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Grammy Nominee Matthew West Sings the Heart of Christmas

by Tony Rossi December 22, 2011

I have a confession to make:  I occasionally listen to Christmas music during the summer.  If I’m stressed or feeling down, a little “Jingle Bells” or “Silent Night” is a perfect antidote regardless of the time of year.  I used…

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NFL QB Preaches with Actions

by Yeshua Catholic International Leadership Institute December 16, 2011

As the NFL season moves quickly toward its climax, two quarterbacks find themselves in especially bright spotlights for different reasons.
Tim Tebow, who began the year on the Denver Broncos’ bench, has drawn intense media attention from his college championship…

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St. Who?

by Theresa Doyle-Nelson December 13, 2011

The time-honored collection of saints, prepared and updated occasionally at the Vatican, is called the Martyrologium Romanum; in English, the Roman Martyrology.  It is written in Latin, offers very brief descriptions on roughly 15 saints for each day of the…

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Got Optimism? Studies Point to the Source

by Harold G. Koenig, MD December 6, 2011

For many, the holidays are a time of greater joy and celebration. For others, however, it can be a time of sadness and remembering good times long past. Nevertheless, there is an attitude that we must fight for, called optimism,…

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The Catholic Briefcase

by Patti Maguire Armstrong November 22, 2011

Would you enter the lion’s den for your faith? It’s not a rhetorical question. People are still dying for their faith in Jesus Christ. Would you?
As a second-grader at St. Albert the Great, I asked myself that very question.…

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The Meaning of Life

by Harold G. Koenig, MD November 4, 2011

Jewish psychiatrist and concentration camp survivor Victor Frankl attributed his own and others’ survival in the camps to the power of having a sense of purpose that kept their eyes on meaningful goals ahead. Life can present us with many…

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Pope Benedict XVI Announces the “Year of Faith”

by Vatican Information Service October 29, 2011

During Mass October 16th in the Vatican Basilica, celebrated to mark the end of an international meeting on new evangelization organised by the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization, Benedict XVI announced that he was calling a forthcoming “Year of…

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Brotherly Advice

by Agnes M. Penny October 26, 2011

The other day, I had the uncanny feeling that St. Paul was talking directly to me. I was reading in his first letter to the Corinthians, “Has not God turned to foolishness the ‘wisdom of this world?’” (1 Cor. 1:20).…

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Bake the Cake Before You Ice It

by Harold G. Koenig, MD October 10, 2011

David Myers, in his book The Pursuit of Happiness, cites a fourth-century (BC) comment by Aristotle that happiness is the “supreme good” and that “all else is merely a means to its attainment.” Similarly, American psychologist and philosopher William James…

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