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Link: Vatican hosts world's leading cosmologists to bring together faith and science

Link: Catholic Sen. Bob Casey tried unsuccessfully to stop the deportation of a mother and son.

Link: Girl Scouts no longer "compatible" with Gospel, Archdiocese of Kansas City says This is ridiculous. It also undermines claims that the Church's opposition to women's ordination and contraception are entirely theological and not at all driven by misogyny. Some of these right-wing...

Link: Bishop Karen Oliveto: 'My presence changes the conversation' on LGBTQ people

Link: Rebel Catholic group defies church, ordains woman priest in NC First, I need to give credit to the two people who have already posted this to CF in different areas. I don't usually re-post links that I've seen elsewhere on CF itself, but in this case I thought that it might be of...

I liked this homily favoring open communion and found it very uplifting. I thought I'd re-post it here as spiritual food for thought. The person delivering it has made it public domain, so I am able to post it in full (in quotes) without violating copyright or any forum rules. Here is the...

Link: Order of Malta braces for major changes after the election of its new leader

I was reading an article about a Catholic parish that has basically turned into the Catholic version of a mega-church, and recalled a parish some of my relatives used to belong to that was of such a great size that they had to basically replace their existing building with something that from...

Link: Trump and the U.S. Catholic Church: The First 100 Days Excerpt:

Link: Pope Francis and Coptic pope agree not to re-baptize Was Rome not recognizing Coptic baptism before or vice-versa? The Coptic baptismal liturgy I found online uses water and immerses the baby (I'm impressed that there are no accidental drownings) three times in the name of the Father...

Link: Pope Francis Calls For 'Revolution Of Tenderness' In Surprise TED Talk | The Huffington Post

Link: Catholics rally behind gay Ugandan who faces deportation

Pope Francis' Easter Vigil homily: Whispers in the Loggia: On Easter Night, "God Creates A New Age – The Age of Mercy"

Link: The United Airlines debacle isn't about customer service. It's about the morality of capitalism. The author is Father James Martin, recently appointed to the Vatican department for communications.

Link: Father James Martin appointed by Pope Francis to Vatican department for communications Father James is the editor at large for America Magazine. I hope people who have sometimes hinted or said that America Magazine was an inappropriate source for Catholic news will consider this...

Link: Executing 7 men in 10 days this Easter will not restore justice to Arkansas Excerpt:

Anyone have any thoughts on any Holy week masses and services (Remember, Good Friday doesn't feature a mass- the only day of the year that no Eucharists are concecrated [Though sometimes pre-consecrated hosts are distributed, but does have a gathering at church that I'm going to go ahead and...

An article by Sister Joan Chittister: The normalization of insanity Excerpt:

A very nice reflection of the nature of God with a special focus on the events commemorated during Holy Week and what they mean in a larger spiritual sense: The Suffering Servant

Link: 'What God has joined together ...' Why not just recognize that lifelong marriage is the ideal, but that the real world sometimes makes a hash of ideals, and that remarriage after a divorce often represents people doing the best they can with what they are given? I don't agree with...