A miracle has been approved for Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman. This will permit his beatification. While it's unlikely they would approve a miracle if they weren't open to his beatification, this does not guarantee his beatification.
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I don't know which is scarier, the fact that it is called "Meth" bible camp, or the fact that it's on a "dead end" road.
The oldest known image of St. Paul has been found and published in L'Osservatore Romano. (Thanks to GC.)
A Kansas chaplain who died in the Korean War, Fr. Emil Kapaun, is credited with the miraculous recovery of a 20 year-old athlete who had an accident involving a brain injury. Doctors cannot explain his survival, and friends and family began praying to Fr. Kapaun shortly after the injury occurred. A Vatican investigator is on the scene.
This is a public service announcement concerning the Fresh Air Fund, an independent, not-for-profit agency, that has provided free summer vacations to more than 1.7 million New York City children from low-income communities since 1877. From now until June 30th, any gift you make to The Fresh Air Fund will be matched dollar for dollar by a group of generous donors.
They also need host families in the Northeast and portions of Canada (see link for details).
For more information, see the Fresh Air website.
Nearly 10,000 New York City children enjoy free Fresh Air Fund programs annually. In 2008, close to 5,000 children visited volunteer host families in suburbs and small town communities across 13 states from Virginia to Maine and Canada. 3,000 children also attended five Fresh Air camps on a 2,300-acre site in Fishkill, New York. The Fund's year-round camping program serves an additional 2,000 young people each year.
Here's a scandal for you. Five out of nine members of the Boston Caritas Christi hospital network board of governors are "major contributors" to pro-abortion politicians. Not entirely surprising but still very discouraging.
Add this to the pressure to perform abortions and prescribe birth control pills, and I don't even know if there is pressure to do IVF and everything else.
This makes me wonder if it isn't time to pack up shop — close the hospitals, liquidate the assets, and sell the buildings to a non-hospital entity. (You can't just sell the hospital as a whole because someone will just come in and start doing abortions, and what good did that do?) It's just a) too difficult now to resist the onslaught of secularization; b) time we demonstrate to the world how much Catholics contributed to health care. It would be sad to see Catholic hospitals close, but this just doesn't seem to be an auspicious time in history for them to continue. It's only going to get worse.
Of course I have no idea if the Cardinal could do this unilaterally. I see that it is a board of governors and not a board of directors; not sure if that is significant.
But I don't expect Cardinal Sean to do this. For better or for worse.
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