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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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Love & Relationship
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 ...
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 ...
Living Faith
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 ...
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 ...
Home & Food
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 ...
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 ...
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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