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Home: Core Subjects: Stories of Faith and Character: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Stories of Faith and Character: LINKS_PAGEArticles: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 by Melissa - Patricia M. DevlinWhen I was collecting stories for the Amazing Grace for Survivors book, I came across this heart warming story by a friend of a friend who was born blind. Here is that story. - Patti Armstrong 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... Bob Bork: The Lingering Presence - Hadley ArkesAs the old year is passing — and as if it were not depressing enough, for some of us, to find ourselves in the new year at the threshold of Obama II — some of us are still feeling the loss of our dear friend Robert Bork, who died just before Christmas. 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... Born toward dying - Father Richard John NeuhausWe are born to die. Not that death is the purpose of our being born, but we are born toward death, and in each of our lives the work of dying is already underway. Read more... 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. Read more... Brawling at the Holy Sepulchre - Michael CorenIn Israel, as in all countries that contain archeological sites of deep spiritual and religious significance, there tends to be three levels of authenticity and holiness. Read more... Britain makes room for Benedict - Father Raymond J. de SouzaBenedict is the great Catholic thinker of his generation, a writer of limpid style and the simplicity only achieved by those who have reached the far side of scholarly wisdom. Newman was that for the 19th century. Read more... Brother André’s life reflects beauty of holy humility - Father Thomas Rosica, CSBOn Sunday, October 17, Canadian Brother André Bessette, founder of St. Joseph’s Oratory in Montreal, was proclaimed a Saint at the Vatican. Read more... 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. Read more... Buckley, Rehabilitated - Paul KengorWilliam F. Buckley Shaped America’s Political Dialogue. The Catholic Faith Shaped William F. Buckley. Read more... Buckley’s Catholic Legacy - Rev. Raymond J. de SouzaWhen William F. Buckley Jr. died on Feb. 27 at age 82, it was noted that he was a Catholic. Read more... C. S. Lewis and Mrs. Moore - Alice von HildebrandLiterature offers us a rich panorama of marriages in which the woman is a shrew and the husband a victim. Read more... 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. Read more... Capital Punishment - Ralph McInernyIf Martha Stewart had poisoned her husband or drowned her children, she would have received more sympathy. Read more... Cardinal Lustiger, R.I.P. - George WeigelVisitors to the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris will soon be able to ponder a commemorative marker carrying this inscription: Read more... Carla’s Gift - Torey HaydenYou almost didn’t notice her in class. She was small for 7, and quiet; she didn’t cause trouble the way the boys did. Her features were plain, and her blond hair was cropped short in a raggedy, home-cut style vaguely reminiscent of the Little Prince. No matter what the time of year, she always wore the same assortment of faded cotton dresses, the same cheap sneakers. Her name was Carla. Read more... Casting a light upon the City of God - Ian Hunter“Thanks largely to Augustine, the light of the New Testament did not go out with Rome’s, but remained amidst the debris of the fallen empire to light the way to another civilization, Christendom, whose legatees we are.” Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ... [>>] Pages Updated On: Fri May 17 2013 - 22:45:22
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