Is the Air Force's newest fighter a widowmaker?

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/16/2012

It should be every pilot's dream - to fly the most technologically capable, sexiest, and impressive fighter jet the world has ever seen. Yet, pilots are going so far as refusing outright to climb into the cockpit. The plane is the Air Force's F-22 Raptor, and at a price tag of about $137 million ...

Teens sentenced to life in prison face harsher sentences than adults, experts say

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/16/2012

The United States is the only nation that sentences juveniles to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Five U.S. states -- California, Florida, Louisiana, Michigan and Pennsylvania -- account for two-thirds of all convicts younger than 18 currently serving natural life ...

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Latest massacre of 49 'not an attack against the civilian population'

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/14/2012

At least 49 decapitated and dismembered bodies have been discovered along a highway in the northern border state of Nuevo Leon, authorities say. The body parts were left along the road between the cities of Monterrey and Reynosa. A message written on a nearby wall nearby referred to the ...

Bribery, extortion and embezzlement run rampant in Mexico

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/12/2012

In spite of several multilateral anti-corruption agreements that have been signed by the Mexican government, these agreements have yielded few concrete results in combating the rampant bribery, extortion and embezzlement. "We have the necessary legal instruments, but they are rarely used. ...

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Ratko Mladic, the Butcher of Bosnia, in court for war crimes

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/16/2012

Ratko Mladic, accused of being behind Europe's worst killing spree of today, shows no remorse. The "Butcher of Bosnia," or the "Beast of the Balkans," caught the eye of a woman who survived the genocide and ran his finger across his throat. The gesture had Judge Alphons Orie give a brief recess due ...

Mobster's tomb at Vatican disinterred in investigation into teenager's disappearance

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/16/2012

The investigation into the disappearance of an Italian girl has led to the discovery of a mobster's body on Vatican property. Investigators at the church of Sant'Apollinare in central Rome opened the tomb of Enrico "Renatino" De Pedis in the search for clues about what happened to 15-year-old ...

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Iran hangs 'Mossad agent' for assassinating scientist

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/15/2012

Iran hanged a man they said was an agent for Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad, who was convicted of killing one of their nuclear scientists in 2010. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Tehran accused Israel and the United States of assassinating four Iranian scientists, as of 2010, to sabotage ...

Lawyer for Iranian Pastor Sentenced to Death for Being a Christian, Sentenced to Jail

By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 5/10/2012

Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani was sentenced to death in the Islamic Republic of Iran for the crime of apostasy. He refused to convert back to Islam and recant his faith! The character and courage of Christ is evident in the heroic witness of this Pastor. Now, Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, the ...

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Caritas launches waste recycling system

By Catholic News Agency • Catholic Online • 5/15/2012

Caritas Pakistan yesterday launched a solid waste management system in the country's most populous city Karachi to promote recycling. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The project includes forming environmental protection groups in slums, appointing garbage collectors, distributing more than a ...

Peace negotiator shot dead in Kabul

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/15/2012

Former Taliban minister turned government peace negotiator Arsala Rahmani has been shot to death while he sat in traffic in Kabul. Rahmani was the second senior member of President Hamid Karzai's high peace council to be killed in less than a year, after a suicide bomber targeted the ...

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European navy attacks Somali pirates on land for first time

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/16/2012

Somali pirate installations in East Africa were attacked by European Union Naval forces on land, the first time since extending its remit from strictly to sea-based operations. According to the European Union Naval Force (Somalia) Operation Atalanta's web site, there were no reported ...

Sahara Desert teeming with refugees from Libya, Chad, elsewhere

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/15/2012

Refugees from many beleaguered African nations have found a temporary safe home in the Sahara desert. Located nearly 1,000 miles from the Mediterranean coast in Libya's desolate southeast desert, the Kufra oasis strategically lays near the long and porous borders of Egypt, Sudan and Chad. LOS ...

