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Witness through fitness: America's first pro-life half marathon
Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 15, 2014 at 3:26 am Jefferson City, Mo., Oct 15, 2014 / 02:26 am (CNA).- When three feet of snow canceled South Dakota’s Crazy Horse half and full marathons last October, thousands of runners were...
Synod's indicator swings toward a rewrite of midterm relatio
EWTN - Vatican News - Oct 15, 2014 at 3:21 am Vatican City, Oct 15, 2014 / 03:21 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- As the synod fathers' small groups continue to meet, it seems
increasingly clear that the Synod of Bishops' concluding...
The Third Sorrowful Mystery: The Crowning with Thorns
Verbum Blog - Logos Bible Software - Oct 15, 2014 at 3:00 am This post is by Brody Stewart, Verbum Marketing and Promotions Coordinator.
For today’s reflection, I’d like to share an excerpt from one of St. John Chrysostom’s homilies. These...
Family synod: Mid-term report stirs controversy among bishops
Catholic Herald - Oct 15, 2014 at 2:40 am The official mid-term report from the Synod of Bishops, which uses strikingly conciliatory language toward divorced and remarried Catholics, cohabitating couples and same-sex...
Another Church History vid from Paul Cat!
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Oct 15, 2014 at 2:33 am Fall of Rome, Rise of Monks (which totally sounds like a video game title)
On Secularity
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Oct 15, 2014 at 2:30 am A reader writes:
Does it seem to you that many liberals arguing the loudest for the separation of church and state are really arguing that the state adopt their religion, secular...
City of Houston subpoenas pastors’ sermons to see if they are critical of lesbian mayor
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Oct 15, 2014 at 2:20 am No. Really.
Dear Synod Fathers: Do be aware that the other side of the question you are deliberating with regard to homosexuality is that not a few members of the gay movement...
St. James, Damned Modernist
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Oct 15, 2014 at 2:11 am Here he is spouting damned post-Vatican II heresy about valuing temptation:
My brethren, count it all joy, when you shall fall into divers temptations: Knowing that the trying of...
Misbehaving Children Need Punishment
Crisis Magazine - Church - Oct 15, 2014 at 2:10 am
There seems to be a lot of overlap between people who don’t believe in spanking, and people who don’t believe in sin. This is a long-standing theory of mine, but it was...
Francis Awaiting Approval of Internet Troll…
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Oct 15, 2014 at 2:02 am …Before Promulgating Encyclical.
First, he must give me a pony and this cool thing that automatically folds and shoots paper airplanes.
Then I’ll think about it.
The Death of Our Family Wage Culture
Crisis Magazine - Church - Oct 15, 2014 at 2:00 am
The U.S. Department of Labor reports that last year, only one-fifth of married couple homes were supported solely by the employment of the husband. The wife was the only employed...
LGBT activist group hopes to influence family synod
Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 15, 2014 at 1:48 am Rome, Italy, Oct 15, 2014 / 12:48 am (CNA).- The start of the Extraordinary Synod on the Family has triggered a wave of activism from well-funded LGBT activist groups in the U.S....
Demise of Christian families: greatly exaggerated?
EWTN - Vatican News - Oct 15, 2014 at 1:02 am Vatican City, Oct 15, 2014 / 01:02 am (EWTN News/CNA).- Cardinal Camillo Ruini has rejected "unilateral pessimism and
resignation" about the future of the family in the West,...
Devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Oct 15, 2014 at 12:31 am A few people have mentioned that Card. Burke suggested praying devotions to the Holy Face of Jesus.
I wrote to someone in Hong Kong (which I would like to visit), who put me on to...
St. Teresa of Avila and Holy Reform
Word on Fire - Fr. Robert Barron - Oct 15, 2014 at 12:00 am Today is the feast day of St. Teresa of Avila, doctor of the Church and one of our greatest saints. This homily of Father Steve Grunow's gives us a peak at her life, and how she...
Priests in favor of 'gay marriage' spark controversy in Chile
Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 14, 2014 at 11:48 pm Santiago, Chile, Oct 14, 2014 / 10:48 pm (CNA).- The secular press in Chile is defending three priests who have come out in support of ‘gay marriage’ and is accusing Cardinal...
2 Doctors, 2 Ways, 1 Goal | St. Teresa and St. Thérèse
Integrated Catholic Life - Oct 14, 2014 at 11:03 pm by Sister Mary Colombiere, OCD Many of you probably have seen the 1965 film entitled The Sound of Music starring Julie Andrews as Maria Von Trapp and Christopher Plummer as...
How Do I Evangelize My Atheist Friends?
Integrated Catholic Life - Oct 14, 2014 at 11:01 pm A university student recently asked me, “How do I evangelize my atheist friends?” Here’s my angle based on experience. When I was a non-religious scientist working in lab, I...
Supreme Court Temporarily Stays Texas Abortion Clinic Restrictions
The Religion Clause - Oct 14, 2014 at 11:00 pm The U.S. Supreme Court this evening issued an Order (full text) in Whole Women's Health v. Lakey preventing portions of Texas' new regulation of abortion clinics from taking...
Prayers For Hunting
Catholic Vote - Oct 14, 2014 at 9:36 pm Autumn is in full swing, and that means a lot of good things are happening: football and tailgating…raking leaves and wearing sweaters…hot cider and cinnamon donuts.
Mmm, donuts...