Register Daily: Pope Francis: Hope in God Blesses and Saves Us

Can’t see this email properly? [View online] A Service of EWTN [NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER] [Donate] [Subscribe] [Trending] [Pope Francis: Hope in God Blesses and Saves Us] By Elise Harris/CNA/EWTN News | VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis issued strong words Jan. 11 against worshipping idols, cautioning against the false hope that beauty, wealth and power can give but which lead a person to trust in empty promises rather... [Read More] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Google Plus One Button] [Steven McDonald, NYPD Detective and Catholic Hero, Dies at 59] By Angelo Stagnaro | As newspaper columnist Richard Grenier mistakenly believed George Orwell wrote: “People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” This is why we laud and honor... [Read More] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Google Plus One Button] [First Filipino-Born Bishop Will Head a U.S. Diocese] By Hannah Brockhaus/CNA/EWTN News | VATICAN CITY — On Tuesday, the Vatican announced the appointment of Filipino-born Bishop Oscar Solis, currently an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, as the new head of the Diocese of Salt Lake... [Read More] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Google Plus One Button] [Priests Slashed by Deranged Man in Roman Basilica] By Kathy Schiffer | Two priests were violently attacked in Rome's Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore on Saturday, January 7 – their faces slashed with a broken bottle. Fr. Adolfo Ralf, Father Superior of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, was... [Read More] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Google Plus One Button] [Heaven, Happiness, and Holiness] By Stephanie Mann | Of course we know that two celebrities, mother and daughter, died within a day of one another in late December 2016: Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. Todd Fisher, Carrie’s brother and Debbie’s son, was on ABC 20/20 on Friday,... [Read More] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Google Plus One Button] [The Crisis of Christians in Egypt, Smiling Down Syndrome Children Not Allowed on TV, and More Links!] By Tito Edwards | The Crisis of Christians in Egypt – Gabriel Said Reynolds, First Things French Court Rules Down Syndrome Children Disallowed to Smile on TV – Marianna Orlandi Ph.D., Catholic News Agency The Inside Story of the St. Mary’s... [Read More] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Google Plus One Button] [What to Do When You Haven’t Abstained From Meat on a Friday] By Kevin Di Camillo | I’ve written in these pages before that Catholics are still supposed to abstain from meat on all Fridays of the year (cf. Canons 1249-1251)—or at least “devote themselves in a special way to prayer, perform works of piety and... [Read More] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Google Plus One Button] [Yawns Be Damned: Of Hitchcock, Heaven, and the Thrill of the Chase] By Rick Becker | In Paradise you will be the great artist that God meant you to be! Ah, how you will delight the angels! —Fillipa, “Babette’s Feast” We have a marketing problem in the Church. In crass business terms, people just ain’t buying what... [Read More] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Google Plus One Button] [CLICK TO SHARE THIS EMAIL WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY] [fb] [twit] [YT] [Mail] [Insta] [NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER] COPYRIGHT © 2016 EWTN NEWS INC. YOU ARE RECEIVING THIS EMAIL BECAUSE YOU OPTED IN AT OUR WEBSITE. EWTN NEWS INC. PO BOX 100 699 IRONDALE, AL 35 210 [ADD US TO YOUR ADDRESS BOOK] [unsubscribe] | [update my preferences] [e-newsletters opt out]