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Home: Core Subjects: Stories of Faith and Character: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Stories of Faith and Character: LINKS_PAGEArticles: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... 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... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ... [>>] Pages Updated On: 09-Nov-2009 - 14:45:37
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