September 2, 2010
- In a 2-1 decision yesterday in Badger Catholic, Inc. v. Walsh, (7th Cir., Sept. 1, 2010), the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals invalidated a University of Wisconsin policy that withheld student activity fee funding for worship, proselytizing or religious instruction by recognized student groups. The majority opinion, written by Judge Easterbrook, concluded that the University acted improperly in refusing to fund certain programs of a Catholic student group. The group, Badger Catholic, was...
- The city of Evanston, Illinois has decided that it will no longer press a Hindu woman and her mother for a $635 tax bill reflecting an assessment that the woman says violates her religious beliefs. At issue is the removal of a box elder tree that stands mostly on common property of Padma Rao's condominium. She says that her Hindu religion prohibits the needless killing of any living thing. (See prior posting.) Yesterday's...
“Inter vestibulum et altare” is the title of a new blog on Spanish liturgical tradition which I would like to bring to your attention. The blog is connected to the excellent Spanish forum ...
Charleston, W.Va., Sep 2, 2010 / 03:08 am (CNA).- A judge in West Virginia has dismissed all charges against a Catholic priest from...
The Saints of the Day for September 2 are the Martyrs Of September.The September Martyrs are a group of 191 faithful Christians who were martyred at the hands of the French...- ... in The Daily Mail, of all places, about Opus Dei, of all things (ht: to Insight reader, David):
She's respectable and intelligent ... so why does Sarah attach a painful barbed chain to her leg for two hours a day?
By Rebecca Hardy
Masochistic practice? Sarah Cassidy uses a cilice to atone for her sins... If you've glanced over on my 'Articles' page lately, you'll no doubt notice my recent love affair (just kidding!) with the iPhone 4's audio and video recording capabilities. This blog post will offer a nice summary of all my blog posts and articles about A/V production on the iPhone (and, by extension, the new iPod Touch that was just announced today):
- iPhone 4 (+ iPad, iPod Touch) - External Microphones for Audio Input
The article that started it all -...
- iPhone 4 (+ iPad, iPod Touch) - External Microphones for Audio Input
Lahore, Pakistan, Sep 2, 2010 / 12:28 am (CNA).- A Catholic Church figure in Pakistan has charged that local authorities decided with "...
September 1, 2010
- For More Information: Christine Schicker, 404-610-8871 or CSchicker@MaximusMG.com Ascension Press Releases ...
- Contact: Rose Trabbic, Publicist, Ignatius Press (239)867-4180 or rose@ignatius.com Dayton, OH (September 1, ...
Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sep 1, 2010 / 09:54 pm (CNA).- Bishop Juan Ruben Martinez of Posadas, Argentina said the Church must conserve...
- Out of all the schemse the Obama White House promoted in the first year I thought this was the worst. The Cash For Clunkers Program. The results were so predictable. Wheat and Weeds has Oops, Sorry Poor Unemployed People
Vatican City, Sep 1, 2010 / 08:44 pm (CNA).- The Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity is not an entity independent from the...
- Many conservatives rightly took umbrage at the president's listless, depressing Oval Office address to the nation last night. Douglas Feith, writing for National Review Online, offers a good critique here.
When President Obama spoke earlier in the day on August 31 to soldiers at Ft. Bliss, he made a notable acknowledgement that the war in Iraq had contributed to the well-being not only of Iraqis, but Americans too. He said that “because of the extraordinary service that all of...
Audition info is now out for the 2010 Joffrey Nutcracker. Dance St. Louis will hold auditions for children’s roles on Sunday, September 19.
In 2008, Maxine was double cast as a mouse and as a polichinelle. The polichinelles are Mother Ginger’s children. The polis, as they are called by the Joffrey, are the best and most advanced of the children dancers. This year Audrey will audition!
This is an incredible experience for young dancers. Download this pdf from Dance St. Louis...
- NEW ORLEANS (CNS)—Citing the abundant blessings that have followed the suffering and deaths caused by Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond marked the fifth anniversary of the nation's worst natural disaster Aug. 29 with a Mass and an interfaith prayer service at St. Louis Cathedral.
