Mary Was There
Catholic Online
10/16/2008, by Deacon Keith Fournier
Jesus called her mother and like all good mother’s she was there at every moment of his earthly life and ministry.
CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - Jesus called her “mother” and like all good mother’s she was there at every moment of his earthly life and ministry.
Mother Mary was there at the ...
Hail Mary, Full of Grace
Catholic Online
12/20/2008, by Deacon Keith Fournier
In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary. (Lk 1:28) CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you” (Lk ...
Iconographer putting down his brush after 400 images
McClatchy Newspapers
10/15/2008, by Jennifer Garza
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Miloje Milinkovic has spent the past 12 years working by himself, but he is never alone. Day after day, for many of those years, he has stood on a shaky 15-foot-high scaffolding at St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church in Jackson, Calif., painting images from the Gospels. He ...
Students given room and board in exchange for faith
McClatchy Newspapers
10/2/2008, by Jennifer Garza
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - It's dinner time in the small, two-bedroom apartment near Sacramento City College. One by one, five students gather around a well-used dining room table for a meal that begins with a prayer. "Thank you Lord," begins Andrea De La Torre, 19, in the short blessing before ...
Is Catholicism trendy?
McClatchy Newspapers
9/29/2008, by Patrick T. Reardon
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - For American publishers, Catholics suddenly seem trendy. Three books by high-profile names from pop fiction, Hollywood and politics have arrived or will soon arrive in bookstores: "Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession" (Knopf), by Anne Rice, the best-selling queen ...
Catholic men find larger church role
McClatchy Newspapers
9/19/2008, by Jim Niemi
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Richard Abbey has a new vocation. The senior program leader in the reliability lab at Hitachi Automotive Products is now also a deacon at St. Andrew Catholic Church, where each month he says the homily and assists with the Eucharist at two Masses, in Harrodsburg, Ky., ...
Kentucky military school saved by eBay
McClatchy Newspapers
9/16/2008, by Jim Warren
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - A listing on eBay might have saved the abandoned 115-year-old Millersburg Military Institute in Bourbon County, Ky. Joseph Land, chief of staff of the private United States Army Cadet Corps, said Friday that corps officials first became aware of MMI when they saw it ...
Indian priests talk of anti-Christian violence
McClatchy Newspapers
9/10/2008, by Georgia Pabst
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT) - Father Ranjit Tigga has spent most of his life as a Jesuit missionary in rural India working with poor tribal villagers near the state of Orissa, southeast of Calcutta near the Bay of Bengal. Father Francis Ezhakunnel, another Jesuit missionary, was the director ...
Cartoonist makes best of the worst
McClatchy Newspapers
9/10/2008, by Pam Becker
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - On Sunday, a journey that started on newspaper comics pages nearly 30 years ago ended as it began _ with its maverick creator, Lynn Johnston, bucking comic strip tradition. As she has promised for some years, she wrote an ending for her popular strip, "For Better or For ...
Reflection: Becoming Prayer
Catholic Online
8/22/2009, by Deacon Keith Fournier
Through prayer, daily life takes on new meaning. It becomes a classroom of communion. CHESAPEAKE, VA (Catholic Online) - “Rejoice always. Pray without ceasing. In all circumstances give thanks, for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus. Do not quench the Spirit.” (1 Thess. ...
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