Did Pocahontas save explorer John Smith here? Native American site of Werowocomoco fascinating regardless

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 6/18/2013

Indian princess Pocahontas is said to have laid her head on English explorer John Smith as her powerful father Powhatan lifted his war club to carry out Smith's execution. For Virginia Indians, historians and archaeologists, that story is just a fanciful footnote. The real story is that ...

Poorly prepared teachers steering nation's classrooms

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 6/18/2013

The United States always needs qualified teachers - and many subpar programs are rushing them into classrooms ill-prepared to deal with students. That's the findings of a report on the National Council on Teacher Quality. While there are some notable success stories, many programs ...

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Why isn't the media covering what's happening in Brazil?

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 6/18/2013

Demonstrations have erupted across Brazil, and curiously, they have gone largely unreported across the media. On Monday, an estimated 100,000 people took to the streets to protest the government, poor quality services, corruption, taxes, and police brutality. SAO PAULO, BRAZIL (Catholic Online) - ...

Nicaragua approves plan to build canal between the Pacific and Caribbean with China

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 6/11/2013

Opponents say the ambitious plan is being rushed - but a Nicaraguan congressional committee has given the approval to a China-based consortium the concession to build and operate a canal between the Pacific and Caribbean. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Jenny Martínez, the ...

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St. John Paul II: Reliable Reports Affirm Second Miracle, Canonization This Year

By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 6/19/2013

Reliable, but unnamed, sources confirmed on Tuesday, June 18, 2013, that the Board of theologians of the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints have attributed a second miracle to the intercession of Blessed John Paul II. The nature of the miracle is a closely guarded secret but reports are that ...

Pope Francis Adds Name of St Joseph to Every Mass in the Eucharistic Prayer: What Does it Mean?

By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 6/19/2013

The Decree of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments made public on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The decree was promulgated on May 1, 2013, the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker. The Decree mandates the insertion of the name of St. Joseph in the Prayer offered by every ...

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Syria accused in 'ethnic cleansing' of Sunni Muslims

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 6/18/2013

The Lebanese caretaker minister for social affairs, Wael Abu Faour has declared that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces have begun ethnically cleansing Sunni Muslims and deliberately pushing refugees across the border into Lebanon. Abu Faour told journalists that during the ...

Obama to arm Syrian rebels after Assad chemical weapons use confirmed

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 6/14/2013

The Obama administration is officially acknowledging that the Syrian regime of Bashir al-Assad has crossed a red line are using chemical weapons against rebel forces. The acknowledgment now brings the question of precisely what the Obama administration will do about it. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic ...

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Pakistan leads world in gay pornography Internet searches

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 6/17/2013

The Southeast Asian nation of Pakistan is rigidly Muslim and has little access to the modern world. If and when a Pakistani man gets online, however, chances are he's looking for some homosexual pornography. Despite being a society that loudly denounces homosexuality, Pakistan tops the ...

GRISLY VENGEANCE: Teenager decapitates father after he raped her

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 6/16/2013

In a grisly example of tribal justice, a teenage girl chopped her father's head clean off with a bush knife after he raped her in their home in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. Residents of her village have formed a protective ring around the 18-year-old. They say they refuse to hand ...

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Elephant kills poacher for HIS ivory

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 6/17/2013

An African elephant has killed one poacher and injured his hunting partner in a rampage at Zimbabwe's Charara National Park. HARARE, ZIMBABWE (Catholic Online) - Poaching is a serious problem in this country as the population of elephants has fallen dramatically over the past decade. Poachers are ...

Refugees hiding in swamps face illness, death as South Sudan blocks humanitarian aid

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 6/16/2013

South Sudanese hiding in malaria-infested swamps are sure to die from malaria and respiratory illnesses unless the government allows humanitarian aid in. That's the stern prediction as offered by the medical charity group Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) said last week. LOS ANGELES, CA ...

