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- Pope implores Catholics to join him in evangelizing
- Pseudoknowledge and the Recent Anti-Benedict Hysteria
- Katie Couric a Modern Margaret Sanger
- Controversial video: In a culture that hates innocence, here's what can happen to 8-year-old girls whose fathers don't love them
- Vowing to Reunite the Eastern Orthodox Church (Saint Leopold Mandic)
- "We Impose Nothing, Yet We Propose Ceaselessly"
- O'Malley on the crisis, the visitation of women's orders, and Fatima
- Because I'm a Contrarian
- With bishop present, death row inmate executed, praying 'Hail Mary'
- At Catholic cathedral, Lutheran leader calls the Pill 'God's gift'
- Lena Horne to get a Catholic funeral
- Review: Robin Hood (2010)
- Fr. Fessio's Update on Cardinal Schonborn
- Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!
- A Church Persecuted? Yes, by the Sins of Her Children
- It's dialogue or death, pope says in Portugal
- B16 to Bishops: "Form a Mature Laity"
- Why Regnum Christi is no longer viable
- Laura Bush: Pro-abortion
- A Tale of Two Fatimas
- What I think about Arizona's new immigration law
- Our Lady of Nagasaki
- Because We Might Be Entertaining Angels
- The 15 Marks of The Church
- Brilliant Parody of Megachurch Worship
- The Problem of Privacy: God is Watching….And So Are Many Others!
- Empire State Building Stiffs Mother Teresa
- GetReligionistas with burning ears
- Holy Comics, Batman!
- Benedict XVI's Sermon in Fatima, references to "second secret", "maternity of God"
- Another Astounding Treasure of our Faith
- 7 Baseball Pitching Grips Every Man Should Know
- Opponent claims Catholic candidate, father of six, too busy for office
- Viet government presses propaganda campaign on resignation of Hanoi archbishop
| Pope implores Catholics to join him in evangelizing Posted: 14 May 2010 07:52 AM PDT Porto, Portugal, May 14, 2010 / 09:52 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Celebrating Mass in Porto, where he had arrived from Fatima early this morning, Pope Benedict called the faithful to witness the Resurrection and be missionaries of Christ. He urged Catholics not to let anything prevent them from spreading the Gospel... |
| Pseudoknowledge and the Recent Anti-Benedict Hysteria Posted: 13 May 2010 10:00 PM PDT By Mark Shea | Some years back, a friend of mine was leaving evening prayer at our local Dominican parish when he found himself confronted by an angry lady scowling at the Dominicans in their habits. My friend happens to be a history prof at the University of Washington. |
| Katie Couric a Modern Margaret Sanger Posted: 14 May 2010 09:40 AM PDT In these times of high unemployment and dangerous deficits one issue has become so awful and dangerous to America that CBS news anchor Katie Couric has called for millions and millions of dollars to be spent on solving it. What is it? Preventing poor women from having babies, of course. |
| Posted: 14 May 2010 10:02 AM PDT Video of girls as young as 8 years old dancing, sometimes suggestively, to Beyonce's "Single Ladies" during an urban dance competition has sparked controversy over whether the dance moves are too provocative. |
| Vowing to Reunite the Eastern Orthodox Church (Saint Leopold Mandic) Posted: 13 May 2010 07:02 PM PDT Saint Leopold Mandic Franciscan Capuchin Priest Check out this beautiful quote from Saint Leopold on vowing to do all things to reunite the Eastern Orthodox to Catholic unity: "In conformity with the call which is now well known to me, I renew my vow to the Divine Heart of Jesus and to the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, Coredemptrix of the human race... |
| "We Impose Nothing, Yet We Propose Ceaselessly" Posted: 14 May 2010 06:48 AM PDT In his last major text before departing Portugal, snips here from the Pope's homily at Porto: Dear Brothers and Sisters, "It is written in the book of Psalms, … 'His office let another take'. One of these men, then […] must become a witness with us to his resurrection" (Acts 1:20-22). These were the words of Peter... |
| O'Malley on the crisis, the visitation of women's orders, and Fatima Posted: 14 May 2010 07:41 AM PDT Few Catholic bishops anywhere in the world have spent more time coping with the fallout from the sexual abuse crisis - pastoral, political, legal, and spiritual - than Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston. When he became bishop of Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1992, he inherited the infamous James Porter case... |
| Posted: 14 May 2010 05:25 AM PDT My wife can tell you that I am wired differently than most people. I tend to go against the crowd. Webster wrote a post a while back called Because I am Usually Howling with the Mob. Not me. I tend to avoid mobs, crowds, and popular opinion. I worked for Merrill Lynch briefly out of college. |
