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New Advent
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These stories have been handpicked from blogs and news sites around the Web -- some Catholic, some not.
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Woman Stops Robbery By Preaching Jesus
A woman decided to preach faith in Jesus Christ as a better way, and she succeeded (or should we say God succeeded) in preventing a robbery. Wonderful. Held up at gunpoint, a store clerk invoked her faith to turn the desperate thief into a repentant gunman. When a man tried to rob a MetroPCS cell phone store at gunpoint in Pompano Beach, Fla...
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It May be Friday, But Sunday's Coming
Some years ago in a previous parish assignment, St. Thomas More, in Washington DC, I was accustomed to take a Friday afternoon walk to focus on my homily for Sunday. At the beginning of the walk I'd often stop by the nearby house of an elderly parishioner, Lillian, and give her communion. She was quite...
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"To Serve, and Not to Be Served"
Here below, the ordination remarks of Bishop David O'Connell CM, coadjutor of Trenton, as prepared for delivery: I have been thinking a great deal in recent months about the role and ministry of bishops in the Church. You might think, sitting here in the Cathedral today in the midst of this beautifully moving ceremony...
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Anne Rice Quits Christianity
Anne Rice, whose book Called Out of Darkness was a beautifully-written spiritual confession, has decided that she loves Christ but not Christians. She's neither the first nor the last to feel that way. Sometimes I do, too. Sometimes I hate myself as a Christian, because I do the thing so badly. Christianity is easy to do badly.
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Fisherman catches rarely-seen alligator 'feeding frenzy' on video
A voice heard on an amazing video of 300 feeding alligators says it all. "I ain't never seen so many gators in my life." Ray Cason's biggest catch earlier this month, when he went fishing at Stephen C. Foster State Park in the Okefenokee Swamp in southeast Georgia, was two videos that have made a splash on Facebook and YouTube.
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