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| | Headlines Wedding rings cut off fingers, bibles burned. Chaldean Catholics Remain Faithful By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | August 19, 2014 If you have followed the horrifying stories of Christians in Iraq, you know that these peaceful people have been deprived of literally everything. They have not simply lost businesses, homes and cars, but also their money, their personal effects, literally everything but the clothes on their backs. Continue Reading... Pope Francis Gives Important Interview On His Return From the Apostolic Visit to Korea By Deacon Keith A Fournier | August 19, 2014 Pope Francis is a refreshingly frank, charismatic and prophetic successor of the Apostle Peter. He stands in the trajectory of Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, and Benedict. He is a true gift to the Catholic Church, the entire Christian community, and the world. I have concluded that he is just the Pope we need at this historic moment. I have also concluded that he knows just what he is doing in shaking things up. Continue Reading... Money is NOT the Root of Evil. Learning to Live Evangelical Simplicity in an Age of Idolatry By Deacon Keith A Fournier | August 19, 2014 Learning to live in evangelical Simplicity strips away what impedes love. In finding our proper relationship to the goods of the earth- not rejecting them, craving them, or turning them into an idol- we can learn true freedom. Our eyes are opened and everything begins to look different because it is bathed in the Light of the Gospel. The phrase - love of money- speaks to the heart. When we love the goods of the earth more than we love the One who created them and entrusts them to us, we commit the sin of idolatry. A destitute person can be just as obsessed with money as a wealthy one who is given over to greed. Greed is a form of idolatry.Evangelical Simplicity, when embraced voluntarily, strips away only what impedes love. In finding our proper relationship to the goods of the earth -not utterly rejecting them, craving them, or turning them into an idol - we find true and lasting freedom. Our eyes are opened. We learn to see Lazarus. We are given the grace to see Jesus in Lazarus.We learn how to walk in the way of evangelical simplicity. We learn to live in the economy of heavenly scale. We also smash the idols of the contemporary age as we the way to true freedom. Continue Reading... SOBERING THOUGHT: Only 11 nations on Earth NOT at war currently By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | August 17, 2014 The news has been bleak as of late: A standoff in Ukraine, shelling in Gaza and Islamic State making a hash of Iraq and Syria. A think tank has some sobering news for the casual observer; as of late ONLY 11 nations are not currently at war. It's a distressing trend that shows no signs of abating, either - Continue Reading... Persecution: W. W. Bridal Shop Forced Out of Business Because the Owners Are Faithful Christians By Deacon Keith A Fournier | August 19, 2014 In the first two centuries of Christianity, as the early Christians sought to serve in the broader Roman society by engaging in all suitable occupations, some occupations had to be avoided. To practice them would require them to violate their faith. As some other professions began to compel the Christians to apostatize, they had to withdraw their participation as well. But this is NOT ancient Rome, it is the United States of America. We have a robust interpretation of the First Amendment to the Bill of Rights to the Constitution which recognizes religious liberty as a fundamental human right and the free exercise of religion - or do we? Continue Reading... Pope Francis to Asian Youth: The Glory of the Martyrs Shines On You, Wake Up! By Catholic Online | August 18, 2014 The martyrs of Korea - and innumerable others throughout Asia - handed over their bodies to their persecutors; to us they have handed on a perennial witness that the light of Christ's truth dispels all darkness, and the love of Christ is gloriously triumphant. With the certainty of his victory over death, and our participation in it, we can face the challenge of Christian discipleship today, in our own circumstances and time. Continue Reading... The Assumption or Dormition of the Mother of the Lord: What Does It Mean? By Deacon Keith A Fournier | August 15, 2014 This event is a part of the naturally supernatural progression in the life of the Blessed Virgin of Nazareth. Her Yes, her Fiat of surrendered love, brought heaven to earth. This exercise of her human freedom, responding to the invitation of God, as sent through an angel, to be the Mother of the Lord, forever changed human history. It opened her up to the glory of heaven. That glory not only came to dwell within her, but later received her, body and soul, into heaven. Mary is thus the sign and promise of the Church\'s future. She also provides the pattern of the Christian life and vocation. All who say Yes to her beloved Son - and live their lives in that kind of surrendered love - can bear Jesus Christ for the world. They are joined with Mary now and will join with her in the fullness of that communion of love which she now enjoys in eternity. Continue Reading... You Are Guardians of Hope! Pope Francis Speaks to the Bishops of Korea By Catholic Online | August 18, 2014 Dear brothers, a prophetic witness to the Gospel presents particular challenges to the Church in Korea, since she carries out her life and ministry amid a prosperous, yet increasingly secularized and materialistic society. In such circumstances it is tempting for pastoral ministers to adopt not only effective models of management, planning and organization drawn from the business world, but also a lifestyle and mentality guided more by worldly criteria of success, and indeed power, than by the criteria which Jesus sets out in the Gospel. Woe to us if the cross is emptied of its power to judge the wisdom of this world (cf. 1 Cor 1:17)! I urge you and your brother priests to reject this temptation in all its forms. May we be saved from that spiritual and pastoral worldliness which stifles the Spirit, replaces conversion by complacency, and, in the process, dissipates all missionary fervor. Continue Reading... Pontifical Council Statement on the Violence in Iraq By Vatican Radio | August 14, 2014 No cause, and certainly no religion, can justify such barbarity. This constitutes an extremely serious offense to humanity and to God who is the Creator, as Pope Francis has often reminded us. 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