CATHOLIC NEWS: "The Courage to Not Be Intimidated"... PLUS 8 MORE

CATHOLIC NEWS: "The Courage to Not Be Intimidated"... PLUS 8 MORE

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"The Courage to Not Be Intimidated"

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 06:58 PM PDT

While no English fulltext has yet emerged of Pope Benedict's homily from this morning's Palm Sunday Mass in St Peter's Square, the extensive AsiaNews summary's up.... Here, given the context, the key graf: "Man can choose a convenient way and avoiding any hardships. He can also descend, into the vulgar.

What the New York Times won't tell you

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 03:27 PM PDT

Some helpful context on some stories that have been in the news lately. From the Associated Press, three years ago: Students in America's schools are groped. They're raped. They're pursued, seduced and think they're in love. An Associated Press investigation found more than 2...

How to Classify a Million Galaxies in Three Weeks

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 12:10 AM PDT

Do you have an Internet connection, some free time and a penchant for staring off into space? Then Galaxy Zoo needs you.

How to Jump From a Speeding Car

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 08:28 PM PDT

Share Sometimes when I'm driving, I'll imagine scenarios that would require me to jump out of my speeding car. I know I can't be the only one who does this. I do it mainly to pass time while in traffic, but I think there's also a part of me who wants to be prepared if (in the unlikely instance) I actually have bail out of a moving vehicle to save my life.

Annulment Crackdown?

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 07:12 AM PDT

By STEVE WEATHERBE, REGISTER CORRESPONDENT | WASHINGTON — American Catholic marriage tribunalists are denying rumors of a Vatican crackdown on the high number of annulments granted in the United States. Secular news reports on Pope Benedict XVI's late January comments to the Roman Rota, the Church's court of final appeal...

Thank you, Holy Father!

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 07:40 PM PDT

While I have no personal information on some of the specific allegations against our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, when he served the Church of Munich in Germany, I am able to assert without hesitation the action steps which he undertook in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith when he served as Prefect of that Congregation.

Palm Sunday and Hearing the Word of God

Posted: 27 Mar 2010 05:48 PM PDT

I am convinced after years of preaching and listening to preaching that the bulk of Scripture has become lost to our ears. We hear it, but fail to "hear" it. And I do not mean this merely in the moral sense (doubtless we fail to be "doers" of the word). Rather, I am aware of a kind of dullness...

Legionaries. The "Nomenklatura" That Must Disappear

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 03:01 PM PDT

Name by name, all the top leaders of the congregation. Their extremely close connection with the founder and with his scandal. The impossibility of any real renewal, as long as they remain in power.

A Papal Conversion

Posted: 28 Mar 2010 10:15 AM PDT

Among Vatican insiders, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith became the primary force pushing for a tough response to the crisis. Other departments sometimes regarded the "zero tolerance" policy as an over-reaction, not to mention a distortion of the church's centuries-long legal tradition, in which punishments are supposed to fit the cri.