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Obama tells Charlie Rose Americans are uninformed on NSA program. So why doesn't he inform us?

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 6/18/2013

According to President Obama, Americans are "not getting the complete story" on PRISM, the comprehensive spying program conducted by the National Security Administration. So, why doesn't Obama provide the complete story? LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - In an interview with Charlie Rose of CBS, ...

What happens when the Culture of Surveillance meets the Culture of Corruption?

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 6/18/2013

How much privacy are you willing to forgo to improve security? Facial recognition software is getting very good and law enforcement is increasingly using it to solve crimes by collecting images in databases. However, millions of Americans are being swept into these databases, and few of them have ...

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BAILOUT: Treasury, UAW health care trust will sell 50 million shares of GM stock at a $10 BILLION loss

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 6/5/2013

The Treasury sold nearly 20 percent of its remaining shares in General Motors in the first three months of the year, the Detroit automaker disclosed. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The U.S. Treasury says that it plans to sell 30 million additional shares of General Motors stock in a new ...

Great Recession took its toll: Americans missing their wealth

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 6/2/2013

While the United States economy is on the upswing, with all-time highs on Wall Street and home prices, for many Americans, it's a case of a little, too late. A new report says that the average U.S. household has recovered only 45 percent of the wealth they lost during the recession. There ...

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Father's Day families flock to see ‘Man of Steel’

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 6/17/2013

Everyone got it in their head to take dad to the movies this Father's Day Weekend, and the latest Superman epic, "Man of Steel" was the film to see. Raking in $200.3 million in just four days, crowds ignored negative or mixed reviews to make it this weekend's box office champ. LOS ANGELES, ...

Rapture comedy 'This is the End' stepping on quite a few toes

By Greg Goodsell • Catholic Online • 6/13/2013

Deemed a comedy hit by those in the know, "This is the End" is a raunchy R-rated laugh-fest about a group of inebriated male friends who head out to a wild party in the Hollywood hills, only to witness the world ending around them. As the earth crumbles around the stately mansion, they note that ...

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Turning the Pages of Catholic History

By Tim Lilley • Catholic Online • 12/12/2012

"Men are surprised by each new turn of the pages of the book of history." With those words, esteemed historian James Hitchcock introduces readers to HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH - from the Apostolic Age to the Third Millennium. The new book is available now from Ignatius Press SAN FRANCISCO, DEC. ...

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Actress Jean Stapleton, Edith Bunker on 'All in the Family,' dies at 90

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 6/2/2013

Perpetually absent-mined and good natured, actress Jean Stapleton was unforgettable as Edith Bunker, Archie Bunker's wife in the classic 1970s situation comedy "All in the Family." Stapleton was adamant that in spite of her high visibility, that she was an actress, and not a celebrity. She ...

Ratings: MSNBC is in very precarious fourth place

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/30/2013

The race in cable news network supremacy is on. Fox News Channel is maintaining a strong lead in primetime while runner-up CNN continues to ascend. HLN's continuing coverage of the Jodi Arias trial has also turned out to have substantial ratings legs. In light of this new activity, ...

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Doors' keyboardist Ray Manzarek dies from cancer

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/21/2013

The Doors were probably best known for flamboyant front man Jim Morrison's antics. Musically, however, it was the sinewy lines contributed by keyboard player Ray Manzarek that made the Doors' songs remained in the rock music standard playbooks. The rollicking keyboard of "People Are ...

Blonde songstress of Abba to release new album after years of silence

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/9/2013

The sale of untold millions of albums, in addition to being one of Sweden's top exports did little to assuage the fears and insecurities of the lovely Agnetha Fältskog, the blonde songstress in the super group quartet Abba. An intense fear of flying, coupled with a disastrous trip across the United ...

