -- the attempted assassination of St. John Paul...
JRS: migrant ships left adrift shows desperation of Syrians
News.va - Jan 4, 2015 at 10:07 am
(Vatican Radio) For the second time in as many days a large cargo ship filled with hundreds of migrants, thought to be mostly Syrians, has been apparently abandoned by its crew...
Beauty in suffering: How one woman is fighting the stigma of therapy
EWTN - US Latest News - Jan 4, 2015 at 10:05 am San Diego, Calif., Jan 4, 2015 / 10:15 am (EWTN News).- Maura Byrne was terrified to go to therapy for the first time.
Pope renews call for peace at Sunday Angelus
News.va - Jan 4, 2015 at 9:50 am (Vatican Radio) At his Angelus address on Sunday, Pope Francis again returned to the theme of peace building. “My hope,” he said, “is that the exploitation of man by man would be...
New Cardinals in February
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 4, 2015 at 9:24 am Today the names of the new Cardinals were announced. They will be given their red hats in a consistory on 14 February.
The one that interests me is His Excellency Most Reverend...
Crawfish Etouffee in the Christmas Season
The Catholic Foodie - Jan 4, 2015 at 9:23 am
We are still in the Christmas Season, folks, and today we continue our #12DaysofChristmas #recipes with Crawfish Étouffée.
Yes, I missed a few days of recipe-sharing during the #...
Beauty in suffering: How one woman is fighting the stigma of therapy
Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 4, 2015 at 9:15 am San Diego, Calif., Jan 4, 2015 / 08:15 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Maura Byrne was terrified to go to therapy for the first time.
She knew something was wrong, and she knew she needed...
FFRF Moves Into Expanded Headquarters
The Religion Clause - Jan 4, 2015 at 9:13 am LaCrosse (WI) Tribune reports that the Freedom From Religion Foundation headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin last week saw its staff begin the move into the four stories added to...
