As difficult as this is to believe, Family Radio Worldwide founder Harold Camping's prediction that the worldwide "rapture" will strike on May 21, 2011 has struck fear into the hearts of millions around the globe.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new blood test that measures the length of a person's telomeres, which are structures on the tips of our chromosomes that reveal how quickly a person is aging, may soon be used by the general public to determine how long they will live.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The principal at a private Catholic school on Long Island has told a lesbian student that if she wants to go to the prom, she will have to take a male date.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The past month has seen major breakthroughs in adult stem cell research and yet we barely heard a word about it in the press. Why not?
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A growing Facebook trend known as "planking" is being blamed for the death of a 20 year-old Australian man and has prompted calls from officials to put an end to the bizarre fad.
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"The Lord could have created a more beautiful heaven, He could have made a larger world, but He could not have created a mother greater than the Mother of God."
St. Bonaventure
For Reflection:
Why is this statement a true statement? To what extent does it enhance my appreciation of the Blessed Mother and her role in salvation history? Does this quote draw me closer to her?
(See tomorrow's Grace Line for one holy man's thoughts on this quote.)
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"God sends us joys before sorrows, to prepare our hearts; but the joys themselves contain prophecies of the coming sorrows."
Father Faber writing about the Blessed Mother
For Reflection:
What insight into the action of God in our lives! What are some examples from the life of the Blessed Mother that show the validity of this statement? What are some examples from my own life?
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"Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children."
St. John Vianney
For Reflection:
Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima. How do the apparitions of the Blessed Mother underscore the validity of St. John Vianney's statement? How has she been busy in your life?
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A new
report by the
Eagle Forum raises serious questions about the United Nation's increasingly fanatical environmental programs that are leading the way back to a primitive reverence for the earth.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A blockbuster new study by Oxford University has found that religion comes naturally, even instinctively, to human beings, a finding that could have a profound implications for religious freedom worldwide.
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