- foryourmarriage: What part of your spouse’s body turns you on the most? Don’t keep it a secret. Read the Song of Songs from t... http://tinyurl.com/24yeu5u
Excuse me if I head deep into the tmatt guilt folder and make a point or two about a story that I’ve been mulling over for more than a week.Your GetReligionistas frequently criticize the mainstream press for its simplistic coverage of issues linked to Islamic tradition, doctrine and law. The problem, of...
The Pope won't be returning to his Vatican Apartment until September's end... already, though, signs of activity have started to show again, signaling that the gradual end to the Holy See's traditional summer hiatus is already underway.
In the Urb itself, the new prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, Cardinal...
San Salvador, El Salvador, Sep 1, 2010 / 06:02 pm (CNA).- Archbishop of San Salvador Jose Luis Escobar Alas condemned the massacre of 72...
Neenah family grateful, humbled to receive 'Extreme Makeover' home
NEENAH — "I don't know of bigger heroes than men and women that teach our children. Our children are our future." Those are the sentiments of Jeff Marlow, a 1981 graduate of Premontre High School and president of Lexington Homes in Green Bay. His company was chosen to design and build the "Extreme Makeover Home Edition" house that recently was constructed in Neenah. Marlow said he was thrilled to find out that the Rhex Arboleda family had been selected to have the home built for them.
Arboleda is employed by...
- The Vatican has announced the prayer intentions of Pope Benedict XVI for the month of September 2010. The Pope's general intention is: "That in less developed parts of the world the ...
- Caritas Christi, the health-care system of Boston's Catholic archdiocese, plans to purchase a Rhode Island hospital, without altering that hospital's secular character or medical ...
Appreciative Inquiry meshes with Catholic spirituality, says expert
GREEN BAY — The Diocesan Visioning Process uses a management theory known as Appreciative Inquiry. The theory was created in 1986 by David Cooperrider, a professor of organizational behavior at Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio. First used successfully in the corporate world, it was found to be helpful to religious organizations.
Rick Krivanka, director of the Pastoral Planning Office for the Diocese of Cleveland, is a leader in using Appreciative Inquiry with dioceses, parishes and other...All parishes expected to participate in process
GREEN BAY — The Diocese of Green Bay has announced the launch of a pastoral planning process that will involve all diocesan parishes and culminate with the promulgation of a pastoral plan by Bishop David Ricken. A diocesan convocation in November 2011 will provide workshops to help parish leaders implement the pastoral plan.
The initiative is called the Diocesan Visioning Process. In contrast with earlier pastoral planning processes held in the diocese, which focused on problem solving strategies such as addressing the...
With Apple's introduction of the latest iPod Touch (which now includes an HD video camera on the back, and a VGA-resolution camera on the front), I believe that products like Flip's portable video recorders and Kodaks line of dedicated video recorders are going to decline in popularity to an even greater extent than they...Immacolata Parish held its first "Blessing Of The Backpacks Sunday" on Aug. 25. The event helped build a stronger relationship between the parish and the school. All parishioners, school families, grandparents and others were invited to attend either the 9:30 or 11:30 a.m. Masses that Sunday for a blessing. The church was full of families with children and their backpacks. At the end of Mass, Father Donald Henke of Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, filling in for the pastor who was out of town, asked all students to come forward for a blessing.
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- A Belgian newspaper "voluntarily and deliberately defamed" Cardinal Godfried Danneels when it published transcripts of a conversation between the cardinal and a victim of sexual abuse, ...
NEW YORK — When you're on top, do you play it safe or do you take risks? CBS, which has more people watching it than any other network — especially older viewers — is doing both, resurrecting a chestnut of a police drama in "Hawaii Five-O" to play it safe, and taking a big chance introducing a sitcom with a title so profane it wouldn't be printed in...
Nancy Campbell, in her February edition of the Above Rubies newsletter writes:“Dear mother, seek to be daily filled with the Holy Spirit. You need the filling of the Holy Spirit to serve your family. I need it too. Without the Holy Spirit filling our hearts we’ll do it...
- MANILA, Philippines (CNS)—Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo of Manila led hundreds of people from various faiths in prayer at the site of a hostage incident that left nine people, mostly Chinese tourists, dead.
- English liberals and gay-rights activists have voiced outrage at a statement by a Catholic official, who said in an interview that London is "the geopolitical epicenter of the culture of ...
- In his message to the Congress of Asian Catholic Laity, which is being held in Seoul this week, Pope Benedict XVI salutes the catechists working in Asia and the movements that "bring new ...
