Parish's Stray Puppy Provides Fodder for Spiritual Messages
Catholic Online
7/17/2008
LONGWOOD, FL — Vinnie came to St. Vincent Church in Akron, Ohio, and into the ownership of Rev. Joseph Kraker as a six-week-old puppy. He had been thrown from a car and rescued by an observant driver who turned him over to a pet rescue organization. When the school secretary first called Kraker ...
Anne Rice's newest novel follows Jesus to Cana "Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana," by Anne Rice
Catholic News Service
5/5/2008, by Charlotte Miller
As with her first novel about Christ, Anne Rice has used careful research and scholarship to re-create the first century world of Yeshua (the Hebrew name for Jesus) in "Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana." This novel begins not long before Jesus' first miracle, the changing of water into wine at a ...
Book argues that 'unnecessary secrecy' hurts everyone in church
Catholic News Service
4/25/2008, by David Gibson
"Nothing to Hide" is a book about "unnecessary secrecy in the conduct of church affairs," written by Russell Shaw, a longtime Catholic writer and church social-communications expert. Shaw believes that, with the exception of the seal of the confessional, "the presumption in the church's day-in, ...
Excellent though biased account of Europe and Islam in the Dark Ages
Catholic News Service
4/18/2008, by Brian Welter
Christendom ceased to exist centuries ago, as Europe, once united under pope and emperor, proceeded in the Reformation, Enlightenment and thereafter to reject its religious heritage while trying to retain a sense of European identity and unity. The European Union currently incarnates the latest ...
Professor explains how Ireland adapted to modern world
Catholic News Service
4/4/2008, by John H. Carroll
This new study on the emergence of the "Celtic Tiger" should be read by Irish-Americans with an interest in the "Ould Sod." Roy Foster, a history professor at Hertford College at Oxford University, brings readers up-to-date on the momentous and sudden changes that have transformed Ireland from a ...
Engaging overview of Christianity leaves reader hungry for more
Catholic News Service
3/28/2008, by Christian Brother Jeffrey Gros
"The Christian World: A Global History" is an engaging, amazingly brief overview of Christianity through time, cultures and ideas by the Rev. Martin Marty, the leading voice among American Protestant historians. It is also a great contribution for the general reader and a fine resource for those ...
A Civilization of Love: What Every Catholic Can Do to Transform the World
Catholic News Service
3/25/2008
Today many ask, "What will become of the people in our world?" More specifically, author Carl Anderson asks, "What kind of people are we becoming in our world?" With the way the world is headed, many wonder what can be done to turn things around. We have perhaps heard various names used to describe ...
Author discusses decline and rise of democracy in Latin America
Catholic News Service
3/7/2008, by Agostino Bono
During a 1980 trip to Brazil, Pope John Paul II sternly warned that socio-economic and political reforms needed to be made quickly and urgently if Latin America was to stave off violent revolution. The pope was echoing what U.S. President John F. Kennedy said almost two decades earlier. "Those who ...
An analysis of faith professions inside the Oval Office
Catholic News Service
3/3/2008, by Mary Breslin
In a charged environment where presidential primary hopefuls such as Mitt Romney, a Mormon, and Mike Huckabee, an ordained Baptist minister, acknowledge their religious beliefs while at the same time making it plain that for them church and state are sacred but separate entities, Randall Balmer's ...
Book on Western expansionism starts well, goes nowhere
Catholic News Service
2/15/2008, by Brian Welter
Strobe Talbott, the longtime political affairs journalist for Time magazine and deputy secretary of state in 1994-2001, examines the often scarcely visible tendency of Western civilization toward unification. The groundwork laid by the ancient Hebrews toward universalism under one God, even if that ...
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