LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) – British journalist and graphic designer David McCandless compiled the chart. He showed off the graphic at a TED conference last July in Oxford, England. McCandless said he and a colleague scraped 10,000 Facebook status updates for the phrases “breakup” and “broken up.” His researchers found two big spikes on [...]
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) – The Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano made the announcement together with an official admission that there have been “grave acts of disloyalty.” The “Vatileaks” scandal has dominated the columns of Italian newspapers and magazines and has been the subject of TV programs. The leak of a string of highly sensitive [...]
RENSSELAER One drop will save the world from sin. Thats the reason Precious Blood Father Leonard Kostka decided to create a One Drop cross. Available as a pin or necklace, it serves as a reminder that one drop of the blood of Jesus can save the world from trouble. We get so used to [...]
Mormon church restricts access to Jewish namesBrian Skoloff ("The Boston Globe," March 8, 2012) Salt Lake City, USA – Mormon leaders have put up a virtual firewall in their massive genealogical database to block out anyone who attempts to access the names of hundreds of thousands of Holocaust victims the church has agreed not to [...]
In making the announcement, Bishop McGuinness Principal David Morton and Mount Saint Mary Principal Talita DeNegri called the tests another tool in the effort to help teens make good choices and lead healthy and productive lives. Both McGuinness and Mount Saint Mary have used groups consisting of students, parents and faculty to study the issue [...]
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LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) – Once blood samples arrive at one of the nations four central Kenya Medical Research Institute, or KEMRI Center for Disease Control and Prevention CDC laboratories, all samples are logged into the system. Once completed, the software automatically generates a short message service to the rural health Center the sample [...]
Re-branding a religion is hard to do, and not always successfulDavid Gibson ("The Washington Post," February 24, 2012) New York City, USA â Did leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention hurt their missionary cause by opting not to change the denominationâs name to something a bit more, well, marketable? Maybe, but as the advertising executives [...]
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online/NEWS CONSORTIUM) – Let me break it down for the Mr. President: When over 90% of Catholic bishops have condemned your decision and promised not to obey it – you’ve got a problem. When it’s not just Catholic faith leaders who have condemned your decision and promised not to obey it [...]
Story By: by Claire O’Neill As comedian John Fugelsang recalls, all in life was dandy until one fateful day, at age 6, he noticed an odd motif in some photos: “In every family picture … my mother was wearing a habit.” Last August, he tweeted his parents’ unusual love story â with photos â on [...]