As you know, I am fascinated (enraptured, enthralled, intrigued, allured) by all things Catholic! And so, I really want to know what the Church teaches. One way to get a “bird’s eye view” (Don’t you just wonder where these phrases come from? I sure do and some nights I just sit up puzzling over it! Which I did for a spell [short period of time as in an instant, jiffy, little while, minute, second, stretch] on this one. You can find out what I discovered below. So many words, so many phrases, so much linguistic intrigue – and so little time! It near makes me batty – as in crazy or eccentric nuts or wacky– none of which really applies to me, thank goodness!).
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Blasphemous Play Closes in Just Two Weeks
The Testament of Mary, a Broadway play that depicts the Blessed Mother as an angry old woman who said her Son's preaching "set her teeth on edge" and called the apostles "misfits" closed just two weeks after it opened.
Teen Video Denounces Rising Anti-Christian Sentiment in Schools
A group of teens from an Idaho school who are fed up with the anti-Christian bias creeping into the nation's public schools have made national news by producing a video declaring the time has come to "make America one nation - under God - again."
Mirror, Mirror
“In the light of Mary, the Church sees
Homosexual Man Sues Church to Become Priest
Just weeks after that country legalized same-sex marriage, a New Zealand man is suing the Anglican Church claiming they refused him entrance to the seminary because he's homosexual.
Gosnell Kept in Solitary Confinement
House of Horrors abortionist Kermit Gosnell might have been living the high life off the money he earned from his West Philadelphia "chop shop", but that's not the case now as he awaits the jury's verdict in his capital murder case in solitary confinement.
Rhode Island Approves Same-Sex Marriage
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Rhode Island has become the 10th U.S. state to legally define marriage to include homosexual couples.
Feminine Genius
“It can thus be said that women,
Pope: There Can be No Dialogue With the Devil
During Mass on Saturday morning in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae, Pope Francis reminded the faithful of the struggle between the love of Christ and the hatred of the prince of this world, saying that "there can be no dialogue with the prince of this world!"
Middle-Aged Suicide Rates Soar
Experts are concerned about an alarming spike in the suicide rate among middle-aged Americans in the past decade with many puzzled by what is driving so many baby boomers to take their own lives.
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