CATHOLIC NEWS: The Ninth Commandment... PLUS 10 MORE |  |
- The Ninth Commandment
- Oscar Romero and The Company of the Martyrs
- Reducing Faith to a Flu Shot?
- Super-sizing the "Last Supper"
- Your Life Makes No Sense Unless..
- Fasting in the East and in the West
- How Not to Argue about Health Care
- Now and at the Hour of Our Death
- A Legal Travesty in Poland
- 4 Lessons We Learned From the Health Care Battle
- John Paul II's former barber says he was cured miraculously
| Posted: 23 Mar 2010 10:00 PM PDT As we come to the Ninth Commandment we again arrive in disputed territory. As you will recall, the Ten Commandments can be and have been split up differently so as to yield ten and not eleven commandments. Some Protestants break apart the First Commandment (yielding what I call the 1.5 Commandment against graven images). The Catholic tradition... |
| Oscar Romero and The Company of the Martyrs Posted: 24 Mar 2010 07:31 AM PDT Today is the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Servant of God Oscar Romero while celebrating Mass. On March 24, 1980, a gunman shot and killed Romero as he said Mass in a small chapel at a hospital called La Divina Providencia, in the Salvadoran capital. Days later, massive crowds attended Romero's funeral... |
| Posted: 23 Mar 2010 08:17 PM PDT It is tragic to me as a Catholic priest that many parents bring their children to baptism but nothing else and think all the while that they have done all that they should. Almost as though baptism was no more than a flu shot: Take it and forget it. As you might imagine I am very... |
| Super-sizing the "Last Supper" Posted: 23 Mar 2010 10:01 AM PDT We've been overeating our way through ever-larger portions over the past 1,000 years, a U.S. study revealed after studying more than 50 paintings of the Biblical Last Supper. |
| Your Life Makes No Sense Unless.. Posted: 23 Mar 2010 10:50 AM PDT Fr. Barron hits a home run with this video. It is a bit philosophically dense, but worth watching and reflecting on. "You should live your life in such a way that it would make no sense unless God exists." - Cardinal Souhard. |
| Fasting in the East and in the West Posted: 23 Mar 2010 07:39 AM PDT As we near the end of the Lenten Fast, I'd like to draw our attention to the differences between fasting in the Eastern church and the Western church. Actually, I'd like to draw attention more than anything to the differences between the attitude towards fasting in the East and the West. |
| How Not to Argue about Health Care Posted: 23 Mar 2010 10:51 AM PDT 1. Declare that "Health Care is not a right". 2211 The political community has a duty to honor the family, to assist it, and to ensure especially: - the freedom to establish a family, have children, and bring them up in keeping with the family's own moral and religious convictions; - the protection of the stability of the marriage bond and the institution... |
| Now and at the Hour of Our Death Posted: 23 Mar 2010 07:53 PM PDT I once read an interview with Garrison Keillor in which he recounted going to a funeral. During the final prayers, the minister prayed for the deceased -- "and for the next person here who is going to die." He said that most of the guests were outraged and offended, but that he was moved and appreciative. He liked the fact that the Christi. |
| Posted: 23 Mar 2010 07:52 PM PDT Poles struggled for many things during the remarkable decade that gave birth to the Revolution of 1989: the truth about their national identity and culture; the truth about their history; the right to determine their future as free men and women, and to do so as believers in the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Jesus. One thing Poles were most cer. |
| 4 Lessons We Learned From the Health Care Battle Posted: 23 Mar 2010 07:51 PM PDT The combination of pressure and disinformation used to break the prolife witness on this bill among Democratic members of Congress - despite the strong resistance to this legislation that continues among American voters - should put an end to any talk by Washington leaders about serving the common good or seeking common ground. Words need actions to give them flesh. |
| John Paul II's former barber says he was cured miraculously Posted: 23 Mar 2010 03:27 PM PDT March 23, 2010. Gianni has been a barber for more than 50 years. His hands have touched the heads ofmany clients, including one who's on the way to sainthood. |
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