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Home: Core Subjects: Catholic Stories: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Catholic Stories: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Blaise Pascal - Carl OlsonThe short life of Blaise Pascal (1623-62) was one of intense intellectual brilliance, physical anguish, and mystical vision. The son of a French bureaucrat, Pascal exhibited extraordinary mathematical and scientific abilities at an early age. Email This Article Bless U. - Susan KinzieA couple of guys yelled, "Padre!" when they saw the Rev. Robert Schlageter barreling into the dorm in his black friar's robes cinched with rope. "You getting your rooms blessed, you little pagans?" he hollered back. Email This Article Blessed Jakob Gapp - Robert RoyalThe Nazis gave various reasons for imprisoning these clergymen: stirring up the masses, spying, aiding prisoners, suspicion of treason, behavior unfriendly to Germany, support of Jews, insulting the Fuhrer or National Socialism, or sometimes no reason at all. Email This Article Blessed Mother Teresa - George RutlerStrange to say, I cannot remember our first meeting, which was in 1980 when I was studying in Rome. In the moral constancy of her presence, every conversation seemed the same and the surroundings were totally irrelevant. Email This Article Bonded in Faith - Fr. Raymond de SouzaWorld Youth Day 2002 has already produced a new cadre of Catholic leaders. Email This Article Bono sings an old song, again - Terry MattinglyIt was a room full of religious believers — Republicans and Democrats — who were used to praying together and even hearing guest speakers quote the scriptures. Bono looked around, studying the faces through his blue rock-star sunglasses. Email This Article Bowie Kent Kuhn - Rev. George RutlerAs baseball fans religiously record statistics, Bowie Kent Kuhn (1926–2007) was, at 42, the youngest commissioner of baseball ever; the tallest, at six-foot-five; and the heaviest, at 250 pounds, though his height made him seem slim. Email This Article Brotherly Love - Donald DeMarcoOn December 21, 1968, a spacecraft appropriately named after the pagan god Apollo left the earth on its three-day trip to the moon. Thirty some years ago we had, for the first time, a compelling image of the only home that all we humans can call our own. This image urges us to reflect on the brotherhood, mutual love, and respect that our common dwelling place mandates. The inhospitable blackness of the surrounding void is not an alternative, either literally or figuratively. Email This Article Canada’s youthful missionaries - Father Raymond J. de SouzaThe torch of faith is being handed on to a new generation, and they are finding their own ways of holding it high. Email This Article Capital Punishment - Ralph McInernyIf Martha Stewart had poisoned her husband or drowned her children, she would have received more sympathy. Email This Article Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ... [>>] Pages Updated On: 19-Mar-2008 - 21:37:36
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