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	Facebook Twitter Newsletters Email Video News Catholic Life Shopping Saints Bible Prayers Mary Headlines Historic Christian town of Maaloula seized by Islamist rebels in Syria By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | September 9, 2013 It's time to make room in our prayers for the Christian residents of Maaloula in Syria: Islamist rebels of the al-Nusra Front have seized control of the town this weekend. The al Qaeda-linked rebel group has reportedly seized control of the historic Christian town of Maaloula from regime forces. Continue Reading... Spiritual Warfare: Time to Build The Tower and Take the Field of Battle By Deacon Keith Fournier | September 9, 2013 Which of you wishing to construct a tower does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if there is enough for its completion? Otherwise, after laying the foundation and finding himself unable to finish the work the onlookers should laugh at him and say, 'This one began to build but did not have the resources to finish.' Or what king marching into battle would not first sit down and decide whether with ten thousand troops he can successfully oppose another king advancing upon him with twenty thousand troops? But if not, while he is still far away, he will send a delegation to ask for peace terms. In the same way, anyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be my disciple. (Jesus) Continue Reading... Reflecting on the Attributes of God By Andrew M. Greenwell, Esq. | September 9, 2013 God, the Church teaches, has certain attributes which He must be held to have. All these attributes must be held of God, and the denial of any one attribute is really nothing but a partial atheism, as that attribute we deny of God becomes an area of godlessness or atheism pro tanto. Denying any attribute of God lands us in a heresy about God, or into a form of idolatry, even into an inchoate atheism since a God that is deprived of any one of his attributes is no longer Almighty God, but something less than Almighty God. The God becomes a god, which means he is not God. Continue Reading... UPDATED: Calling all Catholics: Defend Your Brothers and Sisters in Syria By Anita Crane | September 9, 2013 Catholics are supposed to be the champions of human rights. We are 25 percent of the U.S. population, yet Barack Obama was twice elected president and he wages numerous kinds of war both here and abroad. As Congress weighs Obama\'s plan to bomb the Syrian people, Catholics and all Americans need to understand what\'s at stake and urge their members of Congress to vote against it. Continue Reading... On the Global Day of Prayer and Fasting: The Path to True Peace Passes through Prayer By Deacon Keith Fournier | September 7, 2013 I write this article on September 7, 2013, the day when the world is invited to the urgent task of praying for peace, in Syria, the extended Middle East, and around the world. An historic day, when the Holy Father Francis is personally leading a global day of prayer and fasting - and unleashing the most powerful weapon we have against the growing scourge of violence - the Love of God. This is the only source and means to authentic peace, as individuals, as a Church, as Nation-states and as a global community. In a world which is spiraling out of control, we who bear the name Christian are called to live in this true peace, in order to bring others to the One who its Source, Jesus Christ. Continue Reading... Papal and Priestly Views on the Syrian Crisis By Matt Abbott | September 7, 2013 Together with the Holy Father, with whom I was privileged to converse right after his strong Angelus message this past Sunday regarding Syria, I am convinced that nations need to do everything possible to avert the use of military force. Moreover, the pope's prayer is for human life; it is a response against the killing of the innocent, a form of violence that should trouble every human conscience. (Fr Frank Pavone) Continue Reading... Trappist Nuns in Syria Send Open Letter to Obama, Ask Him to Drop His Sentence of War By Deacon Keith Fournier | September 7, 2013 The people are straining their eyes and ears in front of the television: all they're waiting for is a word from Obama! A word from Obama? Will the Nobel Peace Prize winner drop his sentence of war onto us? Despite all justice, all common sense, all mercy, all humility, all wisdom? The Pope has spoken up, patriarchs and bishops have spoken up, numberless witnesses have spoken up, analysts and people of experience have spoken up, even the opponents of the regime have spoken up. Yet here we all are, waiting for just one word from the great Obama? And if it weren't him, it would be someone else. It isn't he who is "the great one," it is the Evil One who, these days, is really acting up. Continue Reading... Actor Jack Nicholson speaks out against abortion By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | September 5, 2013 Movie actor par excellence Jack Nicholson has always maintained a rebel image, and outsider unafraid to speak his mind. He certainly goes against the grain of leftist-leaning Hollywood when it comes to the matter of abortion. Staunchly pro-life, he said in a 1984 interview, "I'm positively against it. I don't have the right to any other view." Continue Reading... China, Hell, and American Delusion: 'Praying for Abortion' is the Screeching of Demons By Jennifer Hartline | September 7, 2013 Pardon me if I don't have much faith in the American voters to stand up and prevent the full-blown emergence of a forced-abortion/one child policy like China's here in America. If it's cloaked in the desired political rhetoric and framed as a safeguard of "women's rights", then I think many people will swallow it gladly. We're already willing to kill our own children if they get in our way. From there to China is not such a giant leap. Continue Reading... Most Popular China, Hell, and American Delusion: 'Praying for Abortion' is the Screeching of Demons Read More   Pope Francis to Lead World in Day of Prayer and Fasting for Peace Read More   Trappist Nuns in Syria Send Open Letter to Obama, Ask Him to Drop His Sentence of War Read More   Is Democracy Always The Answer? 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