http://www.ncregister.com/blog/klemond/giving-a-voice-to-persecuted-and-forgotten-christians If we forget the persecuted Christians and don’t support them, something isn’t right in our own lives of faith and communion Susan Klemond Middle Eastern Christians are even less in the news following last year’s partial defeat of ISIS, but they continue to face persecution from smaller jihadi groups who share the goal of…
http://catholicpreaching.com/true-versus-false-human-rights-the-anchor-february-23-2018/ [Pope Francis gave] s a powerful address in which he challenged the growing tendency to trample person’s and people’s human rights in the supposed name of human rights, which sets the tone for the seventieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration and the context for the continuation of the rights it enumerates. It’s of interest…
http://www.fargodiocese.org/Humanae-Vitae-and-the-single-girl Humanae Vitae is a reassuring sanity-check for single Catholics. It says (implicitly) that love is possible and can be expected, and that it’s worth sacrifice. To a single woman like me, it says that I am worthy of respect and love and that no man has the right to intimacy without marital commitment. Intimacy…
https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2018/02/22/180222a.html The following is the text of the Message the Holy Father Francis has sent to young people of the world on the occasion of the 33rd World Youth Day, to be celebrated at diocesan level on 25 March 2018, Palm Sunday, on the theme, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favour…
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