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We fear that every day is 9/11
… Most people turn to God. Except at what we now call Ground Zero, clergy of every description lent consoling words. Mayor Bloomberg decreed there would be no clergy praying at his ceremony, … to load another plane with madmen, then calling upon the Creator by officials and by families lent no (or at least less) grist to their twisted propaganda mill. In fact, it may have served to …
Love fulfills the whole law
… the pleasure of meat, or we found other ways to do some penance, like giving up candy in Lent perhaps. But what Jesus means is much more than that. It's very profound. It's not just …
Two extraordinary witnesses, real disciples of Jesus
… doing mortification, I think very often we think of giving up something like we used to do for Lent, giving up candy or whatever -- some kind of self-denial -- but Jesus is asking for …
Former Front-Runner Mitt
… Gov. Rick Perry is now atop the latest Gallup poll. If Romney thought his front-runner status lent his campaign an aura of inevitability, he was barking up the wrong tree. Ask Hillary Clinton …
Religious groups irked by contraception mandate
… a 600-member umbrella group for Catholic hospitals, told The Associated Press. In 2009, Keehan lent crucial last-minute support that helped secure passage of Obama's health care reform law, a …
Book on Vatican finance is uneven, but worth a read
… (italics mine) has a long lending history in 95 of 184 U.S. dioceses. More specifically: AIB lent $175 million to the Los Angeles archdiocese for the $774 million clergy abuse settlement. …
Haitian student's long Lent is over
… a call from a survivor in Haiti. It was Claude Winddcheley Saturne, calling to say, “My long Lent is over.” He had started college classes that morning in Port-au-Prince. Claude Winddcheley … has a house and a computer and a printer and a school, and friends. And, for now, his long Lent is over. [Melissa Nussbaum is an NCR columnist who lives in Colorado Springs, Colo.] …
Musical settings for new Roman Missal can begin in September
… parts of the Mass with full implementation not being required until the first Sunday of Lent 2012," Bishop Skurla added. "This encouragement for more gradual implementation was based on …
Abraham Heschel's prophetic Judaism
… by Jews and Christians alike. Here is a sampling: Prophecy is the voice that God has lent to the silent agony, a voice to the plundered poor. God is raging in the prophet’s words. In …
Top Ten Papal Trips
… common appeal to the Almighty. The event has lasting significance for three reasons. First, it lent powerful momentum to inter-religious dialogue and collaboration. John Paul would later …