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Home: Core Subjects: Stories of Faith and Character: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Stories of Faith and Character: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Sarkozy and Secularism - Robert RoyalWho would have dared think that a hundred years after France led Europe into its secularist blind alley that a French president would sound the call to a kind of spiritual recalibration of Europe? Read more... Should a widowed mother aged thirteen be a saint? - Paul JohnsonSomeone should write the life of Margaret Beaufort, as an example of how a woman of strong beliefs can survive a traumatic childhood and become a credit and exemplar to society. She ought indeed to be canonised, and I commend her cause to the present Pope, who also loves good Christian academics. Read more... Siegfried Sassoon: A Poet's Pilgrimage - Joseph PearceSiegfried Sassoon is arguably the greatest of the War Poets. The ending of the second of the century’s global conflagrations marked the beginning of Sassoon’s final approach to the Catholic faith. Influenced to a degree by Catholic friends such as Ronald Knox and Hilaire Belloc, but to a far greater degree by the experience of his own life, he was received into the Church in September 1957, shortly after his 71st birthday. After a lifetime of mystical searching he had finally found his way Home. Read more... Sitting Next to Peter: My Personal Remembrances of Pope John Paul II - John F. CrosbyIf I were to speak about what affected me most deeply about John Paul, I would have to mention the wonderful icon of fatherhood that I always felt him to be. Read more... Smut's Savvy Peddler - Father Raymond J. de SouzaBorn 12 days apart, the Queen and Hef embody what’s good and bad in modern culture. Read more... Something Beautiful Has Begun - Peggy NoonanJohn Paul made you burst into tears. Benedict makes you think. It is more pleasurable to weep, but at the moment, perhaps it is more important to think. Read more... Special Olympics, special children - Father Raymond J. de SouzaThe joy of the Special Olympics is infectious; everyone who volunteers knows that it is a privilege to be part of such a great celebration of exuberant life. Read more... St Thérèse of Lisieux: The Last Eighteen Months - Stephen SparrowThérèse Martin certainly deserved canonization, but it's helpful to unwrap the legend a little so that we can gain an insight into the authentic Thérèse. Read more... St. Daddy - Sr. Joseph Andrew Bogdanowicz, O.P.His legs imparted security as I leaned my little body into them. My babble continued, fired by desire to entrust to my beloved daddy all the secrets a three-year-old heart could hold. When finished, silence pervaded the darkening shadows. He sat there, fingering his rosary and gazing out at the evening’s first stars. Even at that tender age, I knew my father wasn’t always present to this world. Read more... St. Edith Stein: Martyr for Truth - Robert RoyalThe 20th century witnessed great advances in science and medicine. But it was not an era for truth. Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ... [>>] Pages Updated On: 19-Nov-2008 - 18:17:13
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