Friday, Aug. 12, 2016
I was 25 years old, handsome, and fit. I was walking across the tarmac, helmet in hand, wearing my fireproof flight suit and my very cool g-suit.
It was spring, generally sunny, 68 degrees, and just a bit of overcast clouds at 150 feet. I was young, alive, and about to strap on two jet engines with 3,000 pounds of afterburner thrust each and hurl myself into the wild blue.
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Friday, Aug. 12, 2016
PARK CITY — Four years ago the faith formation program at St. Lawrence Catholic Mission started with around 150 kids; this year the program has 230, 47 of whom are Confirmation candidates between the ages of 14 and 17.
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Friday, Aug. 12, 2016
TRURO, Nova Scotia — World Youth Day 2013 in Rio de Janeiro turned out to be a once-in-a-lifetime event for Charissa Isaacs Gillis, a former St. Catherine of Siena Newman Center parishioner.
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Friday, Aug. 12, 2016
KRAKOW, Poland (CNS) — At least for a few minutes at World Youth Day, the physical barriers between Palestinian and Israeli communities were nonexistent.
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Friday, Aug. 12, 2016
The 12th chapter of the Gospel of Luke speaks of two brothers fighting over their father’s inheritance. One of them tries to enlist Jesus to his side: “Tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me!”
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Friday, Aug. 12, 2016
WASHINGTON (CNS) — By officiating at a same-sex wedding, Vice President Joe Biden as a prominent Catholic politician has created confusion over Church teaching on marriage and “the corresponding moral obligations of Catholics,” three U.S. bishops said Aug. 5.
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