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Agency accused of human trafficking

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/3/2010

A purported staffing agency is accused of luring 400 people from Thailand with promises of well-paying jobs - and then confiscated their passports, failed to honor employee contracts and threatened to deport them. The FBI calls it the largest human-trafficking case in U.S. history. LOS ANGELES, CA ...

Dr. Patrick Lee: 'A Catholic Speaks at the Glenn Beck Restoring Honor Rally'

Catholic Advocate • 9/2/2010

'We must not place choice and autonomy above God-given unalienable rights. The culture that emphasizes autonomy to the exclusion of truth is a denial of the most basic principle upon which our country is founded, namely, all human beings possess an equal and inherent fundamental dignity, and no ...

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25 gunmen killed in shootout in Mexico

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/3/2010

Twenty-five gunmen with purported ties to Mexican drug cartels have been shot to death in a gun battle in northeastern Mexico. Mexico's Defense Department said that a reconnaissance flight over Ciudad Mier in Tamaulipas spotted several gunmen in front of a property. The ranch is about 90 ...

Second survivor announced in Tamaulipas massacre

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/2/2010

There has been a second survivor identified in the Tamaulipas massacre, in which the bodies of 58 men and 14 women were found killed near a ranch building near the U.S.-Mexico border. The second survivor is only described as a man from Honduras, whose identity has not yet been revealed to protect ...

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Priest: We are becoming Pagan: Islam May Fill Europe's Religious Vacuum

Zenit News Agency • 9/5/2010

Father Piero Gheddo of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions and founder of the missionary news agency AsiaNews, said that far from being "folklore," al-Qadhafi's summons could become a reality in a few decades. "The fact is that, as a people, we are becoming ever more pagan and the ...

Hawking declares that 'God Didn't Create the Universe'

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/3/2010

World-famous physicist Stephen Hawking makes a bold statement with the title of his new book entitled "God Didn't Create the Universe." Hawking seeks to banish the divine creator in the creation of matter. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Hawking argues in his book that "The Grand Design," given ...

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Reports of Christian Aid Workers Killed by Taliban in Pakistan Still Unconfirmed

By Patrick Goodenough, International Editor • CNSNews • 9/3/2010

Mystery surrounds reports that three Western Christian relief workers were kidnapped and killed by the Pakistan Taliban last week while helping people affected by the severe floods in the country's northwest. Despite claims that the recovered bodies of the three were taken by the Pakistani ...

U.S. expresses confidence in Iraq forces

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/2/2010

U.S. forces have begun to formally hand over the reins to Iraqi security forces, and many military officials have expressed their confidence in the Iraqi army to handle all challenges. While U.S. commanders admit that rocket and mortar attacks have picked up in the past months, they it's because a ...

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Pakistan faces hunger, homelessness and desperation

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/2/2010

Torrential rains and flooding have battered Pakistan over the past month, leading to the south Asian nation's worst ever recorded catastrophe. All five provinces have been effected, and the World Food Program now says that Pakistan faces a "triple threat" from the floods. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic ...

Pakistani women face health crisis in flooding

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 8/30/2010

Heavy rainfall and nonstop flooding have driven many Pakistanis from their homes, where they huddle in wait for aid that is slow in coming. The floods have damaged more than 200 health facilities and a third of the nation's 100,000 female health workers have been left without a place to practice. ...

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Material for electronics mined cheaply for $1 daily in Congo

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 8/31/2010

Workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo must toil long and hard, for as little as $1 to $15 a day in order to mine minerals necessary for high-tech toys sold for top dollar in the west. The material used in your laptop computer or cell phone more than likely come from Congo mines. LOS ANGELES, ...

Grim statistics on Hutu genocide in Congo released

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/1/2010

A report by the United nations of the massacres of Hutu civilians in D.R. Congo after Rwanda's 1994 genocide has been released before its intended publication. As expected, the report is relentlessly grim and shows how long and hard human beings can drop their pretense of humanity. LOS ...

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Human Rights for Human Embryos: No to Deadly Embryonic Stem Cell Research

By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 9/5/2010

A human embryo is not distinct in kind from a human being, but a human being at an early stage of development.We must speak for human embryonic Life as we speak for all human life. We must expose and oppose this new form of genetic slavery wherein an entire class of human persons is being labeled ...

Economy tops debate between Boxer, Fiorina

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/2/2010

Senator Barbara Boxer is a longtime liberal, known for her vote against the war in Iraq. Her senatorial opponent, Carly Fiorina is a conservative, best known for being the CEO of Silicon Valley leader HP. While their first debate touched on many issues, showing the disparity between the left ...

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U.S. car sales the worst in 27 years

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/2/2010

Car sales in August were their softest since August of 1983, the worst such industry-wide gap in 27 years. U.S. new vehicle sales fell just short of one million vehicles, a drop of 21% from a year ago. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The federal program entitled Cash for Clunkers, initially ...

