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America's Best Known Sunday School Teacher In Action
Commonweal - Aug 3, 2014 at 2:50 pm There's a generation for whom Jimmy Carter is America's best-known and (perhaps) most beloved Sunday School teacher. For younger Americans, there's a good chance that Stephen...
Doctors Said She Wouldn’t Live Long, But Her Parents Rejected Abortion and Now She’s 32
LifeNews.com - Aug 3, 2014 at 1:56 pm Cystic fibrosis (CF) has been in the news a lot lately, mostly because of a little girl named Sarah and her mom Janet and how they changed the transplant rules for children. Also...
Truth & reconciliation.
Commonweal - Aug 3, 2014 at 1:17 pm Neither canon law nor civil law processes can help the Catholic Church establish true accountability for the sexual-abuse scandal, argued Jennifer Haselberger during a talk she...
Recent Prisoner Free Exercise Cases
The Religion Clause - Aug 3, 2014 at 1:09 pm In Dulaney v. Hollingsworth, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 102220 (D NJ, July 28, 2014), a New Jersey federal district court held that habeas corpus is not a proper route to challenge a...
Kinda' Awesome Restaurant Offers Discount to Those Who Say Grace
Creative Minority Report - Aug 3, 2014 at 1:05 pm A restaurant in North Carolina randomly offers discounts to customers seen praying before eating.Fox News:Mary’s Gourmet Diner in Winston-Salem gives the discount for anyone who...
TOLEDO Bad Water Emergency. Semper simus parati!
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Aug 3, 2014 at 12:45 pm Every once in a while I get snippy snarky notes from people asking why item A or B is on my wish list. “Why do you have solar panels?… rifle slings? … water purifiers on your list...
CQ CQ CQ This is Whiskey Delta Tango Papa Romeo Sierra calling…
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Aug 3, 2014 at 11:56 am Or I should say this is Kilo Charlie Niner Zulu Jolly November
This morning I chatted briefly with one of the congregants after Mass who is also a frequent commentator here and...
Quarant'ore at St Martin of Tours, St Louis MO
New Liturgical Movement - Aug 3, 2014 at 11:44 am Forty Hours Devotion will be held at St Martin of Tours, St Louis, Missouri on 14, 15 & 16 August. The schedule will be as follows:Thursday, August 14, 2014:8:00 a.m. – Mass,...
Cardinal Nichols on UK Church's commemorations of WW1
News.va - Aug 3, 2014 at 11:03 am (Vatican Radio) Cardinal Vincent Nichols, President of the Bishops' Conference, will celebrate a Requiem Mass in London’s Westminster Cathedral on August 4th for all those who...
Abp Vasil SJ opens European Scout Jamboree
News.va - Aug 3, 2014 at 11:03 am The 2014 EuroJam – the annual gathering of boy and girl scouts from all over Europe – opened Sunday in St Evroult-Notre-Dame-du-Bois, Normany, France.
More than 12 thousand scouts...
Prayers against a Black Mass
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Aug 3, 2014 at 11:02 am As you may have heard, some nitwits have scheduled use of a public venue in Oklahoma City for the purpose of a Satanic Black Mass. It is unclear if they have a consecrated Host....
WDTPRS 8th Sunday after Pentecost (1962MR): Being even more ourselves.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Aug 3, 2014 at 9:30 am Ordinary Form 18th Ordinary Sunday HERE
Today’s Collect is from the ancient Veronese Sacramentary and the Gelasian and the so-called Gregorian. It survived the liturgical tailors...
Chapter 11: Capernaum {Jesus: A Pilgrimage}
CatholicMom.com - Aug 3, 2014 at 8:00 am Welcome to our virtual book club! We’re reading Fr. James Martin’s bestseller, Jesus: A Pilgrimage. Each week we will tackle a chapter and look forward to a lively discussion...
The Theological Virtues and Renewal: Part II
Making Things Visible - Aug 3, 2014 at 8:00 am Peter’s faith became an exterior work when he came from the upper room to boldly proclaim the truth. Certainly, he had courage or fortitude, a cardinal virtue, but his...
Parties' Agreement To Dismiss Challenge on IRS Church Audit Rules Trumps Intervenors' Objections
The Religion Clause - Aug 3, 2014 at 7:37 am As previously reported, last month the Freedom From Religion Foundation agreed to drop its suit against the Internal Revenue Service after the IRS eliminated its blanket policy of...
Review: Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Decent Films Guide - Aug 3, 2014 at 7:35 am Guardians is a romp, a lark — rare descriptors for a popcorn summer movie, alas, in these days of dark, grim tentpoles from Maleficent to Hercules, Edge of Tomorrow to Dawn of the...
Liturgical Beauty: They shouldn't have to be all stored in a museum.
Rorate Coeli - Aug 3, 2014 at 7:19 am On the one hand, it is wonderful that the liturgical art of Western Europe, in particularly post-revolutionary France and especially in textiles, is preserved rigorously by the...
Pope at Angelus: compassion, generosity, gratitude
News.va - Aug 3, 2014 at 7:01 am (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis prayed the Angelus with the faithful gathered beneath a dreary, drizzly early August sky in St. Peter’s Square this Sunday, the eighteenth Sunday in...
Post: Hercules [video] (2014)
Decent Films Guide - Aug 3, 2014 at 6:30 am A question I couldn’t get to in 60 seconds: What’s the real story with the creepy, green spaced-out tribal warriors? Can anyone explain that?
High in the Andes, Peruvian Artisans Create Sacred Art
Franciscan Media - Aug 3, 2014 at 6:00 am Freddy Cerna is about the same height as the statue he carves from Italian Carrara marble. His backward baseball cap and buggy protective goggles are a sharp contrast to the...
