March 25, 2009
In a recent announcement by the University of Notre Dame which flies in the face of all that the U.S. Conference of Bishops has been advocating in recent months, the most aggressive pro-abortion president in the history of our nation, President Barrack Obama, whose current agenda includes eliminating the conscience objection for pro-life physicians and…
March 25, 2009
On March 23, Pope Benedict XVI named Bishop Salvatore Joseph Cordileone, 52, who has served as auxiliary bishop in the Diocese of San Diego since 2002, as the fourth bishop for the Diocese of Oakland, Calif.. The installation will take place on May 5, in Oakland’s new Cathedral of Christ the Light. “I am grateful…
March 25, 2009
Mark McElrath, vice president of the clothing manufacturer DaRue of California, gives a gripping first-hand account of a rarely seen event in the United States, namely, the ordination of a bishop, the newly ordained Bishop Cirilo Flores (pictured above).. —ed. Since the day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit descended upon those gathered in the…
March 22, 2009
I pray my husband will find the perfect job for him in lightening speed. I pray we will not lose anything… not our home, the boys school, our vehicle,our insurance, etc.
He Leadeth Me is the deeply moving personal story of one man’s spiritual odyssey and the unflagging faith which enabled him to survive the horrendous ordeal that wrenched his body and spirit to near collapse. Captured by the Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a “Vatican spy,” American Jesuit Father Walter…
He fasted for forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was hungry” (Mt 4,1-2) Dear Brothers and Sisters! At the beginning of Lent, which constitutes an itinerary of more intense spiritual training, the Liturgy sets before us again three penitential practices that are very dear to the biblical and Christian tradition – prayer, almsgiving,…
March 1, 2009
Please pray for a gainful employment for me. Thank you, Jean
February 19, 2009
By Mark McElrath On February 17, we celebrated the feast of the Seven Holy Founders of the Order of Friar Servants of Mary, commonly known as “the Servites.” This religious community was formed 775 years ago by the radical witness of seven merchant princes from renaissance Florence who gave up the life of material comfort,…
February 19, 2009
Receives Speaker of the House Pelosi in Audience VATICAN CITY, FEB. 18, 2009 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI is urging legislators to uphold the sanctity of human life according to Church teaching, he affirmed in a meeting with U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives. The Pope received Nancy Pelosi and her entourage briefly today after the…
by Ricky McRoskey I’m not proud of it, but about halfway through a torturous four-month job search, I fired a saint. That’s right—I canned him. Gave him the pink slip. Told St. Cajetan (Caj-uh-tan)—the 16th-century patron of the jobless, the selfless Italian priest who once founded a bank that lent to the poor to shield…
February 11, 2009
all unspoken intentions in my heart and perpetually
February 10, 2009
by Andrew Marquardt Tucked away in my Kansas City office, I banged away a letter to the Wall Street Journal (Jan 29, 2009) questioning Merrill Lynch’s media-driven defense of executive bonuses in the face of 28 billion in losses. That exercise stemmed from an ongoing reflection, as a Catholic CEO and lawyer, about the principles…
February 9, 2009
By Father Joseph Shea A couple of weeks ago, two of my priest friends and I went to see the new movie, Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise. The movie presents the true life story about a large-scale conspiracy within the German army to assassinate Adolf Hitler. The heroic German Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg led the coup. …
February 9, 2009
FOCA is an acronym for “Freedom of Choice Act,” a legislative bill reintroduced in the U.S. Senate by Senator Barbara Boxer (D, CA) and in the U.S. House of Representatives by Congressmen Jerrold Nadler (D, NY) the day after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the ban on partial birth abortion (Partial Birth Abortion Ban…
February 5, 2009
I strongly recommend reading an article which appeared on the Catholic Education Resource Center website here: http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/abortion/ab0148.htm. The piece is well-written and intelligently captures the Culture of Life vs. Death issue in a way that compels us to action. We need to pray…and do something. God bless, Randy
February 5, 2009
by Charlie Butts and Jody Brown – OneNewsNow.com – 2/5/2009 6:30:00 AM The administration’s economic stimulus bill needs a fix to avoid a courtroom confrontation. Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the American Center for Law & Justice, tells OneNewsNow there is a provision of the act that actually allows for funds to be given by the…
February 2, 2009
by Andrew T. Seeley, Ph.D. Early each year, Catholics around the country took time to celebrate the blessings their schools have been, not only for the Catholic Church, but for our nation. Catholic schools have served millions students of many faiths. From the earliest schools established in Florida and California by Spanish missionaries, to the…
January 27, 2009
Please pray for Bryan, a Vice Pres at my company, and his 3 teenage daughters. They are a deeply faithful family that lost their wife/mom suddenly this week due to an aneurysm.
January 25, 2009
Nationwide, more than 289,000 citizens participated in walks for life, including an estimated 250,000 participating in the Washington D.C. March for Life, more than 32,000 participating in the San Francisco Walk for Life WC (pictured above), and more than 7,000 participating in Portland, Oregon’s Walk for Life—All commemorating the 36th Anniversary of the U.S. Supreme…
January 24, 2009
CLICK HERE TO SEE Senator Brownback’s short address to the U.S. Senate floor on the morning of January 22, 2009, the same day that the March for Life took place at the nation’s capital, remembering the unborn on the 36th Anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in our…