by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
“Jesus came to Nazareth … and went … into the synagogue … and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty
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“The Diocese of Jackson in Mississippi said it did not pressure a victim of clerical sexual abuse to accept settlement offers after he was abused by a Franciscan brother in the late 1990s. Earlier this year, that victim and his cousin were paid $15,000 each by a Wisconsin-based Franciscan province — a lower amount than typical settlements— to settle their
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From Heart of the Nation in Wisconsin. [Click here for Mass Readings] [featured image is file photo from another time and location] [featured image is file photo from another time and place]
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“Pope Francis announced Sunday he will create 13 new cardinals …. Among them are 10 who are elegible to vote in a future conclave. … [c]oming from North America, Central America, Africa, Europe, and Asia ….”
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From the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. [Click here for Mass Readings] [featured image is file photo]
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“‘… every one who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.’ …”
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“A priest of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter has been excommunicated, and his parish permanently closed, months after he criticized certain actions of various popes both during and after the Second Vatican Council. On April 1, Bp. Steven J. Lopes announced he had issued a decree of excommunication against Fr. Vaughn Treco, pastor of St. Bede
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Jesus said: ‘Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and fidelity. But these you should have done, without neglecting the others. Blind guides, who strain out the gnat and swallow the camel! …”
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From Loretto Abbey in the Archdiocese of Toronto. [Click here for Mass Readings] [featured image adapted from image at Creative Commons Wikimedia Commons Pjposullivan, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loretto_Abbey_chapel_interior,_Toronto.JPG, with additional conditions stated at that link and in the alt-tag here]
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From Heart of the Nation in Wisconsin. [Click here for Mass Readings] [featured image is file photo from another time and location] [featured image is file photo from another time and place]
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