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”

• Vatican Not a Fan of Vampires and Werewolves, Calls Twilight a “Moral Vacuum”

  
  Civil Religion — Authority: 537
  "New Moon" Movie Poster (credit: Summit Entertainment) Stuff Christians Like is one of my favorite websites and I genuinely appreciate the humorous look it takes at church culture. Because if you can’t laugh at yourself sometimes, then I think you’re in trouble. Today’s post on the site had to do with ...
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• NBC Takes Up Kennedy vs. The Bishop, Implies Church is Crossing the Line Into Political Blackmail

  
  Jeremiah Films Announcements — Authority: 145
  Mondays NBC Nightly News took up the story of liberal Congressman Patrick Kennedys public feud with the Catholic Church, and NBCs Ron Allen implied something improper in how "the Catholic Church is flexing its religious and political muscle." When Catholic officials endorse liberal initiatives like immigration reform ...
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• Patrick Kennedy Communion Controversy For Dummies

  
  Opinionated Catholic — Authority: 446
  This story , largely through the miscommunication of Kennedy himself, got misreported from the start. There are two Canons of Canon Laws at play here. Canon 915 deals with an actual ban on Holy Communion. This is administered by an authority. Canon 916 instructs certain people not to present ...
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• Another Unfortunate Debate Inspired By Religion

  
  AnAtheist.Net — Authority: 131
  Church And State Lock Horns Over Cremation Rules (Richard Owen/The Times Online; Nov 3) ROME: In the wake of All Souls Day this week, marking the commemoration of the dead, there is growing disagreement between the Italian state and the Roman Catholic Church over whether relatives of those who are cremated ...
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• 50 Years Ago The Virgin Mary Appeared at A Coptic Church in Egypt

  
  Opinionated Catholic — Authority: 446
  American Catholic has a interesting post (and vid) on this event. See Zeitoun Marian Apparition 50 Year Anniversary
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• I Normally Wouldnt Suggest This

  
  Forever In Hell — Authority: 500
  catholic, politics, religion, first amendment, but I guess we shouldnt elect Catholics for public office anymore. At least, thats the argument Reverand Thomas Tobin seems to be making . “Any Catholic in public office – his first commitment has to be to his faith. Not just for a Catholic but for a member of any ...
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• Chris Matthews Goes All Postal on Bishop Tobin (VID)

  
  Opinionated Catholic — Authority: 446
  I look at liberals like Matthews and Andrew Sullivan that used to be interesting and wonder what the hell happened. Whispers has Tobin Does the Thunderdome As Whispers mentioned some Catholics are saying YOU"RE FIRED to Matthews . I am sure there will be a lot of that today. Many who do not watch him ...
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• Reduce the Danger of Nuclear War and Help Feed Hungry Kids

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 660
  Nowadays  everyone’s talking about nuclear disarmament.  The Queen of England , George Shultz , President Obama , Dwight from The Office (Don’t believe me?  Check Rainn’s Wilson’s twitter feed). We at the Two Futures Project couldn’t be happier.  We believe that the sooner Americans wake up ...
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• More closures

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 602
  According to the Post, 14 more Catholic schools in the DC area are in danger of closing. When great schools in urban America in are such short supply, it is senseless to allow these schools to disappear. I hope Department officials consider this issue (and CAPE’s comments ) when they are finalizing the i3 ...
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• Angels & Demons

  
  Movie Mom — Authority: 506
  Harvard professor of Symbology Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) returns for another round of save the world heroics peppered with chases, kidnapping, murders, clues, codes, and ancient manuscripts, a beautiful and very erudite woman, murky motives, and a lot of historical, religious, and artistic arcana, all to the music of ...
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• Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Why Not?

  
  UofT Students for Life — Authority: 467
  This is the second post in our series on euthanasia and assisted suicide. Come see Alex Schadenberg speak at UofT tomorrow at 6pm in the SMC Senior Common Room for the highlight event. The Catholic Organization for Life and Family has released a downloadable PDF booklet: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Why ...
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• Recall Notice (A Little Humor)

  
  An Archdiocese of Wash DC Catholic — Authority: 127
  The Maker of all human beings (GOD) is recalling all units manufactured, regardless of make or year, due to a serious defect in the primary and central component of the heart. This is due to a malfunction in the original prototype units code named Adam and Eve, resulting in the reproduction of the same defect in ...
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• Ireland braces for another Catholic clergy sex abuse report

  
  FaithWorld — Authority: 631
  A damning report on sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests in Dublin is due out later this week, only six months after another report on abuse in industrial and reformatory schools across the country accused priests and nuns of flogging, starving and, in some cases, raping children in their care. “It will ...
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• PODCAzT 94: PART III - 40 years ago… Paul VI on the eve of the Novus Ordo

  
  What Does The Prayer Really Say? — Authority: 666
  Based on your response to PODC AzT 93 & 94 , and my own desire to drill more deeply into the issue, we welcome back as our guest Pope Paul VI (+1978). In PART I we explored Paul’s General Audience of 26 November 1969, a few days befo re the Novus Ordo Missae went into force.  In PART II we ...
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• Will Catholic Bishops Start Denying Communion to Gay Marriage Supporters?

  
  Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life — Authority: 149
  The leadership of Roman Catholic Church seems in some ways Hell bent to turn the Church into a mirror image of the whacky far right evangelical Christians who obsess over three issues to the exclusion of all else: abortion, stem cell research and, of course, demonizing the gays. The long history of a social ministry ...
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• Mass. Senate Candidates - Coakley and Capuano Defend Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) in Schism with R.I. Bishop - Politician’s and The Catholic Church

  
  Massachusetts Conservative Feminist | Ordinary: Degrees of Moderation and Sanity — Authority: 423
  Controvery over Abortion: Bishop Tobin and Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) image: CNA From The Boston Globe : A recent forum on Boston’s Public Television WBGH between Democrat Senate Candidates; touched on the subject of the rift between Rhode Island Congressional Representative, Patrick Kennedy, and the Bishop of Rhode ...
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• Uganda Daily Monitor—‘Pope’s invitation will not have effect on Anglican following’

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 546
  Church of Uganda yesterday said Vatican’s open invite to disgruntled Anglicans to embrace the Catholic Church for spiritual relief will have no effect on its following. Ms Alison Barfoot, the Churches external relations officer, said there are no Anglican-Catholic members in their fold to heed the Pope’s call. ...
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• Video – No Apologies #113 – More Ruptered Rapture

  
  AirMaria.com — Authority: 510
  No Apologies #113 -The Apostles and the martrys were not spared their pains. ( 04min) >>> Play Ave Maria! The rapture also contradicts Scripture in that it is to take place before the tribulation and that it doesn’t recognize the value of trials and suffering. Ave Maria! Audio (MP3) ...
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• Susan Allen Cumella (The Alexandria Town Talk)

  
  Newsalistic — Authority: 167
  Susan Allen Cumella, 59 of Alexandria died Sunday, November 22, 2009, in Dubuis Hospital. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, November 24, 2009, in St. See more here: Susan Allen Cumella (The Alexandria Town Talk)
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• American Thinker: Cloward-Piven Government. A must Read.

  
  And So I Go: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow — Authority: 142
  American Thinker: Cloward-Piven Government You have read my moaning that I simply don’t know what to post on because so much is happening  in Washington.  Day after day we are being bombarded with proposed laws, Presidential Initiatives and bureaucratic shenanigans from the Obama White House and congressional ...
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