"We believe and know that death and hatred are not the last words pronounced in the parable of human existence. To be Christians implies a new perspective: a look full of hope." (Pope Francis, 8/23/17)

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This coming Sunday...

• Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time (8/27/17 with audio link)
  (signed homily)

In the news...

• Why hasn't the Trump administration dropped the HHS mandate? (CNA, 8/24/17)
  
• Chile Abandons Pro-Life Cause (C-Fam, 8/24/17)

• Google Attempts to Block Bill to Hold Sex-Traffickers Accountable (C-Fam, 8/24/17)

• "....Christian hope is based on faith in God, who always creates novelties in man’s life, He creates novelties in history and He creates novelties in the cosmos. Our God is the God that creates novelties, because He is the God of surprises.  It’s not Christian to walk looking down — as pigs do: they always go like this — without raising our eyes to the horizon, as if all our journey ended here, in the span of a few meters of travel; as if there were no aim in our life and no landing, and we were constrained to an eternal wandering, without any reason for our many toils. This isn’t Christian.  The last pages of the Bible show us the ultimate horizon of the believer’s journey: the Jerusalem of Heaven, the celestial Jerusalem ....We believe and know that death and hatred are not the last words pronounced in the parable of human existence. To be Christians implies a new perspective: a look full of hope....We do not delude ourselves in nostalgias, regrets and laments: we know that God wants us to be heirs of a promise and tireless cultivators of dreams..." (Pope Francis, 8/23/17)

 

• Could the canonization of Bl. Pier Giorgio happen next year? (EWTN/CNA, 8/23/17)

• Prayer to have a joyful soul (Aletia, 8/23/17)

• Jesus’ Way of the Cross comes alive at Jerusalem’s Terra Sancta Museum (Aletia, 8/23/17)

• Cardinal says world leaders sidestepping persecution of Christians (Catholic News Service, 8/22/17)

• 138th Anniversary of Our Lady's Appearance at Knock (8/21/17) 

• USCCB Migration Chairman Deeply Disappointed by Administration’s Decision to Terminate the Central American Minors Parole Program (USCCB, 8/21/17)

• Saint Peter's University Hospital "Advance Directive for Health Care" could foster the impression that Catholic medical ethics are merely a set of sectarian idiosyncrasies (8/20/17)

• The Legacy of White Supremacy: Why Confederate Monuments Should Come Down (Witherspoon Institute, 8/18/17) Note: The Witherspoon Institute is a Princeton-based think tank that has distinguished itself with scholarly defenses of the sanctity of life and marriage/family.

• excerpts from The Cardinal Muller Report (8/17/17) 

•  "....'You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God' (Leviticus 19:34)....
  
  "I wish to reaffirm that 'our shared response may be articulated by four verbs: to welcome, to protect, to promote and to integrate'....
  
  "The principle of the centrality of the human person, firmly stated by my beloved Predecessor, Benedict XVI,[5] obliges us to always prioritise personal safety over national security...." (Pope Francis, Message for the 1/4/18 104th World Day of Migrants and Refugees [1/14/2018], 8/15/17) 

• What's happening with the English translation of the Vatican's Charter for Health Care Workers? (8/13/17) 

• Don't Panic About "Teen Pregnancy Prevention" Cuts (Helen Alvare, 8/11/17)

• "....Inconsistencies arise in such areas as the provision of sign language interpreters and captioning for persons who are deaf, in the accessibility of church facilities for persons with mobility needs, and in the availability of catechetical programs for persons with intellectual, developmental, and other disabilities ....Since the parish is the center of the Christian experience for most Catholics, pastors and other parish ministers should make every effort to provide for all Catholics with disabilities who reside within a parish’s boundaries...." (USCCB, Guidelines for the Celebration of the Sacraments with Persons with Disabilities, Rev. Ed., 6/15/17)