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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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Has Justin Bieber's 'bad boy' stance gone too far? Pot smelled on tour bus

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 4/25/2013

Pop singing sensation Justin Bieber with the arrival of his 18th birthday has been anxious to shed his "goody two-shoes" image. Posting shirtless pictures of himself on the Internet, Bieber wants the world to know that he's a grown man and not the bubbly teenager of yore. It may have just ...

Comedian Jonathan Winters dies at 87

By Greg Goodsell • Catholic Online • 4/12/2013

The cliché term "comic genius" is used too frequently, but was highly appropriate for Jonathan Winters. His "stream of consciousness" style - where he would flit from one character to the next, without scripting, inspired many other comics, in particular Robin Williams. The younger comic ...

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Answering The Question About Why You School Your Children At Home

By Tara K. E. Brelinsky • Catholic Online • 4/3/2013

The important lesson here is to seek God's plan for the education of your children, not your mom's or your father-in-law's plan. Once He plants the seed of your vocation in your heart, nurture it and protect against discouragement by others who have another vocation. You are fully capable of ...

What is Your Vocation?

By Tara K. E. Brelinsky • Catholic Online • 3/14/2013

I guess I'd have to admit my own excitement at the realization that I've successfully completed another home schooling year with my sanity in tact (mostly).  Although I might also be spied taking some extra deep breaths and wringing my hands as I navigate the half-opened boxes and packing ...

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While U.S. marriage rates are in 100-year low, rebound expected shortly

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 6/18/2013

Marriage rates are at their lowest in the past 100 years, analysts say. The recent recession sent far fewer couples down the altar, according to statistics. However, a new analysis projects that a long withheld demand and the large population of marriage-eligible Millennials, ages 18-34, ...

Father Knows Best

By Tara K. E. Brelinsky • Catholic Online • 6/18/2013

It was Father's Day and my darling husband was manning the wheel while I whimpered and complained in the co-pilot seat. "Just close your eyes," he advised, "and relax. We'll be fine." Of course, I had a choice to make in that moment (and my children were definitely clued into that fact.) I could ...

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See what EXPLOSIVE revelations about infidelity and children this author discovered

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 4/25/2013

Adultery is a serious offense. The Bible speaks about the sacred bond of marriage and the importance of faithfulness to your spouse. However, in modern times we have lost much of this morality to corrosive influences and the apparently widespread acceptance that infidelity is both common and almost ...

Why Wait for Marriage? Just Look at the Faces of those Who Did!

By Ian Johnstone • Catholic-Link • 2/8/2013

In today's video we witness a special event: two individuals who have said yes to God's plan for our sexuality. They have waited till marriage and are speaking to the camera on the day of their wedding. The man is ecstatic and overwhelmed with joy as he explains while choking back tears, "For us ...

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Fathers Are Guardians of the Family

By Michael Terheyden • Catholic Online • 6/17/2013

May fathers remember that they image God in the measure that they give of themselves; and that they first give of themselves in the generation or procreation of a child, not incidentally to the sexual act, but rationally, desiring and willing the conception of a child. KNOXVILLE, TN (Catholic ...

In Imitation of St. Joseph, Model of Fathers of Families

By Andrew M. Greenwell, Esq. • Catholic Online • 6/17/2013

Drawing from the traditional Litany of St. Joseph and the writing of the Popes on St. Joseph, we hope to sketch some of the virtues of human fatherhood.  As Leo XIII said in his encyclical on St. Joseph, "Fathers of families find in Joseph the best personification of paternal solicitude and ...

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THREE MILLION children die annually due to malnutrition

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 6/9/2013

Malnutrition, which is not enough of the right foods, in lieu of starvation, casts a deadly toll on the planet's child population. According to a new study, nearly half of all deaths among children less than five years of age, 3.1 million deaths a year - is caused by malnutrition. Children ...

$4 billion pledged to fight child malnutrition at London world summit

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 6/9/2013

The Nutrition for Growth summit in London this past weekend aims to end global malnutrition among the world's poorest children. Comprised of governments, businesses and civil societies, $4 billion was pledged to improve nutrition among children in developing nations. LOS ANGELES, CA ...

