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Houston mayor criticizes subpoena of sermons
The Deacon's Bench - Oct 17, 2014 at 5:51 am This story sparked a lot of discussion earlier in the week. Now, the mayor appears to be backing away from it. Details: The city initially defended the demand. Houston’s Chief...
Vietnam’s prime minister:Meeting with Pope is of “great importance”
Vatican Insider - Oct 17, 2014 at 5:50 amPapal message to university students
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 17, 2014 at 5:46 am Pope Francis has written a message to the Italian Catholic Federation of University Students on the occasion of the upcoming beatification of Pope Paul VI, who served as the...
Survey: young U.S. Catholics “overwhelmingly” accept homosexuality
The Deacon's Bench - Oct 17, 2014 at 5:37 am The Pew Research Center finds a link between their latest survey and what they perceive as the Catholic Church’s shifting stance on gays as reported in the synod now underway in...
Christendom College Launched Scholarship Matching Program
Catholic Education Daily - Oct 17, 2014 at 5:34 am According to a Christendom press release, students accepted into the College may submit a request asking the scholarship committee to review and match other scholarship offers...
Sistine Chapel rented out as part of 'exclusive Porsche tour of Rome'
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 17, 2014 at 5:21 am The Sistine Chapel is being rented out on the evening of October 18 to the Porsche Travel Club as part of an "exclusive Porsche tour of Rome" for 40 tourists, according to the...
Fertility treatments fall short of expectations
Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 17, 2014 at 5:04 am Washington D.C., Oct 17, 2014 / 04:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Tech giants’ new policies offering egg freezing options as a work benefit overlook the technique’s “highly problematic”...
Fertility treatments fall short of expectations
EWTN - US Latest News - Oct 17, 2014 at 5:04 am Washington D.C., Oct 17, 2014 / 05:04 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
Tech giants' new policies offering egg freezing options as a work benefit overlook the technique's "highly problematic"...
Daily Gospel Reflection for October 17, 2014
CatholicMom.com - Oct 17, 2014 at 5:00 am
Today’s Gospel: Luke 12:1-7
Sometimes spiritual growth can hurt. We might be asked to really stretch and take on a teaching we had not known, something that might change our...
Article: Do atheists make the best religious films?
Decent Films Guide - Oct 17, 2014 at 4:55 am One of the noblest functions of art is the invitation to empathy: an invitation extended not only to the audience, but also to the artist.
Pope at Santa Marta: Heaven in our hands
News.va - Oct 17, 2014 at 4:55 am (Vatican Radio) The Holy Spirit is the "seal" of light with which God has placed Heaven in Christians’ hands. Often, however, Christians avoid this light in preference of a life...
Cardinal Pell: �we're not giving in to the secular agenda'
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 17, 2014 at 4:41 am Cardinal George Pell said in an interview that the October 16 publication of the synod fathers' criticism of the synod's interim report has finally given the faithful a true...
'Come and See' Day at Allen Hall
Diocese of Westminster - Oct 17, 2014 at 4:20 am There will be a "Come and See" day held at Allen Hall seminary on 25 October 2014.
This retreat day at Allen Hall seminary is for men (aged 18+) who are discerning a possible...
Morning Catholic must-reads: 17/10/14
Catholic Herald - Oct 17, 2014 at 4:13 am A Pakistani high court’s ruling confirming the death sentence against Asia Bibi is “heartbreaking“, Bishop Rufin Anthony of Islamabad-Rawalpindi has said.
An archbishop has...
Bishop asks Notre Dame to affirm fidelity to Catholic teaching on marriage
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 17, 2014 at 4:00 am Following the overturning of Indiana's marriage law and the consequent legalization of same-sex marriage, the University of Notre Dame extended marriage benefits to those in a...
Former Catholic parish bombed in Iraq
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 17, 2014 at 3:37 am The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has bombed a Syriac Catholic church in Bakhdida (Qaraqosh).
After the Islamic State took over the northern...
Catholic Quote of the Day — from St. Ignatius of Antioch
Integrated Catholic Life - Oct 17, 2014 at 3:30 am “You must all follow the bishop as Jesus Christ follows the Father, and the presbytery as you would the apostles. Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God. Let no...
Congo's bishops condemn attack on priests, declare days of prayer
Catholic Culture - World News - Oct 17, 2014 at 3:24 am The bishops of the Democratic Republic of the Congo have condemned "acts of aggression and barbarism" that took place on October 12 against two priests in Lodja, a town of 70,000...
Pope Paul VI to be beatified Oct. 19, 2014
News.va - Oct 17, 2014 at 3:10 am
Pope Francis will officially declare Pope Paul VI Blessed on Sunday, Oct. 19, during the closing Mass of the 3rd Extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family. Pope Paul VI was...
Synod on the Family: Reports of English language working groups
News.va - Oct 17, 2014 at 3:10 am (Vatican Radio) Below we publish the texts of the reports presented for consideration in the drafting of the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops’ final document or Relatio synodi from...
