CATHOLIC NEWS: Muslims slaughter hundreds of Christians in Nigeria... PLUS 6 MORE

CATHOLIC NEWS: Muslims slaughter hundreds of Christians in Nigeria... PLUS 6 MORE

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Muslims slaughter hundreds of Christians in Nigeria

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 02:13 AM PST

Muslim gangs attacked three villages in central Nigeria and killed up to 400 Christians in pre-dawn attacks on March 7. "The shooting was just meant to bring people from their houses, and...

Saint Augustine on the Samaritan Woman as the Church Not Yet Righteous

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 07:27 AM PST

Saint Augustine provides a beautiful description of the episode of Christ and the Samaritan woman at the well. In this passage, he describes her as mystically representing the "Church not yet made righteous." You'll remember that Saint John highlights her position as an adulteress and as not pertaining to the Jewish people. Moreover...

Is John the Baptist greater than Mary?

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 06:50 AM PST

I recently got the following question by email: The scriptures tell us that among those born of women there have been none greater than John the baptist. So how do we reconcile this with Mary being more blessed than all? The question is referring to Matthew 11:11, in which Jesus declares: Amen, I say to you...

Wartime Pope Has a Huge Fan: A Jewish Knight

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 12:17 AM PST

Gary Krupp is credited with breaking a logjam in a debate over whether Pope Pius XII did as much as he could have to save Jews from the Holocaust.

What Little Children Can Teach Us About Prayer

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 10:00 PM PST

When it comes to our struggle in prayer there are some things that we need to unlearn. For too many private prayer is often a formal, even stuffy affair that drips of boredom and unnecessary formality and has lots of rules. Perhaps we learned some of our lessons too well. And yet many of the youngest...

Why Life Is Worth So Little in Prosperous Japan

Posted: 07 Mar 2010 10:00 PM PST

One suicide every 15 minutes, in the most efficient country in the world. An exclusive survey analyzes the reasons. The bishop and the nuncio: there is an absence of faith in a personal God, in a people that honors eight million gods.

James Cameron congratulates himself for rooting against humanity

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 02:44 AM PST

Full disclosure: I haven't seen Avatar. In fact, I still haven't seen Titanic. Perhaps that ship has sailed, sunk, been lost, and discovered already? Fuller disclosure: I didn't watch the Oscars; I haven't watched them since 1958, and I wasn't born until 1969.