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What the BBC’s documentary about CS Lewis failed to mention
Catholic Herald - Jan 2, 2015 at 4:05 am I happened to watch BBC 4’s programme on CS Lewis – “Narnia’s Lost Poet” – on Tuesday evening at 9pm. It was narrated by the writer AN Wilson, a biographer of Lewis, in his fluent...
Live as children of God, not slaves to sin, Pope preaches at year's end
Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 2, 2015 at 3:54 am On the evening of December 31, Pope Francis asked those assembled in St. Peter's Basilica whether they are choosing to live as free children of God or as slaves to sin.
"We were...
The Church Needs the New Homophiles
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jan 2, 2015 at 3:50 am
There is a group of Catholics who experience same-sex attraction. They accept the teachings of the Church on sexual morality. They do not act on their same-sex desires. They are...
Catholics Fight for Freedom in Washington, D.C.
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jan 2, 2015 at 3:45 am
The Catholic University of America and the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., are the latest targets of legislative and judicial moral relativists who severely threaten the...
Catholic Quote of the Day — from C. S. Lewis
Integrated Catholic Life - Jan 2, 2015 at 3:30 am “It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is...
Feast of St. Basil the Great
Verbum Blog - Logos Bible Software - Jan 2, 2015 at 3:11 am Acquaint yourself with the fascinating life and writings of St Basil (born 330), one of the the early champions of Christianity! Although they were written over 1600 years ago,...
Francis begins New Year with call to end slavery and human trafficking
Catholic Herald - Jan 2, 2015 at 2:55 am Pope Francis called for an end to slavery and human trafficking as he celebrated a Mass marking the World Day of Peace on New Year’s Day.
Celebrating the Mass in St Peter’s...
German Theology and Africa
Rorate Coeli - Jan 2, 2015 at 2:30 am Cardinal Kasper’s dissmisive remarks on Africa have rightly been deplored, but German theology’s attempts to help Africa are probably much more damaging. The German Church is able...
I require this for my completion and fulfillment as a human being
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 2, 2015 at 1:57 am
HT: Patrick Madrid
Remember: Christmas isn’t over till Epiphany!
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Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 2, 2015 at 1:55 am
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Encountering the Word — James 1:5
Integrated Catholic Life - Jan 2, 2015 at 1:30 am A Daily Quote From Sacred Scripture “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all men generously and without reproaching, and it will be given him.” (James 1:5)...
Siris on Zmirak on Usury
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 2, 2015 at 1:13 am This is the sort of junk Catholics too often have to wade through these days. And junk it is; all you have to do to see that is to read Fifth Lateran on usury and Vix pervenit,...
Fr. Barron on the new Exodus movie
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 2, 2015 at 1:12 am I was kinda sorta thinking about seeing this, but not I may not bother:
Irish Court Says It's In Best Interest of Child to be Killed in Womb of Brain-Dead Mother
Creative Minority Report - Jan 2, 2015 at 12:09 am This is horrific. The worst part is that the court says death is in the best interest of the child. Just let that thought sink in for a moment.LifeNews.com reports:The High Court...
ASK FATHER: Father was sick, we went to Mass, now we’re sick too!
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 2, 2015 at 12:01 am From a reader…
Our priest simply announced “I have the flu ” and proceeded with his sermon. Only a few , like me, refrained from receiving Holy Communion. My wife received and...
Basil, Gregory, and the Holy Spirit
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Jan 2, 2015 at 12:00 am Today we celebrate the feasts of St. Basil and St. Gregory, and although both were extremely prolific, Brother Athanasius Murphy, O.P. focuses today on their early and compelling...
Christmas Blessings of Hope and Joy Through Mother Mary’s Miraculous Medal
Integrated Catholic Life - Jan 1, 2015 at 11:01 pm A couple of months ago I felt inspired to give a blessed Miraculous Medal to a woman I met who was working at a department store. I’ll call her Louise. She seemed very touched to...
Mario Cuomo, in Commonweal
Commonweal - Jan 1, 2015 at 10:03 pm Mario Cuomo, who died New Year's Day and about whom Paul Moses writes here, was also a Commonweal author.
Mario M. Cuomo, R.I.P.
Commonweal - Jan 1, 2015 at 9:45 pm "I take my religion from Cuomo and my politics from O'Connor."
So said the great columnist Murray Kempton, his voice booming across the newsroom at New York Newsday. It was some...
Pope's New Year's Day Angelus
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Jan 1, 2015 at 8:45 pm Below is a translation provided by Vatican Radio of Pope Francis' address before and after the Angelus in St. Peter's Square yesterday on the Solemnity of Mary the Mother of God...