Retiring QB Brett Favre's favorite victory: Wife survives cancer, aided by Catholic faith
Catholic Online
10/25/2007, by Sam Lucero
GREEN BAY, Wis. (Catholic Online/CNS)- He owns the National Football League records for most wins by a starting quarterback, most consecutive games played by a quarterback, most touchdown passes thrown, and most passing yards. He also sports a Super Bowl ring -- and a wedding ring. What's more, he ...
Monk never imagined this life
Arkansas Catholic
5/20/2007, by Tara Little
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Arkansas Catholic) – Greg Boland was working as a campus minister at a Catholic high school in Georgia in 2003 when he heard a priest say that sometimes the Holy Spirit speaks to you through others.
Boland took the message to heart and began to think of all the times others had ...
Bella Star shares how God changed his live
Canadian Catholic News
5/15/2007, by Deborah Gyapong
OTTAWA, Canada (CCN) – If the story of the rich young man from the Gospel of Matthew had a sequel updated for modern times, it might resemble the life of actor Eduardo Verastegui, a Catholic who stars in the new film “Bella.” In the gospel account, a rich young man asks Jesus what he needs to do ...
Prayer sustained me during genocide nightmare, Rwandan woman says
Catholic News Service
5/7/2007, by Michael C. Gabriele
CALDWELL, N.J. (CNS) – Immaculee Ilibagiza knows what it is like to rely on the power of prayer. With nothing other than rosary beads and prayer to sustain her, she survived the 1994 Rwandan genocide by hiding in a small bathroom with seven other women for 91 days. She lived through the systematic ...
Covering need – Boy’s blankets wrap dying patients, babies in love
Catholic News Service
5/7/2007, by Jill Ragar Esfeld
SHAWNEE, Kan. (CNS) – "Everybody deserves a blanket," insisted Connor McClain, a third-grader at Good Shepherd School in Shawnee. And he's bound and determined that everyone gets one.
A front-page story on Catholic Community Hospice that appeared last fall in The Leaven, newspaper of the ...
RCIA impact felt in Arkansas and beyond
Arkansas Catholic
5/7/2007, by Tara Little
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Arkansas Catholic) - The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults has made an indelible mark on the Catholic Church in Arkansas. Sister Mary Glynn, SJC, diocesan director of religious education and Christian initiation, estimates more 11,000 people have entered the Church through ...
New members say family, friends helped them enter Church
Arkansas Catholic
5/7/2007, by Maryanne Meyerriecks
CHARLESTON, Ark. (Arkansas Catholic) – Sacred Heart Church has a winning game plan for evangelization.
The parish of 230 families welcomes an average of six new members into the Church each year. In the past two years, four high school coaches – two from Greenwood High School and two from ...
St. Margaret’s parishioner provides job training to the incarcerated
The Catholic SUN
4/23/2007, by Claudia Mathis
SYRACUSE, N. Y. (The Catholic SUN) – “It was divine intervention,” said Bob Mattucci, parishioner at St. Margaret’s Church in Mattydale. Mattucci explained how, after working as a plumber for 22 years, he became a vocational education teacher and continued on to develop a basic plumbing training ...
Faith helps California Catholic rebuild life after disfiguring cancer
Catholic News Service
4/12/2007, by Carrie McClish
DANVILLE, Calif. (CNS) – Ask Terry Healey what his life was like before cancer and he will sum it up with three words: "pretty easy going." He was an athlete, a homecoming prince and a good student. Then during his junior year at the University of California Berkeley, doctors discovered that he had ...
Mississippi church a 'dream deferred' for African-American Catholics
Mississippi Catholic
4/12/2007, by Fabvienen Taylor
CAMDEN, Miss. (CNS) – "It's been almost like a 'dream deferred' for this community," said Trinitarian Father Mike Barth, quoting the words of the poet Langston Hughes.
The growing African-American Catholic community in rural northeast Madison County celebrated its first Easter April 8 in the new ...
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