Happy Mothers Day: 'Queen of the Holy Ordinary'
Catholic Online
5/9/2009, by Jennifer Hartline
I’m a mother and a homemaker, and it isn’t glamorous. It’s tedious, monotonous, thankless, messy, germy, and it can be really hard on your manicure. It’s also the greatest job in the whole world. CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - Mother. Wife. Homemaker. Maid. Cook. Chauffer. Nurse. ...
Pro-life students urge activists to be “creative extremists”
Archdiocese of San Francisco
5/1/2009
San Francisco (Catholic San Francisco) - Lila Rose, founder of the pro-life group Live Action and keynote speaker at the 8th annual California Students for Life Celebrate Life Conference, encouraged participants to take concrete action against abortion. "Together we all have a place in this ...
Retreat centers: Economy down, but spiritual need is up
The Tidings
5/1/2009, by Janis Nelson
Los Angeles (Tidings Online) - San Gabriel Region retreat centers are welcoming slightly larger numbers of retreatants this spring, despite difficult economic times. Weekend retreats at Mater Dolorosa in Sierra Madre are booked by area parishes up to a year in advance during a retreat season, which ...
Vision for Change Needed in Catholic Schools
The Tidings
5/1/2009, by Paula Doyle
Los Angeles (Tidings Online) - In an age of declining enrollment and escalating costs, Catholic schools need visionary leaders unafraid to implement change, such as sharing resources with neighboring parish schools and, perhaps, even consolidating with them, said educators at the 2009 National ...
Reflection: In Work, Function Follows Form
Catholic Online
5/1/2009, by Deacon Keith Fournier
Christians with the eyes to see and ears to hear work can become a real participation in the continuing creative and redemptive work of the Lord. CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - “Have among yourselves the same attitude that is also yours in Christ Jesus, Who, though he was in the form of God, ...
Reflection: The Feast of Joseph the Worker and the ‘Gospel of Work’
Catholic Online
5/1/2009, by Deacon Keith Fournier
To come to a new understanding of the dignity of human labor requires what St Paul rightly called a 'renewal of the mind.' CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - During the last years of his service to the Church and the world the Servant of God John Paul II addressed an assembly of the leaders of ...
St. Gianna Beretta Molla, A Modern Day Hero of Divine Love
Catholic Action for Faith and Family
4/28/2009, by Thomas J. McKenna
One of the last saints the Servant of God Pope John Paul II canonized before his death was St. Gianna Beretta Molla. He designated April 28, the day she passed to her eternal reward, as her feast day. Today we commemorate this holy woman’s heroic life of virtue and recall her simple yet inspiring ...
Amish counting on hard work to weather recession
McClatchy Newspapers
4/22/2009, by Bill Glauber
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT) - Here, the economic news travels slowly, by word of mouth and horse and buggy. It filters through Mishler's Country Store, where bills are totaled on battered manual adding machines and kerosene lamps light the aisles when the sun goes down.
It circulates ...
CBS to air movie on 'courageous' Polish Catholic Sunday
Catholic News Agency
4/18/2009
New York City (CNA) - On Sunday evening CBS will broadcast a movie about the heroic efforts and “courageous heart” of Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker who created and led an underground group that rescued Jewish children from Nazi persecution. Sendler created and led a conspiracy of ...
Frugal in life, social worker gave away $1.4 million in death
McClatchy Newspapers
4/15/2009, by David Hunn
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT) - Jane M. Buri, a public school social worker, spent nearly four decades fighting to keep kids in class. She tracked students to their homes, found them shoes, meals, jackets, and returned the truants to their teachers. She never married, never had children, never ...
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