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Each week we bring you the best Internet resources for information regarding Faith Formation, Family Ministry, Current Events, Youth and Young Adult Ministry, Social Outreach, Justice/Peace and Prayer & Reflection.

It is our hope is that our site will enable all who visit to come into a closer relationship with Jesus Christ, a deeper love of the Roman Catholic Church, and a better understanding of the need to transform our society into a world of greater compassion and justice.
 This Week's Reflection
 Carrying Crosses
Today’s Gospel parables of the tower builder and the king waging war are simple enough to understand: in order to ensure success, one had better be fully prepared. But the sayings on discipleship that surround these parables are some of the most radical in the gospel. They, too, are not difficult to understand, but are immensely demanding to practice.


 Recommended Websites
 Groundless
In the past nine years, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, have been invoked, distorted, and exploited to serve a variety of political and ideological agendas. But no such effort has been quite as shameful as the current campaign against the so-called Ground Zero Mosque.
 Mother Teresa of Calcutta - the centenary of the mother of the poors birth
Considered one of the most influential women of the twentieth century, Mother Teresa devoted her life to serving the poorest of the poor, with the motto “To love until it hurts”. The 100th anniversary of her birth is now being celebrated around the world.
 The Jesus of History
The relation of the Christ of faith to the Jesus of history is a topic fraught with controversy in theological circles. It also has implications for the way Christian believers understand and practice their faith.
 The primacy of conscience
Allegations that Catholics are unsuited to public office because they are "under orders" from the Pope buzz around like a fly that refuses to be swatted.  With the beatification of John Henry Newman nearly at hand, it is timely to recall how he dealt with a Victorian version of this challenge in his famous "Letter to the Duke of Norfolk", written largely in response to Gladstone's angry reaction to the definition of papal infallibility. Part of Newman's reply was to stress the role of conscience, the "universal sense of right and wrong.

 
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