Cardi-B, a 25-year-old rapper and award winning musician used her time on stage this week at MTV’s Video Music Awards (VMAs) to brag about how she not only had the baby everyone wanted her to abort, but that she’s “still winning awards” – thus driving a stake through the heart of the myth that a woman can’t be a mother and have a successful career at the same time.
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August 23
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too."
-2 Corinthians 1:3-5
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A new study has found that a Catholic education helps to improve students’ self-discipline.
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Servant of God Anna Kolesarova, 16, of Slovakia, who was murdered in front of her family after refusing the advances of a Soviet soldier, will be beatified as a martyr on September 1.
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As if the Catholic faithful don’t have enough to worry about these days, scammers posing as priests are sending emails to parishioners requesting iTunes or other expensive gift cards that the “priest” claims are needed for people on his sick call list.
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August 22
"[She] kept all these things in her heart."
-Luke 2:51
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An innocent parish priest was attacked and knocked unconscious in the sacristy of his church in Merrillville, Indiana on Monday by a man who cried out, “This is for all the kids!”
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A fresco of the Coronation of Mary appearing on the Dome of Maria Taferl Basilica in Lower Austria, painted by Antonio Berduzzi (1713-1718). Wikimedia Commons, Wolfgang Sauber
Oh, what joy in heaven on that day!
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August 21
"True charity consists in putting up with one's neighbor's faults, never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues."
-St. Therese of Lisieux
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When Our Lady appeared outside St. John the Baptist Church in Knock, Ireland on August 21,1879, she uttered not a single word, but the way she chose to appear spoke volumes.
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