View image | gettyimages.com From The New York Times: Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., in an emotional, wide-ranging interview onStephen Colbert’s “Late Show” on Thursday, expressed doubt about the likelihood that he would run for president, saying that “I’d be lying if I said that I knew I was there.” Repeatedly touching on his parents, his faith and his emotional fragility from the recent death of his son Beau, Mr. Biden told Mr. Colbert that no “man or woman... Read more
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Here’s an intriguing glimpse at a side of the celebrated writer’s life that many may not know about, from Nancy Carpentier Brown: G.K. Chesterton is perhaps the most famous writer of the 20th Century, and yet we still know very little about him and his family life. One of the reasons is because his wife was a shy person—a Victorian English lady who valued her privacy and kept herself hidden from the world. Frances Alice Blogg Chesterton knew that her... Read more
From the Vatican: Pope Francis will visit Kenya, Uganda, and the Central African Republic in November of 2015. Official word of the planned Apostolic voyage came through a two-sentence statement from the Press Office of the Holy See on Thursday. Details of the Holy Father’s three-nation African tour will be released in the coming weeks. Reuters notes: Pope Francis will visit Kenya in November, the Vatican said on Thursday, a country where Christians have recently been targeted by Islamist militants.... Read more
From AP: When Sadhuram Berwal wanted to get married, his family went about it in the traditional Indian way, asking relatives, neighbors and local temple priests to suggest a young woman. But after an extensive search among women of his caste in his area, no suitable bride could be found. A larger factor had narrowed the field sharply: a skewed male-female ratio that is particularly pronounced in his home state of Haryana, in India’s north, due to sex-selective abortions in... Read more
From CNS: To be a true Christian means being forgiving, kind, humble, gentle, generous, merciful and very patient with one another, Pope Francis said in a morning homily. Priests must be especially merciful, he added, saying if that they weren’t, then they should ask their bishop for a desk job and “never walk into a confessional, I beg you.” “A priest who isn’t merciful does much damage in the confessional. He berates people,” the pope said Sept. 10 during the... Read more
Remember when “Flat Francis” went to Epcot? Well, he finally made it to the Vatican, through the folks who created him at Catholic Extension. And he got to meet The Real Guy. About the visit: On a pilgrimage to Rome with the Catholic Extension Board of Governors, our chancellor Archbishop Blase Cupich and president Fr. Jack Wall were able to meet with Pope Francis and introduce him to Flat Francis. He loved it! Since launching the #FlatFrancis campaign in April,... Read more
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Remember when “Flat Francis” went to Epcot? Well, he finally made it to the Vatican, through the folks who created him at Catholic Extension. And he got to meet The Real Guy. About the visit: On a pilgrimage to Rome with the Catholic Extension Board of Governors, our chancellor Archbishop Blase Cupich and president Fr. Jack Wall were able to meet with Pope Francis and introduce him to Flat Francis. He loved it! Since launching the #FlatFrancis campaign in April,... Read more
From CNS: To be a true Christian means being forgiving, kind, humble, gentle, generous, merciful and very patient with one another, Pope Francis said in a morning homily. Priests must be especially merciful, he added, saying if that they weren’t, then they should ask their bishop for a desk job and “never walk into a confessional, I beg you.” “A priest who isn’t merciful does much damage in the confessional. He berates people,” the pope said Sept. 10 during the... Read more
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