Children collect crayons to learn about Holocaust
McClatchy Newspapers
12/1/2008, by Stephanie Akin
The Record (Hackensack N.J.) (MCT) - The Fair Lawn, N.J., Jewish Center is filling its hallways with crayons. In boxes or jumbled in clear plastic containers, the crayons, for now, are unbroken; their tips still come to a factory-perfect point.
But although they have never been used, these ...
Join the ADVENTure this season!
Catholic Online
11/29/2008, by Randy Sly
WASHINGTON (Catholic Online) - The stores are decked out, Christmas songs are on the radio and in the malls, but it isn't Christmas yet! The Church spends this time in Advent, preparing for the Christmas Season yet to come. The First Sunday of Advent marks the beginning of the new Church year and ...
Adoration - There and Back Again
Catholic Online
11/26/2008, by Mary Beth Ellis
There is nothing more exciting - or more challenging - than practicing our Catholic Faith in ordinary life. Join Mary Beth Ellis as she shares the practical side of her life in Christ. WASHINGTON (Catholic Online) - I’m in and out of the Confessional all the time on this one: When tension over my ...
Ancient Mass comes to Anchorage
Catholic Anchor
11/18/2008, by Patricia Coll Freeman
Anchorage, AK (The Anchor) - Ethereal chant, incense and perhaps even an ostrich-feathered liturgical fan will soon waft through Holy Family Cathedral in Anchorage. Beginning Dec. 6, the ancient Dominican rite Mass will be celebrated in Latin every first Saturday of the month at noon.
The ...
Ravens Head Coach Harbaugh, Faith on and Off the Field
The Catholic Review
11/19/2008, by George P. Matysek Jr.
“His relationship with God is the thing he leans on whenever he has tough times.” BALTIMORE, MD (The Catholic Review) - Not long ago, John Harbaugh walked into a barbershop near his home off Falls Road. As the wholesome-looking 46-year-old sat in the barber’s chair with a smock draped around his ...
Graham memory Web site inspires book
McClatchy Newspapers
11/4/2008, by Sue Nowicki
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Basyle and Aram Tchividjian wanted to hear the stories of the people touched by the ministry of their famous grandfather, Billy Graham. So they set up a Web site, thankyoubilly.com, and invited folks to contribute their memories. "I was often moved, sometimes to tears, ...
Youngest Synod Members Transformed by Experience
Zenit News Agency
10/29/2008, by Jesús Colina
VATICAN CITY (Zenit) - The two youngest participants at the synod of bishops say they were transformed by the assembly. But a cardinal says the young adults' participation in the synod also marked the bishops' reflections. Twenty-five-year-old Silvia Sanchini, national president of the Federation ...
A home for the Great Spirit: American Indian parish fights closure
McClatchy Newspapers
10/27/2008, by Georgia Pabst
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT) - Father Edward Cook sits in the circle at the front of the church where he and the drummers play a song of welcome. Inside the small, white stone church where Lithuanians once worshipped, more than 100 people come to pray at one of the few urban churches in the ...
Soup kitchen volunteers ladle out the love
McClatchy Newspapers
10/27/2008, by Debra McKinney
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - They shuffle up to the take-out windows in the drizzle, some friendly, some not. With clear eyes and steady hands; with overcast eyes and hands that are practically seismic. Most are broke or broken. For a few, that would be putting it kindly. No matter what their ...
Mary and the 'More Excellent Way'
Catholic Online
12/20/2008, by Deacon Keith Fournier
When Mary visited her cousin Elizabeth, she bore within her the Incarnate Word of God as a living tabernacle of love.
CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - The Apostle Paul wrote to the Christians in Corinth:
“But I shall show you a still more excellent way.” If I speak in human and angelic ...
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