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A Light in the Darkness ALIVE AND YOUNG - May 20, 2013 [I am doing brief Summaries of " How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization " by Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Ph.D. There isn't much to the first chapter, so I am starting with Chapter two.] How the Catholic Church built Western Civilization Chapter 2 Summary "A light in the Darkness" The author begins this chapter explicitly stating that the term "dark ages" was once applied to the time stretching from roughly 500 AD to 1500 AD. However this is no longer ...http://www.aliveandyoung.net/2013/05/a-light-in-darkness.html
Pentecost, Playing With Fire, and the New Evangelization TOM PERNA - May 18, 2013 ... should want to do the same thing to the world, but in a Evangelistic way. We should be seeking to light the world on fire with the light of the Holy Spirit. As Catholics, we should be spiritual fire-starters for Jesus Christ and His Church. In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus says, "I came to cast fire upon the earth; and would that it were already kindled" ( Lk 12:49). Now I am not talking about starting literal fires, but I am speaking about playing with the fire of Pentecost and the fire that we ...http://tomperna.org/2013/05/18/pentecost-playing-with-fire-and-the-new-evangelization/
7 Quick Takes 17MAY13 50 DAYS AFTER - May 17, 2013 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/50DaysAfter/~3/6m1fkwseiQ8/7-quick-takes-17may13.html
3 Reasons I Love Catholicism THE KOALA BEAR WRITER - May 17, 2013 This Easter marked seven years since I joined the Catholic Church. Each year, it seems I find more reasons to love the Church. Here are just three of those reasons. (To see more reasons from other Catholics, click on the picture above to drop by Michaela's blog.) — 1 — The Catechism of the Catholic Church . Besides my husband's influence, this is probably the number one thing that caused me to convert . He bought me a copy and ...http://www.thekoalabearwriter.com/2013/05/3-reasons-i-love-catholicism.html
Falsely Accused, Wrongly Imprisoned, Truly Set Free INSIGHT SCOOP THE IGNATIUS PRESS BLOG - May 17, 2013 Falsely Accused, Wrongly Imprisoned, Truly Set Free CWR Staff Catholic World Report An interview with author, apologist, evangelist, convert, and former prisoner Russell Ford Russell Ford's testimony is captivating, surprising, sobering, and, at times, rather humorous. The following interview is much longer than most CWR features, but we think readers will find his story, perspective, and insights both challenging and encouraging. Also, Russell's ...http://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2013/05/falsely-accused-wrongly-imprisoned-truly-set-free-an-interview-with-author-apologist-evangelist-convert-and-forme.html
Fr Robert Taft, SJ, on Reunion CAELUM ET TERRA - May 17, 2013 Fr Robert Taft, SJ From First Things : Earlier this month, Christopher Warner at the Catholic World Report interviewed Archimandrite Robert Taft , S.J., a Byzantine Catholic priest and professor emeritus of Oriental Liturgy at the Pontifical Oriental Institute , about Catholic-Orthodox relations and the prospects for future unity: CWR: Most Catholics probably envision future unity between the Orthodox Churches and the ...http://caelumetterra.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/fr-robert-taft-sj-on-reunion/
Since We're on the Topic of Walker Percy EST QUOD EST - May 16, 2013 ... ones. Q: What kind of Catholic are you? A: Bad. Q: No, I mean are you liberal or conservative? A: I no longer know what those words mean. Q: Are you a dogmatic Catholic or an open-minded Catholic? A: I don't know what that means, either. Do you mean I believe the dogma that the Catholic Church proposes for belief? Q: Yes. A: Yes. Q: How is such a belief possible in this day and age? A: What else is there? Q: What do you mean, ...http://contrapauli.blogspot.com/2013/05/since-were-on-topic-of-walker-percy.html
Looking for Summer Reading? Try Book Pope Francis Likes! FR. Z'S BLOG (OLIM: WHAT DOES THE PRAYER REALLY SAY?) - May 16, 2013 ... Pearce's engaging Literary Converts: Spiritual Inspiration in an Age of Unbelief. There is a section on Robert Hugh Benson. A great compliment to The Lord of the World might be J.D. James' dystopian The Children of Men . It is not Catholic, but it is definitely Christian. Do NOT make the mistake of thinking that the dreadful movie version of a few years ago has anything to do with the book. The books of Michael P. O'Brien, starting with Father Elijah and then the "Children of ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wdtprs/DhFa/~3/86hVHAV43Yk/
A Saint-Making Record Is Also a Diplomatic Headache for Pope Francis CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 16, 2013 ... more than 800 Catholics in Saint Peter's Square Sunday – the largest number to be elevated to sainthood at once in the history of the Catholic Church. The choice of some of the new saints was also striking, touching on the already-fragile relationship between Christianity and Islam. The new saints included hundreds of laymen from the southern Italian port town of Otranto who were slain in the 15th century by the invading Ottoman Turkish army after they refused to ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-saint-making-record-is-also.html
Straw Men ADAM'S ALE - May 16, 2013 ... however, that was viciously anti-Catholic. Actually, I don't think that they were intentionally anti-Catholic, but they were. Their tag line was that they loved Catholics and knew that they were going to hell, and so it was their sworn duty to do everything they could to convert us. This included sneaking into the parish church and leaving tracks that looked very Catholic on the cover but inside taught why Catholicism was so ...http://clevelandpriest.blogspot.com/2013/05/straw-men.html
