Letter from Rome, #13... Our Lady of the Rockies Statue: Catholic Field Trip...
Vatican hit by economic downturn...
Tough immigration law in Italy spawns Catholic backlash, insider drama...
Looking for God in All the Wrong Places. .. Like Kolob... Pope to beatify Cardinal Newman...
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Taking the Scapular A walk in the park and a visit to a special church. A special report from the Rome-based news magazine Inside the Vatican...
Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the Mormon Church, taught that not only is God our Heavenly Father an "exalted" man who evolved into godhood, but he lives with his wives on a planet near the star Kolob (Abraham 3:2-3, 16). There, from a distance, he reigns over the earth. Seriously.
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Christ answers world's bloodshed with sacrifice of his life, Pope teaches...
Pope to G8: 'Hear the voice of Africa and the poor!'
It's become customary for popes to write letters on the occasion of a G8 summit, which are formally addressed to the head of whichever government is hosting the event. This time around, Benedict XVI has all the more reason to write the G8 given that the upcoming July 8-10 G8 summit is taking place in the Abruzzo region of Italy, about 75 miles northeast of Rome...
Fourth of July...
A safe and happy Fourth of July to all! As our nation celebrates the 233nd anniversary of its independence, we are reminded of the place patriotism holds in the Christian life. In his Summa Theologiae, St. Thomas Aquinas observes that patriotism is the just piety we owe to our country. Piety here is taken in its widest sense...
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs...
Battle Hymn of the Republic for Pope Benedict XVI...
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A Up Some peril and action. (See details at USCCB and PIO.)A Star Trek Sci-fi action and violence, and brief sexual content. (See details at USCCB and PIO.)
B Public Enemies Gangster violence and some language. (See details at USCCB and PIO.)
B- The Taking of Pelham 123 Violence and pervasive language. (See details at USCCB and PIO.)
C+ Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Mild humor and peril. (See details at USCCB and PIO.)
C+ The Proposal Sexual content, nudity and language. (See details at USCCB and PIO.)
C Night at the Museum Mild action and brief language. (See details at USCCB and PIO.)
C Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Intense sci-fi action violence, language, some crude and sexual material, and brief drug material. (See details at USCCB and PIO.)
C My Sister's Keeper Mature thematic content, some disturbing images, sensuality, language and brief teen drinking. (See details at USCCB and PIO.)
C Terminator Salvation Intense sci-fi violence and action, and language. (See details at USCCB and PIO.)
C Angels & Demons Sequences of violence, disturbing images and thematic material. (See details at USCCB and PIO.)
C- Imagine That Some mild language and brief questionable behavior. (See details at USCCB and PIO.)
C- Land of the Lost Crude and sexual content, language, and a drug reference. (See details at USCCB and PIO.)
F Year One Crude and sexual content throughout, brief strong language and comic violence. (See details at USCCB and PIO.)
F The Hangover Pervasive language, sexual content including nudity, and some drug material. (See details at USCCB and PIO.)
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The era of the endless campaign -which could only exist in a world where histrionic hype and style mean more than history and substance- we now devolve into the era of the endless-but-danceable dirge. Tom Elia writes of American Celebrity Culture Writ Large: ABC, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC will cover Michael Jackson's memorial service live.
Vanity Fair: Palin is a narcissistic religious nutcase but still fertile...
Sarah Palin doesn't deserve the vicious hatchet job she just received at the cutting edge of August's Vanity Fair. Coincidentally, the article was written and published just before Palin's Friday resignation as governor of Alaska and it most definitely reads like a pre-emptive strike on her future political ambitions.
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati (1901-1925)
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