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Headlines Pope Francis in Jerusalem: Will the Meeting with Patriarch Bartholomew Advance Full Communion? By Deacon Keith A Fournier | May 20, 2014 The Catholic Church proclaims that, in and through Jesus Christ, and by the power of the Holy Spirit, authentic unity with God the Father - and with one another - is the plan of God for the entire human race. The Church is the way toward that unity. As Orthodox and Catholic Christians we should want to walk toward that unity and not fear it. The image used of two lungs breathing together is a prophetic one. The Orthodox and Catholic Churches need one another. The Church is meant to become the home of the whole human race. For the Church to continue the redemptive mission of Jesus most effectively, she must be one. It was not the Lord\'s plan that Christians be separated. It is His Plan that the Church be restored to full communion. His prayer will someday be answered. May this visit of the successor of Peter hasten that day. Continue Reading... Jeb Bush: School Choice is the Natural Progression of Brown v. Board of Education By Deacon Keith Fournier | May 20, 2014 Jeb Bush is correct. It is time to move beyond the stale rhetoric and ineffective top down federal educational programs and enact real educational Reform in the United States. That reform requires parental or school choice. We need real educational revolution and not the rearranging of chairs on the Titanic which has masqueraded as educational reform in the past. I use the term parental choice in education when advocating for this reform because I think it more aptly recognizes that parents are the first teachers. Therefore, they should be the ones who make the choice where to expand their teaching mission for their own children. This choice should make available for all parents good public, private, parochial, virtual, classical, charter and home schools. Continue Reading... RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION: Worst eight countries listed By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | May 19, 2014 Most distressing is the fact that religious persecution continues in the world today. Somewhere, someone has a deeply held belief that is perceived as a threat to others. The State Department has listed eight separate nations as the worst places to practice religion. The nations listed are, in the words of the department, "authoritarian governments that restrict their citizens' ability to practice their religion." Continue Reading... 13,000-year-old body of teen found in Mexico By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | May 17, 2014 A 13,000 year old skeleton, found undersea in Mexico, has become the talk of the scientific world. The skeleton of the teen-aged girl reportedly has DNA and genetic markers which indicate that she shared the same ancestry with modern Native Americans and paleoamericans. Continue Reading... Deacon Keith Fournier on Catholic Deacons, the New Evangelization and the New Missionary Age By Deacon Keith Fournier | May 19, 2014 I will soon celebrate my seventeenth anniversary of ordination as a member of the Clergy, a Catholic Deacon. Because I was ordained on the Feast of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ in 1996, I have taken that date as my anniversary- even though the actual calendar dates change. Choosing this Feast, so central to the heart of the Church, is a way in which I regularly rededicate myself to my vocation - by rooting my response to the Call of the Lord in the Heart of the Church, for the sake of the world. I know that the Diaconate in Christ is a real vocation. The root of the word vocation is the Latin word for Voice. I heard - and continue to hear - the voice of the Risen Lord calling me to follow Him in this Way.This morning, our first reading at Mass reminds us of the call and establishment of the Order of Deacons in the Church. It also invites an examination of the role of Deacons in the Catholic Church and for her missionary work in the Third Christian Millennium Continue Reading... SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR APOSTASY: Sudan woman to hang for marrying Christian By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | May 16, 2014 A Sudanese court has sentenced a woman to hang for apostasy, which is, leaving Islam - after she married a Christian man. "We gave you three days to recant but you insist on not returning to Islam. I sentence you to be hanged to death," the judge told the woman in a Khartoum courtroom. Continue Reading... St. Michael the Archangel, Defend Us in Battle: Pope Francis Takes on the Devil By Deacon Keith Fournier | May 19, 2014 Now the new People of God is the Church. That is the reason she considers him her protector and support in all her struggles for the defense and expansion of the kingdom of God on earth. It is true that \"the powers of death shall not prevail\", as the Lord assured (Mt 16:18), but this does not mean that we are exempt from trials and battles against the snares of the evil one.In this struggle the Archangel Michael stands alongside the Church to defend her against all the iniquities of the age, to help believers to resist the devil, who \"prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour\" (1 Petr 5:8).\" This battle against the devil which characterizes the Archangel Michael is still going on, because the devil is still alive and at work in world. In fact, the evil that is in it, the disorder we see in society, the infidelity of man, the interior fragmentation of which he is a victim, are not merely the consequences of original sin, but also the effect of the dark and infesting activity of Satan, of this saboteur of man\'s moral equilibrium. - St John Paul II Continue Reading... Pope Francis on the Spiritual Gift of Fortitude and the Hidden Saints Among Us By Pope Francis | May 15, 2014 Let us thank the Lord for these Christians who are the hidden saints among us. It is the Spirit within who carries them forward and it would do us good to think of these people. If they do this, if they can do this then why not me and we ask the Lord to give us the gift of fortitude. - Pope Francis Continue Reading... Kianna's 'friend' makes his intentions clear - Part III By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | May 16, 2014 Kianna found herself on the leather car seat of her newfound friend's Mercedes, a man as old as her lost father. His name was Satyajit, but he insisted that Kianna call him "Jo." He was navigating through the hot, dusty streets of Delhi, now more a world away with the car's blasting air conditioner behind smoky windows. "So, where are we going, Jo?" Continue Reading...
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