I Have a Mother CATHOLIC BY GRACE - May 15, 2013 (Previously published in the Archdiocese of St. Louis Laity and Family Life E-Newsletter May 2013.) As a convert from evangelical Protestantism, it feels presumptuous to think I have great insight to share with life-long Catholics about the Blessed Virgin Mary. I grew up in a Protestant preacher's home. We had two images of Mary. The first was a figurine that came with our Nativity set, the second a ceramic Madonna my sister painted in art class which she gave to my father ...http://catholicbygrace.blogspot.com/2013/05/i-have-mother.html
The Saints Come Marching In ASK SISTER MARY MARTHA - May 15, 2013 ... them to the concept of patron saints. Anyone who has read the blog for two seconds knows that I have a steady argument with the separated brethren about intercessory prayer. I started with the idea that asking someone in Heaven to pray for you is no different than asking someone on earth to pray for you and surely, your loved ones in Heaven still care for you. I also told them that their dear loved ones are not angels in Heaven, although if they are in Heaven they are saints. But I digress. ...http://asksistermarymartha.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-saints-come-marching-in.html
Be Merciful As the Heavenly Father Is Merciful FEAR NOT LITTLE FLOCK - May 15, 2013 http://remnantofremnant.blogspot.com/2013/05/be-merciful-as-heavenly-father-is.html
Morning Roundup - Feria After the Ascension - Missa 'Exaudi Domine' or St. Boniface, Martyr - Missa 'Protexisti Me' - Ma TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS IN MARYLAND - May 14, 2013 ... Priest? Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) > ;> ; Does God Approve the Abuse of Women? A Meditation on Genesis 3:16 Catholic Answers > ;> ; Have We Turned Into Evangelistic Jellyfish? (Jon Sorensen) Catholic World Report - Blog > ;> ; 800 new saints were martyred for refusing to convert to Islam (Catherine Harmon) Catholic World Report - Blog > ;> ; Pope Francis and the "Sad Life of Slumbering Christians" (James V. ...http://tlm-md.blogspot.com/2013/05/morning-roundup-feria-after-ascension.html
The Church Building As a Sacred Place by Duncan G. Stroik HAPPY CATHOLIC* - May 14, 2013 The Church Building as a Sacred Place: Beauty, Transcendence, and the Eternal by Duncan G. Stroik My rating: 4 of 5 stars Maybe it's because I'm a convert from complete secularism. I just don't see what's supposed to be so great about the new-fangled churches that look like cracker boxes. Or like space ships. Or like a crumpled up piece of paper. Let's just say it here and name the elephant in the room. What is so great about an ugly church? One of the things I did ...http://happycatholic.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-church-building-as-sacred-place-by.html
Pope Confirms Eternal Bliss for Christians Murdered by Islamists. Murderers Condemned to Eternal Damnation. DIVINE RIPPLES - May 13, 2013 http://www.voanews.com/content/pope-bestows-sainthood-on-italians-massacred-by-ottomans/1659560.html "Pope Francis has proclaimed his first Roman Catholic saints, including hundreds of Italians who were beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam in the 15th century....The newly-canonized Italian saints known as Antonio Primaldo and his Companions were massacred in 1480, when Ottoman Turks invaded the southern Italian town of Otranto in 1480 ...http://divine-ripples.blogspot.com/2013/05/pope-confirms-eternal-bliss-for.html
NBC Worries Pope's New Saints WIll Hurt Islam's Feelings CREATIVE MINORITY REPORT - May 13, 2013 Pope Francis set a record by canonizing 800 15th Century laymen that refused to convert to Islam and brutally died because of it. It is a story of faith and strength in the face of death, death from a brutal and barbaric people. But NBC is worried for poor Pope Francis. They are worried that acknowledging that these 800 heroes died true martyrs death and thus are assured of heaven, that the Pope may have hurt Islam's feelings. But no worries, there is someone more evil than ...http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/2013/05/nbc-worries-popes-new-saints-will-hurt.html
QUAERITUR: I Found a Host at My Mother's House. Wherein Fr. Z Rants a Little. FR. Z'S BLOG (OLIM: WHAT DOES THE PRAYER REALLY SAY?) - May 13, 2013 From a reader: While visiting my parents' home (they are not Catholic; I am a convert), I was invited up to look at something on Mom's prayer table. I forget what it was … but out of the corner of my eye, something white caught my eye. Turning to look, I realized with shock that it was a Host . I asked how It had got there; Mom said she had gone to a Catholic church near her home and they had " handed these out " to everyone as they ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wdtprs/DhFa/~3/HAorTHNLbFc/
Eight Hundred-Thirteen New Saints: 15th-Century Catholic Martyrs Who Were Beheaded for Refusing to Convert to Islam Are DOUG LAWRENCE'S CATHOLIC WEBLOG - May 12, 2013 The "Martyrs of Otranto" were 813 Italians who were slain in the southern Italian city in 1480 for defying demands by Turkish invaders who overran the citadel to renounce Christianity. Read more And more Editor's note: Anybody notice a pattern emerging here?http://douglawrence.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/eight-hundred-thirteen-new-saints-15th-century-catholic-martyrs-who-were-beheaded-for-refusing-to-convert-to-islam-are-declared-saints/
Pope Proclaims 800 Italian Saints CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 12, 2013 Pope Francis has proclaimed as saints some 800 Italians killed in the 15th century for refusing to convert to Islam, and said many Christians were still being persecuted for their faith. The Vatican seemed at pains not to allow the first canonisations of Francis' two-month-old papacy to be interpreted as anti-Islamic, saying the deaths of the 'Otranto Marytrs' must be understood in their historical context. The 800 were killed in 1480 in the siege of Otranto, on ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/pope-proclaims-800-italian-saints.html
