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Catholic Social Doctrine: Morality, Science, and Technology

By Andrew M. Greenwell, Esq. • Catholic Online • 5/18/2012

Science and technology, for all their good, are not something ungoverned by moral law. We should not fall into the moral morass of believing that just because we can do something we ought to do something. Often, dazzled by the products of his ingenuity, man views technology as the summum ...

The Ascension of the Lord Is Also Our Ascension With the Lord

By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 5/17/2012

Does the Ascension affect our lives in the here and now? Is it a commemoration of an event which occurred 2000 years ago? Or, could it be the key that helps unlock the very meaning of our lives and the plan of God for the entire created order? He is the Head and we are members of His Body. We ...

A Year After Fire, Parish Starts to Rebuild

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/15/2012

Last year, Msgr. Tim Nichols addressed the shocked St. John Vianney parishioners, many who watch their church being destroyed in an arson-set conflagration less than 24 hours before the fire, at the Palm Sunday Mass in the parish hall. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - "I'll be honest with you ...

What the Fire Spared: On Mary and Motherhood

By Martha Lyles • Catholic Online • 5/14/2012

Every fire refines, and the one that claimed our house was no exception. We are stronger and wiser now, more grateful, less materialistic. But I would feel ungrateful to God if I complained, so I focus on the many ways He has guarded and sustained us. POWAY, CA (Catholic Online) - The thing you ...

The Happy Priest Reflects on the Greatness of Motherhood

By Fr. James Farfaglia • Catholic Online • 5/14/2012

Motherhood is a high calling. What can replace the love of a mother and a grandmother? The love, guidance and influence they provide to their children are distinct and invaluable. All mothers who wish to be true to their high calling need only look to the woman who became the greatest mother ...

The Happy Priest: Living Our Lives for Others

By Fr. James Farfaglia • Catholic Online • 5/13/2012

Despite the many challenges and sufferings of daily existence, a life of selfless love energizes the true Christian in such way that they are able to soar above every challenge. Anyone who wants to live true Christianity is called to live selflessly. Does a true mother complain when she ...

President Supports Homosexual 'Marriage': Obama's Fool's Gold Rule

By Andrew M. Greenwell, Esq. • Catholic Online • 5/12/2012

That Obama would use the Golden Rule to justify, to sanction, indeed to compel State support for activity that is considered offensive by any traditional Jew and Christian-and any virtuous pagan-betrays his ignorance, or perhaps even willful misuse of it. CORPUS CHRISTI, TX (Catholic Online) ...

Catholic Social Doctrine: To Restore All Things in Christ

By Andrew M. Greenwell, Esq. • Catholic Online • 5/11/2012

Jesus, the "new Adam," is at the center of the Church's understanding of the international community of nations, the nations to which she addresses the Gospel and seeks to baptize into its truths. "The Lord Jesus is the prototype and foundation of the new humanity." (Compendium, No. 431) Not Moses, ...

Like any good pusher, Planned Parenthood doesn't like to be kept waiting for your baby...

Planned Parenthood hates waiting for your baby

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/10/2012

The Utah legislature has approved the longest waiting period in the union for abortions. The state House and Senate have both agreed to extend the waiting period from one day to three. Planned Parenthood is outraged. SALT LAKE CITY, UT (Catholic Online) - The extended waiting period is intended to ...

The cult objects included five standing stones, two basalt altars, two pottery libation vessels and two portable shrines. Garfinkel said the shrines reflected a Mesopotamian architectural style that went back centuries before the era of King David, and probably inspired the look of the palace built by Solomon, David's son.

Fresh historical connections made to the stories of King David and King Solomon

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/9/2012

Fresh, historical connections to the stories of King David and King Solomon have been made following an archaeological dig near Goliath's biblical hometown. The artifacts have yielded evidence of Judean religious practices 3,000 years ago. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - "We have a city ...