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About 44% of women who attempted a vaginal delivery were induced, and they were twice as likely to deliver by C-section as women who went into labor on their own.

Impatience cited as reason behind growing C-sections

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 8/31/2010

Cesarean sections, or c-sections, where a child is delivered with surgical help have increased in the United States over the past 14 years. C-sections have increased by as much as 50 percent since 1996. Researchers think that one of the chief reasons could be simply impatience with births, or a ...

Nothing worthwhile is easily gained. There is a reason that Marriage is a sacrament. Maybe the reason, in part, is because marriage offers us so much.

Reflection: We Need Not Fear Hardship in Our Marriage, It is Part of the Plan

By Michael Terheyden • Catholic Online • 9/1/2010

In the normal course of a good marriage, our weaknesses, strengths, failures, and successes are borne by our spouse. It is not possible for the one to suffer or feel joy without the other suffering or feeling joy also. For instance, one day you notice that your spouse is burdened by your cross. ...

Embryonic stem cell research differs from other kinds of stem cell research -- which do not require embryos.

Appeal sought on injunction against embryonic research

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 8/25/2010

An appeal is expected to be filed against a federal judge's decision to block federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth was a blow to the Obama administration, which issued guidelines to allow federal funding for embryonic stem cell ...

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Love & Relationship

'Dear Christian families, proclaim joyfully to the whole world the wonderful treasure which you, as domestic churches, possess!' -- Venerable Pope John Paul II.

The Most Holy Trinity: Supreme Model for Family And Marriage

By F. K. Bartels • Catholic Online • 7/2/2010

The importance of the family cannot be overstressed. The Church considers the family as 'the first natural society,' and "places it at the center of social life" (CSDC No. 211). John Paul II observed in Christifideles Laici that the family is presented, in the Creator's plan, as 'the primary place ...

You and I are precious to His heart and worth the price of His own blood. Any feeling or thought or voice that says,

Inspire: Unfailing Love and a Heart Like Mine

By Jennifer Hartline • Catholic Online • 4/25/2010

You and I are loved beyond our comprehension. No language exists that can capture the quality of His love for us and the lengths to which He has gone to rescue His lost children. Only the Word Himself can say it. He who owed me nothing at all, who had nothing to prove, patiently and ...

A failure to communicate

By Greg Goodsell • Catholic Online • 2/24/2010

There are countless reasons as to why marriages fail. Marital infidelity, physical and mental abuse, sexual incompatibly and financial problems are just the tip of the iceberg. According to author Sonal Panse, the leading cause of divorce is a lack of communication. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic ...

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Living Faith

Mystical experience is always Christ-centered and Trinitarian.

Interview with Carmelite Priest: All Are Called to Authentically Christian Mysticism

By Miriam Diez i Bosch • Zenit News Agency • 9/2/2010

'Christian mysticism is characterized by the Incarnation, which is always a gift; it isn't something that the human being gains. Hence, mystical experience is always Christ-centered and Trinitarian. And it is revealed only gratuitously, without our merits.' ROME, Italy (Zenit.org) - Mysticism is ...

St. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), a great seer known as the

Pope Extols Hildegard of Bingen, Example to Women, all who Exercise True Spiritual Gifts

Vatican Information Service • 9/2/2010

'The sign of an authentic experience of the Holy Spirit, the source of all charisms, is that the individual possessing supernatural gifts never boasts of them, never shows them off and, above all, demonstrates complete obedience to ecclesiastical authority. It is the Church, through her pastors, ...

Harvard Grad Heads to the Convent: Mary Anne Marks and New Life in the Church

By Jennifer Hartline • Catholic Online • 8/28/2010

After graduating from Harvard University, Mary Anne Marks has her heart set on a new life with the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist. This remarkable young woman -- indeed, this flourishing young order of Sisters -- is a light in our darkened culture and a ray of hope ...

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Home & Food

Just a spoonful of black rice bran contains more health promoting anthocyanin antioxidants than are found in a spoonful of blueberries, but with less sugar and more fiber and vitamin E antioxidants,

Black rice packs an antioxidant punch

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 8/31/2010

While blueberries are enjoying resurgence in popularity in places such as South Korea, for its antioxidant properties in addition to taste, black rice has been proven to be even better for you. Research shows that black rice packs a bigger antioxidant punch even than blueberries, which have long ...

To minimize the threat posed by salmonella, avoid foodstuffs that use raw eggs.

More than half a billion eggs recalled

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 8/23/2010

More eggs are set to be recalled in the wake of salmonella poisoning across the United States. More than half a billion eggs have already been recalled, in what the Food and Drug Administration calls "largest such egg recall in recent history." FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg says the task at ...

Demand for blueberries is high in South Korea, so the small fruit is fetching a hefty price in the marketplace, retailing for about $50 per kilogram in department stores.

Blueberries enjoy popularity in South Korea

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 8/20/2010

Blueberries, the common blue-colored berry grown in abundance in the United States, is enjoying heightened popularity in South Korea. People there are increasingly consuming the vitamin-rich fruit because of research contending blueberries may help ward off cancer, heart disease, strokes, ...

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