2016-09-30T15:55:33-05:00

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Getty Images, the world’s leading stock photo agency, offers more than 80 million still images and photos and more than 50,000 hours of stock film footage for business and consumer use.  The Seattle-based company targets three markets:  advertising and graphic design professionals, the media, and the corporate world. In May 2012, Getty Images touted their product line with an award-winning one-minute advertisement titled “From Love to Bingo” which utilized 5,000 pictures to tell the story of a life.  This week,... Read more

2016-09-30T15:55:33-05:00

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I had heard this unofficially.  Yesterday, though, the Holy See Press Office issued a press release, confirming that Cardinal Keith O’Brien, Britain’s most prominent cardinal, is leaving Scotland.  According to the Vatican Information Service: “His Eminence Cardinal Keith Patrick O’Brien, archbishop emeritus of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, for the same reasons he decided not to participate in the last Conclave, and in agreement with the Holy Father, will be leaving Scotland for several months for the purpose of spiritual renewal,... Read more

2016-09-30T15:55:34-05:00

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Whew!  Our nation is relieved that the horrible newborn killer, Kermit Gosnell, is finally safely behind bars and will remain there, out of sight and out of mind, for the rest of his natural life. So now we can rest easy, knowing that no late-term babies will be born alive, only to have their necks “snipped” to stop their inconvenient breathing.  Right? WELL, NO.  A report released yesterday by Lifenews.com provides clear evidence that another abortionist, Douglas Karpen of Texas... Read more

2016-09-30T15:55:34-05:00

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He is a gentle, happy man.  A ten-time Grammy Award winner, a virtuoso vocalist and conductor, Bobby McFerrin is best known for his 1988 hit “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” Bobby McFerrin’s peaceful, joy-filled improvisations well up in a heart that is attuned to God.  His family was deeply religious, and music was one of the ways that they prayed and worshipped. McFerrin’s spiritual music includes a unique rendition of the Twenty-Third Psalm which he dedicated to his mother.  In an... Read more

2016-09-30T15:55:34-05:00

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A million signatures. That’s the ambitious goal of the non-denominational European campaign “One of Us”.  Organizers of the grassroots initiative hope to persuade the European Union to debate and then vote on whether to protect the human embryo from unregulated scientific experimentation. The “One of Us” campaign began in May 2012, and will continue until November 1.  By that time, organizers hope to collect the required one million signatures from at least seven of the 27 member states in the... Read more

2016-09-30T15:55:34-05:00

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On May 13, after seven days of deliberations, a federal jury has found abortionist Kermit Gosnell guilty of three counts of first-degree murder (in the deaths of Babies A, C and E, who were born alive and then killed by having their spinal cords “snipped” with scissors) and one count of second-degree murder (in the death of an adult woman).  Baby A, the largest, was estimated to be 29 weeks gestation, and was so large that clinic workers took photographs... Read more

2015-12-19T22:19:26-05:00

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Is Father John Corapi still trying to restore his reputation and return to active ministry? In 2011, Father Corapi was removed from public ministry as a priest, following allegations of misconduct.  Since that time, he has consistently maintained his innocence. And now, in a March 18, 2013 post on a new Facebook page titled Vindication for Fr. Corapi, the disgraced priest says: “In light of recent happenings, all the accusations against me and all the controversy….  A lot of these things... Read more

2016-09-30T15:55:34-05:00

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Last week I told you that on Saturdays during the month of May, I would write something about Mary, the Mother of God.  On this, the second Saturday of May, let’s talk about one of Pope Francis’ favorite devotions:  Mary, Untier of Knots. As a Jesuit priest in the mid-1980s, Jorge Mario Bergoglio spent several months in Germany studying at the Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology in Frankfurt.  It was during this time that he first saw... Read more

2016-09-30T15:55:34-05:00

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2016-09-30T15:55:34-05:00

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David Foster Wallace was an award-winning American novelist, short story writer and essayist.  Time magazine called his 1996 novel Infinite Jest  “one of the best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.” Wallace was a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California, and was considered one of the most influential and innovative writers of the time—until he took his own life at the age of 46 in September 2008. I don’t know what motivated Wallace to give up on life.  Only... Read more

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