Top Catholic Tweets for 3/06/15

Last updated on: March 12, 2015 at 4:42 pm by Lisa M. Hendey

Top Catholic Tweets for 3/06/15 2015-03-12T16:42:28-07:00 Lisa M. Hendey

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Not much to say today except, “It’s been one of those weeks.”

If you’ve had one of those weeks too, you’ll probably agree with me that having John’s recaps today is a big help. Sometimes, when we’re in our head and feeling a bit out of control, it helps to look outside ourselves and see that life goes on and that there are others, many others, who need our love, attention and care.

I’m grateful to my friend John Clem, O.F.S. for this week’s Top Catholic Tweets:

Papal Tweet: “If we are too attached to riches, we are not free. We are slaves.”
Pope Francis calls money the ‘devil’s dung’ (Inés San Martín – Crux) ow.ly/JMQPp
Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83 RIP – plus religious origins of the Vulcan Greeting (NYT) ow.ly/JJCQ7
Faith goes underground in Mexico City (Catholic News Service) ow.ly/JKtfl
Will there be an ecology department at the Roman Curia after reform? :: Catholic News Agency (CNA) ow.ly/JLb4w
NEW App: An Australian smartphone app provides insights during Lent (Rome Reports) ow.ly/JLdwP
Video: Eric Clapton Sings Song He Wrote for Blessed Mother with Pavarotti (Aleteia) ow.ly/JLHoz
Pope’s prayer intention for March is for researchers (Vatican Radio) ow.ly/JLRcr
Video about what your donations provide in Holy Land: The Good Friday Collection (Holy Land Franciscans) ow.ly/JLRWU
Journey to the Foot of the Cross – 10 Things to Remember For Lent (Bishop David Ricken – USCCB) ow.ly/JM0af
A good shepherd – An Italian shepherd talks about the qualities required in his job. (CNS) ow.ly/JM2bS
Audio: Pray the Rosary with Father Ted Hesburgh, CSC (Notre Dame Alumni Assoc.) ow.ly/JM4pH
Pope puts family at the center of social justice :: Catholic News Agency (CNA) ow.ly/JM4Hn
Challenging: Catholic IQ Test ow.ly/JM6fe
The Vatican’s financial reform: The nasty is back (John Allen – Crux) ow.ly/JMakz
John Legend performs “Amazing Grace” (God Vine) ow.ly/JMNiu
Austria Passes ‘Law on Islam’ Requiring Austrian Muslim Groups To Use German-Language Qurans (Reuters) ow.ly/JMVAJ
Why Pray the Stations of the Cross? 8 Reasons from Pope Francis (FOCUS Blog) ow.ly/JMWNp
During Lent, Pope Francis offers handy tips for preparing for confession (American Catholic) ow.ly/JMYIs
Biographer recounts Woodrow Wilson’s life as a religious epic | National Catholic Reporter ow.ly/JMZ3e
Video: Carrying Our Cross: An ICC Lenten Retreat with Monsignor Charles Pope (Institute of Catholic Culture) ow.ly/JN1bl
New Opera: Dialogues of the Carmelites – The death of 16 nuns and the allure of terrorism (Crux/RNS) ow.ly/JN4HB
Audio: “Catholic Moments” with Judy Klein and Thomas Awiapo (Lisa Hendey – Patheos/Radio Maria USA) ow.ly/JNakw
Inside The Silence at Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina (Our State Magazine) ow.ly/JNf2u
What’s Been Lost to the Islamists’ Sledgehammers (Aleteia) ow.ly/JNjAM
Poet ‘stands with voices’ of tortured in Lent-inspired poems (Vatican Radio) ow.ly/JNm8X
Why this priest has spent 50 years fighting with the New York Times :: Catholic News Agency (CNA) ow.ly/JNpv8
Willy’s Story – the homeless man buried in the Vatican :: Catholic News Agency (CNA) ow.ly/JODi4
A Grateful Appreciation of Professor Charles E. Rice (William Newton – Blog of the Courtier) ow.ly/JOP9g
Colbert Catechism: Stephen Colbert Professes His Faith to Fr. James Martin (America Media) ow.ly/JPM70
Google Is Slowly Phasing Out Google+ (Yahoo Tech/Reuters) ow.ly/JPMHv
U.S. bishops’ communications chairman welcomes FCC vote on net neutrality (Pontifical Council for Social Comm.) ow.ly/JQ01C
Vatican police chief confirms ISIS threat to Pope Francis (Catholic Herald – UK) ow.ly/JQ0iZ
Verbum to Give Away Five Million Dollars in High School Religious Ed Tools |CatholicMom.com ow.ly/JQIpL
Mysterious ‘priest’ taking digital confessions using Snapchat (KABB – San Antonio) ow.ly/JQSKU
DR Congo: Justice and Peace Commission condemns attacks on parish (Vatican Radio) ow.ly/JQYne
