Saint Jerome: Priest and Doctor, Father of Biblical Science
Catholic Online
9/30/2009, by F. K. Bartels
Let us, with St. Jerome, embrace the Catholic Church as a guiding, guarding and nurturing mother whose concern is that we receive truth. GLADE PARK, Colorado (Catholic Online) - St. Jerome is one of the four great Latin Doctors of the Church, and is perhaps best known for his translation of the ...
Abortion: The Fallen Angel’s ‘Hate Crime’
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9/30/2009, by F. K. Bartels
How is it that the intentional killing of the innocent has become so entrenched in this society, when it is so plainly evil? GLADE PARK, Colorado (Catholic Online) - The pervasive reality of abortion on demand in this secularist society is both horrific and perplexing. On the one hand, abortion is ...
Married Love for Life: 'With My Body I Thee Wed'
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9/29/2009, by Sonja Corbitt
At Communion, I saw him struggle to fit the wheelchair between the organ and the aisle...so she could receive Communion. BETHPAGE, TN (Catholic Online) - I see him every Sunday at Mass, he and his wife. There’s nothing in particular, physically, to commend him. A senior of rather small stature, he ...
Praying the Rosary for Inner Healing
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9/29/2009, by Fr. Dwight Longenecker
'The rosary marks the rhythm of human life, bringing it into harmony with the rhythm of God’s own life.' (Pope John Paul II) GREENVILLE (Catholic Online) - As a young Anglican priest, from an Evangelical background, I had had no experience in praying the rosary. In fact, I was prejudiced against ...
Dressing for the King: Wearing 'Our Sunday Best'
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9/23/2009, by Jennifer Hartline
My parents taught us that part of our offering to the Lord on Sunday was the best of what we had to wear.What has happened? CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - When I was a little girl, I always loved to watch my parents getting ready for church on Sunday. It was an important thing in my house. ...
Do We Know What Life Is?
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9/23/2009, by F. K. Bartels
What has happened to our nation? How is it that we have forgotten what the meaning of life is? How have we entered into such darkness? The answer is sin. GLADE PARK, Colorado (Catholic Online) - In his first papal homily, Pope Benedict XVI stated: "Only when we meet the living God in Christ do we ...
Called to Love: Common Vocation, Uncommon Joy
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9/16/2009, by Carl Anderson
Inauthentic love has a name: hypocrisy. It speaks the language of love, but not its meaning. NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (Zenit.org) - A couple of years ago, when Benedict XVI visited with some students, two of them asked him a question that could have come from anyone, Catholic or non-Catholic ...
A sermon of St Bernard: His Mother Stood by the Cross
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9/15/2009, by St. Bernard of Clairvaux
'What an exchange! John is given to you in place of Jesus, the servant in place of the Lord, the disciple in place of the master.' CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - We offer for all of our global readers this portion of a homily proclaimed by St. Bernard of Clairvaux:
St. Bernard of ...
Marian Feast: Our Lady of Sorrows
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9/15/2009, by Sonja Corbitt
It was because He was the son of her heart that the sword would pierce her there. BETHPAGE, TN (Catholic Online) - She is a strange and beautiful human sign of grace, a holy mystery, Our Lady of Sorrows, the Suffering Servant’s mother. There was never a moment in Jesus’ thirty three years that Mary ...
Scripture Reflection: Joseph the Patriarch, Dream Giver
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9/11/2009, by Sonja Corbitt
Delight in the Lord, and as you dream His dream, He will conquer those things meant for evil and renew the face of the earth. BETHPAGE, TN (Catholic Online) - What is it about dreamers that irritates us so? We might admire them for their vision and for pushing the limits of the status quo to pursue ...
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