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Catholics in New Media: Catholic Answers

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 09:45 PM PDT

By Matthew Warner | This week's Catholics in New Media highlights one of my long-time favorite Catholic resources: Catholic Answers (AKA Catholic.com). They are an outstanding defender and articulator of the Catholic faith. And were around online early enough to have snagged the coveted "catholic.com" web domain.

The Old Mass Returns

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 10:00 PM PDT

In a way, I find the use of the term "extraordinary form" to describe the "old Mass" a bit unfortunate. Because, after all, it was so ordinary, that old Mass — ordinary in the sense that it was celebrated every day, every weekday and every Sunday, for centuries, in the Roman Catholic Church.

Vatican funding Adult Stem Cell Research

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 12:33 AM PDT

Did you know that 35 craters of the moon have been named for Jesuit scientist-priests? If you are surprised to learn that, it might be because you have trusted the mainstream press when it has told you -mostly based on their own distorted reporting- that "Christians -especially Catholics- hate science and would send us back to the Bronze Age."

Why Evangelize?

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 01:25 AM PDT

By Mark Shea | A few days ago, a reader wrote asking whether it was possible to hope for the salvation of miscarried children. I replied with the words of the Catechism: 1261 As regards children who have died without Baptism, the Church can only entrust them to the mercy of God, as she does in her funeral rites for them.

He is Risen (Like it or Not)

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 10:01 PM PDT

Whether we like it or not, Jesus Christ is risen from the dead. Perhaps it is odd or objectionable to suggest, in this most holy of seasons, that we may not "like" that Jesus is risen. After all, in the sacred liturgy we rejoice in the grace of the risen Christ. With St. Augustine we joyfully proclaim, "We are an Easter people...

The Good Shepherd Must Be God

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 04:10 AM PDT

4 th Sunday of Easter, John 10:27-30 In these verses our Savior concludes his Good Shepherd discourse in which he as so clearly expressed his immense love for us, and it is most striking that this discourse of love should conclude with our Lord's strongest affirmation of his divinity: "The Father and I are one."

Why Celebrate Mass in Latin?

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 09:33 PM PDT

Today beginning at 12:30 pm here in Washington at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, a Solemn High Pontifical Mass in the Extraordinary Form will be celebrated in the Great Upper Church. For those unfamiliar with all the Church jargon of the previous sentence let me decode. The "extraordinary Form" of...

Vatican to fund adult stem cell research in America: "This is unprecedented"

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 05:06 PM PDT

And it will happen at my alma mater, as a matter of fact. From the Catholic Review in Baltimore: The Vatican is expected to contribute several million dollars to an international consortium for adult stem-cell research, an effort that will be led by the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.

Mexican woman raped at age 13 explains why she never considered abortion

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 03:59 PM PDT

Liana Rebolledo is a 33-year-old Mexican woman. In a recent television interview she recounted that after she was raped at the age of 13 and became pregnant, she never considered aborting her daughter, who is now 20.

Antony Flew, a former atheist who discovered God, RIP

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 03:02 PM PDT

World Pays Tribute on Death of Atheist Turned Believer Leading academics, philosophers and members of the Christian faith across the world continue to pay tribute to Antony Flew, the famed British atheist and thinker who discovered God at the end of his life.

How the Nazis engineered a pedophile-priest scare in the 1930s

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 08:59 PM PDT

Italian Catholic intellectual Massimo Introvigne (whom I met on a couple of occasions when in Rome for speaking engagements), has contributed an important and eye-opening article about the phenomenon of priest scandals, as seen through the lens of history. Fairly recent history, to be more specific.

Aborting the "Wrong Baby"

Posted: 23 Apr 2010 01:22 PM PDT

Horrible. But, it is horrible in more than one way. (CBS/AP) A Sarasota doctor has lost his medical license after performing a pregnancy termination procedure on the wrong fetus. The Florida Board of Medicine revoked Matthew Kachinas' license at a meeting Friday. The St...

Abuse victim in Malta: Pope Benedict XVI is a 'saint'

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 11:46 AM PDT

Rome, Italy, Apr 22, 2010 / 01:46 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Vatican analyst Andrea Tornielli spoke with Joseph Magro, 38, one of eight victims of clerical abuse who met with Pope Benedict XVI during his recent visit to Malta. Magro said the meeting "was truly a most beautiful gift, after all this suffering, we all cried...