The Cross in the Cosmos – A Meditation on A Teaching By Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger « Archdiocese of Washington ow.ly/JR2p4
Year of the Consecrated Life: How I Pray: Margaret Rose Realy, Obl. OSB (Thomas McDonald – Patheos) ow.ly/JSk3k
Jesus’ House? 1st-Century Structure May Be Where He Grew Up in Nazareth (Yahoo News) ow.ly/JSlwm
British Army band to play music with a papal history (Vatican Radio) ow.ly/JSRRC
Bret Thoman, O.F.S. introduces Saint James of the Marches – a 15th-century Franciscan reformer ow.ly/JST0U
Longtime peace activist Jesuit Fr. Bill Bichsel dies at age 86 | National Catholic Reporter ow.ly/JSVbT
Satanism, Pompeii and the Rosary – a bizarre tale surrounds Francis’ next trip :: Catholic News Agency (CNA) ow.ly/JSWAx
New rules for Vatican finance offices include protection for whistleblowers (CatholicHerald.co.uk) ow.ly/JT9bD
Registration OPEN for Catholic New Media Conference 2015 in Atlanta (SQPN.com) ow.ly/JT9Ns
Pope Francis’ Pontificate From an Arab Perspective | ZENIT – The World Seen From Rome ow.ly/JTbqO
NEW Book: Seeds of the Word: Finding God in the Culture by Fr. Robert Barron (Word On Fire) ow.ly/JTiGj
Aid official says Gazans have lost hope, situation worse than during war (CNS) ow.ly/JU70m
Pax Christi: Iran deal important for nuclear weapons-free Middle East (Vatican Radio) ow.ly/JU7rI
Canonization of St. Therese’s Parents to Coincide with Synod on the Family (ZENIT) – 2 New Secular Franciscan Saints ow.ly/JU5LR
Why ‘Star Trek’ — and Mr. Spock — Matters (NCRegister.com) ow.ly/JThUH
Video: Nuns who are martial arts mamas – Ever seen a Rosary used for physical defense? (MixedMartialArts.com) ow.ly/JTju3
Liquid Bread: The Top 5 Bock Beers for Lent (The Catholic Gentleman) ow.ly/JV0Sh
Pope: Ignoring the elderly is not only ugly…it is also a sin (Rome Reports) ow.ly/JV1Zl
Would you recognize ‘Homeless Jesus’ on a park bench in DC? :: Catholic News Agency (CNA) ow.ly/JV2fP
Website gives glimpse of Catholics around the world | CNS Blog ow.ly/JV3J6
Breathtaking Videos of 11 Beautiful Christian Sites Taken with Drones | ChurchPOP ow.ly/JW1vY
Pope Francis, in Comic Form – interview with comic artist Pat Marrin (Currents NY) ow.ly/JW2ei
The Communion of Saints is Real (Catholic365.com) ow.ly/JWtEM
Is Your “Surveillance Use” of Facebook Causing You Envy? (Lisa Hendey – Patheos) ow.ly/JWzLY
Applebee’s not liable for N.J. man burned while praying over fajita skillet (NCR) ow.ly/JWWC3
NEW: The Happiness! Series Preview (7-Part Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J., Magis Center) ow.ly/JWZVV
Pope Francis, Conservatives Battle for U.S. Catholic Church’s Future (The New Republic) ow.ly/JXVvL
Holy See to UN: Countries should strive to end the death penalty (News.va) ow.ly/JXU4W
National Catholic Journals Unite: ‘Capital Punishment Must End’ (The Editors – America Magazine) ow.ly/JYlJM
Continued Prayers Please: Concerns Over Drug Prompt Delay of Georgia Woman’s Execution –NYTimes.com ow.ly/JRVny
Italy’s bishops help the poor through a ‘Loan for Hope’ microcredit :: Catholic News Agency (CNA) ow.ly/JY4Zu
Relics and the search for the truth – This coming Sunday on CNN ow.ly/JYEtg
How Pope Francis’s Vatican Got Its Political Swagger Back – The Francis Miracle (excerpt) (John Allen – TIME) ow.ly/JZkxY
Gratitude | Louie Schwartzberg photography – accompanied by words from Brother David Steindl-Rast, OSB (TEDxSF) ow.ly/JWwLq
Internet slang meets American Sign Language — Hopes&Fears — flow “Internet” ow.ly/JZNi0
CRS and the Good Shepherd Sisters Caring for Syria’s Refugees in Lebanon | CatholicMom.com ow.ly/JZTsi
Fifty years ago, Pope Paul VI first celebrated Mass in a language other than Latin (Rome Reports) ow.ly/K0Is4

John Clem, O.F.S.

John Clem, O.F.S is the Director and Media Minister at Catholic Web Services (http://catholicws.com/). John is a professed member of the Secular Franciscan Order, and loves to share his talents in faith, technology, and journalism in service to the church. John also writes a blog entitled Call To Holiness (http://www.calltoholiness.us/). Follow John on Twitter at @Catholicwebs, on Facebook and at Google+.

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