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Bishop says king will not be sanctioned for signing abortion law

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 04:00 PM PST

Prophecy Resources

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 12:52 PM PST

A reader writes: Could you recommend some good materials on understanding prophecy in Scripture? I found myself in a discussion with a Seventh-Day Adventist who is delving into how Daniel and Revelation are both meant clearly for today. I'm familiar enough with SDA and their narrative in National Sunday Law to know that they're laser-focused on the Second C

What if we just said, "Why don't you just get over it?"

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 04:52 PM PST

The jungle drums of frustration and consternation are beating in reaction to the impending revision of the Roman Missal. Granted, the syncopation is a bit uneven, and the decibel level less than robust, but it's there. And it's. .. it's simply ineffable.

The "19 Million" Thought Experiment

Posted: 26 Feb 2010 06:53 AM PST

Thought experiment courtesy of the 2010 Vatican Yearbook. : 19 million additional Catholics entered the Church between 2007 and 2008: Most are baptized infants. But perhaps a million could be older children or adult converts. If brought together they would produce a Catholic Mexico City, the second largest city on earth: That means 52...

Tim on... Everything

Posted: 26 Feb 2010 08:22 AM PST

Closing out a week that saw a packed-house debut at Theology on Tap and the first anniversary of his appointment to the Big Apple, Archbishop Tim Dolan ran a half-hour TV gantlet earlier tonight, fielding questions on seemingly every hot-button under the sun in a prime-time chat that ran on the New York cable outlet NY1...

Is this the future?

Posted: 26 Feb 2010 03:35 AM PST

Some people seem to think so. A writer for the Wall Street Journal dropped by an interfaith gathering in Washington featuring Evensong and Benediction, using Anglican prayers and presided over by a Catholic priest: One former Episcopalian present confessed to having to choke back tears as the first plainsong strains of "Humbly I Adore Thee,"

The Final Wish of a Dying Friend

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 08:19 PM PST

Consider the following scenario. You are crossing the street with a friend and suddenly as if out of nowhere a large truck is bearing down on you both. Your friend sees it coming and pushes you out of the way but takes the full force of the hit himself. Coming to your senses you run...

Ite Missa Est

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 10:28 AM PST

For the vast majority of us, the work of the gospel is to be done in the world, not in the sanctuary. At the altar, the priest presides because it is his task to hand on the Tradition and the sacraments to us. But in the world, we laypeople preside because it is our task to teach, sanctify and govern the world with the authority an.

Dominican nuns taught Oprah Winfrey the rosary

Posted: 24 Feb 2010 12:43 PM PST

Oprah Winfrey was surprised after her recent show featuring the Dominican Sisters of Mary when the sisters in the studio said they had a present for her. "No one ever gives me a present," the television star said. Then, as Sr. Teresa Benedicta related in a talk before a packed gathering at The Bean of Ave Maria Tuesday night...