Celebrating the Truth on the Fourth

- by George Vogt Little Elm, TX (MetroCatholic) - I wrote this piece 2 years ago. With a few modifications, it is even more relevant today. Tomorrow, we will celebrate our country's independence, yet we should not forget our total dependence on God nor should we be afraid to lean on one another in times of need. We celebrate life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We consider ourselves a "Just" nation. However, we are a nation that does not recognize the value of life from the moment of conception until natural death. The science of metaphysics proves that, at the moment of conception, ...

July 03, 2009 - Daily Mass Readings

Feast of Saint Thomas, Apostle Reading 1 Eph 2:19-22 Brothers and sisters: Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners: but you are fellow citizens with the saints and the domestics of God, Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone: In whom all the building, being framed together, groweth up into an holy temple in the Lord. Responsorial Psalm Ps 117:1bc, 2 R. Go out to all the world and tell the Good News. O Praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. R. Go out to all the world and tell the Good News. For ...

Ohio Supreme Court’s Decision Protects Privacy of Abusers Says Fr. Pavone

Staten Island, NY (MetroCatholic) – Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, issued the following comment in response to the Ohio Supreme Court’s refusal to make redacted medical records available in a case of alleged failure to report child abuse.   “It’s hypocritical for the Ohio Supreme Court to be concerned about the privacy of girls receiving abortions at Planned Parenthood when, by keeping the redacted, anonymous records secret, it is in fact protecting the privacy of older men who abuse underage teens.  The Court, by its decision, is enabling and perpetuating injustice.”

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June Message From Medjugorje

Message of June 25, 2009 "Dear children! Rejoice with me, convert in joy and give thanks to God for the gift of my presence among you. Pray that, in your hearts, God may be in the center of your life and with your life witness, little children, so that every creature may feel God’s love. Be my extended hands for every creature, so that it may draw closer to the God of love. I bless you with my motherly blessing. Thank you for having responded to my call." 06/2009 —————————————- On the 25th of each month, Our Lady appears to the Medjugorje visionary ...

BENEDICT XVI’S PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR JULY

VATICAN CITY, 1 JUL 2009 (VIS) - Pope Benedict's general prayer intention for July is: "That the Christians of the Middle East may live their faith in full freedom and be an instrument of peace and reconciliation". His mission intention is: "That the Church may be the seed and nucleus of a humanity reconciled and reunited in God's one and only family, thanks to the testimony of all the faithful in every country of the world".

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