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Colombia and its wars, 8 million victims and the price paid by the Church
Vatican Insider - Sep 5, 2017 at 8:06 am Since April 9, 1948, day of the murder of presidential candidate Jorge Elicer Gaitán, Colombia has gone through 70 years of internal violence sparked by very different causes and...
To-do list out of control? Take this advice from a 1900s productivity guru
Aleteia - Sep 5, 2017 at 8:00 am It's an absurdly simple process -- too simple not to work, actually.I write myself a to-do list at least three times a week, and it almost always makes me feel instantly...
October pilgrimage will celebrate Marian movement St. Maximilian Kolbe started 100 years ago
LifeSiteNews - Sep 5, 2017 at 7:57 am St. Maximilian Kolbe founded a movement that helps fulfill what Our Lady of Fatima asked – without ever knowing about the apparitions.
Scotland consecrated to Immaculate Heart
Catholic Herald - Sep 5, 2017 at 7:50 am Thousands of Catholics gathered in Carfin, south east of Glasgow, on Sunday as Scottish bishops carried out the Consecration of Scotland to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. At the...
The Pearl of Great Price
CatholicMom.com - Sep 5, 2017 at 7:30 am Copyright 2017 Ellen Mongan. All rights reserved.
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls. When he finds a pearl of great price, he goes and...
Grave of ‘murdered’ Cameroonian bishop desecrated
Catholic Herald - Sep 5, 2017 at 7:11 am The grave of Bishop Jean Marie Benoît Bala of Bafia, who was allegedly murdered, has been desecrated with traces of blood. The Cameroonian bishop disappeared in May, and his body...
Worship, Memory and You
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Sep 5, 2017 at 7:11 am This morning at NLM Peter Kwasniewski makes some points about liturgy and memory, memorization, which are quite good… so good that I have made them myself in the past. Here is a...
John Paul II Foundation for Sacred Arts - An Innovative Answer to Paying Artists for Good Work
New Liturgical Movement - Sep 5, 2017 at 7:00 am Here is an exciting and innovative approach to financing original works of sacred art, which comes from the recently formed John Paul II Foundation for Sacred Arts.It is a free...
Integral ecology: Care for creation means caring for the poor
Franciscan Media - Sep 5, 2017 at 6:21 am VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Catholic social teaching has developed over the past century as new problems — human, social, economic and environmental — come clearer into focus and call...
Mother Teresa to be named co-patron of Kolkata archdiocese
EWTN - World Catholic News - Sep 5, 2017 at 6:13 am Kolkata, India, Sep 5, 2017 / 06:13 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- Marking the first anniversary of Mother Teresa's canonization, the Archdiocese of Kolkata will hold a Mass Wednesday to...
Monday 11 September
Vatican Insider - Sep 5, 2017 at 6:05 am On Monday, September 11, the apostolic journey of Pope Francis to Colombia ends. The papal plane will land at Rome-Fiumicino airport around 12.40....
Wednesday 6 September
Vatican Insider - Sep 5, 2017 at 6:01 am On Wednesday, 6 September, at 11 am, Pope Francis will leave Rome Fiumicino Airport for Colombia. During the apostolic journey, the pontiff will visit the cities of Bogota,...
Book Notes: No Capes! (But Plenty of Heroines and Halos)
CatholicMom.com - Sep 5, 2017 at 6:00 am
This summer, my husband and I took our girls to see Wonder Woman when it came out. At the same time, I was reading Maria Johnson’s new book Super Girls and Halos, and I kept her...
Christian Church Heads In Jerusalem Protest Two Government Actions
The Religion Clause - Sep 5, 2017 at 6:00 am In Israel this week, the heads of the major Christian denominations in the country-- Greek Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox, Latin Catholic, and Ethiopian Orthodox-- signed a joint...
Looking for a dictionary of the world’s oldest written language? Here’s a free download
Aleteia - Sep 5, 2017 at 6:00 am (Good luck with that Ancient Assyrian!)In 2011, a group of scholars in the University of Chicago completed a 90-year-old task: they put together a dictionary of the world’s oldest...
Rejoice! We have our feast days back
Catholic Herald - Sep 5, 2017 at 5:24 am Rejoice! Just seeing a short one-sentence news item as it plopped up among my emails suddenly made the morning brighter. Quite absurd how something so apparently trivial could be...
Please, Lord, One More
Dominicana - Sep 5, 2017 at 5:22 am Many people are fond of quoting the opening lines of Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” The emphasis tends to fall on the second...
Record number of Britons describe themselves as non-religious
Catholic Herald - Sep 5, 2017 at 4:57 am For the first time, more than half of Britons say they are not religious, a survey suggests. The National Centre for Social Research found that 53 per cent of adults described...
Bishops decry Trump administration's decision to end DACA
EWTN - US Latest News - Sep 5, 2017 at 4:23 am Washington D.C., Sep 5, 2017 / 04:23 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
Bishops condemned the Trump administration's decision Tuesday to end a program that benefitted hundreds of thousands of...
Consecrated Women in the complex African life
Vatican Insider - Sep 5, 2017 at 4:19 am “Revitalize our solidarity for deeper evangelization in today’s complex reality.” With this ambitious title, the Association of Consecrated Women of East and Central Africa (...
