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Home: Core Subjects: Stories of Faith and Character: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Stories of Faith and Character: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Another 'champion of abortion' becomes defender of life: the story of Stojan Adasevic - Catholic World NewsThe Spanish daily La Razon has published an article on the pro-life conversion of a former "champion of abortion." Read more... Another kind of Turin excellence - Rev. Raymond J. de SouzaThe blend of youth, athleticism, excellence and Turin fuelled the remarkable life Pier Giorgio Frassati. He died in 1925, but would have been right at home with today's Olympians in the streets of his hometown and in the mountains which he loved. Read more... Anti-abortion minister urges action by African Americans - Gerald KorsonAfter having served 18 days in prison, the Rev. Walter Hoye is a free man and will remain so -- as long as he doesn't come within eight feet of anyone who is about to enter an Oakland abortion clinic. Read more... Applying lessons learned from Mother Teresa - Maryangela Layman RománWhile his resume includes nearly four and a half years at the White House as head of the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, Jim Towey points to his work and friendship with a tiny nun from Calcutta as the most significant period of his life. Read more... Archbishop Romero and Latin American Martyrs - Robert RoyalOn Monday, March 24, 1980, at 6:25 p.m. in the chapel of the Divina Providencia Cancer Hospital, where he lived in a small house, Oscar Arnulfo Romero, archbishop of San Salvador, the capital of the Central American nation El Salvador, was killed during his homily by a gunman who fired one, well-placed bullet through his heart. Read more... As Irish as a song - Marjorie DoyleMy name is Doyle. I hang off a tree with Devines, Foleys, Coffeys, Sullivans. I can sing and play 132 Irish songs. You might think me Irish. Read more... As We Forgive - Charles Colson"Can a country known for radical brutality become a country known for an even more radical forgiveness?" Read more... Austrian Farmer Franz Jagerstatter - Robert RoyalA Father Jochmann was the prison chaplain in Berlin and spent some time with Jägerstätter that day. Read more... Ave Maria founder Tom Monaghan is a man of faith, plans and action - Marci ElliottAll he wanted to do was work hard to make something of himself. And someday, maybe, to provide for a wife and family. And be an architect. Read more... Avery Cardinal Dulles - Joseph BottumAvery Cardinal Dulles was one of the greatest thinkers in the modern Roman Catholic church and perhaps its most distinguished representative in the United States. Read more... Avery Cardinal Dulles - Father George RutlerMies van der Rohe's dictum that "God is in the details" fit the moral architecture of Avery Dulles. Read more... Babe Ruth's last message: The kids can't take it If we don't give it! - Babe RuthAs far as I'm concerned, and I think as far as most kids go, once religion sinks in, it stays there—deep down. Read more... Behold Your Mother - George RutlerI once listened to a conversation between Mother Teresa and my mother at a meeting in the Bronx. They were like two neighbors chatting over a backyard fence. Read more... Benedict honours predecessor’s homeland - Rev. Raymond J. de SouzaPope Benedict XVI’s trip to Poland is making clear he understands his mission as he expressed it in the first public words after his election, spoken from the balcony of St. Peter’s: “After the great John Paul …” He is content to be the one who comes after, and what is “after” is always to be understood in relation to what came before. Read more... Benedict XVI's Interview on Polish Television - ZenitHere is a translation of the interview Benedict XVI gave to the public television station in Poland. It was broadcast today, Pope John Paul II Day. Read more... Benedict’s Muslim Convert - Edward PentinJournalist says his was a personal journey, not a political act. Read more... Bernard Nathanson, rest in peace - Father Raymond J. de SouzaPerhaps the most influential graduate of McGill’s medical school spent more than 30 years trying to undo what he had done. Read more... Beyond the River Kwai - Lt. Eric LomaxAs my London-bound train clicked over the rails that fall afternoon in 1989, my eyes were transfixed by a newspaper photo of an elderly Japanese. This was the man I had searched for — the one who had brutally tortured me years before. Read more... Bishops have denied communion before - Tim TownsendIn November 2003, Raymond Burke, then the bishop of LaCrosse, Wis., instructed priests in his diocese to deny Communion to three politicians unless they publicly recanted their pro-abortion rights positions. Since then, Burke's supporters have increasingly pointed to what they see as parallels with another case, and another moral hero, from 40 years ago. Read more... 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. Read more... 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. Read more... 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. Read more... 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. Read more... Bonded in Faith - Fr. Raymond de SouzaWorld Youth Day 2002 has already produced a new cadre of Catholic leaders. Read more... 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. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ... [>>] Pages Updated On: Fri Feb 10 2012 - 00:54:04
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