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How to meet that special someone this Valentine's Day

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 2/14/2013

If you're single this Valentine's Day, take heart - there are a lot of places in which to meet other people who are anxious to get to know you! Let's cross off the most obvious one - single bars. With their loud, deafening music, and alcohol-impaired patrons, chances of finding someone worthwhile ...

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 ...

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Generic drugs to be more readily available after court ruling

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 6/18/2013

Those in need of far less costly, generic drugs for their medical conditions got a boost this week by the Supreme Court. A longstanding practice by the U.S. pharmaceuticals industry to pay producers of generic copies to hold off introducing those low-cost drugs into the marketplace - known ...

Scientists discover why cancer spreads in human body

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 6/18/2013

In what could mean a possible gateway to finding a cure, scientists believe they have discovered how cancer spreads throughout the human body. A study has identified a mechanism known as the "chase and run" effect, where diseased and healthy cells follow each other around the body. LOS ...

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United Airlines crew refuses to protect teen girl exposed to sex act

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 6/4/2013

A California teenager is suing United Airlines after she claims the company did nothing to stop the man from performing a sexual act on himself midflight. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Monica Amestoy, 18, said that while flying from New York to Los Angeles last October a male passenger seated ...

Lively, modern city of Amman has rich historical past

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/28/2013

Amman, the largest city in Jordan, is one electric with all that is new and today. A bustling, cosmopolitan center, Amman also has a rich historical past and ties to the ancient, Biblical world. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic online) - The settlement mentioned in the Bible as Rabbath Ammon was the ...

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UST Alumni Grant Funds to St. Thomas Students

By Bridget Hardy, University of St. Thomas • University of St. Thomas • 6/6/2013

Ingry Umanzor left her job as a bank teller to make her courses and clinical work in the University of St. Thomas School of Nursing her first priority. Umanzor, who said she relied on God to provide, is one of the 2013 Alumni Association Student Award recipients. This year's Two Saints and Taco ...

Chart-Topping Sister Mary Josefa Reflects on Thomas Aquinas College

By Tim Drake • Cardinal Newman Society • 6/6/2013

The fact that authentic Catholic education is rooted in the sacred liturgy of the Church couldn't be more apparent to Sister Mary Josefa, whose path from Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, Calif., to the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of the Apostles, near Kansas City, Mo., was marked by reverent ...

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St. Catherine of Sienna Calls Each One of Us to Love God Right Where We Are

By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 4/30/2013

While praying at Peter's tomb, she experienced the great weight of the Church fall on her shoulders, and she offered herself and her suffering as a "victim" for the renewal of the Church. On April 29 of that year, around midday, God called her to Himself. Days before her death, she wrote, "If I ...

The Vision of St. John Bosco and the Papacy of Benedict XVI

By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 2/2/2013

Does the heroic leadership of Pope Benedict XVI represent one more fulfillment of the prophetic vision of the Saint whose Feast we celebrate? Pope Benedict XVI is steering the Ship through troubled waters, charting a path through those sure pillars of protection and heavenly aid. St. John Bosco, ...

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MYSTERY SOLVED? NASA geologist may have found out secret behind 'sailing stones'

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 6/17/2013

Death Valley's mysterious "sailing stones" appear to move across the desert all by themselves. The stones, found in the cracked surface of a dried up lake bed in Death Valley, California, the stones apparently glide across the sandy ground by their own volition. However - a NASA geologist ...

United Nations says world population nearing 7.2 billion

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 6/14/2013

The world's population will hit 7.2 billion next month and 10.9 billion by 2100, according to the United Nation's latest "World Population Prospects" report. The majority of the growth is a result of high birthrates in the developing world, the U.N. says. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - ...

