Mercator.net has an interesting article titled Schools withhold sad facts about gay life which is an interview with Dr. Richard Fitzgibbons is a psychiatrist and Director of Comprehensive Counseling Services in W. Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. Dr. Fitzgibbons contributed to Homosexuality and Hope, published by the Catholic Medical Association of the United States. This pamphlet was recently pulled from The Curé of Ars church in Merrick after some complaints. Mainly from those who hold to the dogma that people are just born with Same Sex Attraction and you just can’t do anything about it including one (no surprise ) former Jesuit priest and now human sexuality specialist Dr. Daniel Araoz.
A reader sent me a link to this interesting article about Dominican priest Laurentius Siemer who was part of the German resistance movement during World War II, was Imprisoned by the Nazis, and later became a TV celebrity.
Now that a group of Poor Clares have both a blog and a nice internet site does that make them eClares or does being on the internet make them Port Clares? [Via Moniales OP ~ Dominican Nuns]
This group of Poor Clares is located in Barhamsville, Virginia near Newport News. Their internet site is well worth exploring, though I am a sucker for pictures of nuns prostrate before the Blessed Sacrament.
A reader informs me that the Clear Creek Monastery is raising funds to build a new monastery. This is a group of Benedictine monk who celebrate the Tridentine Rite in Oklahoma.
This blog has an account of a visit there with plenty of photos.
Here is another article on them.
Congratulations to Greg and Jennifer of Rosary Army which recently released their 100th podcasts. I listen to a lot of podcasts, predominately Catholic ones, and the Rosary Army podcast is definitely one of my favorites. Their apostolate of making Rosaries with the motto "Make them. Pray them. Give them away." only gives you a slight indicator of what their podcast is like. They have described their podcast as a Catholic reality show as it follows the joyful and sad events in their life. They do it with great humor and you never know from week to week what their topic of discussion or on what tangent they once again embark. If you have never listened to their podcast the 100th episode it a good introduction to them since it wonderfully displays their talent and includes segments of past shows.
I have also finally gotten around to making a banner for them in my Catholic podcast section along with two others of my favorite podcasts from their joint effort of SQPN.
MOBILE, Ala. – Police searched for three men in the attempted robbery of a church bingo operation that seriously wounded a 60-year-old security guard in an exchange of gunfire.
The guard, Thomas Aricer, of Mobile, fired at the suspects before being shot in the abdomen about 11 p.m. Friday in the parking lot of St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church.
Police spokesman Officer John Young said the suspects fled in a four-door, dark blue or gray Chevrolet Caprice with the rear driver’s side window shot out. It was unclear if anyone in the car was shot.
Aricer was escorting William Rice, the church’s business manager, and a church maintenance worker, across the parking lot to deliver the night’s bingo cash to the rectory. The total amount was not immediately available.
The Rev. Edwin Beachum, the pastor at St. Catherine’s, said a car swerved in, and one of the occupants started shooting.
Today is the Navy’s 231st Birthday.
Command Master Chief James Russell tosses 17 roses into the Atlantic Ocean from the carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) during a remembrance ceremony on Thursday to honor the 16 sailors and one officer who died in the terrorist attack on the destroyer Cole (DDG 67) six years earlier to the day. — Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Miguel Angel Contreras / U.S. Navy
The Eisenhower was the last ship I served on before retiring.
In other news here is a story today of a Navy Seal jumping on a grenade saving the lives of his members of the SEALS. Requiescat In Pacem Master-at-Arms 2nd Class Michael A. Monsoor.
The Criterion, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, has a blog running for the next week and a half that will be covering the canonization of Blessed Mother Theodore Guerin in Rome as well as the celebrations at the motherhouse of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods near Terre Haute, Ind. They will have reporters at all the events, one of whom is traveling with the archdiocesan pilgrimage to Italy.
This might be the first canonization blog.
They also have an information page on soon-to-be Saint Theodore Guérin.
RC over at Catholic Light posts:
Fox starts division to boost religious movies. They’re starting with Esther, but I’m really looking forward to a cinematic treatment of the book of Judith.
Judith would be pretty cool. Judith really had Holofernes pegged, or should I say tent pegged. There are a lot of Old Testament books that have received little or no cinematic treatment. I would love to see Tobit done. It has a lot of real cool events that would work well visually. Husband killing Demons, Angels disguised as humans, romantic elements, and blindness curing ointments made out of fish livers. Tobit would be great as long as it wasn’t a two-bit production.
I would also love to see a good treatment of Elijah. Elijah just plain rocks, though he wasn’t exactly very ecumenical. There were no working groups for "Jewish and Baal Together." There are really a lot of great scenes from 1st Kings that could be done and the movie would end on a high note with the flaming chariot exit.
Of course with Fox doing these movies I hope they are not too cheesy. A lot of writers could easily mess things up by trying to project modern attitudes onto Biblical figures. That Moses mini-series last year was a perfect example of how badly this can be done.
What Biblical books would you like to see done?
A Chilean man caught stealing from a Catholic parish church was sentenced to go to mass regularly for one whole year.
Alexis Araneda, 18, will also have to carry out menial chores at the San Antonio de Padua parish, located in the town of Ercilla, 580 kilometers south of Santiago.
The alternative punishment was proposed by authorities, part of changes in Chilean legal rules.
Araneda was sentenced for stealing cylinders of liquefied gas which the church used for heating. He also damaged property in the April robbery, committed as he returned after binge drinking with friends at a party.
A few prayers to St. Dismas would be in order that perhaps next year he will go on his own accord.