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'I had thought Landina was dead and when I heard she was alive I was in shock,' the eight-month-old infant's mother, Marie Miracle Seignon, told reporters. 'This is very emotional for me.'

Haitian mom reunited with missing baby

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 7/29/2010

A Haitian mother who feared that her baby girl had been killed in a massive earthquake six months ago has been tearfully reunited with her child. "I had thought Landina was dead and when I heard she was alive I was in shock," the eight-month-old infant's mother, Marie Miracle Seignon, told ...

Anglican Catholic Church of Canada formally requests an Anglican Ordinariate for Canada.

Anglican Catholic Church of Canada Votes Overwhelmingly to Unite with Rome

Virtue on Line • 7/29/2010

Catholic Online has covered with great faith, enthusiasm and attention to detail the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit arising out of the promulgation of "On the Gathering of the Anglicans" The Apostolic Constitution, Anglicanorum Coetibus. SURREY, BC (Virtue Online) - Catholic Online has covered ...

Deacon Jack Sullivan Reads the Gospel and preaches at the Newman Oratory.

Deacon Healed Through Newman's Intercession to Proclaim the Gospel at Beatification

By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 7/29/2010

I rejoiced when the "Congregation for the Causes of Saints" confirmed the miracle attributed to Cardinal John Henry Newman, the healing of a severe spinal disorder suffered by Deacon Jack Sullivan from the Archdiocese of Boston. I identify with Deacon Jack for several reasons. I was born and raised ...

It seems the cloistered, self-sufficient community of the Abbey of Our Lady of the Annunciation near Avignon, France, also sees the world through a Benedictine ray of light, and is about to diffuse a radiant love all over the world through the slow, soaring movements of their Gregorian chant.

Rays of Musical Light: Cloistered Nuns Share Record Label With Elton John

By Sonja Corbitt • Catholic Online • 7/29/2010

"[O]ur music appeals to a wider audience, secular and non-secular. The words have a very profound meaning that is coming from the Sacred Scripture. The singing in our daily lives is very important for us. It is our prayer," said Sister Raphael of the major record deal recently landed by her ...

A fragment of a cuneiform tablet, found amid excavations at Hazor in northern Israel, appears to record legal pronouncements.

Ancient legal document found in northern Israel

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 7/28/2010

Archaeologists have discovered two 3,700-year-old clay tablets that appear to contain legal pronouncements similar to the Code of Hammurabi and the biblical "tooth for a tooth" rule. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The fragments were unearthed this summer during the Hebrew University of ...

John Callahan's cartoons were always irreverent, and always in questionable taste -- but he saved the best punch lines for himself.

Irreverent, quadriplegic cartoonist dies

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 7/27/2010

Cartoonist John Callahan, who was paralyzed following a drunken traffic accident was able to milk his personal tragedy for laughs. In one of his many cartoons, before discovering that he's paralyzed for life, John tells the attending patrolman, "There's a five-dollar bill in my left shirt pocket, ...

Witnesses saw the boy playing on a hotel balcony before his fall.

Boy who fell 16 stories walking comfortably

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 7/27/2010

In a story that has medical and logistic experts totally baffled, a 15-year-old New Zealand boy who fell 16 stories on to a concrete floor is walking comfortably now - and will be discharged from the hospital shortly. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Jason Epps-Eades, who manages the Proximity ...

A15-year-old boy survived a 16-story fall at the Proximity Apartments in Auckland's Manukau district.

New Zealand teen survives 16-story fall

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 7/26/2010

"God must have been with him. He's got an angel looking after him, that's for sure," housekeeper Kaa Wehi says, upon learning that a 15-year-old boy survived a 16-story fall at the building where she works, the Proximity Apartments in Auckland's Manukau district. The 15-year-old boy is recovering ...

Remember the words of St. Theresa of Avila: 'Let nothing trouble you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes. God never changes. Patience obtains all. Whoever has God, wants for nothing. God alone is enough' (Poes�as 30).

The Happy Priest: Cultivating the Gift of Contemplative Prayer

By Fr. James Farfaglia • Catholic Online • 7/26/2010

So, what is contemplative prayer? "Contemplation is a gaze of faith, fixed on Jesus" (Catechism of the Catholic Church, # 2715). It is the prayer of being in love. How then do we actually do contemplative prayer? Your contemplative prayer time is going to be a personal ...

We are His contemporary disciples. We need to ask the same question, 'Lord, Teach us to Pray'. Then, filled with His very Divine Life within us, we can learn how to 'become prayer' by learning to 'make our home in God'.

Reflection: 'Lord, Teach Us to Pray'. Learning to Become Prayer

By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 7/25/2010

In Jesus Christ we are being re-created, re-fashioned and redeemed. He comes to live in all who make a place for Him within the center of their lives. This "making a place" is the essence of Christian prayer. It is not about doing, but about being. The Lord wants us to freely choose to respond to ...