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The Silencing of the Shepherds
Creative Minority Report - Oct 14, 2014 at 9:29 pm The Pulpit police have been activated.The city of Houston has issued subpoenas ordering a number of pastors to hand over any recent sermons that might have touched on the issue of...
The “gradual” homecoming of Sister Theresa, an atheist who became a nun
The Deacon's Bench - Oct 14, 2014 at 8:40 pm We’ve been hearing a lot the last couple days about the theological concept of “gradualism.” Critics have been dismissive, even scornful. But the newest blogger at Patheos...
Happy Valley
Commonweal - Oct 14, 2014 at 8:28 pm Watching the Netflix original Happy Valley over the last few days—though it was actually made by the BBC— it struck me more forcibly than ever before how artificial the American...
A Break for Good News: From the Abbey of Saint Mary of Lagrasse - Ordinations, a Prize - and a beautiful video
Rorate Coeli - Oct 14, 2014 at 8:15 pm Video: "A Day at the Abbey"
A Traditional Catholic Jewel in the Languedoc: the Abbey of Saint Mary of Lagrasse (Abbaye de Sainte-Marie de Lagrasse) of the Regular Canons of the...
The "Trans-political" Kingdom of God: The Twenty-Ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time
The Sacred Page - Oct 14, 2014 at 7:50 pm Human beings are political animals, Aristotle famously suggested, and Jesus would agree. However, the readings for this week reveal that the political nature of the Kingdom of God...
Concerned about the Current Synod on Families?
Quartermaster of the Barque - Oct 14, 2014 at 7:35 pm You’re in good company. Read this. Pray. Maybe even fast a little. Go to the Sacraments. Confession. Mass. Breathe. This isn’t about doctrine. This is about pastoral approach.
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Now that this Mystery is Solved…..
Quartermaster of the Barque - Oct 14, 2014 at 7:27 pm …..I can just relax and wait to receive my call from the awards committee, because someone’s already answered the question of what it’s like to carry your Nobel Prize through...
Heartbreaking: Mum Plans to Tell Her Disabled Son…..
Quartermaster of the Barque - Oct 14, 2014 at 7:22 pm …..I wanted to abort you, but missed the chance. She says she hates to say it “out loud,” but that’s what she and her husband “would have wanted.” And they sued the British...
Violence subsides in Central African capital, but what next?
Catholic News Agency - General - Oct 14, 2014 at 7:18 pm Bangui, Central African Republic, Oct 14, 2014 / 06:18 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Violence has subsided in the Central African Republic’s capital of Bangui after a week of conflict, but...
Perspective:
Quartermaster of the Barque - Oct 14, 2014 at 7:06 pm If you have $3,650, you are among the wealthiest half of humanity on planet Earth. So, what do you need, exactly?
Economics for Ecclesiastics
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Oct 14, 2014 at 7:00 pm On October 10 and 13 the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross launched a ground-breaking academic program, Economics for Ecclesiastics. Brian Griffiths, a member of the British...
It's My Fault
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Oct 14, 2014 at 7:00 pm Remember the famous story about G.K.Chesterton. The editor of a major paper asked people to write in explaining what they thought was wrong with the world. Chesterton wrote a...
Cardinal Dolan Reaffirms: 'Church Is Not a Country Club for the Perfect', But 'Hospital for Sick'
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Oct 14, 2014 at 7:00 pm The Archbishop of New York has said that even if none of us “live up” to the Church’s ideals, it still welcomes us with open arms. In a wide-ranging interview with ZENIT this...
Synod14: Press Briefing Oct. 15
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Oct 14, 2014 at 7:00 pm At the briefing at the Holy See Press Office this afternoon, Father Federico Lombardi, and the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, gave...
Cardinal Kasper: 'Growing Majority' in Synod Support Divorce-Remarriage Proposal
Zenit - The World as Seen from Rome - Oct 14, 2014 at 7:00 pm Cardinal Walter Kasper has said he thinks a “growing majority” of the synod are in favor of his proposal to allow some divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to receive holy...
Abortion Activist: Everyone Would Love Abortion if Pro-Lifers Hadn’t “Brainwashed” People
LifeNews.com - Oct 14, 2014 at 5:44 pm I usually skim books by pro-abortionists—the arguments are repetitious and drawn from the same fetid pool of anti-child and (usually) anti-male rhetoric. But I believe I will have...
Prayer Requests and Praise Reports
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Oct 14, 2014 at 5:33 pm A reader invites us to pray a novena for Brittany, the woman with cancer who intends to kill herself on November 1.
Lord, hear our prayer that she choose life through your Son...
Lawyer says agreement ‘a new day, new way’ in church response to abuse
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Oct 14, 2014 at 5:23 pm PAUL, Minn. — With a historic courtroom in downtown St. Paul as the backdrop, attorney Jeff Anderson and officials from the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis Oct. 13...
1-Pound Baby Kept Alive in Freezer Bag Celebrates His First Birthday
LifeNews.com - Oct 14, 2014 at 5:13 pm Babies who are 23 weeks into pregnancy qualify for legal abortions in Britain and other nations around the world, but doctors did their best to save Baby Connor when he was born...
Stewardship: Walking in the master’s footsteps
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Oct 14, 2014 at 5:00 pm I love stewardship. Understood at its deepest level, it calls us in so many surprising and meaningful ways to be individuals and parishes of hospitality, compassion and love. It...
