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Catholic and cool in Sydney
World Youth Day 2008 in Sydney was a triumph for the Catholic Church and its 81-year-old head, Pope Benedict XVI. About 400,000 people attended a final Mass on Sunday (July 20), briefly making the pilgrims’ destination bigger than the nation’s capital, Canberra. Some baffled journalists described it as a Catholic [...]
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI AND THE GREAT PARDON
KNOWN AS THE PORTIUNCULA INDULGENCE
by Susan Tassone
The Portiuncula (small portion) refers to the land in Assisi, Italy, that belonged to the Benedictines. On this land was an old church dedicated to the Virgin Mother of God but abandoned.
The great St. Francis had great devotion to the queen of [...]
Look Out McCain and Obama!
This election season has already resulted in some totally unexpected political events.
This one is unbelievable!
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Shake it Baby! Arms, Legs, and Movement At 9 Weeks Gestation
Fascinating 4D motion pictures of tiny babies in the womb, doing all sorts of 100% human things, long before they’re born.
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Novena to St. Anne
Say once a day for 9 days, especially beginning on 17 July and ending on 25 July, the eve of the Feast of St. Anne.
O glorious St. Anne, filled with compassion for those who invoke thee
and with love for those who suffer, heavily laden with the weight of my
troubles, I cast [...]
Ancient Find Proves Christ’s Words
Archaeologists have unearthed in Jordan what they believe to be the first Christian church in the world.
Dating back almost 2,000 years to sometime between 33 AD to 70 AD, the church, which is actually a cave, was found underneath Saint Georgeous Church, which itself dates back to 230 AD, in Rihab [...]
July 7th, 2008
by Mickey Addison
The Art of Manly Virtue
It is a foregone conclusion in some corners of Western society that men and virtue are mutually exclusive things. Especially in our own American popular culture, men are more often presented as hapless perpetual adolescents or dimwitted loons who stumble their way through life haphazardly and without [...]
CONSOLING THOUGHTS ON PURGATORY CAME FROM SAINT WHO SAW BEYOND SUFFERING
By Susan Tassone
The opinion of St. Francis De Sales was that the thought of purgatory should cause not so much pain as consolation. Those who fear purgatory do so in consideration of their own interests and self-love, he said, rather than in the interests of [...]
Contact the AFL-CIO today and show them that suppressing freespeech is not what they bargained for!
Is This Union Label?
July 1, 2008
Stories of the homosexual lobby intimidating companies and individuals who stand up for man-woman marriage are becoming more and morecommon:In Massachusetts, during a petition drive to get a state marriage amendment on the ballot, homosexual [...]
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