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Pope Francis daily Mass: Familiarity with Jesus sets us free
News.va - Sep 26, 2017 at 5:41 am “Those who hear the Word of God and act on it”: this is the concept of the family for Jesus, a concept of family that is “wider than that of the world.” That was the focus of Pope...
There is a ‘concerted campaign’ against the unborn, bishop warns
Catholic Herald - Sep 26, 2017 at 5:35 am The Bishop of Paisley has warned of a “concerted campaign” against the unborn child in Britain, after a top medical college voted to decriminalise abortion. The Royal College of...
Vatican 'foreign minister' gives lecture at Fordham (full text) (Holy See Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 26, 2017 at 5:09 am Archbishop Paul Gallagher spoke on “The Holy See’s Perspective on Contemporary International Issues.”
'Recognize harm to poor and amend Graham-Cassidy bill, say US bishop chairmen' (USCCB)
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 26, 2017 at 5:09 amVatican foreign minister addresses UN General Assembly (full text) (Holy See Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 26, 2017 at 5:09 am Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican’s Secretary for Relations with States, discussed a wide range of topics: human rights (with an emphasis on the rights to life and religious...
Why I am thanking God for Purgatory
Aleteia - Sep 26, 2017 at 5:00 am Imagining what purgatory will be like shows us our hope for justice. And forces us to acknowledge our faults.“Our souls demand Purgatory, don’t they? Would it not break the heart...
Eucharist and remembrance: As if we had lived through it
Aleteia - Sep 26, 2017 at 5:00 am It took a sci-fi writer, Philip K. Dick, to perfectly summarize where we are when we are within the Mass.There are some people living in Sharpsburg, Maryland, who “can tell you...
Most children in orphanages aren't actually orphans. This group wants to help them.
Catholic News Agency - General - Sep 26, 2017 at 4:20 am Baltimore, Md., Sep 26, 2017 / 03:20 am (CNA).- Shannon Senefeld always assumed that children in orphanages are mostly orphans. Most people make that assumption.
When Senefeld...
Virtue Signaling and Secular Redemption
Crisis Magazine - Church - Sep 26, 2017 at 4:15 am
Ever since former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began kneeling before preseason games in 2016, taking a knee in protest has become all the rage among the self-...
Why Birthdays Are Important
Crisis Magazine - Church - Sep 26, 2017 at 4:10 am
September 11th was my 64th birthday. Yes, 9/11, but we’ll leave that for another time. What I want to explain here is why for most of my life I found birthdays and most occasions...
Venezuela: regime accuses bishops of being 'bandits,' distant from the people (Fides)
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 26, 2017 at 4:09 am “These accusations are not only offensive, but authentic calumny,” a bishop said in response.
Myanmar cardinal expresses support for Aung San Suu Kyi, says Pope should avoid the term 'Rohingya' (Fides)
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 26, 2017 at 4:09 am Pope Francis is scheduled to visit Myanmar in late November.
African bishops: 'Only the poor can truly develop themselves' (SECAM)
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 26, 2017 at 4:09 am In a recent document, African bishops “criticize some of Africa’s leaders for conniving with foreign powers at the expense of their own people” and “decry poor governance and...
Chaldean Catholic patriarch pleads for reconciliation between Baghdad, Kurdish separatists (Chaldean Patriarchate of Babylon)
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 26, 2017 at 4:09 am “If, God forbid, there will be a military confrontation, in such devastating circumstances, both socially and economically, the consequences will be disastrous,” warned Patriarch...
Asia Bibi nominated for EU Parliament's Sakharov Prize (Fides)
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 26, 2017 at 4:09 am Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman accused of blasphemy against Islam, was sentenced to death in 2010; her sentence was suspended in 2015, and she remains in prison.
South Sudan: leading prelate pleads for peace (Comboni Missionaries)
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 26, 2017 at 4:09 amDescending into the Chocolate Factory: Are Dahl’s Works Worth it?
Crisis Magazine - Church - Sep 26, 2017 at 4:05 am
Every good child takes some pleasure in being bad. It is the perversity of human inheritance that forbidden fruit is fascinating. Childhood courts devious delights while...
How should a Catholic evaluate health care policy?
EWTN - US Latest News - Sep 26, 2017 at 4:01 am Washington D.C., Sep 26, 2017 / 04:01 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Another effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act seems on
the verge of failure, after three Republican...
Familiarity with Jesus sets us free. “Talk to Him also when on the bus”
Vatican Insider - Sep 26, 2017 at 3:41 am For Jesus, the family are “Those who hear the Word of God and act on it". Therefore, it is a larger nucleus than the one in which one is born. “Familiarity, is speaking to him...
Daily Gospel Reflection for September 26, 2017
CatholicMom.com - Sep 26, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: Luke 8:19-21
Sometimes I think the gospels are like Shakespeare. In its original form, the Bard’s work is remarkably spartan. There are few stage directions, and...