Christian Call to Generosity: Giving, Even When It Hurts

By Mark Henry, Phoenix • Catholic Online • 9/2/2010

Earlier in August, there was much media fanfare about Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and other American billionaires who pledged to give away at least 50% of their fortunes to charity. While the philanthropic example of these American billionaires is somewhat instructive, Christians are called ...

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Little girl from 'Gone With the Wind' dies

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/3/2010

She only had a few scenes and earned $1,000 for her work - but she left a most indelible impression on American film. Cammie King Conlon, who played Rhett Butler and Scarlet O'Hara's daughter Bonnie Blue in "Gone With the Wind" in 1939 has lost her battle with lung cancer. Conlon was 76. LOS ...

Rob Reiner 'Flipped' for book, produced movie

By Greg Goodsell • Catholic Online • 8/26/2010

With his years as "Meathead" on the long-running TV series "All in the Family" long behind him, Rob Reiner has since went on to direct a slew of classic movies such as "Stand By Me" and "The Princess Bride." His new movie, "Flipped" examines the topic of young love, and in an exclusive interview ...

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'Harry Potter' author donates millions to MS research

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 8/31/2010

To honor her mother who died from the disease, "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling has donated $15.4 million to set up a new clinic for research into multiple sclerosis. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Based at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, the clinic will be named after Rowling's ...

Author C. S. Lewis still sells briskly - August Best Sellers

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 8/18/2010

The author of the celebrated Narnia series is enjoying readership long after his death. No less than four of his books is listed in this month's Catholics best sellers list. Hardcover 1. "Rediscovering Catholicism" by Matthew Kelly, Beacon Publishing, 97819292660812. "God's Tender Mercy" by Joan ...

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Fox News still at top of cable news wars

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/1/2010

The final days of August were light on cable news networks. Without the benefit of any major catastrophes, most Americans tried to sew up their summers with fun activities in lieu of staying glued to their TV sets. There were some bright spots - Fox News remains on top, and there were some ...

Emmys go mad for 'Men;' 'Lost' does just that

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 8/30/2010

The 62nd annual Emmy award winners went mad for "Mad Men," the critically acclaimed series on Madison Avenue executives in the Sixties. Popular audience favorite "Glee " only won a handful of awards after more than a dozen nominations, and the final season of "Lost" did just that, without winning a ...

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'Sing Along with Mitch' Miller dead at 99

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 8/3/2010

He was a controversial and leading force in American popular music, beloved by many, despised by others - most people remember him as the kindly bearded conductor who encouraged his audience to sing along to such favorites as "The Yellow Rose of Texas." "Sing Along with Mitch" Miller has died at ...

Interview: Amy Grant: Notes of a Musical Icon

By Billy Atwell • Catholic Online • 7/22/2010

For decades she has been the queen of contemporary Christian music and awed millions with her angelic sound and powerful lyrics. Her record of success is second to none, but it has been six years since her last album. In an an interview I learned about how music is her expression of ...

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Catherine Zeta-Jones furious over late cancer diagnosis

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/2/2010

Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones has told People magazine that she's furious over the late diagnosis for throat cancer that was given to her husband, actor Michael Douglas. "It makes me furious they didn't detect it earlier," Zeta-Jones told People. "He sought every option and nothing was found." LOS ...

Actor Michael Douglas reveals severity of cancer

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/1/2010

Looking thinner in clothes that were too big for him, actor Michael Douglas revealed on the David Letterman TV talk show that he has stage IV throat cancer. Stage IV is the most advanced stage of cancer, meaning that the cancer has spread far beyond the original tumor and is usually impossible to ...

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Symposium: 'Humanae Vitae' is About Human Dignity, Spousal Love and the Gift of Self

By Karna Swanson • Zenit News Agency • 9/3/2010

Father Szymczak explained to the participants the fullness of the encyclicals' teaching. It can only be understood within the teaching of the Church concerning Spousal love. "Only through this gift of self does a man develop as a man, and a woman develop as a woman. When a ...

Impatience cited as reason behind growing C-sections

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 8/31/2010

Cesarean sections, or c-sections, where a child is delivered with surgical help have increased in the United States over the past 14 years. C-sections have increased by as much as 50 percent since 1996. Researchers think that one of the chief reasons could be simply impatience with births, or a ...

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The Most Holy Trinity: Supreme Model for Family And Marriage

By F. K. Bartels • Catholic Online • 7/2/2010

The importance of the family cannot be overstressed. The Church considers the family as 'the first natural society,' and "places it at the center of social life" (CSDC No. 211). John Paul II observed in Christifideles Laici that the family is presented, in the Creator's plan, as 'the primary place ...

Inspire: Unfailing Love and a Heart Like Mine

By Jennifer Hartline • Catholic Online • 4/25/2010

You and I are loved beyond our comprehension. No language exists that can capture the quality of His love for us and the lengths to which He has gone to rescue His lost children. Only the Word Himself can say it. He who owed me nothing at all, who had nothing to prove, patiently and ...

