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By Fr. Jack Peterson, Catholic Exchange, May 30th, 2009
I had the privilege of visiting the Grand Canyon some years ago. I vividly remember standing in complete awe of the beauty and mystery that was flooding my mind. I also recall a profound sense that my brain was unable to capture in that moment the fullness of [...]
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Father James Farfaglia is pastor of St. Helena of the True Cross of Jesus Catholic Church in Corpus Christi, Texas. May 29, 2009
Pentecost was a feast day for the Jewish people. On this day, many Jews were known to have made a special pilgrimage to the temple in Jerusalem. At first, the feast was celebrated [...]
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By Kathleen Gilbert, May 22, 2009, LifeSiteNews.com
SOUTH BEND, Indiana – Dozens of pro-life protesters arrested at the University of Notre Dame on May 17 for protesting President Obama’s commencement speech will be heading back to Indiana in coming weeks from all across the country to stand trial. While Notre Dame had pro-life demonstrators summarily arrested [...]
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…. (Burke) feared particularly the kind of man “whose whole importance has begun with his office, and is sure to end with it”– the kind of man “who before he comes into power has no friends, or who coming into power is obliged to desert his friends.” Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers and others came to mind….
By [...]
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“Facts to Liberals are Like Crosses to Vampires.”
….“She is a trivial politician, viciously using partisanship for the narrowest of purposes, and she dishonors the Congress by her behavior… This is really, really dangerous, and it is going to get a lot of people killed, if we don’t call a halt to it.”….
By Floyd and [...]
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Saturday of the Seventh Week of Easter
Father Paul Campbell, LC
John 21:20-25
Peter turned and saw the disciple following whom Jesus loved, the one who had also reclined upon his chest during the supper and had said, “Master, who is the one who will betray you?” When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, “Lord, [...]
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CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY, MAY 30, 2009
Joan was born into a family of five children in 1412, and she worked as a shephedess. When Joan was 13, she believed she received visions urging her to save France from the joint forces of England and Burgundy and to restore to the French throne the true king.
In [...]
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Lovely Lady dressed in blue –
Teach me how to pray!
God was just your little boy,
Tell me what to say!
Did you lift Him up, sometimes,
Gently on your knee?
Did you sing to Him the way
Mother does to me?
Did you hold His hand at night?
Did you ever try
Telling stories of the world?
O! And did He cry?
Do you [...]
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….If conservative are ever to break the back of the welfare state, and introduce a horizontal and sociable society in place of the cruel and rigid liberal administrative state, then our task is clear. We have to persuade moderate women that the present setup does a terrible job of helping them care for their children, [...]
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Leap in U.S. debt hits taxpayers with 12% more red ink
By Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY
Taxpayers are on the hook for an extra $55,000 a household to cover rising federal commitments made just in the past year for retirement benefits, the national debt and other government promises, a USA TODAY analysis shows.
The 12% rise in [...]
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By Michelle Malkin
TownHall.com, May 29, 2009
Left-wing groups in Washington, D.C., are panicked. The New York Times and other Team Obama whitewashers are downplaying the connection between the Obama presidential campaign, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and Obama’s old employer Project Vote (ACORN’s nonprofit canvassing arm). Alas, the truth keeps seeping out. [...]
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Fox News: President Barack Obama wrapped a west coast swing by hitting up donors for big money Wednesday night in Los Angeles, providing a progress report on his presidency and telling supporters they, “ain’t seen nothing yet.”
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….The reason 1950s kids could be successfully taught in overcrowded classrooms is because they had been and were being properly disciplined in the home . . . few parents realize the solution to American’s education woes lies in their hands. They have been persuaded that the reformers, given enough money, will solve the problems. When [...]
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Friday, May 29, 2009
Don’t worry about treating children fairly. Remember that to a child, “fair” means “me first” with the biggest and best of everything.
http://www.rosemond.com/view/389/21577/Quotation-of-the-Day.html
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…..Jon and Kate are much more than a study in living with multiples. They’re a lab experiment for the effects of fame, money and ambition on the health of a marriage and the well-being of a family. Incubating in their Pennsylvania petri dish, the Gosselins seem to be growing the fungus of celebrity, and clearly [...]
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….Nancy Northrup, President of the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), said Judge Sotomayor’s growing up in a single parent household with limited means should provide her with a perspective (on the U.S. Supreme Court)“sorely needed today as women’s reproductive rights remain under attack.”….
“Pro-Abortion Ggroups Praise Nomination of Sotomayor to Supreme Court”, Catholic News Agency, May 29, 2009
Washington [...]
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By Monsignor Dennis Clark, Ph.D., Catholic Exchange, May 29th, 2009
Acts 25:13-21 / Jn 21:15-19
Love, they say, makes the world go round. But what is it? Those warm, mushy feelings that well up inside us? Those tears that flow when we watch our first communicants walk up the aisle in the little white suits and dresses? [...]
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EXCERPT: ….Obama has appointed numerous nominal Catholics, many of whom are notorious supporters of abortion, to prestigious offices. Those who have been appointed include Vice President Joe Biden, CIA Director Leon Panetta, Health Secretary Kathleen Sibelius, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, and Commerce Secretary Bill Richardson.
The appointment of so many nominal Catholics to top positions [...]
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The Obama administration is floating the notion of common ground with the pro-life community in order to reduce the number of abortions. Or so he says. But as a magician uses smoke and mirrors to confuse the audience, Obama is using speeches and misdirection to cover up what he is REALLY doing, which is to [...]
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CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY, May 29, 2009
Archbishop Joseph Kurtz
Washington D.C. – The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) praised as “eminently reasonable” the California Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Proposition 8, a successful ballot measure that restored the definition of marriage to “the union of one man and one woman.”
Archbishop of Louisville Joseph E. Kurtz, chairman [...]
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Friday of the Seventh Week of Easter
Father Walter Schu, LC
John 21:15-19
After Jesus had revealed himself to his disciples and eaten breakfast with them, he said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” He said to [...]
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CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY, MAY 29, 2009
Richard Thirkeld was ordained in France in 1579 and returned to York, England, soon after to serve as a home missioner. He was arrested on the eve of the Annunciation in 1538 for the crime of priesthood.
He was imprisoned for two months before being brought to court May 27, 1538 [...]
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