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FOCUS

I had heard of Campus Crusade for Life, a Protestant outreach to colleges and universities, but never of a Catholic equivalent. It turns out there is one: FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Students). It's eight years old and is active on 25 secular and Catholic campuses, including the

The Schizophrenic Church?

This is the type of thing that drives me nuts. On the one hand, bishops want to deny them Communion. The softer bishops, just want them to voluntarily abstain from approaching the altar. And then an otherwise-decent Cardinal goes out and honors one of them. My Protestant friends find

Yeah, Right

I've done my share of drinking, including among large circles of male companions. This was never (ever) a risk. If it were, I'd be drier than Carrie Nation [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Nation]: > Discussing recent comments by Archbishop Edward O'Brien on

JPII's Final Words

> Six hours before his death on April 2, Pope John Paul uttered, in Polish, his final words: “Let me go to the house of the Father.” They were “mumbled . . . in a faint voice” to Sister Tobiana, one of the Polish nuns who ran his household. > A meticulously detailed

Homosexual Homily

Catholic Insight ran a sermon about homosexual marriage. It's for Canada's situation, but it could easily be adapted to the U.S. Link [http://catholicinsight.com/online/features/samehom_doc.shtml]. Excerpt: > Let me review some of the milestones during that period that have set

More Exorcism

> It is a devil of a job but someone has to do it. Applications are invited for exorcism training at the Vatican's Rome university, the Athenaeum Pontificium Regina Apostolorum. The 10-week course includes sessions in exorcism rites, how to talk to the Devil, the tricks he

Something for Sunday Morning

> He who weeps and thinks of the horrors that both precede and follow death, before they actually come to pass, cannot help but have patience and humility--the two foundation stones of silence. Gregory of Sinai

Emily Rose and Exorcism Today

I didn't know it, but exorcism is making a (needed) comeback: > At the end of his weekly general audience on Wednesday, Pope Benedict XVI greeted Italian exorcists who, he disclosed, are currently holding their national convention. . . > The Roman Catholic Church has shown growing interest in exorcism

Spooky Stuff Around Set of Emilie Rose

> On the set, there were scares that weren't found in any script. "On three different nights in my hotel room, my TV came on by itself," [actress Laura] Linney says with a shiver. "Jennifer [Carpenter's] stereo did the same thing. Call it

Sounds Great

A new movie, The Exorcism of Emily Rose [http://www.theexorcismofemilyrose.com/movies/theexorcismofemilyrose/], is intended to make people think hard about demonic possession. Link [http://www.bdtonline.com/articles/2005/09/09/lifestyles/01rose.txt]. Excerpt: > The movie was inspired by the story of Anneliese Michel, a German