[Click here for readings] In the fall of 1930, America was sinking deeper and deeper into the worst economic crisis in its history, the calamity that became known as the Great Depression. Tens of thousands of New Yorkers found themselves suddenly out of work – eventually one in six people in New York, some 300,000, would be on some kind of public relief. Many sought help from churches. One of those churches was St. Francis of Assisi, on West 31st... Read more
Check out this video from the Archdiocese of Chicago, describing the impressive work of deacons trying to help men looking for a second chance. Check out the group’s website, too. Read more
[Click here for readings] In the fall of 1930, America was sinking deeper and deeper into the worst economic crisis in its history, the calamity that became known as the Great Depression. Tens of thousands of New Yorkers found themselves suddenly out of work – eventually one in six people in New York, some 300,000, would be on some kind of public relief. Many sought help from churches. One of those churches was St. Francis of Assisi, on West 31st... Read more
Check out this video from the Archdiocese of Chicago, describing the impressive work of deacons trying to help men looking for a second chance. Check out the group’s website, too. Read more
Wow. Pizza + Cinnabon = ???? A hard-working foodie at Zagat’s decided to check it out: Since its founding in 1985, “Life Needs Frosting” has been the mantra forCinnabon, the bakery synonymous with the gold standard of cinnamon rolls worldwide. But this month, things have taken a savory turn at Atlanta’s Cumberland Mall location, a testing ground for a broader variety of products, many of them free of that famous frosting. “This is the first full Bakery Café in the U.S.... Read more
And here’s a good one, winner in the category of Vile Puns: Though they were merely strangers on a train, as she looked North by Northwest though the rear window, Marnie knew beyond a shadow of a doubt the trouble with Harry was that he was a psycho – his left and right hand middle fingers (formerly extended in the birds position) were menacingly twisting a rope in the form of a noose; certain of her impending death as surely... Read more
Details: Government authorities from a district in the Central Highlands last week compelled ethnic villagers to remove Catholic pictures and items from their chapel and replaced them with images of Ho Chi Minh last weekend. “After local Catholics finished prayers in the chapel on Sunday morning, local government authorities came and asked them to remove a cross and a Marian picture from the chapel,” a Church source said. The source added that authorities from Kon Thuc hamlet, led by two... Read more
While one group of liberal Catholics is suggesting prayers for the conversion of Paul Ryan, another group that hailed Obama in 2008 as “pro-life” isn’t saying so this time. Details: Catholics for Obama has launched its 2012 initiative with a focus on economic issues, in an apparent shift from its 2008 presentation of the presidential candidate as “pro-life.” “We endorse the President because of his tireless focus on economic security for middle-class families,” the national co-chairs of Catholics for Obama... Read more
“He and I had a good, heated conversation and I offered some criticism which he was gracious in accepting. . . . [Ryan said he believes it is] ‘probably time to ask a big question . . . whether so-called entitlement programs are the best way to help the poor. . . . I’m for the entitlement programs. We always have to have a vigorous safety net. But if we don’t do something to save them, our huge entitlement programs,... Read more
Remarkable. And inspiring. From Robert Dellinger and The Tidings of Los Angeles: The 97-year-old priest in the white chasuble with an embroidered cross on the front approached the wood lectern with short steps. By his side was the chaplain of Nazareth House, Trinitarian Father Frank Whatley. Normally because of his balance problem and poor eyesight, Msgr. Felix Diomartich would concelebrate the daily morning Mass sitting down. But August 8 was the 75th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood of Jesus... Read more
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