Susan Torres, a husband making the right choices

http://www.susantorresfund.org/

Please pray for and support this family living through a very difficult time, but following God's will as much as they can. Here is a USA today story on the same topic:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-06-15-saving-baby-cover_x.htm?csp=34&POE=click-refer

(Thanks to Clairity's Place - which also has a nice piece today involving this topic - for the reference)

Amazing Story with a Unity of Faith and Science

www.jsonline.com/news/state/jun05/334799.asp

This is a local story making medical history. Be sure to read all three parts. By the way, the priest mentioned in the 3rd part, Fr. Don Brick, is a friend of ours.

What Ria Read: 2007-2008 School Year

# Ballad of the White Horse
# Behind Enemy Lines
# Beowulf
# Callista by Cardinal Newman
# Catholic Reluctantly
# Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde
# Emma by Jane Austen
# Fabiola by Cardinal Wiseman
# Fabre's Book of Insects
# Fingal's Quest
# Harry Potter 3
# Harry Potter 4
# Harry Potter 5
# Harry Potter 6
# Harry Potter 7
# If All the Swords in England
# Jack and Jill
# Jane Eyre
# Jesus of Nazareth by Pope Benedict XVI
# Journey for a Princess
# Judith of France
# Kidnapped
# Manalive
# Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
# St. Athanasius by F.A. Forbes
# St. Augustine and His Search for the Faith
# St. Patrick's Summer
# The Good Land
# The Hound of the Baskervilles
# The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
# The Napoleon of Notting Hill
# The Poet and the Lunatics
# The Princess Bride
# The Robe
# The Song of Roland
# The Tall American: The Story of Gary Cooper
# The Wide Horizon Loula Grace Erdman
# Tirzah
# Tripods Attack (Young Chesterton Chronicles)
# Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
# Waking Rose

What 20th Century Pope are You?

So maybe these quizzes are a little silly and I would probably rephrase the question as "Which 20th Century Pope do you most identify with? "


You are Pope St. Pius X. You'd rather be right than
newfangled.

Which Twentieth Century Pope Are You?

Nice! I've always loved Pope St. Pius X! I think he's gotten a bad rap because of some who want to break away from the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church in his name. I take it as a sign of a good source on Papal History when the author is favorable toward both St. Pius X and Pope John Paul II.

One of the most humble prefaces I've ever seen...

All of this describes a large program, toward which a small book, which has grown rather by chance, can certainly make only a modest contribution As I looked through my lectures on this subject area from the past decade, it emerged that these approaches from various starting points had nevertheless amounted to something like a single whole - quite fragmentary and unfinished, of course, but, as a contribution to a major theme that affects us all, perhaps not entirely unhelpful. I have therefore decided to present as a whole in this book those texts whose themes are directed to questions concerning faith, religion, culture, truth, and tolerance and that - with the exception of the first piece, published as early as 1964 - were all written in the past decade and to put them up for discussion. I hope that a book that has thus been put together, with all its insufficiencies, may yet be of help in the struggle for what concerns us all.

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, from the preface to Truth and Tolerance: Christian Belief and World Religions.

Truly this is a great man!!!