There's a new Twitter hashtag around these parts, for social media use. This hashtag came about as a response to those who were wondering where to move after the bulk of the #cnmc (Catholic New Media Celebration) tweets were becoming less and less about the Celebration,...
- Read this post by David Solomon about the firing of Bill Kirk, Associate Vice President for Residence Life at Notre Dame, and be sickened (ht: Francis Beckwith).
The 40 Days for Life program is making a return to St. Louis this fall.
The campaign, which calls on participants to fast and pray for an end to abortion, will begin Wednesday, Sept. 22, and conclude on Sunday, Oct. 31.
Many archdiocesan parishes have participated in the program. It also receives the support of the archdiocesan Respect Life Apostolate. St. Louis is one 239 locations in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Northern Ireland and Denmark that are hosting the campaign. While the initiative is faith-based, it is considered nondenominational.
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- Congratulations to Lucy Beckett!
A POSTCARD FROM THE VOLCANO BY LUCY BECKETT NAMED FINALIST FOR 2010 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE
Winners will receive a $10,000 honorarium and be honored at November 7th gala
www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org
Dayton, OH - September 1, 2010 – A Postcard from the Volcano by Lucy Beckett (Ignatius Press) has... Is still is a interesting trip down memory lane. Duke shouting about Doug Green!! Recall him.
- During his regular public audience on September 1, Pope Benedict XVI took a few moments to send a message of encouragement to the 3rd Latin American Youth Conference, meeting in Venezuela. ...
- At his regular weekly public audience on September 1, Pope Benedict spoke about "the precious role that women have played, and continue to play, in the life of the Church." As a historical ...
I read an interesting take today with a new view of a possible nexus of abuse of children by women religious and priests and, on the other hand liturgical abuse of congregations by women religious and priests.
On the blog MommyWrites comes, the writer starts with an explanation that she is teaching CCD to 2nd graders… may God bless her. She describes a video that has something to do with her mandatory VIRTUS...
Great planes papist Jack Smith at the Catholic Key Blog give us some welcome tidings:This blog has had at least a dozen posts on the background and doings of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good over the last couple years, but this may be the last (let’s hope). It appears they are out of business. Let’s consider...
Are you a small business owner, a DRE, a parish secretary, or simply a creative person who’d like to “amp up” your web presence but who doesn’t have all of the tech expertise necessary to establish a great web presence? I have the perfect answer for you –...- By way of Zenit (See: Cardinal George on New Mass Translation), we learn of the following piece by Francis Cardinal George, the Archbishop of Chicago, published in The Cardinal's Column in the archdiocesan paper, Catholic New World. The piece in question is on the topic of the new English translation of the Roman Missal.
In the piece, the Cardinal comments that "the time spent preparing to receive and use this new... This blog has had at least a dozen posts on the background and doings of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good over the last couple years, but this may be the last (let’s hope). It appears they are out of business. Let’s consider the evidence:
They’ve had no blog posts since June 10.
They’ve made no tweets since May 12.
They haven’t posted to their own facebook page since May 12.
Their calendar page is blank.
Their staff...
I've never seen this show, I'm just grateful we have people like Bill Donohue to keep an eye on anti-Catholics like Louis C.K.- A Vatican official who had strongly denounced the French government's campaign to expel illegal Gypsy residents has resigned. Archbishop Agostino Marchetto stepped down from his post ...
- ... instead of using them as a crude instrument to bludgeon the truth about the essential differences between them and modern-day radical Islamic terrorism.
From Dennis Prager's most recent column, "The New Moral Equivalence":Little has changed regarding the Left’s inability to identify and confront evil. Its moral equation of good guys and bad guys was made evident again in recent weeks by...
- My Bossier has the big scoop at Caddo Commission President John Escude' criticizes David Melville in blog comment . Well oops and my gosh even his back tracking might offend some clergy as well.
This is one reason why I tried to urged Fleming, who I am likely to vote for , to tone down his damn rhetoric. Fleming should know is not running against Liberals in upper Manhattan or running for office in Madision Wisconsin. He is in Northwest Louisiana... Bishop Samuel Aquila of Fargo, N.D., will be the speaker at the inaugural Archbishop's Gospel of Life Prayer Breakfast this month.