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President appoints 24-year-old man for 'faith outreach'

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/16/2012

As if in response to Christian leaders who say the current White House is slow to address "faith issues," President Obama has selected a 23 - soon to 24-year-old man as their "faith outreach manager." The new religious outreach director, Michael Wear graduated from George Washington ...

Sorry Obama, but our eyes are open

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/16/2012

Like the old joke about puppies that go from being Democrats to Republicans, the left is beginning to realize what the rest of the country has known for some time - that Obama is in serious jeopardy.  LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The joke goes: A democrat was jogging in a park when she ...

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GM cuts out Facebook

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/16/2012

General Motors (GM) confirmed a report by the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, saying they will stop advertising on Facebook. The timing of the announcement comes just as the social networking giant plans to go public with its stock.  NEW YORK, NY (Catholic Online) - The automaker says the ads ...

Dimon will keep his jobs at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/15/2012

In spite of a massive $2 billion loss, as well as other accounts still left unaccounted for, Jamie Dimon will retain his jobs as chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Shareholders overwhelmingly voted him back onto the board and approving executive compensation packages. LOS ...

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Cristiada - Film About an Unknown War Boxoffice Smash in Mexico

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/16/2012

"This is an international story for the world," said Academy Award® nominee Andy Garcia, who headlines an international cast in FOR GREATER GLORY. "It's a story that needs to be told." Garcia plays General Gorostieta, the retired military man who transformed a roughshod group of Mexican ...

Can a movie be too scary?

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/12/2012

The question arises - can a horror movie be too scary? The latest anthology horror film, "V/H/S," about a group of teenagers finding a box of cursed videotapes in a haunted house poses that question. When the film screened at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, a man and woman ...

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Esteemed Mexican author Carlos Fuentes dies at 83

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/16/2012

Esteemed Mexican author Carlos Fuentes, best known for his novels and political commentary, died Tuesday. He was 83. Fuentes suffered a massive hemorrhage and died hours after arriving at the hospital. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - "I deeply regret the passing of our beloved and admired ...

'Where the Wild Things Are' author Maurice Sendak dies

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/8/2012

As a highly acclaimed author, his most famous and celebrated book was less than 300 words in length. Maurice Sendak, author of the children's classic "Where the Wild Things Are" has died at the age of 83. According to his longtime editor Michael di Capua, the cause of death was due to ...

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Oprah Winfrey's OWN Network is rapidly rupturing

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/8/2012

When Oprah Winfrey left her phenomenal daily talk show, it was with the intention to launch and maintain her own TV network, OWN. Since then, the multi-million network has been plagued with difficulty and financial stress - losing a reputed staggering $330 million. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic ...

Actor who played TV vampire 'Barnabas Collins' dies

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 4/20/2012

The mythical blood-sucking vampire is supposed to be immortal. It still came as a bit of a shock to learn that TV vampire Jonathan Frid, who played Barnabas Collins on the Gothic soap opera "Dark Shadows" has passed away at the age of 87. He died just days before his character was to be ...

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Beastie Boy Adam Yauch dies after cancer battle

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/5/2012

Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys, who performed under the stage name MCA has passed away after a battle with cancer. Yauch was 47. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The cause of Yauch's death is currently unknown. Yauch had announced that he would be receiving treatment for a cancerous tumor in his ...

Levon Helm of The Band passes away peacefully

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 4/21/2012

Levon Helm, drummer, singer and multi-instrumentalist for The Band has died "peacefully," according to his record label, Vanguard Records. He was 71. "He was surrounded by family, friends and band mates and will be remembered by all he touched as a brilliant musician and a beautiful soul," ...

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Rome's Exorcist Finding Blessed John Paul II Effective Against Satan

By David Kerr • Catholic News Agency • 5/18/2011

I have asked the demon more than once, 'Why are you so scared of John Paul II and I have had two different responses, both interesting. One, 'because he disrupted my plans.' And, I think that he is referring to the fall of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe. The collapse of communism."Another ...

