On Super Tuesday, faithful muddle through presidential candidates’ political positions
Catholic Explorer
2/5/2008, by Paul Storer
WOODRIDGE, Ill. (Catholic Explorer) - With the Feb 5 primary election in Illinois rapidly approaching, Henry Histic of St. Scholastica Parish in Woodridge said he will vote for the candidates who most correspond with his convictions and values. Party affiliation is “the least of my concerns,” he ...
Disabled Iraq vet has a comrade indeed
The Catholic Review
2/1/2008, by Suzanne Molino Singleton
Baltimore, Md. (The Catholic Review) - Usually 22-year-old Corey Fick has to lift his best friend Ryan Major out of a wheelchair and place him in bed at night. But lately, Major, 23, is capable of putting himself to bed, in spite of the fact that his legs and several fingers are missing – injuries ...
'Play Like a Champion,' CYO sports program encourages coaches and players
The Tidings
2/1/2008, by R.W. Dellinger
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (The Tidings) - Catholic Youth Organization of Los Angeles, which provides athletic competition for more than 10,000 students in some 165 elementary parochial schools in the Southland, has always prided itself on fostering sportsmanship, respect, responsibility, self-discipline ...
Wartime internment of Japanese-Americans focus of Martin Luther King Jr. Day breakfast
Catholic Explorer
1/30/2008, by Mike Indreika
LISLE, Ill. (Catholic Explorer) - Imagine destroying old family photographs and tokens of your cultural identity in order to erase your past. Then, imagine being forced to leave your home and business, with only a few days notice, without any real cause—to be treated like a criminal, a traitor, ...
Catholic schools give life skills, fond memories
The Georgia Bulletin
1/30/2008, by Stephen O’Kane
ATLANTA, Ga. (Georgia Bulletin) - During Catholic Schools Week, graduates of those schools throughout the Atlanta area are thanking parents for the sacrifices they endured to send their children to a Catholic school.
For many, the experience of attending an institution focused on building faith ...
Catholic high schools going ‘Madison Avenue’
The Catholic Telegraph
1/30/2008, by Dennis O’Connor and David Eck
CINCINNATI, Ohio (The Catholic Telegraph) — Slick brochures, high-profile billboards and even television commercials are part and parcel the advertising agency’s arsenal of marketing tools for convincing consumers to buy a particular brand of laundry soap or a new line of automobiles. But in the ...
Top Ten Catholic Heroes of the Super Bowl
Catholic Online
1/30/2008, by Gerald Korson
Professional football was long considered a “Catholic” sport, drawing rugged players from the working class blue-collar immigrant families of which a good percentage were at least culturally Catholic. Times have changed in the intervening years, but the faith lives on, more quietly and imperfectly ...
Opposition to Spanish Bishop by some in Homosexual community
LifeSiteNews
1/30/2008, by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman
"One is born in a family of a man and a woman. In the human order this is required. One consults a dictionary to determine what a marriage is and it says that it is a stable and lasting union between a man and a woman." Bishop Rafael Palmero SPAIN (LifeSiteNews) - Bishop Rafael Palmero of the ...
Fallen N.Y. firefighter eulogized as a hero
Catholic New York
1/28/2008, by Mary Ann Poust
NEW YORK, N.Y. (Catholic New York) - Thousands of firefighters from New York City and beyond gathered at a Staten Island church last week to bid farewell to one of their own, Lt. John H. Martinson — known to his firehouse buddies as “Johnny Nice Guy.” With Martinson’s pregnant wife, Jessica, and ...
Marriage amendment gets Catholic support
Pittsburgh Catholic
1/28/2008, by John Franko
PITTSBURGH, Pa. (Pittsburgh Catholic) - Clergy and other diocesan personnel have received information packets on a proposed Pennsylvania Marriage Protection Amendment.
With the legalization of same-sex marriages in Massachusetts and the creation of “civil unions” in six other states, it is ...
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