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Famed Hollywood legend Florence Henderson, who played the iconic role of family matriarch Carol Brady on the American cinematic staple “The Brady Bunch” (1969-1974), died suddenly of heart failure on Thanksgiving Day – Thursday, November 24, 2016. Born on February 14, 1934 (Saint Valentine’s Day), Henderson was 82 years old. As described in Deacon Greg Kandra’s […]
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A large-scale manhunt has been underway in France since the evening of Thursday, November 24, 2016, after a masked intruder carrying a knife, and reportedly a type of firearm, entered a retirement home for Catholic monks in Montferrier-sur-Lez, a village in the vicinity of Montpellier, on France’s Mediterranean coast. At least one victim – a woman, believed to
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^ Note: The above image is of the self-proclaimed “Sisters of the Valley,” who are not actually Catholic nuns as recognized by the Catholic Church. Their actions have been documented by such pieces as Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble’s April 2016 article The Marijuana “Nuns” Need to Give up Their Schtick: The fake “Sisters of the Valley”
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November is the Catholic Church’s celebration of “Black Catholic History Month,” as described by the Archdiocese of Washington. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops likewise offers a webpage featuring Timely Ministry Resources for Black Catholics. The evangelization of the African continent extends back to the Apostolic Age, when in the epoch following Jesus’ Ascension and then Pentecost
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As US Catholics prepare to vote in the US election November 8, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has created a page on their website dedicated to informing the Catholic vote. While professing Catholics vary widely in their approach to the voting booth, the Church has consistently sent one message: love God, and love others.
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The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is getting a long overdue makeover – a makeover almost 500 years in the making. Ever since 1555, a marble stone has covered the place where tradition tells us Christ was buried for three days. Today, restoration teams are hard at work removing the material from the
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NAIROBI, KENYA- As Christians in a north eastern Kenyan compound slept, militant islamic group al-Shabab launched a violent grenade and gun attack, killing six and injuring an unknown number of others. The incident, part of a series of attacks against Christian communities, was designed to drive Christians and non-sympathetic Muslims away from the area. Many
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We have already seen in the presidential and vice-presidential debates that a rocky election season awaits the Catholic voter. The candidates up for the top jobs in our country’s government do not necessarily hold the values and virtues we would like to see in our Commander-in-Chief. A variety of stances on issues critical to the
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Fifty-three years ago, Reverend Ernest Simoni was arrested because he was guilty. His crime? Celebrating the Holy Mass in his native country of Albania, which was under the regime of Communism. Today, Simoni is one of the seventeen men who Pope Francis has appointed to the level of Cardinal within the Catholic Church. Simoni and
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BEDFORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE — The highly popular web site, EpicPew.com, has joined forces with Sophia Institute Press to produce daily content that brings out the fun, inspirational, and humorous side of our Catholic Faith. “We couldn’t be more excited to welcome EpicPew.com and its editor, Shaun McAfee, into the Sophia Institute family,” said Charlie McKinney, Publisher of
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On October 2, 2016, the iconic Vin Scully, at eighty-nine years young, broadcast his last game for the Los Angeles Dodgers, who were facing the New York Giants at AT&T Park in San Francisco. Nonetheless, the Dodgers lost 7-1. But victory was still had in the form of Vin Scully’s poise-laden professional career. Vin Scully’s
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ABBEVILLE, LA— Nestled in a comfortable chair in her office at the Family Missions Company headquarters in Abbeville, Louisiana, Missions Trip Coordinator and veteran missionary Melissa Seilhan is excited about what an upcoming Catholic missions conference will bring to those who attend. “When God wants to grow you,” she says animatedly, “He flips it all
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TORORO, UGANDA – An archbishop in Southeastern Uganda is creating a culture of domestic peace in his archdiocese. Archbishop Emmanuel Obbo of Tororo told the Catholic News Agency of Africa in an interview Aug. 17 that domestic violence is a major challenge present “in almost every family” under his care. “It’s a concern for the family,
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VATICAN CITY — In an address September 22 to the National Council Order of Journalists in Rome, Pope Francis encouraged journalists to live with professionalism, love the truth, and respect human dignity. After greetings from the president, Enzo Iacopino, the Pontiff spoke to those present in the Clementine Hall. “There are few professions that have
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(It would not be possible, let alone practical, to consider or even posit the teachings of the Catholic Church as they relate to marriage and sexual morality without primarily including Jesus’ teachings. Thus, it would be worthwhile to review his assertions as they appear in Matthew 19:1-12 and Mark 10:1-12.) On Tuesday, September 20,
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Various Catholic bishops of the United States have recently reaffirmed the Church’s timeless teaching on the sacrament of marriage as the sacred union of a man and a woman as husband and wife. The Catholic Church’s teaching on the sanctity of marriage is, of course, based on Christ’s, as seen in Matthew 19:1-12 and Mark
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On September 2, 2016, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a news release titled “USCCB General Counsel Urges NIH Not to Fund Unethical Human/Animal Chimera Research.” According to the USCCB’s letter to the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Science Policy (linked at the bottom of the news release), “Herein lies the key
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On Sunday, August 28, 2016, a young jihadist would-be suicide bomber who appears to have been inspired by the Islamic State attempted to detonate an explosive device carried in his backpack during Sunday Mass at Saint Joseph Catholic Church, a parish in the Archdiocese of Medan, Indonesia. Medan is the capital city of the region
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WASHINGTON—As families all over the world struggle with access to higher education, job loss, and other economic pressures this Labor Day, Miami Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski offers a sign of hope in a recent address to American Catholics. Citing Pope Francis’ discourse to U.S. Congress, Archbishop Wenski expressed concern for those whose family relationships dissolve due
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From: Vatican Radio — A life-size bronze statue of Mother Teresa would be installed at the residence of the Calcutta archbishop on Aug 25, the eve of Mother Teresa’s 106th birth anniversary. This was announced by Archbishop Thomas D’Souza of Calcutta at a press meet at the Archbishop’s House in Kolkata on August 19. The
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