A Monk Reflects on Divine Mercy and the Sacred Heart of Jesus

By Fr. Gregory Gresko, OSB • Catholic Online • 5/8/2011

In the message of Divine Mercy, Jesus expresses His intimate desire to enter into the temple of our heart, but for Him to be able to enter we first must open the door of our heart to His Divine Love.  May we plunge into the love and mercy that emanate from His Sacred ...

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'Swamp People' star Mitchell Guist dies

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/15/2012

The star of the reality TV show "Swamp People," Mitchell Guist, has died in Louisiana. Guist was aboard a boat near Belle River Landing in the southern part of the state when he appeared to have a seizure. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Assumption Parish Sheriff Mike Waguespack, citing an ...

Crime experts debate whether 'Jack the Ripper' was a woman

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/14/2012

There have been countless suspects as to who the infamous "Springheel Jack" - or "Jack the Ripper," the killer who preyed upon prostitutes in Victorian London. As the world's most famous unsolved murder case, at least a hundred likely suspects have been trotted out since. Retired lawyer ...

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Home-schooled baseball player to go big

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/16/2012

Josh Henderson, 18, doesn't go to high school. In fact, he is home-schooled with his younger brother, an eighth grader, and two other children by his mother, Sonya. Henderson plays baseball, and he's good at it. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Henderson was initially allowed to play high school ...

Homeschooling doesn't mean the child always stays at home

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/16/2012

"I went to my high school reunion, the other day," popular comedian Zach Galifinakis says. "The problem is, was that I was homeschooled. The reunion was just me and a punch bowl listening to Kool & the Gang!" While funny, this points out a commonly held misconception about homeschooling. It's ...

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Reality TV causes some of the most popular baby names

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/15/2012

Some of the most popular baby names are the cause of reality TV. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The traditional name, Sophia, is the new top name for girls, while Jacob is number one for boys for the 13th straight year in a row, according to the Social Security Administration list. Kourtney ...

Vatican Defends the Role of Parents in Education, Affirms Home Schooling

By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 5/16/2012

"For some time now, my delegation has noticed a disconcerting trend, namely, the desire on the part of some to downplay the role of parents in the upbringing of their children, as if to suggest somehow that it is not the role of parents, but that of the State. In this regard it is important that ...

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The Creation of Mother's Day

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/9/2012

The origin of Mother's Day goes back to the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans. However the roots of Mother's Day can also be traced back in the United Kingdom where a Mothering Sunday was celebrated before it reached the United States. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The celebration of ...

Around the Well

By Carolee Gifford • Catholic Online • 3/8/2012

"Why do you think Jesus went to her?" The strains of the famous  song from "Lilies of the Field" filled my ears once more,     "AAAmen! AAAmen! AAAmen! Amen! Amen!" It ended almost every one of my spirituality groups. Hands clapped and voices were raised - a bit of joy. ...

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A Year After Fire, Parish Starts to Rebuild

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/15/2012

Last year, Msgr. Tim Nichols addressed the shocked St. John Vianney parishioners, many who watch their church being destroyed in an arson-set conflagration less than 24 hours before the fire, at the Palm Sunday Mass in the parish hall. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - "I'll be honest with you ...

What the Fire Spared: On Mary and Motherhood

By Martha Lyles • Catholic Online • 5/14/2012

Every fire refines, and the one that claimed our house was no exception. We are stronger and wiser now, more grateful, less materialistic. But I would feel ungrateful to God if I complained, so I focus on the many ways He has guarded and sustained us. POWAY, CA (Catholic Online) - The thing you ...

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A study shows that consuming too much sugar can eat away your memory

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/16/2012

On Tuesday, U.S. scientists published a study showing how a steady diet of high-fructose corn syrup weakened lab rats' memories. Meaning what? Well, it means that eating too much sugar can actually make you dumb. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Researchers at UCLA fed two groups of rats a drink ...

