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	Facebook Twitter Newsletters Email Video News Catholic Life Shopping Saints Bible Prayers Mary Headlines SUNDAY HOMILY: Humility, Choosing to Take the Lowest Place By Deacon Keith Fournier | September 1, 2013 When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not recline at table in the place of honor. A more distinguished guest than you may have been invited by him, and the host who invited both of you may approach you and say, 'Give your place to this man, 'and then you would proceed with embarrassment to take the lowest place. Rather, when you are invited, go and take the lowest place so that when the host comes to you he may say, 'My friend, move up to a higher position.' Then you will enjoy the esteem of your companions at the table. For every one who exalts himself, will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself, will be exalted. Continue Reading... Responding to Jesus, the 'I love you' of God By Andrew M. Greenwell, Esq. | September 1, 2013 Jesus is the Ego amo te, the "I love you" of God to man. It requires a response from us. By an act of faith and love inspired by grace, an "I love you, too," we can appropriate that divine offer of love. In so doing, we will be able to say, "We love, because He first loved us." Continue Reading... Forced Abortion of 9 Month Old Child in China: Obama Administration Complicity By Deacon Keith Fournier | August 31, 2013 Sadly, because the Maoist Atheists currently ruling mainland China wear business suits, smile a lot, and hold commercial paper which represents a substantial amount of American I.O.U.'s, few politicians in either major political party have the courage to call them out for their egregious human rights abuses. The treatment of children as commodities in China, products to be accumulated only with the permission of the Central Government, seems horribly unjust to most observers, and rightly so. However, at its root, is it that different than the current abortion culture of the West? We need to be honest if we ever hope to end this evil scourge Continue Reading... FRIDAY HOMILY: Give Me Oil In My Lamp By Fr. Randy Sly | August 30, 2013 In our gospel today Jesus is talking about spiritual preparation and conditioning. The parable gives us some strong direction that needs to be in place here and now. We don't want to wait to be sure our lamp is lit and we have plenty of oil. But what does this mean? Continue Reading... Persecuting Christians: The Rise of Judicial Imperialism in the Emerging Imperial State By Keith A. Fournier | August 31, 2013 Some Judges have simply aligned with the Cultural Revolutionaries who seek to remake the West. They have now joined with others in the executive and legislative branch in misusing their delegated authority in the United States of America. They pay little attention to the Constitution of the United States. They pay less to the Natural Moral Law which informed it. They have decided they are the new arbiters of what is now to be considered "moral"; the interpreters of what is acceptable and thus the detrminers of what is legal in a culture which has rejected the existence of objective truths by rejecting the very existence of a Natural Moral Law Continue Reading... Homosexual Marriage at the Dusk of Liberty By Fr. Johannes L. Jacobse | August 31, 2013 In the long run, Christians won't be prosecuted for objecting to homosexual marriage as such. They will be prosecuted for denying that the State has the power to define what is morally licit under the legal rubric of civil rights. We are one step closer to the catacombs. Bishops, priests and deacons need to take special note because they will become the first targets of the coming hostility in order to demoralize the faithful. Clergy who today still hope for compromise with the homosexual cultural agenda must recommit to the moral tradition and bear the scorn that comes with defending it. Continue Reading... THURSDAY HOMILY: Passion of St.John the Baptist Calls Us to Freedom and Courage By Deacon Keith Fournier | August 29, 2013 The last prophet of the Old Testament, the forerunner of the Messiah, was killed by a corrupted King who gave in to lust, pride and grandiosity. John never stopped bearing witness to the truth. He had the eyes to see that Truth was fully revealed in Jesus, the one whom he proclaimed the "Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world." (John 1:29) St. John the Baptizer was a simple man, not a member of the elite. He was stirred by conscience and the Holy Spirit to throw convention to the wind.He paid dearly for it. As Christians we inherit the abundant fruit of his daring and liberating choices. The way he exercised the great gift of his human freedom instructs us in exercising our own. Continue Reading... Obama Administration Considers Military Action: Pray for the Christians of Syria and Pray for Peace By Deacon Keith Fournier | August 31, 2013 As Catholics we need to be very careful as we watch the news reports concerning the situation in Syria. The Chaldean Bishop of Aleppo, Antoine Audo, S.J. told Vatican Radio that "If there is an armed intervention, that would mean, I believe, a world war. That risk has returned." Metropolitan Hilarion, the head of the Department for External Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate offered sobering words concerning what appears to be the impending military action by the US in Syria stating "Once again, as was the case in Iraq, the United States is acting as an international executioner. Once again, thousands of lives will be sacrificed on the altar of an imaginary democracy." He warned that among them will be "Christians, about whose fate no one cares." We must be numbered among the ones who do care about their fate. Pray for the Christians in Syria. Pray for peace in Syria. . Continue Reading... Sophistry Slouching Toward Apostasy: Response to the Commonweal Essay of Joseph Bottum By Deacon Keith Fournier | August 28, 2013 I read the 9,000 word essay entitled The Things We Share: A Catholic's Case for Same-Sex Marriage last weekend. It was written by Joseph Bottum for Commonweal magazine. In fact, I read it several times. Each time, it broke my heart at an even deeper level. The first thing I did was to pray about my response. I decided to wait until I could let my emotional reaction to it calm down a bit. I knew the utter despair that this essay would generate in the broader, faithful Christian community. Continue Reading... 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