Even though they are not permitted to vote on a permanent solution to the sex abuse crisis in the U.S. church just yet, this didn’t stop many bishops attending the semi-annual conference in Baltimore from speaking their mind about the impact of one of the most serious scandals to hit the Church in her history.
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by Paul E. Cator
All Souls Day is over, but these souls still long for our prayers.
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November 14
“Yes, in silence we can actually break the hold time has on us, and accept that our true home is not here on earth, but in eternity.”
-Sister Wendy Beckett
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Today’s young woman is facing a culture that is very different from the one their parents’ faced 25 years ago. With the rapid influx of secularism and relativism, just about anything goes and what was once considered an acceptable moral standard for all is now considered to be “up to the individual.” How do we prepare our girls to face the world as it exists today and still keep their faith and values?
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As California’s deadly Camp Fire continues to rage out of control, Sacramento Bishop Jaime Soto is offering prayers and words of consolation to the thousands of people in his diocese who have been impacted by the blaze.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
The same organization that is providing deadly chemical abortion drugs to women overseas is now offering their services in the US as a way of preparing for what some believe is the inevitable end of legal abortion in America.
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GD writes:
“I am so tired of being lured into the season’s so-called “hit” movies for kids, only to get there and find out that they are filled with New Agey ideas, violence, bad language, etc. Is The Grinch okay for kids to see or should we take a pass on it?”
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November 13
Feast of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin (1850 - 1917)
“Oh Jesus, I love you very much. Give me a heart as big as the universe. Tell me what You wish that I do, and do with me as You will.”
-St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
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Feast of St. Josaphat, Bishop and Martyr (1580 - 1623)
"[St. Josaphat] felt that God had inspired him to restore worldwide unity to the Church. Concerned mainly with seeing his own people reunited to the See of Peter, he sought every available argument that would foster and maintain Church unity."
-Pope Pius XII
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JA writes: "
I have recently heard of a health and massage practice from the Philippines called "Hilot". Is this practice occult or New Age (and therefore to be avoided like the plague by faithful Catholics)?"
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