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Pope encourages Methodists and Waldensians to walk path to full Christian unity
News.va - Aug 21, 2017 at 7:15 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has urged Methodist and Waldensian Churches to continue to walk together with the Catholic Church on the path towards full Christian unity pointing...
An ancient Irish litany to the Blessed Virgin Mary
Aleteia - Aug 21, 2017 at 7:00 am The prayer dates back to the 8th century and confirms a longstanding devotion in Ireland to the Blessed Mother.The Irish people are well known for their loving devotion of the...
A Visit to Innsbruck (6): The Castle of Ambras and the First Museum in Europe
New Liturgical Movement - Aug 21, 2017 at 7:00 am Today is the final installment of my series on Innsbruck. I have saved the most exotic for last. On the last day of my visit, my host took me to the Hapsburg castle in the city,...
Cardinal Pietro Parolin on goals of 4-day Russia visit
News.va - Aug 21, 2017 at 6:10 am (Vatican Radio) Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, who is on a 4-day visit to Russia, gave a wide-ranging interview with the Russian state news agency TASS, ahead of his...
Camp Open Arms: Where children with limb differences are normal
Aleteia - Aug 21, 2017 at 6:00 am The camp offers a safe environment where the kids can be themselves.Dr. Josh Abzug is a pediatric orthopedic surgeon in the University of Maryland Medical System. Over the course...
Managing Expectations and Happiness
CatholicMom.com - Aug 21, 2017 at 6:00 am Copyright 2017 Dino Carbetta. All rights reserved. Used with permission.
A good friend of mine once told me that the key to happiness was to have NO expectations. It sounded good...
Pope Francis calls for a shared response to challenge of contemporary migration
News.va - Aug 21, 2017 at 5:35 am
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis’ message for the 104th World Day of Migrants and Refugees was released on Monday under the title, “Welcoming, protecting, promoting and integrating...
Pope's message for World Day of Migrants and Refugees is released
News.va - Aug 21, 2017 at 5:35 am (Vatican Radio) Pope's message for World Day of Migrants and Refugees was released on Monday. In the message the Holy Francis says that aid migrants and refugees is a " great...
Trudeau: abortion should be a ‘human right’ in Ireland
Catholic Herald - Aug 21, 2017 at 5:31 am Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has told his Irish counterpart that abortion in Ireland should be a “human right”. At a three-day meeting between Mr Trudeau and Leo...
Parolin in Russia: Vatican diplomacy has a key role in global debate
EWTN - Vatican News - Aug 21, 2017 at 5:12 am Vatican City, Aug 21, 2017 / 05:12 pm (EWTN News/CNA).- As he arrived to Russia for his official three-day visit, Vatican
Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said the Holy...
'Arbitrary expulsions' won't solve the migration crisis, Pope says
Catholic News Agency - General - Aug 21, 2017 at 5:00 am Vatican City, Aug 21, 2017 / 04:00 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In his message for the next World Day of Migrants and Refugees, Pope Francis outlined a four-step vision for responding to...
'Arbitrary expulsions' won't solve the migration crisis, Pope says
EWTN - Vatican News - Aug 21, 2017 at 5:00 am Vatican City, Aug 21, 2017 / 05:00 am (EWTN News/CNA).-
In his message for the next World Day of Migrants and Refugees, Pope Francis outlined a four-step vision for responding to...
The five-year-old who testified to the Knock visions
Catholic Herald - Aug 21, 2017 at 4:39 am Today is the 138th anniversary of the apparition of the Blessed Virgin, along with St Joseph, St John the Evangelist and a lamb, in the village of Knock, County Mayo. Over fifty...
Countercultural San Francisco parish attracts growing congregation
Catholic Herald - Aug 21, 2017 at 4:05 am On the solemnity of the Annunciation this past spring, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone dedicated the Star of the Sea Church’s renovated St Joseph Adoration Chapel,...
Archbishop Gomez calls on Catholics to become instruments of unity and healing to overcome new forms of racism and nationalism
Vatican Insider - Aug 21, 2017 at 3:56 am “We are seeing in our country a new kind of racism and nationalism,” Archbishop Gomez said this weekend. “It is a racism and nationalism rooted in fear. There is fear about what...
Daily Gospel Reflection for August 21, 2017 - St. Pius X
CatholicMom.com - Aug 21, 2017 at 3:30 am Today’s Gospel: Matthew 19:16-22 – St. Pius X
“I was born poor, I have lived poor, and I wish to die poor.” These are the words of Pope St. Pius X, whose feast we celebrate today...
“Temporary visas for those fleeing from wars. No to arbitrary expulsions”
Vatican Insider - Aug 21, 2017 at 3:09 am Accelerate and simplify the granting of humanitarian visas, promote family reunification, granting citizenship and special legalization to migrants who can claim a long period of...
It is good to do uncomfortable things. It’s weight training for life.
Aleteia - Aug 21, 2017 at 3:00 am Anne Lamott
C.S. Lewis’s The Magician’s Nephew
Crisis Magazine - Church - Aug 21, 2017 at 2:00 am
For those who are concerned with important books, The Magician’s Nephew should be a concern. It is important because in reading this book, the young reader should experience that...
Casaroli, Parolin and the realism of “Sensus fidei”
Vatican Insider - Aug 21, 2017 at 2:00 am Cardinal Pietro Parolin goes to Russia, and the meetings scheduled with Vladimir Putin, Sergei Lavrov and Patriarch Kirill, have turned this four-day trip into a precious window...
