Catholic

Catholic is used to describe all of the churches in union with the Bishop of Rome, the Pope. This would include the Roman Catholic Church, as well as the various Eastern Churches (such as the Byzantine , the Melkite and Coptic).

Catholic also refers to all things related to the Catholic Church, from baptized believers to doctrines, beliefs and customs. Catholics understand creation to be sacramental in nature. It points humanity toward God, and through it God is able to touch humanity. That is why catholics have sacraments, holy water, rosaries, crucifixes, and statues. This principle explains the catholic devotion to saints, the emphasis on community and communal prayer, and catholic charity and social outreach .

Catholics can be found all throughout the blogosphere, writing movie reviews, book reviews, humor & news,  opinions & entertainment, as well as about technology, family life, and more.

The teachings of the Catholic Church are readily available in The Catechism of the Catholic Church .

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Catholic”

• Daily Bible Readings Thursday November 12 2009 Memorial of St Josaphat

  
  A Catholic Site — Authority: 129
  November 12 2009 Thursday Memorial of Saint Josaphat, bishop and martyr Saint of the Day – St. Josaphat About the sources used . The readings on this site are not official for the Mass of Roman Rite of the Catholic Church in the USA, but are from sources free from copyright. They are here to present the ...
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• Migi’s Reads, November

  
  ... and these Thy gifts ... — Authority: 112
  Pythons by Mary Ann McDonald Badgers by Joan Kalbacken Anacondas by Linda George Rattlesnakes by Mary Ann McDonald Hawks and Falcons by Maria Mudd Ruth Hawks by Wayne Lynch Hawaii Volcanoes by M.C. Hall The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart Raptors by A Bobbie Kalman Book The Middle Ages by Don Nardo ...
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• Yena’s Reads, November

  
  ... and these Thy gifts ... — Authority: 112
  Pythons by Mary Ann McDonald *** Badgers by Joan Kalbacken **** Anacondas by Linda George **** Rattlesnakes by Mary Ann McDonald ****
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• Paco’s Reads, November

  
  ... and these Thy gifts ... — Authority: 112
  Robinson Crusoe *** 1/2 The Middle Ages by Don Nardo *** 1/2 Future (DK Eyewitness) *** The Middle Ages by Sarah Howarth ** 1/2 (some anti-Catholic sentiment, but mostly fair)
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• Mel Gibson Is A Great Dad

  
  Famecrawler — Authority: 159
  You know I said the other day that Oksana Grigorieva is looking through rose colored glasses at her situation. Today I am inclined to second that thought. Oksana is raving on and on about how great a dad Mel Gibson is and I’m sure he is. However if he’s only been home three out of the eleven days since her birth ...
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• Why Push Catholic Moral Theology?

  
  Lynn v. Sekulow — Authority: 110
  Jay,   Id like to turn our focus away from Planned Parenthood and on to the Catholic Bishops.   As Im sure you know, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops persuaded Congress nearly single-handedly this weekend to add an amendment...
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• Carlson tapped archdiocesan fund to fight gay marriage in Maine

  
  Civil Religion — Authority: 590
  Frank Schubert, campaign director for Stand for Marriage Maine, claims victory for Yes on 1, Tuesday evening, Nov. 3, 2009, in Portland, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) Campaign finance records for a ballot measure that last week defeated a law legalizing gay marriage in Maine show that the St. Louis ...
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• Drogheda & a severed head

  
  Blogtrotter — Authority: 418
  Straddling the Boyne, founded by Vikings, fortified by Normans, fought over by rebels, this market town to med long been a traffic jam. My family, coming down from Belfast, would get stuck in the bend of the main road over the river. Less scenic if similarly configured to Derry, Drogheda now hosted me, for the friends ...
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• Italian invents an anti-swine flu holy water dispenser

