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'God's plan is so much bigger than a church building,' Father Viveros stressed. 'God's plan for all of us was to be transformed.'

A Year After Fire, Parish Starts to Rebuild

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/15/2012

Last year, Msgr. Tim Nichols addressed the shocked St. John Vianney parishioners, many who watch their church being destroyed in an arson-set conflagration less than 24 hours before the fire, at the Palm Sunday Mass in the parish hall. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - "I'll be honest with you ...

What the Fire Spared: On Mary and Motherhood

By Martha Lyles • Catholic Online • 5/14/2012

Every fire refines, and the one that claimed our house was no exception. We are stronger and wiser now, more grateful, less materialistic. But I would feel ungrateful to God if I complained, so I focus on the many ways He has guarded and sustained us. POWAY, CA (Catholic Online) - The thing you ...

The Happy Priest Reflects on the Greatness of Motherhood

By Fr. James Farfaglia • Catholic Online • 5/14/2012

Motherhood is a high calling.  What can replace the love of a mother and a grandmother? The love, guidance and influence they provide to their children are distinct and invaluable. All mothers who wish to be true to their high calling need only look to the woman who became the greatest mother ...

The Happy Priest: Living Our Lives for Others

By Fr. James Farfaglia • Catholic Online • 5/13/2012

Despite the many challenges and sufferings of daily existence, a life of selfless love energizes the true Christian in such way that they are able to soar above every challenge.  Anyone who wants to live true Christianity is called to live selflessly.  Does a true mother complain when she ...

President Supports Homosexual 'Marriage': Obama's Fool's Gold Rule

By Andrew M. Greenwell, Esq. • Catholic Online • 5/12/2012

That Obama would use the Golden Rule to justify, to sanction, indeed to compel State support for activity that is considered offensive by any traditional Jew and Christian-and any virtuous pagan-betrays his ignorance, or perhaps even willful misuse of it.  CORPUS CHRISTI, TX (Catholic Online) ...

Catholic Social Doctrine: To Restore All Things in Christ

By Andrew M. Greenwell, Esq. • Catholic Online • 5/11/2012

Jesus, the "new Adam," is at the center of the Church's understanding of the international community of nations, the nations to which she addresses the Gospel and seeks to baptize into its truths. "The Lord Jesus is the prototype and foundation of the new humanity." (Compendium, No. 431) Not Moses, ...

Like any good pusher, Planned Parenthood doesn't like to be kept waiting for your baby...

Planned Parenthood hates waiting for your baby

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/10/2012

The Utah legislature has approved the longest waiting period in the union for abortions. The state House and Senate have both agreed to extend the waiting period from one day to three. Planned Parenthood is outraged. SALT LAKE CITY, UT (Catholic Online) - The extended waiting period is intended to ...

The cult objects included five standing stones, two basalt altars, two pottery libation vessels and two portable shrines. Garfinkel said the shrines reflected a Mesopotamian architectural style that went back centuries before the era of King David, and probably inspired the look of the palace built by Solomon, David's son.

Fresh historical connections made to the stories of King David and King Solomon

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/9/2012

Fresh, historical connections to the stories of King David and King Solomon have been made following an archaeological dig near Goliath's biblical hometown. The artifacts have yielded evidence of Judean religious practices 3,000 years ago. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - "We have a city ...

Georgetown University, as Catholic as Kathleen Sebelius.

The Devil went down to Georgetown

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/9/2012

If it were a song it would be called, "The Devil Went Down to Georgetown." But this isn't a song - it's reality. Kathleen Sebelius, who has openly dissented from the teaching of the Church and drawn the ire of so many Catholics and other Christians, has been invited to speak at an awards ...

Catholic Social Doctrine: The Communion of Nations

By Andrew M. Greenwell, Esq. • Catholic Online • 5/8/2012

One cannot understand the Church's social doctrine and social thought on international relations without appreciating the Church's understanding of the universal nature of Jesus and the universal mandate given to her by Christ.  Indeed, the term "Catholic" comes to us from Greek katholikos, ...

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