More News

Second asteroid set to 'buzz' the earth

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/8/2010

A small asteroid passed within the moon's distance from the Earth, and another will do likewise shortly afterwards, space watchers say. The objects don't pose a threat to Earth, and will not be visible to the naked eye, Donald Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near Earth Program says. The program tracks ...

Planned Koran burning condemned worldwide

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/8/2010

A small evangelical church in Florida's plans to burn Korans this September 11 has been denounced across the United States and the world. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denounced it as a "disrespectful, disgraceful act." In addition, the Vatican says the burning would be an "outrageous and ...

More U.S. »

Castro: Missile crisis 'wasn't worth it'

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/8/2010

Former dictator of Cuba Fidel Castro granted his first in-depth interview with the western press in order to discuss his fears on nuclear war. Calling upon Jeffrey Goldberg, a national correspondent for The Atlantic, Castro granted several in-depth interviews. "His body may be frail, but his mind ...

World's smallest man is 27 inches tall

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/6/2010

"It bothers me that people are (always) touching me and picking me up," 24-year-old Edward Nino Hernandez of Colombia says. According to the Guinness Book of World records, Hernandez is the world's shortest living man. At only 27 inches tall and weighing 22 pounds, he's finding newfound fame as a ...

More Americas »

Extolling Hidegrad of Bingen, Pope Affirms Special Contribution Women Make to Theology

Vatican Information Service • 9/8/2010

He encouraged all women "who undertake this service to do so with a profound ecclesial spirit, nourishing their reflections with prayer and looking to the great riches - still partly unexplored - of the mediaeval mystical tradition.. we see how theology can receive a special contribution from ...

Vatican Raises Great Concern on News of Protestant Pastors Call to Burn Korans

Vatican Information Service • 9/8/2010

'Each religion, with its respective sacred books, places of worship and symbols, has the right to respect and protection. We are speaking about the respect to be accorded the dignity of the person who is an adherent of that religion and his/her free choice in religious matters'. VATICAN CITY, ...

More Europe »

Stoning death of Iranian woman put on hold

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/8/2010

An Iranian woman accused of adultery and murder that was set to be stoned to death has had her death sentence put on hold. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told state-run Press TV that the "sentencing of Ms. [Sakineh Mohammadi] Ashtiani for adultery has been stopped and (her ...

Suicide bomber kills 19 in Pakistan

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/7/2010

A suicide bomber rammed his vehicle into a Pakistani police station, killing 19 people. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place in the northwestern town of Lakki Marwat. It was the first series of terrorist attacks after devastating floods tore through the ...

More Middle East »

Pakistan faces hunger, homelessness and desperation

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/2/2010

Torrential rains and flooding have battered Pakistan over the past month, leading to the south Asian nation's worst ever recorded catastrophe. All five provinces have been effected, and the World Food Program now says that Pakistan faces a "triple threat" from the floods. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic ...

Pakistani women face health crisis in flooding

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 8/30/2010

Heavy rainfall and nonstop flooding have driven many Pakistanis from their homes, where they huddle in wait for aid that is slow in coming. The floods have damaged more than 200 health facilities and a third of the nation's 100,000 female health workers have been left without a place to practice. ...

More Asia Pacific »

Military rapes in eastern Congo far worse than feared

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/8/2010

United nation officials say that the systematic rapes of tribal women in the eastern Congo by rebel soldiers is far worse than previously feared. The number of rapes and sexual attacks since late July now stand at 500, more than twice what was previously estimated. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic ...

Material for electronics mined cheaply for $1 daily in Congo

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 8/31/2010

Workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo must toil long and hard, for as little as $1 to $15 a day in order to mine minerals necessary for high-tech toys sold for top dollar in the west. The material used in your laptop computer or cell phone more than likely come from Congo mines. LOS ANGELES, ...

More Africa »

U.S. Political Season Begins: 'Morally Coherent' Catholics Can Change this Nation

By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 9/8/2010

Catholics are not one more "interest group" which can be polled, pandered to and bought. Our social obligation is to promote the true common good, not just use the slogan to sound "catholic" as happened in the last political cycle. We need to promote the truth as taught by the Church no matter what ...

Guest Editorial: True Freedom. Protecting Our Most Basic Right

By Jennifer Kimball • Inside Catholic • 9/7/2010

True freedom is not to be confused with freedom from responsibility, but implies a responsibility to our fellow man. Our country was built on this principle: that all may be free to build a just community according to inherent values -- values derived from Judeo-Christian principles -- and that ...

More Politics & Policy »

PacifiCare accused of breaking law one million times

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/8/2010

Health insurer PacifiCare faces fines as high as $9.9 billion over allegations of mismanaged medical claims. PacifiCare is accused of losing thousands of patient documents, failing to pay doctors what they were owed and ignoring telephone calls to address these issues. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic ...

