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Infanticide, Abortion Responsible for 60 Million Girls Missing in Asia

June 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment

By Sherry Karabin

There is a little-known battle for survival going in some parts of the world. Those at risk are baby girls, and the casualties are in the millions each year. The weapons being used against them are prenatal sex selection, abortion and female infanticide - the systematic killing of girls soon after they are born.
According […]

Jun

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Cardinal Urges Politicians to Know Life Issues

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Affirms Church Teaching on Sin and Communion
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor recalled long-standing Church teaching on sin and Communion and called politicians to educate themselves about the Catholic position on life issues.
In a statement made regarding the upcoming Day for Life in England and Wales, Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor, archbishop of Westminster, said: “I would urge all Catholics, especially […]

Jun

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Contemplatives in Cyberspace

June 13, 2007 | 2 Comments

Carmelites Follow us by Reaching Out to People by Internet
Even contemplatives are using the Internet to spread the message of Christ.
Carmelite General Prior Father Joseph Chalmers says that contemplative religious are ready for God to “use us in a hidden way in order to further his plan of salvation for humanity.”
And in a changing world, […]

Jun

13

Caritas Concludes General Assembly

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The 18th General Assembly of Caritas Internationalis concluded with the delegates pledging to continue as witnesses of charity and builders of peace. After their weeklong meeting, Benedict XVI thanked the Caritas delegates for their grass-roots service, saying: “Your confederation does not simply work on behalf of the Church, but is truly part of the Church, […]

Jun

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21st Century Catholicism: Problems and Solutions

June 13, 2007 | 2 Comments

Brother André Marie to Speak in Milwaukee Area
On Sunday, July 1, Brother André Marie will give a talk in the Milwaukee, WI, area. The subject will be “Twenty-First Century Catholicism: Problems and Solutions.” The talk will be at 1:00 in the Erin Town Hall 1846 State Highway 83 in Hartford. For more information, please see […]

Jun

13

Cardinal Pell explains role of Church and faith in public life

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Sydney, Jun 13, 2007 / 07:19 am (CNA).-  Catholic bishops have the right and the duty to point out Catholic teaching to the public and to remind politicians, especially Catholics, “that public acts usually bring public consequences,” said Cardinal George Pell of Sydney in The Sunday Telegraph.
 
The cardinal issued his response after an investigation was […]

Jun

13

Bus Carrying Wisconsin Tourists Crashes in Bosnia

June 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Let us pray for these people.  Trinity Academy is an conservative private Catholic school.

Friends and family are praying for the victims of a bus crash that injured 27 people, many from southeastern Wisconsin.
Ten people on board are children or parents from Trinity Academy in Pewaukee. A passenger named Andy Meier is believed to be the most seriously […]

Jun

13

A blessing from an Irish mountain on a soft, dove-grey-misted summer evening….

June 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment

“May Jesus grant you always…
A sunbeam to warm you,
A moonbeam to charm you,
A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you.”

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Jun

13

The Eucharist, A Mystery Defying Human Understanding

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At 7 p.m. on June 7th of this year, Solemnity of Corpus Christi, Benedict XVI celebrated Mass on the square in front of Rome’s Basilica of St. John Lateran, then presided at the Eucharistic procession to the Basilica of St. Mary Major.
  In his homily, the Pope recalled how the Solemnity of Corpus Christi “originated […]

Jun

13

Pontifical Appointments

June 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The Holy Father:
 - Appointed Fr. Denis Komivi Amuzu-Dzakpah, vicar general of the
archdiocese of Lome, Togo and secretary of the Episcopal Conference of Togo,
as archbishop of Lome (area 3,682, population 1,535,000, Catholics 436,263,
priests 175, religious 494). The archbishop-elect was born in Kpogame
Tahasi, Togo in 1943 and ordained a priest in 1972. He succeeds Archbishop
Philippe Fanoko Kossi […]

Jun

13

Explaining the Foundations of the Universe

June 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment

A new multi-million dollar
Creation
Museum, a product of Answers in Genesis, is now open in Hebron, Kentucky.  This multi-million dollar museum, designed by a former Universal Studios exhibit director, takes visitors on an amazing walk through biblical history. 
Included in this state-of-the-art 60,000-square-foot structure are computer-generated visual effects, more than 50 exotic animals, life-sized dinosaur animatronics and […]

Jun

13

Christian Education a Gift to Society, Says Pope

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Launches Rome’s Ecclesial Congress
Christian education is formation in authentic freedom since it implies a discovery of the love of God which gives meaning to life, says Benedict XVI.
The Pope said that on Monday in the Basilica of St. John Lateran when he inaugurated the ecclesial congress of the Diocese of Rome. The congress is being […]

Jun

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New Archbishop for Louisville

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Benedict XVI appointed Bishop Joseph Kurtz as the ninth bishop of the Archdiocese of Louisville.
Bishop Kurtz, 60, has been serving as bishop of Knoxville since 1999.
Joseph Kurtz was born Aug. 18, 1946, in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, and was ordained in 1972. He served as a priest for 27 years in the Diocese of Allentown.
He will […]

Jun

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House Subcommittee Cuts Abstinence Education

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Catholic Agencies Say Action Will Cripple AIDS Fight
Catholic agencies are expressing disappointment at a House panel’s recent decision to remove abstinence education from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
The U.S. bishops’ conference and Catholic Relief Services say they believe the country’s ability to fight the global pandemic of HIV/AIDS was weakened by the House […]

Jun

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Bush Promises to Veto Stem-Cell Bill

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Bishops’ Aide Notes Promise in New Studies. U.S. President George Bush promised to veto the bill passed in both the House and Senate promoting federal funding for the destruction of human embryos. Bush, expected to veto the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act this week upon his return from Europe, said: “If this bill were to […]

Jun

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Be Love in the Heart of the Church and the World

June 13, 2007 | 1 Comment

Early in the morning Jesus came to me and woke me.
The birds outside were singing to announce the arrival of love.
Without seeing Him Jesus presence was so real to me.
It was above and below me.
It was around and within me.
Jesus was continuing His priestly prayer of love.
I could physically sense the movement of this prayer.
He […]