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Card Marx: Pope is seeking input to take Church forward
News.va - Oct 17, 2014 at 11:10 am
(Vatican Radio) How to bring together Church doctrine with the pressing pastoral concerns of its leaders. That’s the dilemma that participants at the Synod of Bishops on the...
A Church That Must Go Out -- Pope Paul's Final Exhortation
USCCB Media Blog - Oct 17, 2014 at 11:10 am By Bishop David Ricken
Pope Francis has repeatedly spoken of the need for a Church that goes out from itself, bringing mercy to the margins of society. This call is evident in his...
Cardinal Marx: Exclusion is not the language of the Church, the debate remains open
Vatican Insider - Oct 17, 2014 at 11:04 amTaking a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land with a Great New Book
CatholicMom.com - Oct 17, 2014 at 11:00 am
I don’t know what the chances are that I’ll ever get to the Holy Land. Honestly, it wasn’t until I read Fr. James Martin’s Jesus: A Pilgrimage for our book club conversation here...
Nurse Joked About Throwing Baby With Cerebral Palsy Out the Window
LifeNews.com - Oct 17, 2014 at 10:48 am A British nurse is facing a medical counsel hearing about how she reportedly joked about throwing a baby with Cerebral Palsy out the window because she got frustrated that the...
Cardinal Pell: Communion for divorced and remarried not majority position
Catholic Herald - Oct 17, 2014 at 10:47 am Cardinal George Pell has rejected claims that the majority of synod members accept Cardinal Walter Kasper’s proposals for Communion for divorced and remarried Catholics.
Speaking...
Pope Comments on How Universities Can Encourage Dialogue between Faith and Reason
Catholic Education Daily - Oct 17, 2014 at 10:44 am Pope Francis recently sent a message to the Italian Catholic University Federation, according to Vatican Information Service, conveying the importance of its work in universities...
Card Napier: Synod document highlights all main concerns
News.va - Oct 17, 2014 at 10:35 am (Vatican Radio) Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, Archbishop of Durban in South Africa, is one of the bishops participating in the Extraordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on...
Some Catholic Colleges Have Provided Same-Sex Benefits for Several Years
Catholic Education Daily - Oct 17, 2014 at 10:28 am While Notre Dame is making the headlines for its apparently quick decision to provide employee benefits to “same-sex spouses,” many Catholic colleges have been providing same-sex...
Pope Gives Advice to University Students
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Oct 17, 2014 at 10:16 am Pope Francis sent a message to the Italian Catholic University Federation (FUCI), which is preparing to hold an extraordinary national conference in Arezzo, Italy, devoted to Pope...
DePaul University Testing 'Queer Peers' Mentorship Program
Catholic Education Daily - Oct 17, 2014 at 10:15 am DePaul University’s Student Services office is piloting a new initiative called “Queer Peers,” according to The DePaulia, in which “newly out students” are connected with current...
Aid Isn't Enough to Stop World Hunger, Says Pope Francis
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Oct 17, 2014 at 10:13 am Pope Francis says that defeating world hunger will require more than aid and donations. Instead, we must "change the paradigm of aid and development policies" and change "how we...
The Drama Continues
Commonweal - Oct 17, 2014 at 10:12 am So Cardinal Tagle predicted and so it proves to be.
After the dramatic publication of the small group deliberations, the committee designated with incorporating these into a final...
Paul VI as a Child Was a Mischievous Little One
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Oct 17, 2014 at 10:04 am By Renzo Allegri Paul VI will be beatified by Pope Francis on Sunday at 10:30 am in Saint Peter’s Square, during the closing Mass of the Extraordinary Synod on the Family....
Pro-Life Student Saves Her Own Sibling, Her Mom Had Abortion Appointment The Next Day
LifeNews.com - Oct 17, 2014 at 10:03 am Sometimes, the baby you save might be your own sibling.
Preparing for the 10th anniversary of the Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity on Oct. 21, Priests for Life Youth Outreach...
Meatless Friday: Comfort in a Casserole
CatholicMom.com - Oct 17, 2014 at 10:00 am
Today’s Meatless Friday guest chef has written a book that’s one part memoir, one part cookbook, one part prayer book, and four parts poetry. Slowing Time: Seeing the Sacred...
The Book of Life
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Oct 17, 2014 at 9:46 am NEW YORK — Who knew the Day of the Dead could be so much fun? The Mexican method of observing All Souls’ Day, Nov. 2, is the backdrop for “The Book of Life” (Fox), an entertaining...
Wisconsin’s Mary Burke: Legislation to Protect Unborn Babies Who Feel Pain? “Yeah, I Would Veto It.”
LifeNews.com - Oct 17, 2014 at 9:43 am Wisconsin has made huge strides in the protection of unborn babies and mothers in our state. In just 2013 alone, our new lifesaving laws gave mothers more information about their...
Fort Worth becomes first U.S. diocese to set out new Mass guidelines because of Ebola
The Deacon's Bench - Oct 17, 2014 at 9:42 am From RNS: The Blood of Christ will not be offered during Mass. The Host will be placed in the hands, not on the tongue. And the faithful should not hold hands while reciting the “...
Pope Paul VI : of miracle and relics
News.va - Oct 17, 2014 at 9:30 am (Vatican Radio ) Pope Paul VI is to be beatified on Sunday October 19 by Pope Francis, thirty six years after his death. In May this year Pope Francis had signed a decree to...