| With bishop present, death row inmate executed, praying 'Hail Mary' Posted: 14 May 2010 02:36 AM PDT A hitchhiker who murdered one man and shot two others in the Cincinnati area in 1983 was executed in a prison in Ohio on May 13. Present at the execution of Michael Beuke was Bishop R... |
| At Catholic cathedral, Lutheran leader calls the Pill 'God's gift' Posted: 14 May 2010 02:31 AM PDT Speaking at an ecumenical event in Munich's Catholic cathedral, Bishop Margot Käßmann, who led Germany's Lutherans until her February arrest for drunk driving, paid tribute to the birth... |
| Lena Horne to get a Catholic funeral Posted: 13 May 2010 06:06 PM PDT I didn't know she was Catholic, did you? Her funeral will happen tomorrow, according to this report: Celebrities, family and friends will gather Friday for Lena Horne's funeral at a Roman Catholic church in Manhattan. The great singer and actress died Sunday at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. She was 92. |
| Posted: 13 May 2010 02:43 PM PDT Once again a peasant hero reminds us that no man is a knight or peasant but thinking makes him so, and a blacksmith or a stonemason can, and in all likelihood will, shape the destiny of nations. Would you be astonished to learn that there is a proto-feminist heroine who dons armor for the climactic battle? |
| Fr. Fessio's Update on Cardinal Schonborn Posted: 13 May 2010 05:23 PM PDT By Jimmy Akin | A few days ago I pointed out a striking Media Fail regarding what Cardinal Schonborn said in a meeting with members of the Austrian press. Fr. Joseph Fessio of Ignatius Press offers some helpful perspective on the story, which only illustrates the 285th Rule of Acquisition (CHT to those who sent links). First, Fr. |
| Don't Just Do Something, Stand There! Posted: 13 May 2010 08:35 PM PDT I know, you think I got the title backwards. But I didn't. In the very busy and distracted time in which we live we need to hear some old advice from God who said, "Be still and know that I am God" (Ps 46:10) or again, Silence, all mankind, in the presence of the LORD! for... |
| A Church Persecuted? Yes, by the Sins of Her Children Posted: 14 May 2010 01:00 AM PDT This is the "terrifying" relevance of the message of Fatima, according to Benedict XVI. But the last word in the story is the goodness of God. To be welcomed with penance and a spirit of conversion. |
| It's dialogue or death, pope says in Portugal Posted: 14 May 2010 03:26 AM PDT Porto, Portugal In a strong missionary appeal coupled with a call for dialogue, Pope Benedict XVI today urged his flock to resist the lure of a sort of "ghetto Catholicism," closed in on itself. "We have to overcome the temptation to limit ourselves to what we already have, or think we have, that's securely ours," |
| B16 to Bishops: "Form a Mature Laity" Posted: 14 May 2010 06:39 AM PDT In what tends to be the most candid address of his trips, the pontiff to the Portuguese bench this evening: As you see, the Pope needs to open himself ever more fully to the mystery of the Cross, embracing it as the one hope and the supreme way to gain and to gather in the Crucified One all his brothers and sisters in humanity. Obeying the word of God... |
| Why Regnum Christi is no longer viable Posted: 13 May 2010 07:20 AM PDT [Let me state at the outset that this argument is not personal. It has nothing to do with the good will of members of the Regnum Christi Movement, their history of generosity or love of the Church. The case I... |
| Posted: 13 May 2010 02:47 PM PDT I think this is relatively common knowledge, but the topic came up last night during Larry King's interview with former First Lady Laura Bush while discussing her new book, Spoken from the Heart ... According to Politics Daily today... When it comes to gay marriage and abortion rights... |
| Posted: 13 May 2010 03:09 PM PDT Fatima, Portugal In a sense, there have always been two Fatimas in the popular Catholic imagination. One is a gentle devotion focused on Mary's appearances to three illiterate shepherd children, an icon of God's special favor for the simple ones of the earth.Then there's the other Fatima... |
| What I think about Arizona's new immigration law Posted: 13 May 2010 02:59 PM PDT The Church holds out hope and offers her fervent prayer that calm and reasonable minds will prevail and a just solution will be found that will benefit all of God's children. As for the community of believers, we are given the duty and the grace of being united with each other in love in a visible way with the immigrant, the unborn, and all who... |