7-Eleven adds low-calorie Slurpee nationwide

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/15/2012

The "brain-freezing" drink, known as the Slurpee, best known for its bright colors, wild tastes, and of course its unique name, wants to also be known for another feature: less calories. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - 7-Eleven, the nation's largest convenience chain, will announce, later this ...

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Making A List? Check It Twice! (4 Men, 4 Lessons)

By Catherine Perry • Catholic Match: Blog • 7/10/2011

In her quest for Mr. Right, a devout single woman from New York encountered four different prospects -- and was surprised by what she discovered. Before my spiritual awakening - one that I can partially thank CatholicMatch for - I'd had a very limited understanding of what prayer was. I'd ...

A Discerner's Prayer: 'God, Send Me 3 Signs'

By Michael Bowes • Catholic Match: Blog • 7/10/2011

Michael Bowes, 30, an avid 360 gamer, found himself praying intensely after visiting the Mercedarians. He asked God for three signs that he had found his spiritual home. During my discernment with the Mercedarians I found a holy spiritual director who helped guide me on my journey. Father Jack ...

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Breakthrough Alzheimer's study

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/15/2012

In some of the most exciting news in the fight against Alzheimer's disease, a condition that affects primarily elderly people's memory and cognitive skills, a drug intended to halt the onset of the disease is to begin clinical trials. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The trials are historically ...

Batteries sending more children to ER

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/15/2012

Cases of children taken to the emergency room after accidentally swallowing batteries have doubled over the past twenty years. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - "The increase we're seeing is a call to action," said study lead author Dr. Gary A. Smith, director of the Center for Injury Research ...

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Mount Athos is largest of Greece's monasteries

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/2/2012

A mountainous peninsula in northern Greece, Mount Athos or the "Holy Mountain" is home to 20 Eastern Orthodox monasteries and forms an autonomous state under Greek sovereignty. Only monks are allowed to live on Athos. The current population hovers around 1,400. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic ...

Daphni Monastery is one of the great masterpieces of the Byzantine empire

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 4/17/2012

The 11th-century Byzantine monastery, Daphni Monastery is found just outside of Athens. A  World Heritage site, Daphni Monastery is one of the most important masterpieces of the Byzantine Empire, noted for its beautiful interior mosaics. The church has been closed for restoration work ...

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Franciscan University of Steubenville Takes Stand to Respect and Protect Life

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/16/2012

Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio has dropped its student health insurance plan because of the onerous implications of the Obama HHS edict. That edict, or mandate as it is called, would require the university to materially cooperate in the evil of sterilization, contraception ...

The Law of the Gift: Cardinal Timothy Dolans Commencement Address to the Catholic University of America

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 5/14/2012

The Law of the Gift is most poetically exemplified in the lifelong, life-giving, faithful, intimate union of a man and woman in marriage, which then leads to the procreation of new life in babies, so that husband and wife, now father and mother, spend their lives sacrificially loving and giving to ...

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Fr Paul Schenck on the Feast of Athanasius: Defenders of Life Against the World

By Fr. Paul CB Schenck • Catholic Online • 5/2/2012

Athanasius vigorously defended the divine personhood of Christ, even when it seemed the majority of the Church had accepted Arius's error. Athanasius contra mundum - it was Athanasius against the world! So it is in our pro-life effort today. The denial of the personhood of the preborn child is a ...

Giuseppe Toniolo: A Possible Saint of Catholic Social Doctrine?

By Andrew M. Greenwell, Esq. • Catholic Online • 5/3/2012

Blessed Giuseppe Toniolo has the unusual accolade of being the first economist in the history of the Church to have received the honor of beatification.  We might also call him the patron beatus of Catholic Social Doctrine.  He may, in fact, one day become the patron saint of Catholic ...

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Catholic Social Doctrine: The Theology of Ecology

By Andrew M. Greenwell, Esq. • Catholic Online • 5/16/2012

Man, who is made in God's image in a manner entirely distinct from the rest of nature, has a special responsibility to it.  Indeed, Christians believe that the Lord "entrusted all of creation to [man's] responsibility, charging [man] to care for its harmony and development. (Cf. 1:26-30)." ...