The breakfast will take place Wednesday, Sept. 22, at the St. Louis Marriott West in West County. It is sponsored by the St. Louis chapter of Legatus, a lay organization of Catholic business and professional leaders...
- A good article in the Huff Post worth reading that sort of douses some cold water to the latest media meme. See Why the President's Partisans Talk Down Islam by Joshua Treviño
Vatican City, Sep 1, 2010 / 02:31 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The secretary of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Itinerant Peoples, an outspoken proponent for the rights...
According to the 2005 Martyrologium Romanum today is ...
1. Commemoratio sancti Iosue, filii Nun, servi Domini, qui, cum Moyses manus ei imposuisset, repletus est spiritu sapientiae et post Moysis mortem populum Israel per Iordanis alveum in terram promissionis mirabiliter introduxit.
Anyone want to take a crack at this?
Today is also the feast of St. Egidius, called St. Glies, Abbot.
Editor’s Note: A special thanks to guest columnist Theresa Doyle-Nelson and to Michael O’Neill McGrath for his kind permission to use his image of Léonie....The strippers are back. Back at church. And back in the news.
Three weeks ago, I gave a mostly negative review to a Page A1 story in The Columbus Dispatch on strippers demonstrating outside an Ohio church that, for years, has protested their livelihood.
I liked parts of the Dispatch story but felt that it relied on cliches, presented the main characters as cardboard figures and failed miserably to explore the religion angles in any meaningful way.
Now comes a...
Thirty years ago, on Aug. 31, 1980, an electrician named Lech Walesa signed the Gdansk Accords, ending a two-week-old strike at that Hanseatic city's Lenin Shipyards. Walesa signed with a giant souvenir pen featuring a portrait of Pope John Paul II. The choice of pen was not, as Marxists might have said, an accident. Neither was the distinctive revolution that unfolded in the wake...
I had relegated shepherds to the unicorn file, somewhere near the hunch-backed blacksmith and the whistling milk man. They were the stuff of Mother Goose lore. So it was surprising to discover actual shepherds when I visited the Holy Land.
I was riveted by the sloping landscape of Jesus' ministry. Two tones checkered our vistas: crusty white limestone and fluttering blue...
- I’ve long been fascinated by the relationship between language and thinking. A long article in the New York Times traces views on the matter from Benjamin Whorf’s deterministic theory through its general repudiation to the view that now prevails, a modified Whorfian thesis, that language does affect our perceptions of the world. “‘Languages differ essentially [...]
- One of the better Catholic Dioceses sites and indeed blogs is the one at the Archdiocese of D.C. They have a ton of good stuff on their blog.
I love this piece On the Mend: The Church in the Early 21st Century. Yes let me tell you as someone that came into the Church in the late 80's it was indeed that bad. I might do my own "The 80's Show" as to my early years in the Catholic Church myself.... 
“My homily from last Sunday is under review by the pope, you say?!”
Photo: AP Photo / ddp / Thomas Wieck
Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sep 1, 2010 / 12:04 pm (CNA).- This week the president of the Argentinean Bishops' Committee on Catholic...
Below is part of an email I received from a military mom. Whenever I write about the war or events that involve our young men and women in uniform it is based on my own personal experiences as a mother of a soldier and now veteran. The reality is that there are thousands upon thousands...- CAYES-JACMEL, Haiti (CNS)—Hyppolite Lappe, an agronomics student, stood in a long line at a health clinic run by American volunteers at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish. His elderly mother was by his side.
The eighth season of "Felice Cuores Party Time," monthly parties for adults 18 and older with mental and developmental disabilities, will be held beginning this fall.
The parties will take place from 7-10 p.m. at St. Clare of Assisi Parish, 15642 Clayton Road in Ellisville.They are sponsored by several Knights of Columbus councils and Ladies' Auxiliaries in the West County area, in cooperation with the parish.
While I was ordering some Mystic Monk Coffee for myself, I noticed that they sell large format bags of 5 lbs.
This would be a good idea for rectories and religious houses or simply for all of you who consume a lot of coffee!
Buy coffee...Thanks to the great Vincenzo, we can see how to rescue the design for the big Papal Mass at Cofton Park.
For some background:
WDTPRS POLL: sanctuary design for Pope Benedict’s visit to England
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