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Chinese super computer faster than 338 MILLION ordinary PCs put together

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 6/18/2013

China has overtaken the United States with the construction of the world's fastest supercomputer. The Tianhe-2, whose name translates to "Milky Way," is almost twice as fast as the previous U.S. record holder . with speeds equivalent to more than an astonishing 338 million normal PCs. LOS ...

Priest hopes to reach the faithful with 'My Confessor' app

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 6/17/2013

The "My Confessor" app, currently only available for users in the Madison, Wisconsin area lets Android and iPhone users know when they can lift the burden off of their hearts. The app also allows busy Catholic priests to update their statuses from their phones. Creator Father Richard ...

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Archbishop José H. Gomez on Praying for Priests and Promoting Vocations

By Archbishop José H. Gomez • The Tidings • 11/20/2012

Every priest is a sacrament - a sign and instrument that brings men and women to the encounter with the living God. So in this Year of Faith, we need to refocus ourselves, especially in our families, on helping men to hear this beautiful and noble calling from Jesus. BALTIMORE, MD (The Tidings) - I ...

COL EXCLUSIVE: Fr. Pontifex - See what this priest does to deliver his powerful message

By Marshall Connolly (Catholic Online) • Catholic Online • 11/19/2012

He is a growing personality in the Catholic world and represents a new movement to engage the youth and reconvert the lost. Is he the Pope? A new bishop? A pop star? Well, he's not any of these things - yet. However, Fr. Pontifex, may eventually be all three, God willing. EVANSVILLE, IN (Catholic ...

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Washington state legalizes same-sex marriage, pot

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 12/6/2012

New laws legalizing same-sex "marriages" and marijuana consumption took effect in Washington state at midnight on Wednesday, sparking statewide celebrations. Same sex couples lined the streets hoping to obtain state permission to marry and marijuana advocates gathered outdoors to light up in ...

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NFL Player Adrian Peterson says he doesn't support same sex marriage

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/29/2013

National Football League and Most Valuable Player Adrian Peterson, with the Minnesota Vikings, came forward to say that same sex marriage is not something that he believes in. Peterson made his thoughts be known on Sirius/XM NFL radio, on the eve of marriage between members of the same ...

Unprecedented kindness - Boston Marathon to call back runners who couldn't finish

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 5/16/2013

Several thousand runners who did not get to finish the Boston Marathon because of the terrorist bombings, will be invited back next year. According to Boston officials, about 5,600 runners will get a second chance to finish the race in 2014. BOSTON, MA (Catholic Online) - The Boston Marathon is an ...

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A Layman's Plea for Tolerance of Catholics

By Jason DeSena Trennert • Catholic Online • 1/1/2013

For all those inclined to revile the Church and what it stands for, practicing Catholics like me have a humble request - attend any mass at any time at any Catholic church in the world.  It won't take more than an hour of your time, you won't be asked to convert, and I can promise you that the ...

A Question For The Christmas Season: Do You Want To Become A Saint?

By F. K. Bartels • Catholic Online • 12/31/2012

Who and what is a saint, and why should anyone want to be one? Is it in any way important to think about the saints? What do their lives mean for our lives? Given the nature of our modern, hyper-energized and technologically advanced world, are they still relevant today? On the other hand, could ...

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The Power of the Resurrection in our Lives: Christ Is Risen; Indeed, He Is Risen!

By F. K. Bartels • Catholic Online • 4/6/2013

There is great cause for belief in the Resurrection. One of the most wonderful tenets of Catholicism and the true Christian religion the Church transmits, is that the Resurrection is a historical event. We do not believe Christ is resurrected only because we are told he is, nor only because we read ...

The Surprise of Easter

By Fr. Randy Sly • Catholic Online • 3/31/2013

To make sure that all mankind knows that it is not over but actually just beginning, God has an Easter bombshell. While we may have been able to anticipate the wondrous joy of a day of resurrection, the first Easter was a complete surprise. WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) - Christ is risen! He is ...

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