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Tag:bible, business, church, ethicsEthics: The missing link in American business today.
The book of proverbs says: Let your yes be yes and your no be no.
The idea being that either your word is good or it is not. Is it just me or are business ethics a lost art today. Every day it seems we see […]

Tag:baby, breastfeed, father, milk, mother, newborn, spouseBreadtfeeding is definitely the natural way, as it was the way God intended. Definitely there were no milk formulas from the time of Able and Cain until just less than a hundred years ago.
Breastfeeding has fallen from grace in many parts of the world, especially the developing and industrialized countries. Reasons for […]

Tag:convent, monasterio de las descalzas reales, religious, spain, tour, travelThere are many buildings and attractions in Spain that look as they did centuries ago, but there are few that still operate like they did in the generations that have past. The Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales is one such location. It is the monastery of […]

Tag:abortion, murder, policians, time magazineHas Time Magazine done the unthinkable?
The editors of Time’s 17 September issue have allowed the article by Michael Kinsley titled, “God as Their Running Mate” to allude that abortion is murder! The mainstream media actually even hinting that abrotion is killing a human being.
But then again Time Magazine is different from Newsweek […]

Tag:bible, catholic, christian, islam, koranThis article is sourced from the Herald (Malaysia) written by Fr. Samir Khalil Samir, an Egyptian Jesuit. Fr. Samir was responding to the conversion of Mohammad Ahmad Hegazi to Christianity in Egypt.

The Islamic world is truly obsessed with conversions. At least seven Islamic countries apply the death penalty to those who […]

Tag:Christ, heaven, joy, lost, parable, repent, sheep, sinnerFinding something we have lost gives us a fresh joy, and we are happier at having found the lost object than we should have been had we never lost it. This parable, however, is concerned more with divine tenderness and compassion than with human behavior, and it expresses […]

Tag:baptize, catholic, drunk, humor, humour, jesusA man is stumbling through the woods totally drunk when he comes upon a preacher baptizing people in the river. The drunk walks into the water and subsequently bumps into the preacher.
The preacher turns around and is almost overcome by the smell of booze. Whereupon he […]

Tag:brian kolodiejchuk, dark, mother theresa, night, soul, time magazineTime Magazine’s September 3 2007 issue had a lengthy article exposing Blessed Mother Theresa’s dark night of the soul. This was an article that tried to present Mother’s dark night from the perspective of the secular (atheistic rather) world as well as the viewpoint of the Catholic […]

Tag:body, death, glorified, jesus, resurrectionEvery Wednesdays and Saturdays, Catholics pray the rosary while meditating on the Glorious Mysteries. Recently, I’ve been thinking very much of the Resurrection of Jesus.
We believe that Jesus rose from the dead, body and soul and not mere spirit. This has been proved in the Bible when it records that St. […]

Tag:parable, prayer, storyA voyaging ship was wrecked during a storm at sea and only two of the men on it were able to swim to a small, desert like island. The two survivors, not knowing what else to do, agreed that they had no other recourse but to pray to God. However, to find out […]