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Friday, May 18, 2012
  • Iowa Diocese Reaches Agreement on Scholarship for Gay Student
    DAVENPORT, Iowa (CNS) —The Diocese of Davenport has reached an agreement that will allow a gay student at Prince of Peace Catholic School in Clinton to publicly receive a scholarship awarded by an Iowa organization that promotes tolerance, quelling a controversy over presentation of the award.
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    Student Keaton Fuller of Clinton, Iowa, is pictured in a photo provided by the Eychaner Foundation.
  • Family Hopes God's Plan Includes Trip to World Meeting
    CHARLESTON, S.C. (CNS)—The Tuncaps have a lot of faith in God and his plans for their family, and they're hoping those plans include a trip to the World Meeting of Families in Milan, Italy. At a cost of $11,000 just for the flight, the May ...
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    The Tuncap family is hoping to catch a ride on a military cargo flight to attend the World Meeting of Families
  • To Filmmaker, 88-Year-Old WWII POW Is Still 'Daddy'
    WASHINGTON (CNS) —Paul Loong was determined to survive the POW camps where he was held by the Japanese for three years. While imprisoned, Loong kept a journal that had a chance of surviving him if he never made it out alive. But Loong did. And ...
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    World War II POW Paul Loong is seen in an undated photo.
  • Catholic Creates 'Rosary for the USA' for Nation in Need of Prayer
    PHOENIX (CNS)—As Manny Yrique prayed before the Blessed Sacrament, his heart was burdened with concerns about the United States and the level of animosity in American discourse. "I knelt down to pray and I was overwhelmed by the feeling that Our Lord wanted me to ...
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    Dee, Antonio and Manny Yrique pray the rosary in their Phoenix home May 8.
  • Dalai Lama Wins Templeton Prize
    WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. (CNS)—The Dalai Lama was named March 29 as the winner of the 2012 Templeton Prize. A statement from the John Templeton Foundation, which selects the winner, said his "long-standing engagement with multiple dimensions of science and with people far beyond his own ...
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    The Dalai Lama attends the Templeton Prize at St. Paul's Cathedral in London.
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John I: Pope John I inherited the Arian heresy, which denied the divinity of Christ. Italy had been ruled for 30 years by an emperor who espoused the heresy, though he treated the empire’s Catholics with toleration. His policy changed at about the time the young John was elected pope. <p>When the eastern emperor began imposing severe measures on the Arians of his area, the western emperor forced John to head a delegation to the East to soften the measures against the heretics. Little is known of the manner or outcome of the negotiations—designed to secure continued toleration of Catholics in the West. </p><p>When John returned to Rome, he found that the emperor had begun to suspect his friendship with his eastern rival. </p><p>On his way home, John was imprisoned when he reached Ravenna because the emperor suspected a conspiracy against his throne. Shortly after his imprisonment, John died, apparently from the treatment he had received.</p> American Catholic Blog I like to be part of the challenge that we all have from the gospels: to convert. As John the Baptist says, “To make straight the path.” There’s always an opportunity to straighten out the crooked path.
 
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"I Call You Friends"
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Jesus in John’s Gospel is completely focused on the love that the Father has shared with him and, through him,with the world. In today’s reading, he assures his followers that they are not slaves but friends. Friend is a significant word, no matter how much it gets thrown around in casual conversation.
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