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Vatican issues historic decree, orders name of Saint Joseph to be added to all Eucharistic prayers...

Pope Francis at 100 days: 'the world's parish priest'
John Allen
Cognitive dissonance is how psychologists describe the anxiety generated when experience conflicts with one's model of the world. Either the facts have to be recast to fit the model, or the model has to give way in light of the facts, because people just can't live very long in a state of perpetual confusion. In effect...


How to tame the screen time beast...
Simcha Fisher
Last month, a Pew study showed that teens consider Facebook and other social media outlets more of a "social burden" then a pleasant and interesting way to spend time. One girl said, “Honestly, Facebook at this point, I'm on it constantly but I hate it so much."


The pilgrimage of faith and Christianity's unvanquished hope...
Anthony Lilles
I recently accompanied a group of pilgrims from the Tatra Mountains of Poland to Warsaw for the Year of Faith. Twenty years ago, the Pilgrim Pope came to celebrate World Youth Day in Denver and spent time in prayer in a retreat center, high up in the Rocky Mountains.


Background on Ken Hackett, President Obama's nominee as ambassador to the Holy See...


10 things you didn't know about 'Monsters, Inc.'


The most amazing map you'll see today (no matter what day it is)


10 Greek words that every Catholic should know...


What can we do about a culture that sees abortion as "sacred ground"?
Kathryn Jean Lopez
Abortion is an act of violence of the most intimate sort. The more we accept it as “sacred ground,” as Pelosi put it, as some kind of sign of liberation, the more we fail to see the culture it ingrains, where men are disconnected — with no shame — from their children, where women submit to being used rather than cherished...


June 17, 1462: The real-life Dracula and the Battle of the Blood Drinkers...
Sean Fitzpatrick
Like flaming demons, Wallachians rushed out of the night and into the Turkish camp, striking terror in an army of terrorists. Leading the charge was a gore-spattered chieftain—hewing and hacking a path to the central tents where the Sultan huddled in fear. On he came, Vlad Dracul, raining down slaughter and raging for Mehmed’s blood. On June 17...


Economy and politics must serve man, Pope tells G8...


Egyptian court sentences Bible-burning Muslim preacher to 11 years in jail for blasphemy...


Welcome to the mental ward...
Anthony Esolen
Chesterton once wrote that the madman is not the fellow who has lost his reason, but the fellow who has lost everything but his reason. Such a person, seized by a single monomaniacal idea, loses his balance, as if under the weight of a mental hyptertrophy on one side. Because a man may add five and six, and a cash register may add five and six...


Utah gunman caught after shooting father-in-law during Mass...


Honoring a father's love...
Tom Nash
For almost nine decades, my dad, rooted in the Lord, has also striven to exemplify these words, as my extended family and I, and many others too, can gratefully testify. Joseph Nash will turn 89 in October, and he often refers to himself as a “Depression kid” (as in the Great Depression). Dad was raised in a loving...


I may not write much about the whole “gay lobby” thing. It makes me pretty mad. But it is time for me to say this...


Checklist for Catholic dads...


Not only was my dad a great father, but he was a great father in spite of himself. I cannot ask more of a man than that...

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10 things you need to know today: June 18, 2013...


Five ways to ruin the Mass...
Jeffrey Tucker
We are getting ever closer to an improved liturgy in the English-speaking world. The new Missal gives us a more dignified language that more closely reflects the Latin standard. The hippy-dippy rupturism of the past is finally giving way to a more settled and solemn appreciation of the intrinsic majesty of the Roman rite.


Five things scientists have learned about your dreams...


Clergy, catechists, parents: Are you proclaiming the whole counsel of God?
Msgr. Charles Pope
There are some who love the Lord’s sermons on love, but cannot abide his teachings on death, judgment, heaven and hell. Some love to discuss liturgy and ceremony, but the care of the poor is far from them. Others point to Jesus’ compassion, but neglect his call to repentance.


8,500 pack new Catholic church in United Arab Emirates...


If you know someone who doubts the existence of Jesus, here's what you should tell him...
Trent Horn
Those who deny that Jesus existed usually argue that the first Christians believed Jesus was just a cosmic savior figure who communicated to believers through visions. Later Christians then added the apocryphal details of Jesus’ life (such as his execution under Pontius Pilate) in order to ground him in first century Palestine. If the mythicist theory is true...


Pope's morning Mass: "All Christian errors stem from when we let small nothings replace Jesus"...


It's barbecue season! Here are the five best backyard grills on the market...


Vatican diplomat, hotel director named to body overseeing Vatican bank...


How can bodies of water be different colors?


Pray, pray, pray for priests! Satan hates priests and seeks to discourage and destroy them...


On Evangelium Vitae Sunday, the hogs are driven into the See...
Rocco Palmo
Unusual as an outdoor papal Mass to close a relatively low-profile symposium might seem – and is – it's worth recalling that such is the new Pope's nature that he doesn't need much prodding to take to the Basilica steps. As archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Bergoglio's policy was to celebrate the major diocesan liturgies not in the capital's metropolitan cathedral...


Homily at Mass for Evangelium Vitae Day...
Pope Francis
This celebration has a very beautiful name: “Evangelium Vitae”, the Gospel of Life. In this Eucharist, in the Year of Faith, let us thank the Lord for the gift of life in all its forms, and at the same time let us proclaim the Gospel of Life. On the basis of the word of God which we have heard...


When sin becomes less repulsive, we forget what Jesus has done for us, and we start to love Him less...


Making fathers isn't as easy as making babies...
Matt Archbold
Babies are born every day; thousands, in fact. If one can believe the internet about such things, 370,000 babies are born each day worldwide. It appears that making babies is easy. Sadly, making fathers seem much harder. Perhaps we’ve forgotten how.


Costly weddings could be crippling for new marriages...


Hurrah! CNN names some of the ghosts in Gezi Park...
Terry Mattingly
The coverage of events in Turkey roll on and on and the mainstream press continues to treat this as a simple clash between the moderate Islamic stance (whatever that means) of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and a hip, young, urban secular vision of at Turkey looking toward Europe and the future. If only things were that simple.


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June 7: Meeting with young students
June 9: Sunday Angelus
June 12: Wednesday Audience
June 16: Mass for Evangelium Vitae celebration
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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