‘Miracle child’ cancer survivor and mom find faith, family at shelter
Catholic Online
7/20/2006, by John Shaughnessy
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (The Criterion) – Marti Green looked at the dark clouds gathering and prayed that the “miracle child” would arrive for her homecoming party before the storm struck. The menacing clouds were part of a “tornado warning” advisory that Terre Haute had been placed under – on the same ...
Grieving mother illustrates God’s forgiveness
Catholic Explorer
7/14/2006, by Kathrynne Sknonicki
ROMEOVILLE, Ill. — (Catholic Explorer) Thousands of fans cheered on their favorite Major League Baseball players July 11 at PNC Park in Pittsburgh as the American League battled the National League in the annual All Stars game. Sadly, one fan will never again have the opportunity to cheer on her ...
Iowan produces 'Bueno Gang', a Christian version of 'Little Rascals'
Catholic News Service
6/28/2006, by Steve McMahon
CLEAR LAKE, Iowa – Gregory Schmidt, who has an extensive film background, produces a children's movie series that endorses moral values and offers learning opportunities.
"It's like a Christian version of 'The Little Rascals' -- the 'Our Gang' comedy kids," he explained in a telephone interview ...
Medjugorje at 25: Pilgrims still flock
Catholic News Service
6/19/2006, by John Thavis
ROME – Twenty-five years after six children in Medjugorje, a village in what is now Bosnia-Herzegovina, began reporting apparitions of Mary, pilgrims are still flocking to the site and church officials are still cautious about the authenticity of the events. Marian experts continue to debate the ...
Liturgical music ministry is more than performing the right notes
Inland Register
6/13/2006, by Mitch Finley
SPOKANE, Wash. (Inland Register) - Back in the day, not that long ago, few Catholic parishes had paid musicians on staff. Today, however, more parishes hire a full- or part-time musician to see that music and the liturgy are integrated in ways that suit both the nature of liturgical rituals and the ...
Covenent House program helps turn lives around
Catholic New York
6/5/2006, by Mary Ann Poust
NEW YORK, N.Y. (Catholic New York) - Vivian Greaves, a hospital intake processor, didn't know where to turn some 15 years ago when a series of events placed her life on a negative track.
She had stopped going to school in the 10th grade, wasn't living with her family, and had a baby daughter who ...
Saint Reginald
Clarion Herald
6/2/2006, by Peter Finney Jr.
The thunderous chants – “Reggie! Reggie! Reggie!” – started early and reverberated throughout the jammed cafeteria of Holy Rosary Academy and High School in Metairie.
If there is such a thing as a Pied Piper for the National Football League’s neediest franchise, a person with rare athletic ...
Abbey offers peace, prayer, community and vocation
Catholic News Service
5/25/2006, by Paula Glover
VIRGINIA DALE, Colo. – At the Abbey of St. Walburga in Virginia Dale, life is marked by the pattern of the Liturgy of the Hours from the early church – matins, lauds, prime, terce, sext, none, vespers, compline – and is as peaceful as breathing in and out.
It is a life of work and prayer, where ...
Need for migrant workers great to get food to U.S. tables, farmers say
Catholic News Service
5/23/2006, by Patricia Zapor
WASHINGTON – It would be hard to find many people with a more comprehensive firsthand perspective on some of the problems of the U.S. immigration system than at Pasquinelli Produce Co., one of the largest employers in Yuma County, Ariz., bordered on one side by Mexico and on another by California. ...
Families say God's healing love carried them through loss
Catholic News Service
5/19/2006, by Colleen Rowan
MCMECHEN, W.Va. – In the year since a plane crash on Coney Island changed their lives forever, Jodi Block and Bob Gross say the healing love of God, their faith and support from family and friends has carried them through their overwhelming grief.
Eighteen-year-olds Danielle Marie Block and ...
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