Fidei Catholicae

With the 2008 Super Bowl just a few days away below is an article, from Catholic Online, about the Catholic heroes of the Super Bowl.

I never knew why they called a long bomb (ie. pass), usually towards the end of the game, a “Hail Mary” pass other than to logically conclude that the play’s success is going to need a prayer. However, after reading this article I’ve learned something new, that the Hail Mary pass in football originated from former Cowboy’s quarter back Roger Staubach. In a 1975 playoff game against the Minnesota Vikings he joked that he had said a Hail Mary just before he threw a 50-yard bomb to wide receiver Drew Pearson to win the game, 17-14. Personally, I hope he really wasn’t joking and did say that prayer :).

From Catholic Online:

Professional football was long considered a “Catholic” sport, drawing rugged players from the working class blue-collar immigrant families of which a good percentage were at least culturally Catholic. Times have changed in the intervening years, but the faith lives on, more quietly and imperfectly perhaps, among some of today’s greatest stars.

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LifeSite.net has many photos from the 2008 March for Life where 225,000 pro-life supporters marched on the Capital. You can view the pictures here.

Here’s one of them:

Today’s Readings

January 31, 2008

Collect

Lord, you called John Bosco to be a teacher and father to the young. Fill us with love like his: may we give ourselves completely to your service and to the salvation of mankind. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

All is not lost. There are some people in the world today that has the right values and a strong moral conviction.

From LifeSite.net:

TURIN, January 30, 2008 (CWNews.com/LifeSiteNews.com) - In an interview for the Italian magazine Sportsweek, a star defender from Turin, Italy’s Juventus soccer club, Nicola Legrottaglie, revealed that two years ago he made the decision to abstain from pre-marital sex.

Legrottaglie said, “I have not had sex in two years and honestly, it has not been a burden.” The soccer player spoke candidly about his past exploits, saying that if he did not make a conquest every few days, “I panicked.” Reflecting on that experience now, he said: “One who is unable to live without sex, in the end, becomes a slave.”

The Juventus star told Sportsweek that he has chosen abstinence “not because I do not like women, but because I am waiting for the right woman with whom to have a family, a woman who shares the same values.”

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Today’s Readings

January 30, 2008

Collect

All-powerful and ever-living God, direct your love that is, within us, that our efforts in the name of your Son may bring mankind to unity and peace. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Today’s Readings

January 29, 2008

Collect

All-powerful and ever-living God, direct your love that is, within us, that our efforts in the name of your Son may bring mankind to unity and peace. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Here’s another example of a priest that is not afraid to speak the truth to today’s modernistic, brain-washed, secularized society and it punished for it. A parisher had the nerve to stand-up and interrupt the homily by shouting, “When are you going to stop?”, then turn and walk out.

Remember, Fr. Altier? His homilies where of the “fire-and-brimestone”, truth-fillied variety and what happened to him? He was silenced and transfered away from his traditional oriented St. Agnes parish in Wisconsin.

Fron LifeSite.net:

By John Jalsevac

ROCKFORD, Illinois, January 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - This past December 9, at St. James’ parish in Rockford Illinois, a very normal Mass suddenly became a very unusual Mass when a parishioner stood up in the middle of the homily, interrupted the priest, shouting at him “When are you going to stop?”, and then left, with her homosexual partner in tow. A few other parishioners also stood up and left the church. A few days later, the priest was dismissed from his duties at the parish by his bishop.

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“Rick Majerus is more of a basket case than a basketball coach. His sicknesses all fit so neatly together: He has a modern anti-Catholic ‘Jesuit’ education; he embraces superficial, undigested rhetoric about the issues; he is a jock pretending to be a scientist; and he exhibits a defiant disobedience to religious authority. Dante would have a field day — no pun intended — putting this guy in the pit of hell. He should be excommunicated along with all the Jesuits who ‘educated’ him.” - Father Euteneuer in response to the Rick Majerus, Archbishop Raymond Burke controversy

The source of the quote is on Matt Abbott’s site, here.

From LifeSite.net:

NORFOLK, UK, January 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com ) - Lorraine Allard of St. Olaves, near Great Yarmouth, was told she had advanced liver cancer when she was four months pregnant with her first son.

The thirty-three year old mother of three girls was advised to abort her son, who was 23 weeks old, and begin chemotherapy right away. Rather than follow the doctor’s advice, however, the courageous woman insisted on waiting long enough to give her unborn son a chance to survive, telling her husband, Martyn: “If I am going to die, my baby is going to live.”

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Here’s a great podcast from Cardinal Arinze, my favorite Cardinal, and maybe the next Pope?