Plastic in 'Pacific Garbage Patch' has wrought profound changes to environment

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/9/2012

The "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" floating in the Pacific Ocean has increased 100-fold during the past 40 years, causing "profound" changes to the marine environment, according to a new study. In particular, plastic refuse is everywhere apparent, which provides a home for a different type ...

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The Future History of Facebook

By Marshall Connolly (Catholic Online) • Catholic Online • 5/16/2012

What will the future history of Facebook be? The legendary social networking site is inching its way to one billion worldwide users. In America, the website is becoming as ubiquitous as the internet itself, and soon the company will generate billions with its initial public offering (IPO). Despite ...

Google+ makes huge change

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/16/2012

Vic Gundotra has been running the engineering teams at Google since 2006, but he has never been so adamant about what Google is building than he is today. Why? One simple word and reason: Design. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - "We care more about design than we ever have in our history," ...

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Benedictine Monks from Oklahoma Move to Ireland's Stamullen Priory

By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 3/17/2012

They seek to bring healing to a wounded Irish Church. I believe they are a first fruit of her restoration and a sign of her future contribution in a new missionary age. God has not abandoned the Church in Ireland. The Purification of the Church always precedes her healing, strengthening and ...

Benedictine Monks from Oklahoma Become Missionaries to the Irish Church

By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 1/28/2012

Dom Mark Daniel Kirby, and the brothers gathered with him, represent the best of the monastic life.  They are moving their entire community to Ireland, a land which once gave the world monks, missionaries, and martyrs. They are doing so in order to help bring about the healing of ...

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Magic Johnson group buys the L.A. Dodgers

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 3/28/2012

A group led by Lakers legend Magic Johnson emerged this week as the new owners of the Dodgers, ending months of uncertainty for the troubled baseball franchise. Johnson guided the Lakers to five NBA championships during the "Showtime" era of the 1980s. He is also a partner in the group ...

Catcher Gary Carter loses battle with cancer

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 2/19/2012

Baseball great Gary Carter has lost his battle with cancer. Diagnosed with brain tumors, Carter passed away with his family by his side. He was only 57 years old LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - A Baseball Hall of Famer, Carter played 19 Major League seasons and won a World Series with the ...

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The Armor of Love: Octave of Christmas, the Feast of St. Stephen, Deacon and Martyr

By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 12/27/2011

On this Feast of St Stephen the Deacon and Martyr of the Church, let us continue our clebration of the Octave of Christmas by reflecting on this soldier of Jesus Christ whose life was so conformed to the Lord that he imitated him in his death. Let us also pray for our deacons, that they can ...

Christmas Pointsettias - A Reminder of Redemption

By Randy Sly • Catholic Online • 12/26/2011

We see them everywhere - in flower shops, department stores and grocery stores. The pointsettia came to North America in the early 1800's. Now they are as familiar this time of year as candy canes and carolers. While we pause, during these days in our Christmas celebration, to reflect on the reason ...

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Living Now in the Hope of Eternity: The Resurrection, Are You Ready?

By F. K. Bartels • Catholic Online • 4/16/2012

The Easter season is a sublime and sacred time in which our heart sings: "The Lord is risen!" The wondrous mystery of the resurrection and eternal life awaits, for if we have lost our life for the sake of Christ (Mt. 10:39), if we have been "united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly ...

Octave of Easter: Eastertide is Springtide, The Risen Jesus is Icumen In!

By Andrew M. Greenwell, Esq. • Catholic Online • 4/13/2012

"Sumer is icumen in" is a perfect display of St. Augustine's words which were written much earlier, when he says in one of his sermons, "Our summer is the coming of Christ . . . . our summer is when he is revealed."  It reminds us that Eastertide is Springtide. CORPUS CHRISTI, TX (Catholic ...

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