Prediction: 400 U.S. banks will fail

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/7/2010

Renowned economist Nouriel Roubini of Roubini Global Economics warns that even if the U.S. and European economies avoid a double dip, it will still feel like a recession, while more than half of the 800-plus U.S. banks on the "critical list" are likely to go bust. Furthermore, the second half of ...

More Business & Economics »

Lost John Ford comedy restored to near perfection

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/7/2010

Classic American director John Ford is best known for his westerns such as "Stagecoach." His 1927 romantic comedy "Upstream," about the trials and tribulations of a boarding house for actors, was neglected for many years and considered a "lost" film - until a high tech restoration brought it back ...

George Clooney's 'The American' victorious at box office

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/6/2010

George Clooney's "The American" cleaned up at the nation's box office over the Labor Day weekend. "Machete," a controversial satire on exploitation films and the heist thriller "Takers" were in a close tie for second place. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - "The American, in theaters ...

More Movies »

'Harry Potter' author donates millions to MS research

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 8/31/2010

To honor her mother who died from the disease, "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling has donated $15.4 million to set up a new clinic for research into multiple sclerosis. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Based at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, the clinic will be named after Rowling's ...

Author C. S. Lewis still sells briskly - August Best Sellers

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 8/18/2010

The author of the celebrated Narnia series is enjoying readership long after his death. No less than four of his books is listed in this month's Catholics best sellers list. Hardcover 1. "Rediscovering Catholicism" by Matthew Kelly, Beacon Publishing, 97819292660812. "God's Tender Mercy" by Joan ...

More Books »

Fox News still at top of cable news wars

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/1/2010

The final days of August were light on cable news networks. Without the benefit of any major catastrophes, most Americans tried to sew up their summers with fun activities in lieu of staying glued to their TV sets. There were some bright spots - Fox News remains on top, and there were some ...

Emmys go mad for 'Men;' 'Lost' does just that

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 8/30/2010

The 62nd annual Emmy award winners went mad for "Mad Men," the critically acclaimed series on Madison Avenue executives in the Sixties. Popular audience favorite "Glee " only won a handful of awards after more than a dozen nominations, and the final season of "Lost" did just that, without winning a ...

More Television »

Founding member of ELO killed in freak accident

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/7/2010

He helped from the progressive rock powerhouse Electric Light Orchestra or ELO at the height of the glam rock era. He would pluck at his cello with a banana, orange or grapefruit wearing outlandish costumes. Musician Mike Edwards is dead after being killed in a freak accident. The 62-year-old ...

'Sing Along with Mitch' Miller dead at 99

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 8/3/2010

He was a controversial and leading force in American popular music, beloved by many, despised by others - most people remember him as the kindly bearded conductor who encouraged his audience to sing along to such favorites as "The Yellow Rose of Texas." "Sing Along with Mitch" Miller has died at ...

More Music »

Saucy comic Schimmel dies at the age of 60

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/6/2010

Robert Schimmel, a comedian best known for his "blue" material and a popular fixture on the Howard Stern Show has died from the injuries he suffered in a traffic accident last month. He was 60. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Schimmel was known for his cool delivery of routines. His ...

Catherine Zeta-Jones furious over late cancer diagnosis

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/2/2010

Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones has told People magazine that she's furious over the late diagnosis for throat cancer that was given to her husband, actor Michael Douglas. "It makes me furious they didn't detect it earlier," Zeta-Jones told People. "He sought every option and nothing was found." LOS ...

More Celebrity News »

Symposium: 'Humanae Vitae' is About Human Dignity, Spousal Love and the Gift of Self

By Karna Swanson • Zenit News Agency • 9/3/2010

Father Szymczak explained to the participants the fullness of the encyclicals' teaching. It can only be understood within the teaching of the Church concerning Spousal love. "Only through this gift of self does a man develop as a man, and a woman develop as a woman. When a ...

Impatience cited as reason behind growing C-sections

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 8/31/2010

Cesarean sections, or c-sections, where a child is delivered with surgical help have increased in the United States over the past 14 years. C-sections have increased by as much as 50 percent since 1996. Researchers think that one of the chief reasons could be simply impatience with births, or a ...

More Marriage & Family »

The Most Holy Trinity: Supreme Model for Family And Marriage

By F. K. Bartels • Catholic Online • 7/2/2010

The importance of the family cannot be overstressed. The Church considers the family as 'the first natural society,' and "places it at the center of social life" (CSDC No. 211). John Paul II observed in Christifideles Laici that the family is presented, in the Creator's plan, as 'the primary place ...

Inspire: Unfailing Love and a Heart Like Mine

By Jennifer Hartline • Catholic Online • 4/25/2010

You and I are loved beyond our comprehension. No language exists that can capture the quality of His love for us and the lengths to which He has gone to rescue His lost children. Only the Word Himself can say it. He who owed me nothing at all, who had nothing to prove, patiently and ...

More Love & Relationship »

Seminaries Beginning to Fill? The Fields are Ripe. Pray for Workers for the Harvest

By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 9/8/2010

We are living in a Church which is over 2000 years old. It is the Church which Jesus Christ himself founded. It is His Plan for the salvation of the whole world and He has not changed His mind. Church history follows a predictable pattern. Just when the naysayers are ready to count Christ's Church ...

