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So, how big is the universe, really?
Aleteia - Sep 25, 2017 at 6:00 am Spoiler alert: pretty big. According to the Business Insider Science channel on YouTube, the American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, and astrobiologist Carl Sagan once...
Pope Francis: Angelus address on Mt. 20:1-16; tribute to Blessed Stanley Rother (full text) (Holy See Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 25, 2017 at 5:09 am For a video of the Pope’s address, click here.
Father Stanley Rother beatified in Oklahoma City (CNS)
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 25, 2017 at 5:09 amPope's homily at Mass for the Vatican Gendarme Corps (full text) (Holy See Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 25, 2017 at 5:09 am “It is true, you must seek the Lord and do everything to find Him; but the important thing is that it is He Who is searching for you,” Pope Francis preached on September 24.
Iam lucis orto sidere: Prime, The Immortal Hour
Rorate Coeli - Sep 25, 2017 at 5:02 am The following quasi-elegiac prose in honor of the Divine Office hour of PRIME, the hour that was killed but refused to die, is so beautiful that we had to republish it here in its...
Ex-Vatican auditor says he was forced out by ‘set-up’
Catholic Herald - Sep 25, 2017 at 4:57 am The Holy See’s former auditor general, Libero Milone, has said he was forced to step down earlier this year after uncovering possible illegal activity. Vatican officials have hit...
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Pope: God’s consolation is certainly not fun, but it gives peace
Vatican Insider - Sep 25, 2017 at 4:09 am “We know that life has its “weak” and “strong” moments, but whatever the case is, the Lord will always “make us feel His presence”. How? With consolation,which does not give...
Vatican's former auditor says he was forced to quit after finding irregularities (Reuters)
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 25, 2017 at 4:09 am Archbishop Giovanni Angelo Becciu (the Substitute of the Secretariat of State) said that Libero Milone’s allegations were “false and unjustified” and that “he went against all the...
62 clergy, lay scholars accuse Pope of propagating heresies (National Catholic Register)
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 25, 2017 at 4:09 am Signatories of “A Filial Correction Concerning the Propagation of Heresies” include Msgr. Antonio Livi (dean emeritus of the Pontifical Lateran University), Ettore Gotti Tedeschi...
Pope Francis: Address to participants in the general chapter of the Order of the Cistercians of the Strict Observance (full text) (Holy See Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 25, 2017 at 4:09 am Assiduous prayer, sobriety of life, unity in charity, and fidelity to spiritual heritage were among the themes of the Pontiff’s address to members of the Order of Cistercians of...
Daily Gospel Reflection for September 25, 2017
CatholicMom.com - Sep 25, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: Luke 8:16-18
As Christians we are called to make the light of Christ visible to those we encounter; even to the strangers at the grocery store. As it says in the...
Peru's president meets with Pontiff (Holy See Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 25, 2017 at 3:09 am Pope Francis is scheduled to visit the South American nation in January, and he and President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski discussed education, the environment, development, and poverty...
Vatican to set up joint committee with Muslim World League (Vatican Radio)
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 25, 2017 at 3:09 amPapal audiences (9/23) (Holy See Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 25, 2017 at 3:09 am The Pope received the new Italian ambassador to the Holy See, the prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, the recently retired secretary of the Pontifical Council for Culture,...
New curial document on Catholic education: "Educating to Fraternal Humanism" (Congregation for Catholic Education)
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 25, 2017 at 3:09 am The document, dated April 16, was presented at a September 22 press conference (video). It commemorates the 50th anniversary of Populorum Progressio, Blessed Paul VI’s encyclical...
Vatican tribunal holds 5th hearing in misappropriated-fund case (Holy See Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 25, 2017 at 3:09 am Click here for background on the case.
Papal audiences (9/22) (Holy See Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 25, 2017 at 3:09 am Pope Francis received the president of Peru, apostolic nuncios to Russia and Indonesia, and European bishops’ conference officials who work with migration.
Pope makes surprise visit to patients at rehabilitation clinic (Holy See Press Office)
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 25, 2017 at 3:09 amHead of new pontifical foundation discusses work (Vatican Radio)
Catholic Culture - World News - Sep 25, 2017 at 3:09 am In 2015, Pope Francis created the Pontifical Foundation Gravissimum Educationis, named after the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on Christian Education (1965).