| Posted: 11 May 2010 12:42 PM PDT Haunting … that's the only word I can find to describe it … Last week I welcomed the Archbishop of Nagasaki, the Most Reverend Joseph Mitsuaki. He pleaded at the United Nations for an end to all nuclear weapons. Lord knows he has immense credibility: he is now the pastor of the tiny Catholic flock of a Japanese city where 75... |
| Because We Might Be Entertaining Angels Posted: 13 May 2010 05:15 AM PDT Yesterday, I had a conversation with a schoolmate of our fifth grader, a conversation that reminded me how blessed we are that God is always with us. This boy, let's call him Michael, lives with his mother and brother in a small apartment in our neighborhood. When I pick my son and his pals up from school I usually give Michael a lift home, too. |
| Posted: 12 May 2010 12:06 PM PDT Traditionally, there are 4 "Marks" of the Church. These 4 marks tell us about the character and nature of what the Church is. The Catechism describes them in this way: 811 "This is the sole Church of Christ, which in the Creed we profess to be one, holy, catholic and apostolic." These four characteristics... |
| Brilliant Parody of Megachurch Worship Posted: 12 May 2010 06:49 PM PDT "Sunday's Coming" Movie Trailer from North Point Media on Vimeo. Not much to add. These guys nailed it. |
| The Problem of Privacy: God is Watching….And So Are Many Others! Posted: 12 May 2010 08:04 PM PDT At the bottom of this post is a remarkable video from CBS news that indicates that if you have or use a digital copier, everything you have copied on it going back years is stored on a hard drive in the copier. The drive is evidently so large in them that they can store over... |
| Empire State Building Stiffs Mother Teresa Posted: 12 May 2010 10:00 PM PDT On August 26, the U.S. Postal Service is honoring the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mother Teresa. On February 2, I submitted an application to the Empire State Building Lighting Partners requesting that the tower lights feature blue and white, the colors of Mother Teresa's congregation, the Missionaries of Charity, on August 26. |
| GetReligionistas with burning ears Posted: 13 May 2010 08:00 AM PDT As superstar reporter John L. Allen, Jr., of the National Catholic Reporter recently noted, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver refuses to remain the quiet shepherd of a flock in an obscure time zone. Instead, he keeps raising his voice on crucial issues... |
| Posted: 13 May 2010 07:16 AM PDT By Tim Drake | A friend in the film industry once told me that if you want to predict the direction the culture is heading, take a look at comic books and graphic novels. They, in many ways, not only drive much of the content we see on film and television, but they also push the culturally-accepted messages of atheism, tolerance... |
| Benedict XVI's Sermon in Fatima, references to "second secret", "maternity of God" Posted: 13 May 2010 07:36 AM PDT The Holy Father's sermon in Fatima. The papal spokesman, Fr. Lombardi, had earlier said that the Holy Father would deliver an "intense" message in Fatima. You may want to read the text of the "second secret" of Fatima before delving into the sermon: You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. |
| Another Astounding Treasure of our Faith Posted: 12 May 2010 10:00 PM PDT By Mark Shea | Here's an interesting photo-article about some historical artifacts from Christianity's oppressed past in Japan. The most amazing among them is a series of mosaics made from tens of thousands of butterfly wings, and constructed by a priest, no less! It's hard to add commentary to something like this. |
| 7 Baseball Pitching Grips Every Man Should Know Posted: 11 May 2010 07:30 PM PDT Share As a Little Leaguer, I spent countless hours learning and mastering several pitching grips. For me, the grips to throw breaking balls or fastballs were akin to the grips of a secret society. I felt I was taking part in a secret baseball tradition that went back for generations and that by mastering them I would unlock an occult baseball power that would make. |
| Opponent claims Catholic candidate, father of six, too busy for office Posted: 13 May 2010 08:45 AM PDT Can a Catholic father of six handle the responsibilities of public office? Ms. Buchanan, who is competing with Keith Rothfus in Pennsylvania-4's GOP primary next Tuesday, doesn't think so. Daron Christopher writes: With little to distinguish her on issues or experince with her opponent, lawyer Keith Rothfus... |
| Viet government presses propaganda campaign on resignation of Hanoi archbishop Posted: 13 May 2010 07:30 AM PDT The resignation of Hanoi's Archbishop Joseph Ngo Quang Kiet-- which was officially announced by the Vatican on May 13-- is being used by state-controlled media in Vietnam as an opportunity... |
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