Now, I’m not going to get all sentimental and say anything like “I grew up with Vincent Schiavelli”, but I can say he has played a big part of the movie entertainment experience in my life. I remember well his roles ranging from the recovering coffee addict science teacher in Fast Times at Ridgemont High [...]
This is a really sad story. Please keep her and her family in your prayers.
A mother-of-five was killed when she fell from her loft as she collected her children’s Christmas presents.
Eternal rest grant unto them oh Lord. And may perpetual light shine on them. May the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy [...]
A. Carlton Sallet has posted a prayer for bloggers.
Lord, we ask your blessings be poured out upon we who blog, that we may be given an abundance of the cardinal virtues to guide our hands: fortitude, to suffer fools gladly; temperance, to tame our flames; prudence, to know when enough is enough and justice, that [...]
It’s about time too. The episcopate has been empty since even before i moved to Nashville last February.
I’d like to congratulate father Choby and give him the promise to keep him in my prayers.
Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Reverend David R. Choby as the eleventh Bishop of Nashville. Rev. Choby will be ordained [...]
MISA DE GALLO or the nine-day Simbang Gabi (dawn Mass) is an occasion for Filipinos to strengthen their spirituality and bond as family and to enjoy the scents, sights, sounds and taste of Christmas.
In northern and Central Luzon, various traditions, including a nine-day novena, accompany the celebration of the Simbang Gabi.
I’ve heard a lot about [...]
A Roman Catholic bishop here has excommunicated members of a communal sect whose leader allegedly claims to be a manifestation of the late Pope John Paul II.
Sect leader Edwin Gonzalez Concepcion and his followers can no longer receive communion or participate in church activities, according to the order issued by Mayaguez Bishop Ulises Casiano Vargas.
Surely [...]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Nashville fire department officials say a man lying on a railroad track has been killed by a train.
Department spokesman Charles Shannon says it isn’t clear why the victim was on the rails when the C-S-X train passed over him.
The Nashville police department and the medical examiner’s office are investigating the incident that occurred [...]
SILOAM SPRINGS, Ark. - Pregnant skydiver Shayna Richardson has survived a face-first plunge into the ground.
Richardson, 21, of Joplin, Mo., was making her first solo jump in Siloam Springs, Ark., on Oct. 9 when her main parachute failed and her reserve chute didn’t fully deploy.
What? WHAT!?!?!? She was pregnant and she went up [...]
Do you need more technology to help with NFP? I know some of you know what “NFP” means. It’s a Catholic thing I know. I could go into a lengthy explanation of why artificial contraception is wrong, but that’s for another post. This post is to introduce a new gadget that [...]
I really have mixed feelings on this.
SAN QUENTIN, Calif. - Convicted killer Stanley Tookie Williams, the Crips gang co-founder whose case stirred a national debate about capital punishment versus the possibility of redemption, was executed Tuesday morning.
On the one had, I really don’t understand why in a country with our wealth and resources [...]
MUNICH, Germany - Cardinal Leo Scheffczyk, a conservative theologian who due to his age did not participate in the conclave that elected
Pope Benedict XVI in April, has died, his office said Friday. He was 85.
I didn’t know anything about him until reading his obit, but he sounded like a good man…
Eternal rest grant unto them [...]
Response to a recent Vatican document barring men with ”deep-rooted homosexual tendencies” from studying for the priesthood underscores how divided Catholic leaders in the United States remain on the subject of gay priests.
No it doesn’t. What it shows is that some of these “Catholic leaders” are faithful to the Church and some are not. [...]
Today we celebrate the feast day of the Immaculate Conception. This does not celebrate the conception of our Lord as some people mistakenly think it does. It celebrates the conception of His mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary. What is mean by Immaculate is that her conception was made pure by God so [...]
I just read an excellent editorial on the recent homosexuality and the priesthood thing that everyone is yelling about even though they never read the document.
IN RESPONSE to the Vatican’s ban on allowing practicing homosexual males to become priests: It is easy to label Vatican agents as liberal or conservative. However, religious leaders [...]
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German Protestant youth group has put together a 2006 calendar with 12 staged photos depicting erotic scenes from the Bible, including a bare-breasted Delilah cutting Samson’s hair and a nude Eve offering an apple.
This is just sick. These people ought to be ashamed of themselves.
I’ve seen some of the [...]
Please follow the link below and keep little Annie in your prayers.
[THE MATERNAL OPTIMIST: Annie Post-Op Report]
I’m probably going to do this. Won’t you do it too?
WAR ON CHRISTMAS: MUSCLEHEADS FIGHT BACK: With kindness of all things…
We are excited to be launching the opportunity today…between now and Christmas we are asking you to send the ACLU direct “MerryChristmas” cards.
And we aren’t talking about these generic “happy holiday” (meaning nothing) type [...]
Papa Ben’s message here really touched me. It’s good to be in Advent again. Please read it and join me as I wait in joyful hope.
VATICAN CITY, NOV. 27, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Presiding over vespers of the First Sunday of Advent, Benedict XVI began the new liturgical year with an appeal to holiness.
In a [...]
SANTA MARIA, Calif. - A Greyhound bus ran off a freeway, overturned and slid at least 100 yards on its side before hitting a tree Sunday, killing a pregnant woman and a man on aboard, authorities said.
Faro Jahani, 50, of San Francisco, and Martha Contreras, a 23-year-old Santa Maria resident who was seven months pregnant, [...]
A powerful earthquake has hit southern Iran, killing at least 10 people, injuring dozens more and damaging several villages, officials say.
The 6.1-magnitude quake struck Qeshm island, home to 120,000 people, and the city of Bandar Abbas, state media said.
Every time I see new story on this incident, the death rate is higher. On this [...]