St. Edward High School freshman Brian Wolf of Strongsville helps prepare and distribute 8,500 Easter dinners at the St. Augustine Hunger Center in Cleveland Thursday. Students from St. Edward in Lakewood and Benedictine High School in Cleveland filled boxes with ham, rolls, vegetables, potatoes and desserts that will be delivered to several churches in the area.
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Care for creation is an ancient Catholic concern that has taken on renewed urgency in recent decades. Catholics are examining their faith-related responsibility to protect the environment. Earth Day and the legacy of St. Francis of Assisi share the goal of protecting the environment and all of God’s creation.
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One tradition that I’ve grown to cherish takes place every year on Good Friday here in Cincinnati. It is praying the steps to Holy Cross-Immaculata Parish. My dad prayed the steps as a boy and it’s a tradition he has passed down to my sisters and me.
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Happy Birthday Holy Father! - http://ff.im/BhZj4 Born on #4sqday. What should we make of THAT factoid? LOL!
The list of 150 bloggers invited to attend the meeting at the Vatican includes @fatherroderick @roccopalmo @lisahendey @americanpapist @the_crescat. Who else is on Twitter? - http://www.pccs.va/index...
Over 750 requests were made and a hard decision-making process had to be put in place to ensure, as much as is possible, a broad representation of the blogosphere. There are some famous bloggers and some new bloggers, some are institutional, others personal, some tell vocational stories and others comment on international news or local issues. Some are well-financed, most are run on a shoestring.
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The Crucifix is at once both jarring and profound. You are forced to acknowledge the brutality of crucifixion–it is not a pleasant, polite, docile image. It is shocking. It is almost…garish. It made me ask myself: why? Why the crucifixion? Why such a brutal, seemingly needless end to life?
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As the Roman Catholic Church in the United States struggles with an exodus of American-born faithful, its ranks have been replenished by recent Latino immigrants — most of them Mexicans, who have brought an intense faith and a youthful energy. That buoying effect is especially evident in New York City, where the Mexican population has grown more than 25-fold since 1980. In parishes where they have settled, they have flocked to church, replacing worshipers who have died, moved away, defected to evangelical congregations or abandoned religion altogether.
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