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Home: Core Subjects: Stories of Faith and Character: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Stories of Faith and Character: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Good Sportsmanship - Donald DeMarcoWe are all aware of the fact that media images and reality do not always coincide. In fact, the image that the media presents to us can be the polar opposite of the reality it replaces. Read more... Graham Greene: Doubter Par Excellence - Joseph PearceIt was both apt and prophetic that Greene should have taken the name of St. Thomas the Doubter at his reception into the Church in February 1926. He doubted others; he doubted himself; he doubted God. Ironically, it was this very doubt that so often provided the creative force for his fiction. Read more... Hauled Aboard the Ark - Peter KreeftI was born into a loving, believing community, a Protestant "mother church" (the Reformed Church) which, though it had not for me the fullness of the faith, had strong and genuine piety. Read more... Hauled Aboard the Ark – The Spiritual Journey of Peter Kreeft - Peter KreeftI was born into a loving, believing community, a Protestant "mother church" (the Reformed Church) which, though it had not for me the fullness of the faith, had strong and genuine piety. Read more... Haunted House - Mark Gauvreau JudgeThis Halloween, when I go trick-or-treating with my nephews, I'm dressing as an 18th-century Russian-born priest. Halloween is supposed to be about what's scary, and what Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin encountered - called by the Baltimore Catholic Review the "truest ghost story ever told" - sounds scary enough. Read more... He Could No Longer Explain Why He Wasn’t Catholic - Tim DrakeUntil a few weeks ago, Francis Beckwith was president of the Evangelical Theological Society, an association of 4,300 Protestant theologians. Now he has returned to the Church of his baptism. Read more... He Had the Power of the Happy Man - Peggy NoonanWhen word came of his death, I was literally planning the particulars of a trip to Washington for the inaugural conference of Pepperdine University's Jack F. Kemp Institute for Political Economy. Read more... He is not here - Father George William RutlerThe past year has not been abundant with fortune for the world or our nation—which made it precisely a time when one ached for commentary from Richard John Neuhaus. Read more... He Taught Us Who We Are - Janet E. SmithIn his letter marking the close of the Jubilee year, Pope John Paul II wrote, “I have often stopped to look at the long queues of pilgrims waiting patiently to go through the Holy Door. In each of them I tried to imagine the story of a life, made up of joys, worries, sufferings; the story of someone whom Christ had met and who in dialogue with Him, was setting out again on a journey of hope.” Read more... Heeding the call - Charles LewisThe founder of L'Arche has spent nearly a lifetime championing the severely disabled. Read more... Henry J. Hyde, R.I.P. - George WeigelShortly before Thanksgiving, 1986, Henry Hyde's prostate started acting up, so he spent the holiday in Georgetown University Hospital. Read more... He’s Got Guts - Peggy NoonanWe all complain, and with justice, about the falseness of much that is said in Washington, and the cowardice that leaves a great deal unsaid. But I found myself impressed and grateful for the words of Chuck Hagel, the Republican senator from Nebraska, in a meeting of the Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday. Read more... History in the Hall - Father Raymond J. de SouzaBenedict arrives at the spot where Catholic worship was once a beheading offence. Read more... Hitch Lives - Austin RuseI love Hitchens and I know I am not alone among orthodox Catholics. Read more... Hope in the Ruins of Haiti - Colleen Carroll CampbellAmerica is rushing to rescue Haiti from collapse. But Haiti is rescuing America, too. Read more... How Benedict XVI Will Make History - George WeigelAccording to a title first used by Gregory the Great (590–604), the Bishop of Rome is the "Servant of the Servants of God." Read more... How Dagger John Saved New York's Irish - William J. SternWe are not the first generation puzzled by what to do about the underclass. A hundred years ago and more, Manhattan’s tens of thousands of Irish seemed a lost community, mired in poverty and ignorance, destroying themselves through drink, idleness, violence, criminality, and illegitimacy. Read more... How I woke up from spiritual slumber and inched at a snail’s pace to Rome - Conrad BlackFormer media mogul Conrad Black was an agnostic until his 20s, but, after trips to Rome, Lourdes and Fatima, found he could not shut out a sense of God. Read more... How one extraordinary talent may be the key to genius - Paul JohnsonWhat is a genius? We use the word frequently but surely, to guard its meaning, we should bestow it seldom. Read more... Hugh Dacre Barrett-Lennard - Father George W. Rutler"Je suis l'Armée Britannique!" declared Sir Hugh Dacre Barrett-Lennard (1917-2007) to a startled French mayor at the Normandy invasion when he arrived with driver and jeep far behind enemy lines, in the 2nd Batallion, Essex Regiment. Read more... Human rights to dominate Pope’s U.S. visit - Father Raymond J. de SouzaIt has been said in Rome that the crowds came to see Pope John Paul, but they come to hear Pope Benedict XVI. Read more... Humility - Donald DeMarcoThe humble person makes a realistic assessment of who he is and puts that unillusioned judgment into practice. He does not judge himself to be smaller or larger than he really is. In so doing he avoids despair as well as pride. Consequently, the humble person enjoys the freedom to be who he is. Read more... I Saw a Saint at Sunset - Peggy NoonanBestselling author Peggy Noonan brings her sharp observations, acute sensibility, warmth, and wit to the life of the pope and shows the personal effect his journey had upon her and millions of others throughout the world. Here is an excerpt from Peggy Noonan's latest, John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father. Read more... Ignatius Cardinal Kung Pin-Mei - Rev. George W. RutlerAs my Cantonese is not what it would have been had I been present at Pentecost, in 1999 I led the intercessory prayers in French and Latin at a Solemn Mass on the 70th priestly ordination anniversary, 50th episcopal anniversary, 20th cardinalatial anniversary, and 98th birth anniversary of Ignatius Kung (Gong) Pin-Mei in his home of exile in Stamford, Connecticut. Read more... In Place of an Afterword: Sixty Years a Priest - Monsignor Georg Ratzinger & Michael HesemannOn June 29, 2011, the Pope and his brother celebrated their "diamond priestly jubilee", the sixtieth anniversary of their ordination as priests on June 29, 1951, in the cathedral in Freising. Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 ... [>>] Pages Updated On: Fri May 17 2013 - 22:45:23
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