By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The controversial new NBC program, The Playboy Club, has become the year's first official cancellation as poor ratings and a steady barrage of viewer complaints forced the network to shut it down after only three episodes.
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"After Holy Mass [the Rosary] is one of the most beautiful and efficacious forms of prayer, on condition of understanding it and living it."
Grarrigou-Lagrange
For Reflection:
What do I think it means to understand and to live the Rosary? To what extent do I do this in my everyday life? Is there a strategy I can employ to help me do so more faithfully?
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Archdiocese of Omaha is criticizing the Fremont Public Schools in Fremont, Nebraska for forbidding a sixth-grader from wearing a rosary to school, saying it violates the dress code and has been used as gang-identification symbols in several western states.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Polish Archbishop Edward Ozorowski led the faithful in a special Mass on Sunday to celebrate a Eucharistic miracle that occurred in 2008.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In response to a sudden change in position by the Department of Defense (DOD) to allow chaplains to preside over same-sex marriages on military bases, Archbishop Timothy Broglio, head of the Archdiocese for Military Services, says Roman Catholic priests will not be performing the ceremonies.
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"The second fault commonly committed in saying the Rosary is to have no intention other than that of getting it over with as quickly as possible."
St. Louis de Montfort
For Reflection:
How often I have fallen into this fault! Today, I will begin again to treasure this great prayer that is my privilege to pray.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new study has found that a whopping 92 percent of all of the top songs of 2009 contained sexually suggestive themes.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The lesbian parents of an 11 year-old boy are allowing him to undergo sex change therapy because they claim the child has always wanted to be a girl.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Same-sex marriage has already forced the Church out of the adoption business in many U.S. states where the unions are sanctioned, but it is now threatening to force the Church out of the marriage business too, says Archbishop Barry Hickey of the Archdiocese of Perth, Australia, who says he'll stop performing marriages altogether if forced to conduct the unions.
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"Take great care to avoid the two pitfalls that most people fall into during the Rosary. The first is the danger of not asking for any graces at all. So, whenever you say your Rosary, be sure to ask for some special grace or virtue, or strength to overcome some sin."
(See tomorrow's Grace Line for the second pitfall.)
St. Louis de Montfort
For Reflection:
What special grace or virtue will I ask to obtain when I say my Rosary today? Is there a sin I need the strength to overcome? What is it? I will tuck this intention into my prayer as well.
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