After Labor Day: Reflection on the Dignity of all Human Work

By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 9/7/2010

A Catholic vision of work views it in light of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ.The entirety of our human experience was assumed by Jesus, including our labor, our human work, no matter what form it takes. All work was transformed by Christ the worker! The Son of God worked. Even as a child he ...

More Living Faith »

Black rice packs an antioxidant punch

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 8/31/2010

While blueberries are enjoying resurgence in popularity in places such as South Korea, for its antioxidant properties in addition to taste, black rice has been proven to be even better for you. Research shows that black rice packs a bigger antioxidant punch even than blueberries, which have long ...

More than half a billion eggs recalled

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 8/23/2010

More eggs are set to be recalled in the wake of salmonella poisoning across the United States. More than half a billion eggs have already been recalled, in what the Food and Drug Administration calls "largest such egg recall in recent history." FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg says the task at ...

More Home & Food »

Americans still puffing away on 'cancer sticks'

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/8/2010

Try as much as the Forces for Sensible Lifestyles, Americans insist on lighting up on those cigarettes for that rush of nicotine. In spite of all the links to cancer and heart disease, U.S. citizens are still taking time out of their busy days for a smoke break. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - ...

High incidence of obesity found in New York children

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/8/2010

Two in every five children in New York City from kindergarten through eighth grade are either overweight or obese. Those are the troubling findings as reported in The New York Times this week. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - A significant 22 percent of the children surveyed have body mass ...

More Health »

Carson mansion fine example of Victorian design

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/8/2010

Built out of redwood and 97,000 feet of white mahogany from Central America, onyx from East India, Mexico and the Philippines, the Carson mansion, located in Eureka, California, continues to draw admirers to this day. The home is widely recognized to be the most photographed and written about ...

Cable car museum full of hustle and bustle

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/3/2010

The San Francisco Cable Car Museum is not your typical museum. When one thinks of a museum, one tends to think of it being filled with the archaic artifacts of yesteryear, each lighted softly and placed behind Plexiglas. The cable car museum is full of noise, hustle and bustle, a clamoring dynamo ...

More Travel »

Thomas More College Of Liberal Arts: Academically Strong, Fully Faithful

By F. K. Bartels • Catholic Online • 9/5/2010

Many Catholics are intent on receiving a fruitful education centered on Christ and the Magisterium of the Catholic Church he founded, that they may live productive lives as friends of God, and shape society according to the divine plan of our Redeemer. Simply, they see the purpose of their life as ...

Interview: What a Couple of Graduates Have to Say About Franciscan University

By Michael Terheyden • Catholic Online • 8/30/2010

Franciscan University is located in Steubenville, Ohio. It is a small Catholic university; yet, it is one of the more renowned Catholic universities in the Nation - with a global presence. I know some very special young men and women who graduated from Franciscan. They are the greatest ...

More College & University »

Saint Bonaventure: Bishop, Doctor, Apostle of Truth

By F. K. Bartels • Catholic Online • 7/15/2010

Certainly a soul can be very close to our Lord Jesus Christ without constantly directing its attention toward understanding dogma or doctrine or even common Church teaching. But is it to a soul's advantage to ignore these things? Put another way, can we say we love God to the fullest extent ...

Corpus Christi: Pope Benedict Commends St. Thomas Aquinas, Faith and Reason

Catholic Online • 6/3/2010

'St. Thomas has a profoundly Eucharistic soul. The beautiful hymns that the liturgy of the Church sings to celebrate the mystery of the real presence of the Body and Blood of the Lord in the Eucharist are due to his faith and theological wisdom....Thomas' personal humility but also the fact ...

More Christian Saints & Heroes »

Another oil rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/3/2010

The entire world seemingly gasped in unison "not again!" However - officials say thee is no indication of any oil leakage with the news of another oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The blast occurred 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay along the central ...

Latin American Symposium Focuses on a Christian Spirituality of Ecology

Zenit News Agency • 9/3/2010

The participants reaffirmed their faith in a loving God, Creator of all that exists, who is the only Lord of the earth. He has entrusted this creation to human beings, faces of the qualities of their Creator, for its protection and cultivation."From it is derived the logic of the gift and ...

More Green »

How much they pay for Google ads revealed

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/7/2010

The amount of money big companies spend on Google's keyword search ads until now has been a closely guarded secret. Michael Learmonth at Ad Age has since spilled the beans. Learmonth obtained copies of internal Google documents, detailing how much various companies spend. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic ...

Steve Jobs and company get serious over Apple TV

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/2/2010

Apple TV has been seen by some inside the company as a "hobby." Customer response has been at best lukewarm, and the set-top box has been overshadowed by the iPod and iPhone. That's all set to change, as Apple CEO Steve Jobs has apparently rolled up his sleeves to take this hobby much more ...

More Technology »