“Reminds me of the proto-evangelium Genesis 3:15. Would you
mind putting that snake on the ground for a second.”
A surprise visit by Z.Z. Top thrilled youth.
Carring the cross at the WYD Mosh Pit.
I always wanted a hat like this just like my dear papa.
Should of had this when I was the doctrinal enforcer.
To a litugical dancer “Step away from the sanctuary”
See more at American Papist.
Earlier this week I was sent a story about and Anglican priestess with gnostic tendencies and for homosexual acts who was giving a conference on “centering prayer” at St. Olaf’s in Minneapolis. I didn’t post on it since I figured Archbishop Niestedt would take care of the problem. Faithful Rebel reports that this is indeed what has now happened and the class is being moved to an Episcopal church.
BOSTON–When he was playing professional
soccer in Chile, Chase Hilgenbrinck would seek comfort in the churches
to satisfy his spiritual needs and remind him of childhood Sundays
spent at Holy Trinity in his hometown of Bloomington, Ill.
Even after moving back to the United States last Christmas to play
Major League Soccer–a dream of his, but just one of them–Hilgenbrinck
felt the pull of his religion.
“I felt called to something greater,” Hilgenbrinck said. “At one time I
thought that call might be professional soccer. In the past few years,
I found my soul is hungry for something else.
“I discerned, through prayer, that it was calling me to the Catholic
Church. I do not want this call to pass me by.”
Hilgenbrinck accepted the calling on Monday when he left the New
England Revolution and retired from professional soccer to enter a
seminary, where he will spend the next six years studying theology and
philosophy so he can be ordained as a Roman Catholic priest.
“It’s not that I’m ready to leave soccer. I still have a great passion
for the game,” he said in a telephone interview. “I wouldn’t leave the
game for just any other job. I’m moving on for the Lord. I want to do
the will of the Lord, I want to do what he wants for me, not what I
want to do for myself.”
Previously Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, said. “I am
not ruling out that the Vatican could in the future have a soccer team
of great value able to compete with (Italian top Serie A league teams)
Roma, Inter, Genoa and Sampdoria,” Maybe they are recruiting
ringers now?
There is a new
site with a group blog
that will feature Danille Bean, Rachel Balducci, Lisa Hendey, Rebecca
Teti, and Arwen Mosher so with that line up promises to be quite
worthwhile.
Family life is hard work, and those of
us who strive to live Catholic family lives can face unique challenges.
As we help each other along the way, we hope that our magazine and blog
will affirm something that is already written on every mother’s heart:
That motherhood is a privilege. That family life is a joy. And that
though being a wife and mother is likely to be the single most
challenging thing any of us ever do, it is also likely to be the single
most important thing any of us ever do as well. We invite you to pray,
laugh, cry, and share the good and the bad right along with us. We hope
that you will join us as we work toward building a Christ-centered
community where we can encourage and support one another in the joyful,
challenging, important work of Catholic living
The blog of Family Life International New
Zealand called Semper Vita is also fairly new and
concerns philosophical musings on life, sexuality, marriage and family
LAKELAND, Fla. – Todd Bentley believes God acts through him to cure cancer, heal the deaf and raise the dead.
So do hundreds of thousands of people who have visited his raucous revival meeting, now in its third month and broadcast nightly from a huge tent in the middle of Florida.
The 32-year-old Canadian, tattooed to the fingers and neck, puts a palm to the forehead of the sick, desperate and faithful. Bentley yells “Bam!” they collapse and he proclaims them cured. Attendees dance in the aisles, shout to Heaven, laugh, shake violently and cry.
If Christians are going to follow the Food
Network as a lead than I least propose that we have:
While the media was all over Tim Russert’s Catholic faith it has become a media black hole concerning Catholic convert Tony Snow.
A poll conducted by social networking
website MySpace has branded the Catholic Church “out of touch” with
young people, just ahead of its World Youth Day event in Sydney.
Of course what most of these poll indicate
is that people think that the Church is out of touch with the morality
of the modern culture, that it is not an echo chamber for current
societal ethics. The only thing the Church needs to be in touch with is
the Holy Spirit.
Though a poll such as this also points out
the work the Church has to do in evangelization since this wrong
perception needs to be addressed to be able to spread the Gospel.
But no poll ever asks if people are out of touch with the
Catholic Church.
The Church often gets the rap that all it
talks about is sex and that it is fixated on the issue, when the truth
is that it is her distracter that are hung up on this. The
protesters at World Youth Day are not wearing shirts attacking the
Church for its teaching on helping the poor. No protest signs
against loving your neighbor. There is no “1, 2, 3, 4, we
don’t want saints no more.” No all of the protests are about sex in on
form or another. Whether it is passing out condoms or
homosexual ranting against the Pope calling him a homophobe the topic
is always sex. Scratch a dissenter and you will always find someone
upset about something in the Church’s teaching on sexual morality.
I do think there is something we need for
all World Youth Days. A massive incinerator at the entrance
points. That way people can grab all them condoms being given
out and anti-Catholic tracts and immediately dispose of them.
Let our enemies waste their money so that they will have less
of it.
A reader sent me a link to an ESPN video
on the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne in Atlanta and like all in their
order do great work. The Church of Saint Vincent Ferrer blog
provides the background and the video.
The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne were
founded in 1900 by Rose Hawthorne, the daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne,
the famed nineteenth-century American novelist. After her
conversion to Catholicism, Rose dedicated herself to caring for
incurable cancer patients on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
Upon establishing her Dominican congregation, Rose took the name Mother
Alphonsa, and for over two decades she worked tirelessly for her
sisters and her patients. Rose’s remarkable life story bears
constant repetition. Her cause for canonization has been
introduced and is moving forward.
Eighty years after her death, Rose’s spiritual daughters continue to
live her charism in convents and nursing homes around the
country. As a sign of their vigor and zeal, they recently
opened a new home in Kenya.
The beatification of Louis and Zélie Martin will be held on Mission Sunday, October 19, in Lisieux.