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Pope's World Youth Day Message: Planted and Built up in Jesus Christ

Vatican Information Service • 9/5/2010

For this reason, dear friends, I encourage you to strengthen your faith in God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. You are the future of society and of the Church! As the Apostle Paul wrote to the Christians of Colossae, it is vital to have roots, a solid foundation! This is particularly true ...

23d Sunday: The Crucible. The Happy Priest on The Meaning of Suffering

By Fr. James Farfaglia • Catholic Online • 9/5/2010

Too many of our contemporaries seek an easy life without suffering, without sacrifice, without renunciation, without mortification. Many people would like to stand under the cross of Jesus and cry out as did the jeering crowd on the first Good Friday, "Come down from the cross." ...

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Black rice packs an antioxidant punch

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 8/31/2010

While blueberries are enjoying resurgence in popularity in places such as South Korea, for its antioxidant properties in addition to taste, black rice has been proven to be even better for you. Research shows that black rice packs a bigger antioxidant punch even than blueberries, which have long ...

More than half a billion eggs recalled

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 8/23/2010

More eggs are set to be recalled in the wake of salmonella poisoning across the United States. More than half a billion eggs have already been recalled, in what the Food and Drug Administration calls "largest such egg recall in recent history." FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg says the task at ...

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Osteoporosis drug increases cancer risk

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/3/2010

An osteoporosis drug called bisphosphonates, according to a recent study, increases the user's chances of contracting esophageal cancer. The risk is especially greater for those who take the drug for five years or more, according to Reuters. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - An Oxford study ...

Mentally engaged face more severe Alzheimer's decline

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/2/2010

Alzheimer's is an incurable disease that drastically effects a patient's mental cognitive abilities and memory. Nothing seems to prevent its onset - diet, exercise, being socially engaged or being intellectually active all fail to stave off its advancement. A new, even more disheartening study now ...

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Cable car museum full of hustle and bustle

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/3/2010

The San Francisco Cable Car Museum is not your typical museum. When one thinks of a museum, one tends to think of it being filled with the archaic artifacts of yesteryear, each lighted softly and placed behind Plexiglas. The cable car museum is full of noise, hustle and bustle, a clamoring dynamo ...

San Francisco bay ghost town sinking into marsh

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/3/2010

Drawbridge, formerly known as Saline City, is a ghost town that is quickly sinking into the marshland in the San Francisco bay area. No one lives there, and it is illegal to venture on to the property, as it is currently part of the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge. But it ...

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Thomas More College Of Liberal Arts: Academically Strong, Fully Faithful

By F. K. Bartels • Catholic Online • 9/5/2010

Many Catholics are intent on receiving a fruitful education centered on Christ and the Magisterium of the Catholic Church he founded, that they may live productive lives as friends of God, and shape society according to the divine plan of our Redeemer. Simply, they see the purpose of their life as ...

Interview: What a Couple of Graduates Have to Say About Franciscan University

By Michael Terheyden • Catholic Online • 8/30/2010

Franciscan University is located in Steubenville, Ohio. It is a small Catholic university; yet, it is one of the more renowned Catholic universities in the Nation - with a global presence. I know some very special young men and women who graduated from Franciscan. They are the greatest ...

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Saint Bonaventure: Bishop, Doctor, Apostle of Truth

By F. K. Bartels • Catholic Online • 7/15/2010

Certainly a soul can be very close to our Lord Jesus Christ without constantly directing its attention toward understanding dogma or doctrine or even common Church teaching. But is it to a soul's advantage to ignore these things? Put another way, can we say we love God to the fullest extent ...

Corpus Christi: Pope Benedict Commends St. Thomas Aquinas, Faith and Reason

Catholic Online • 6/3/2010

'St. Thomas has a profoundly Eucharistic soul. The beautiful hymns that the liturgy of the Church sings to celebrate the mystery of the real presence of the Body and Blood of the Lord in the Eucharist are due to his faith and theological wisdom....Thomas' personal humility but also the fact ...

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Another oil rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/3/2010

The entire world seemingly gasped in unison "not again!" However - officials say thee is no indication of any oil leakage with the news of another oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The blast occurred 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay along the central ...

Latin American Symposium Focuses on a Christian Spirituality of Ecology

Zenit News Agency • 9/3/2010

The participants reaffirmed their faith in a loving God, Creator of all that exists, who is the only Lord of the earth. He has entrusted this creation to human beings, faces of the qualities of their Creator, for its protection and cultivation."From it is derived the logic of the gift and ...

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Steve Jobs and company get serious over Apple TV

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/2/2010

Apple TV has been seen by some inside the company as a "hobby." Customer response has been at best lukewarm, and the set-top box has been overshadowed by the iPod and iPhone. That's all set to change, as Apple CEO Steve Jobs has apparently rolled up his sleeves to take this hobby much more ...

iPad to get brand new capabilities

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 9/2/2010

While the iPad is an invaluable personal computer, very few people associate with business and being used that much in the marketplace. An iPad in a place of business is usually used by employees wanting to sneak a few personal e-mails on downtime, or a manager showing off a new gadget or ordering ...

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