  
  FaithWorld — Authority: 608
  (Photos: Anti-swine flu holy water dispenser, 10 Nov 2009/Stefano Rellandini) An Italian inventor has combined faith and ingenuity to come up with a way to keep church traditions alive for the faithful without the fear of contracting swine flu — an electronic holy water dispenser. The terracotta dispenser, used ...
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• John Wesley’s “Catholic Spirit”

  
  connexions — Authority: 518
  One of my favourite of John Wesley’s sermons — compulsory reading for Methodist preachers — is the one entitled “Catholic Spirit”. In the original 18th century language, there is no denying that Wesley can be heavy going though! Here’s my abridgement of that sermon, in what I hope is modern english.John ...
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• Check out this Hymn Parody - Gather Us In

  
  A Catholic Mom in Hawaii — Authority: 478
  Mahalo to Fr. Z ! Be sure to read the comments left on Fathers post for alternate verses :-) Gather Us In [...to the tune of, that is!] Here in this place, our comfortable parish, All of the statues carried away, See in each face a vacuous visage, Brought here by guilt or by R.C.I.A. Gather us in, by Beemer or ...
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• District 3 football playoffs - Round 1 caps

  
  VIEW FROM THE PRESS BOX — Authority: 137
  FINAL Week 10 regular-season stats here . FINAL Week 10 regular-season random stats here . My final rankings here . Week 10 ‘3 Stars’ here . Kyle Smith record-chase update here . Week 1 of the District 3 football playoffs are upon us, which means first-round games in Quad-A and Triple-A and quarterfinal ...
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• D.C. Archdiocese Threatens To Cut Services Over Same-Sex Marriage Bill

  
  City Desk — Authority: 699
  Today, the D.C. Archdiocese just handed Christopher Hitchens a chapter in his next anti-God book. The archdiocese continues to press for a more watered down version of the D.C. Councils gay-marriage bill. Its gone so far as to threaten to pull its Catholic Charities services from the District, WaPo is reporting : ...
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• Bishops Originally Asked for "Abortion Neutral" Health Reform Package

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 729
  This article was originally published by Think Progress and is reprinted here with permission from the author. On Monday, in an interview with ABC News, President Obama reminded Congress that “ this is a health care bill, not an abortion bill .” When asked about the Stupak Amendment ,he responded that ...
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• The Theological Implications of Finding Alien Extra-Terrestial Life

  
  Athanatos Christian Apologetics Ministry — Authority: 112
  I have already addressed this in several places- here, and here - so I won’t dwell on things much.  Instead, I want to reflect on an article I just read regarding the Vatican participating in an astrobiology conference to discuss the question. In my previous posts, I argued that if aliens appeared, they might ...
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• Somali Terrorist Financier picked up in The Netherlands, US seeks Extradition.

  
  The Black Cordelias — Authority: 133
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands- Dutch prosecutors said Tuesday they have arrested a 43-year-old Somali man wanted by U.S. authorities for allegedly financing Islamic extremist terrorists. Prosecutors said in a statement the man lived in Minneapolis before leaving the United States in November 2008; he arrived in the ...
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• The Vatican’s Search For Alien Life

  
  Popular Fidelity — Authority: 558
  Science fiction blog io9 called it, “ Life imitates V ,” and in a way they’re totally right.  On the ABC sci-fi show V (which I’ve watched and that I believe to be an excellent show), there’s an ongoing subplot concerning a priest, Father Jack Landry, and how the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church ...
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• AP—E.T. phone Rome: Vatican looks for signs of alien life

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 589
  Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe, the Vatican has called in experts to study the possibility of extraterrestrial alien life and its implication for the Catholic Church. "The questions of lifes origins and of whether life exists ...
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• Catholic artist Noelle Garcia honors veterans with “Song For Our Soldiers” video on YouTube.

  
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• EXCLUSIVE: GOPer Cao: Health vote may end career

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 501
  Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao acknowledged Wednesday that becoming the lone House Republican to vote in favor of health-care reform was a rookie move that could end his upstart political career. "I am a novice," said Mr. Cao, Louisiana Republican, who was elected in December 2008. "But I have to do what my conscience tells me ...
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