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Headlines Why It All Comes Down to What Catholics Will Do and What They Won't Do: A Letter to Catholics By Deal W Hudson | September 23, 2013 Our faith is a gift, not a threat. Our faith does not teach us to follow the rules and we "will be just fine." Our faith does not teach us to view the good life as a road burdened by the weight of dreary obligations. Our faith does not teach us to just get by, to be there, follow the rules, and keep the obligations. Our faith is not that of a tribe, into which we happen to be born. Our faith is not a list of minimum requirements that get us into heaven. That kind of faith will never be Evangelical, will never appear attractive to the newcomer, and, most importantly, will never come close to representing the living tradition. Pope Francis I, I believe, is trying to remind us of this too and being misunderstood in the process. Continue Reading... Pope Francis: Every Unborn Child Has the Lord's Face By Andrew M. Greenwell, Esq. | September 23, 2013 Every child not allowed to be born, but unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, the Lord's face, inasmuch as before he was born, and while born, he experiences the rejection of the world. Continue Reading... Reflection on the Catholic Catechism: Understanding Our Knowledge of God By Michael Terheyden | September 23, 2013 We have considered some of the ways we come to know God in the world and through human experience. But we might ask, how reliable or meaningful is our knowledge? The Catechism of the Catholic Church offers us some compelling answers. Continue Reading... I Am a Son of the Church: A Big Heart Open to God, the Papal Interview Which Confounded the Media By Deacon Keith Fournier | September 21, 2013 Proclamation in a missionary style focuses on the essentials, on the necessary things: this is also what fascinates and attracts more, what makes the heart burn, as it did for the disciples at Emmaus. We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel. The proposal of the Gospel must be, more simple, profound, radiant. It is from this proposition that the moral consequences then flow. (Pope Francis) Continue Reading... Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew Speaks Out Strongly! No to Homosexual 'Marriage' By American Orthodox Institute | September 21, 2013 Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew expressed in unequivocal terms that the Orthodox Church cannot sanction same-sex marriage. This is bound to make some of the Orthodox Progressives squirm because there is no room for doubt, no artificial distinction between Church and society where the moral teaching applies to the former but not the latter, where there is a different ontology implied for those within the Church and those outside of her. Continue Reading... US Catholic Bishops Lead Fight for Healthcare and Religious Freedom By Adele M. Gill | September 20, 2013 Certainly, we have all heard about the 'Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act' also known as Obama Care, that reportedly will provide affordable basic health care to all American citizens. But do we really know the toll it threatens to take on Christian Religious Freedom, and on those that are in most need of health care among us? Perhaps it is time to take a closer, fresh look at this highly charged, impending 'Health care reform." Continue Reading... FRIDAY HOMILY: Fr. Randy Sly on Don't Goof Up! By Fr. Randy Sly | September 20, 2013 When it comes to those things to living as a disciple of our Lord, there is no need to neither go through the litany of positives and negatives, nor delve into the shades of meaning for each of the sins we could commit. For our purposes, there are two important words to consider: avoid and pursue. Continue Reading... A Spirituality of Encounter. Pope Francis and the Woman Who Anointed the Feet of Jesus By Deacon Keith Fournier | September 21, 2013 The Woman whose story is told even to this day, as Jesus promised it would be, saw Jesus for who he is and was changed in the encounter with Him. It was not about her, it was about Jesus. She was emptied of self and thereby able to be filled with Love. This encounter is capable of changing all men and women. It is the woman of prayer who teaches us of the absolute necessity of living faith and points us to the path to walk upon if we want to receive faith as gift and cultivate it as a fruit. She is a model for all who want to experience living faith as a light for real life. Continue Reading... Cardinal Dolan Reaffirms Commitment to Oppose HHS Mandate, Protect Conscience By USCCB | September 20, 2013 The final version of the mandate still suffers from the same three basic problems we have highlighted from the start: its narrow definition of "religious employer" reduces religious freedom to the freedom of worship by dividing our community between houses of worship and ministries of service; its second-class treatment of those great ministries-the so-called "accommodation"-leaves them without adequate relief; and its failure to offer any relief at all to for-profit businesses run by so many of our faithful in the pews. Continue Reading...Catholic Online is staging a very special conference on November 1-3, at the Sofiatel San Francisco Bay Hotel in Redwood City, CA. The Conference is "Saint Michael the Archangel, Defend Us in Battle, Spiritual Warfare and the Triumph of Love." It will focus on the role of St. Michael in our lives and in the world today. 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