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Pope's Address to Bishops of Senegal, Mauritania, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Nov 9, 2014 at 6:00 pm Below is a translation of Pope Francis' address to the Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Senegal, Mauritania, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau, on the occasion of the visit “ad...
Pope: Even Where Church Is the Minority, We See Her Contributions
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Nov 9, 2014 at 6:00 pm Pope Francis says that the key to overcoming difficulties is to attach oneself to Christ. Speaking to the bishops of the episcopal conference of Senegal, Mauritania, Cape Verde...
Pope: No One Can Be Disinterested in the Question of Caring for Creation
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Nov 9, 2014 at 6:00 pm Since man’s survival depends on the environment, Pope Francis says we must care for Creation. The Holy Father gave these words of encouragement to the Movemento Adulti Scout...
Lessons learned: Civilian casualties division
Commonweal - Nov 9, 2014 at 5:53 pm General Martin Dempsey, head of the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs, has seemed to me a prudent and cautious observer when it comes to U.S. military action. His recent calls for more...
Cardinal Scola: Universities can play a crucial role in the Synod on the Family
Catholic News Agency - General - Nov 9, 2014 at 5:37 pm Rome, Italy, Nov 9, 2014 / 04:37 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Cardinal Angelo Scola holds that pontifical universities are the ideal place where issues at stake in the Synod of Bishops –...
AP: bishops meeting amid “turbulence”
The Deacon's Bench - Nov 9, 2014 at 5:04 pm Fasten your seatbelts: U.S. Roman Catholic bishops are gathering at a moment of turbulence for them and the American church, as Pope Francis moves toward crafting new policies...
Dom Mark Kirby on Lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi
New Liturgical Movement - Nov 9, 2014 at 4:32 pm Fr. Kirby (right) with a monk and a mascotDom Mark Kirby, the Prior of Our Lady of the Cenacle Monastery (a.k.a. Silverstream Priory), has written a brief but magnificent...
Hope comes from France
Rorate Coeli - Nov 9, 2014 at 2:38 pm There is no nice way of saying this: the clergy in France is dying. But there is no bad way of saying this: out of degradation and death, sprouts of hope are clear:
"Iam enim...
An evil site and occasion of sin. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Nov 9, 2014 at 2:36 pm If ever you needed proof of what an evil site and occasion of sin the National Schismatic Reporter (aka Fishwrap) has become, just have a look at the combox under the shameful...
Your weekend think piece: Former GetReligionista discusses anti-Catholic story up in Seattle
GetReligion - Nov 9, 2014 at 1:48 pm
This is one of those stories that could have shown up with a "Got news?" notice in a GetReligion headline. It's rather amazing that this Seattle Post-Intelligencer blog item --...
L’histoire du curé d’Ars
Regina Magazine - Nov 9, 2014 at 1:05 pm « Ce n’était pas des voix humaines » Donna Sue Berry L’église de saint Jean-Vianney à Ars Non. Il avait décidé que ce n’était pas des voix humaines, ni des voix d’origine...
This
Saint Louis Catholic - Nov 9, 2014 at 12:23 pm Is all that matters. Is all Who matters. Laudetur Iesus Christus!
Recent Prisoner Free Exercise Cases
The Religion Clause - Nov 9, 2014 at 12:00 pm In Hall v. Sutton, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 21073 (7th Cir., Nov. 5, 2014), the 7th Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of qualified immunity in a challenge to a prison's two-...
The Madonna of Almudena
Feminine Genius - Nov 9, 2014 at 11:56 am This is a view of the cupola of the Catedral de Santa María la Real de la Almudena, the only basilica in Spain to have been dedicated by a pope (Saint John Paul II, in 1993). Our...
Pope removes Cardinal Burke from Vatican post
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Nov 9, 2014 at 11:08 am VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis removed U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, 66, as head of the Vatican’s highest court and named him to a largely ceremonial post for a chivalric religious...
Praying with Children – Praying with Silence [Video]
CatholicMom.com - Nov 9, 2014 at 10:00 am
Grace Urbanski discusses teaching children to pray with silence.
Watch this video on YouTube.
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Find the complete series of Praying with Children videos at the...
'We need bridges, not walls!' Pope says on Berlin Wall anniversary
EWTN - Vatican News - Nov 9, 2014 at 9:27 am Vatican City, Nov 9, 2014 / 09:27 am (EWTN News/CNA).- On the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Pope Francis
said that it only happened through a long, painful...
7th Circuit Upholds Northwestern University's Cut-Off of Chabad House
The Religion Clause - Nov 9, 2014 at 9:01 am In Lubavitch-Chabad of Illinois, Inc. v. Northwestern University, (7th Cir., Nov. 6, 2014), the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a claim by Chabad House Rabbi Dov Hillel...
An Ordination and First Mass - Silverstream Priory
New Liturgical Movement - Nov 9, 2014 at 8:30 am When I see reports of ordinations such as the one I'm covering here, it always warms my heart to see more Masses celebrated with a spirit of continuity, along with beautiful...
'We need bridges, not walls!' Pope says on Berlin Wall anniversary
Catholic News Agency - General - Nov 9, 2014 at 8:27 am Vatican City, Nov 9, 2014 / 07:27 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Pope Francis said that it only happened through a long, painful...
