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September 2012

September 04, 2012

PURGATORY AND PRESUMPTION: Please Don’t Forget to Pray For Me!

The news this week has been full of celebrity passings: Rev. Sun Myun Moon, founder...

September 02, 2012

Facebook’s Newest Content Blocker Replaces Baby Photos With…. CATS?

A new Google Chrome add-on blocks photos of babies, replacing them with jokes or political...

September 02, 2012

Rerum Novarum and Obama’s Economic Policy

On the first Monday of September, Americans say goodbye to summer with picnics and parades, fireworks...

September 02, 2012

Sackcloth and Ashes: Burlap Sculptures Reflect Christ’s Humanity

There were so many great vendors at the CMN, selling ...

August 2012

August 31, 2012

Cardinal Dolan’s Prayer at the Republican National Convention

Following is the closing benediction which was offered by Cardinal Timothy Dolan at the RNC...

August 30, 2012

A Celebration of Unity: Our Lady of Walsingham’s Beautiful Window

Isn't this beautiful? This is the window in the offices of the Personal Ordinariate of...

August 29, 2012

Catholic Marketing Network Showcases the Best in Religious Art, Reading, and More

Books and Bibles, rosaries and rock carvings, window clings and children’s things. This week, it’s...

August 27, 2012

Thieves Target Downriver Parish–Twice

Riverview is a quiet bedroom community stretched along the Detroit River, about fifteen miles south...

August 26, 2012

A Scriptural Trifecta in Ordinary Time

Wow, so let me ask you: Were you at Mass this morning? (Say yes, say...

August 22, 2012

Al Kresta’s Analysis of This Whole “Al Smith Dinner” Thing

I invited Al Kresta, CEO of Ave Maria Radio and host of the nationally-syndicated "Kresta...

August 22, 2012

Nailing Jello to a Tree: The Wit and Wisdom of Al Kresta

It was the fall of 1987. I was heading southward on I-75, driving home from...

August 22, 2012

A Good Idea Morphs Into “Skinhead Barbie”?

A few days ago, I posted an article about L’Osservatore Romano’s expressed support for “Bald...

August 21, 2012

Bartholomew: Any Friend of Jesus Is a Friend of Mine

Any Friend of Jesus’ is a Friend of Mine. And this week, we remember one...

August 20, 2012

Vatican Newspaper Makes the Case for “Bald Barbie”

L’Osservatore Romano, the official newspaper of the Vatican, is asking toy manufacturer Mattel Inc. to...

August 17, 2012

SUCCESS! Facebook Game Builds Faith, Exceeds One Million Players

I told you you’d love it! Back in May 2012, when the new faith-based on-line...

August 17, 2012

What Does It Mean to Be Catholic? Saudi Government Weighs In

Catholic: of, relating to, or forming the ancient undivided Christian church or a church claiming...

August 14, 2012

MARY, THE MOTHER OF GOD – Honored in World’s Largest Stained Glass Window

The largest stained glass church window in the world is in [choose one]: (1) Cologne, Germany; ...

August 14, 2012

The Holy Right: Unpacking the Mystery of Relics

Yesterday I talked about St. Stephen of Hungary—but how did I forget to tell you...

August 13, 2012

“I Forgive Him” Says 6-Year-Old Girl, Bitten By Shark

It’s Shark Week on the Discovery Channel! Once again, the Tigers and Hammerheads and Bullheads...

August 13, 2012

A Politician-Saint?! St. Stephen of Hungary

It’s not often that a politician is canonized as a saint, is it? Thursday, August 16 is...

August 12, 2012

Holy Grail, Holy Girls, and Holy Grill

On August 10, the Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of St. Lawrence of Rome. I...

August 11, 2012

The Seashell and the Three-In-One

Augustine of Hippo lived a wild life—abandoning the faith, fathering a child out of wedlock,...

August 10, 2012

The “Show Me State” Shows Us That They Pray

Welcome to Missouri, a land of fertile plains, rolling hills, well-watered prairies and historic rivers…....

August 09, 2012

Breaking Bread With the Enemy: The Al Smith Dinner

“So he’s given us a year to figure out how to violate our consciences…” “You’ve...

August 07, 2012

Summer Snowfall Interrupted: Vandals Spoil the Fun at Rome Basilica

At the beginning of each of the ten videos in Fr. Robert Barron’s “Catholicism” series,...

August 05, 2012

The Ladder of St. Augustine

The Ladder of St. Augustine By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Saint Augustine! well hast thou said,...

August 05, 2012

Oh Lord, I Want to Be in That Number!

Happy Birthday, Louis Armstrong! "He was born poor, died rich, and never hurt anyone along...

August 04, 2012

Because We Can All Use a Little Laughter

August 04, 2012

The Transfiguration: Raphael’s Deathbed Masterpiece

Peter, James and John climbed the mountain with Jesus to pray; and there they witnessed...

August 04, 2012

Scientists Discover Remains of the High Priest Caiaphas

“It is better that one man should die, rather than the people.” This was the...

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