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Pope Francis speaks on the immigration issue: "It is about, I emphasize, human beings"...

Here's the upshot of the Boy Scouts decision: The Mormons won the day...
Terry Mattingly
If anything, this vote represents another fascinating step in the ongoing journey of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints into the safe mushy middle of American religion, that great shopping mall of the soul. The BSA leaders decided to go with the Mormons, United Methodists and suburban American Catholics. The clear losers?


Before I entered the Church, I put the "big" in anti-Catholic bigotry...
Paul McCusker
I shudder to think of it now. There I was at a CS Lewis conference and the esteemed teacher Peter Kreeft had been talking about ten things to learn from JRR Tolkien about evil. A brilliant talk. And, at the break, I had a chance to corner Kreeft to ask him a few questions. In the course of that short conversation...


Read this short description of contemplation from the National Parks Service. Then go visit the Blessed Sacrament...


Don Pino, the priest who stood up to the Sicilian Mafia (and will soon be beatified for it)


The decay of Western culture happened on our watch, because "Beige Catholicism" is good for nothing...
Msgr. Charles Pope
Fr. Robert Barron speaks of 70s Catholicism as the era of “beige Catholicism” where all the zest, color, edginess, and zeal of the Catholic faith was painted over and Catholics sought to blend in, even disappear. Welcome to the results of “salt gone flat” Catholicism. Little by little we must recover our salt, our zest...


F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote a short story about Jay Gatsby's Catholic boyhood...
Sr. Theresa Noble
The best acting in the entire movie is hands down Elizabeth Debicki as Jordan Baker. She captured the spirit of Fitzgerald's character: a women with a "pleasing contemptuous expression" with a "wan, charming, discontented face" who threw "her body backward at the shoulders like a young cadet."


Benedict XVI writing encyclical on faith that will be promulgated by Pope Francis, says Bishop of Molfetta...


Yes, Pope Francis said that all are ‘redeemed’. But is that news to anyone?


"The Secret of Notre Dame": Cardinal Dolan's 2013 commencement address...


Boy Scouts vote to admit gay members; gay activists celebrate victory as "great first step" in strategy...


Don’t make fun of renowned author Dan Brown, author of renowned book 'The Da Vinci Code'


The media coverage of Pope Francis’ "exorcism" isn't journalism. It's just embarrassing...
M.Z. Hemingway
It’s kind of charming that all popes have to deal with bad media coverage and global press frenzies. This week we’ve seen some awful media coverage of Pope Francis, including coverage of his blessing of a man after Mass on Sunday. Part of the blame must go to the Italian press, which really went crazy with the story in a way that might not be prudent.


Apologetics is not a telephone game...
Michelle Arnold
There once was a minister who noticed that his little boy and the neighbor kids had decided to put together a funeral for a dead bird they had found. Being the Preacher's Kid, the minister's son was deputed to lead the services. Standing before the tiny grave, shoebox casket waiting to be laid into the ground...


It's been one month since two Orthodox archbishops were kidnapped in Syria, and we still don't know who did it...


The surprising identity cards of the last two popes...
Sandro Magister
With a delay of two months with respect to the traditional timetable, the 2013 edition has finally been published of the Annuario Pontificio, the voluminous publication that constitutes a sort of who's who of the Holy See and of the whole Catholic Church, at least in its hierarchical component.


The Liturgy of the Hours for the rest of us...


Did Pope Francis really say that all atheists are redeemed?

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Looking for a Catholic study group this summer? Here it is. Pull up a lawn chair...


There are four challenges awaiting Pope Francis at Rio's World Youth Day...
John Allen
In exactly two months, Pope Francis will make his first overseas trip to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for World Youth Day. It shapes up as the biggest Catholic blowout of the early 21st century, a massive celebration of history’s first Latin American pope folded into what’s already the Catholic version of Lollapalooza. At one level...


The family fell first then faith followed...
Austin Ruse
The clearest example of the thesis on how family nurtures faith is in vocations. In the olden days larger intact families produced priests. That’s one reason the seminaries bulged back in the baby boom, also why there was something of a religious revival after the Second World War. But today’s two-child, one-child, no-child, broken-up...


How’s that “culture of encounter” workin’ for ya?
Max Lindenman
If you define a culture of encounter as a search for common ground, then the Church, by the lights of its own leadership, has been participating in one for decades. (George Weigel gives a good overview of the inner-city renewal projects co-signed by the Bishops’ Conference under Cardinal Bernardin’s leadership.) What it got in return was nuns on the bus...


I'm going to share a little life improvement secret I've discovered...
Simcha Fisher
Even at this late date, I’m still looking for it: that one, simple step I can take that will make my life easier, make my love stronger, make my brain faster, and make my pants looser. Deep down, I know there is no such thing; but hope springs eternal in the heart of a lazy person.


Heroine says Catholic faith inspired her to confront Muslims who murdered soldier in London...
Dawn Eden
Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, the mother of two and former Scout leader who calmly confronted the Woolwich killers in hope of preventing further bloodshed, credits her heroic actions to her Catholic faith. Her Catholic values also come through in the video interview above, when she is asked why she wasn’t scared to confront the murderers.


10 things you need to know today: May 24, 2013...


Sign up for the Catholic Apologetics Academy and learn from experts like Patrick Madrid, Peter Kreeft, and Frank Beckwith...


"Who are we before God? What are our challenges?" Francis meets the Italian bishops...
Rocco Palmo
At the close of the Italian bishops' plenary this week in Rome, the home-bench – led by its primate, the Pope – gathered in St Peter's tonight to make a communal Profession of Faith as part of the ongoing Year of Faith. The event marked Francis' first full encounter with the powerful Italian conference, known as the CEI.


9 foods you're totally eating wrong...


Ten marks of a good school...


I was an avid follower of the New Atheists. But when I read the work of their Catholic foes, my life changed forever...


"A war between Catholics": Nigerian bishop installed away from cathedral as tribal tensions threaten Church unity...


In 1960, ABC (and Winston cigarettes) brought something new to the young medium of television: The Flintstones...


The Book of Genesis is true, and the universe is 13.8 billion years old. There is no contradiction here...
Jimmy Akin
Wouldn't it be great if scientists invented a device that enabled us to have a clear window into the past--so that we wouldn't just have to read about the past in books? Instead, with the new device--let's call it a Time Window--we could actually see events occurring in the past in real time, with our own eyes? That would be wicked awesome, wouldn't it?


Did Pope Francis really preach salvation by works, and that all men will be saved?


Pope Francis: Be "salt of the earth" and not "museum-piece Christians"...


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May 18: Pentecost Vigil with ecclesial movements (YouTube)
May 19: Mass in St. Peter's Square (YouTube)
May 22: Wednesday General Audience (YouTube)
May 23: Profession of Faith with the Italian bishops (6:00pm)
May 26: Mass at parish of Sts. Elizabeth and Zechariah (9:30am)
May 30: Mass in Piazza St. John Lateran, Corpus Christi procession to St. Mary Major (7:00pm)
May 31: Rosary in St. Peter's Square (8:00pm)
June 2: Simultaneous worldwide Holy Hour (6:00pm)
June 16: Mass for Evangelium Vitae celebration (10:30am)
June 29: Mass and pallium imposition (9:30am)
July 7: Mass with seminarians and novices at St. Peter's (9:30am)
July 22-29: World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
November 24: Ceremonies to conclude the Year of Faith

 

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