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Month: August 2014
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Pope Francis “deeply pained” after great nephews killed in car crash
The two young sons of Pope Francis’ nephew, as well as their mother, were killed in a car crash this morning, according to police in Argentina. From the UK Catholic Herald: The accident occurred earlier […]
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Word on Fire launches new and “unprecedented” website
CHICAGO August 19, 2014 – When Father Robert Barron founded Word on Fire Catholic Ministries in 2000 and launched WordOnFire.org, the goal was simple: to share his homilies online. “I liked the idea of sending […]
Analysis
The LCWR Doubles Down on Dissent
“We have been so changed that we are no longer at home in the culture and church in which we find ourselves.” This quotation from the keynote address (PDF) of Franciscan Sister Nancy Schreck to […]
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The Canaanite woman, silver spoons, and Pharisees
Readings: • Is 56:1, 6-7 • Psa 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8 • Rom 11:13-15, 29-32 • Mt 15:21-28 Those raised in privilege and wealth are said to have been “born with a silver spoon in […]
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At the heart of the papal trip to Korea: the witness of martyrdom
Hundreds of thousands of people filled a main thoroughfare in Seoul on August 16 to greet Pope Francis and attend the open-air Mass at which he beatified 124 Korean martyrs. The beatification Mass was the […]
Film & Music
Villa-Lobos: The Clown Turned Devout
On the morning of August 25, 1954, New York Times readers found much of Page One devoted to the news that Brazil’s president Getúlio Vargas – who had dominated his nation’s politics for a quarter […]
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The present, future, and quality of Catholic online education
Patrick S. J. Carmack, J.D. is the President of the Ignatius-Angelicum Liberal Studies Program, and the founder of the Angelicum Academy Homeschool Program and of the Great Books Academy Homeschool Program (2000 AD). In addition […]
Film & Music
Play the Game, Learn the Virtues
What do the classic movie It’s a Wonderful Life, Jesus Christ, and high school football players with tears in their eyes have in common? Quite a bit, says actor Jim Caviezel, whose new movie, When […]
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Full text: Pope Francis’ homily for the Solemnity of the Assumption
Presiding over Mass for the Assumption of Mary, which was attended by thousands in Daejeon, South Korea’s packed World Cup Stadium, Pope Francis encouraged those present to resist materialism and reminded them, “Like Mary our […]