Treasure of the Day

Dawkins Admits He Doesn’t Know

By Saint Gabriels Newsroom / February 24, 2012

‘I can’t be sure God DOES NOT exist’:

World’s most notorious atheist Richard Dawkins admits he is in fact agnostic

By Suzannah Hills

Last updated at 2:45 PM on 24th February 2012

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2105834/Career-atheist-Richard-Dawkins-admits-fact-agnostic.html

 

Professor Richard Dawkins today dismissed his hard-earned reputation as a militant atheist – admitting that he is actually agnostic as he can’t prove God doesn’t exist.

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Religious Liberty: Obamacare

By Saint Gabriels Newsroom / February 24, 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6PutWIZwpU

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Catholic Nuns File Brief Supporting Affordable Care Act

By Saint Gabriels Newsroom / February 24, 2012

By Ian Millhiser on Feb 23, 2012 at 11:30 am

https://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/02/23/431147/catholic-nuns-file-brief-supporting-affordable-care-act/?mobile=nc

 

As further proof that conservative efforts to paint President Obama as the enemy of religion are a red herring, nearly two dozen leading Catholic nuns filed a brief in the Supreme Court last week supporting the president’s signature legislative accomplishment. The Catholic sisters who joined the brief include the leaders of many prominent religious orders providing health care and other services to the needy. As they explain in their brief:

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Radical lesbian nuns

By Saint Gabriels Newsroom / February 24, 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ64VMUnIPo&

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Homeschooling Familes Can’t Teach Homosexuality a Sin

By Saint Gabriels Newsroom / February 23, 2012

“Whatever the nature of schooling – homeschool, private school, Catholic school – we do not tolerate disrespect for differences,” Donna McColl, Lukaszuk’s assistant director of communications, told LifeSiteNews on Wednesday evening.

“You can affirm the family’s ideology in your family life, you just can’t do it as part of your educational study and instruction,” she added.

Reacting to the remarks, Paul Faris of the Home School Legal Defence Association said the Ministry of Education is “clearly signaling that they are in fact planning to violate the private conversations families have in their own homes.”

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Lent club 2012

By Saint Gabriels Newsroom / February 23, 2012

Lent Club 2012   https://www.quickmeme.com/meme/369if1/

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Pro-aborts ‘completely made up’

By Saint Gabriels Newsroom / February 23, 2012

by John Jalsevac

  • Wed Feb 22, 2012 17:02 EST

February 22, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An ultrasound bill currently making its way through the Virginia legislature has become the object of a fierce campaign of opposition from the nation’s most powerful pro-abortion forces, who claim the bill would force women to undergo invasive transvaginal ultrasounds before an abortion – something that abortion lobbyists and legislators say amounts to “rape.”

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Ash Wednesday 2012 – Pople Benedict XVI General Audience

By Saint Gabriels Newsroom / February 22, 2012

https://www.youtube.com/v/zU6z5MJyLG4  

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Lent 2012 Things to Remember

By Saint Gabriels Newsroom / February 22, 2012

Journey to the Foot of the Cross: Bishop Ricken offers 10 things to remember for Lent

https://satodayscatholic.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/journey-to-the-foot-of-the-cross-bishop-ricken-offers-10-things-to-remember-for-lent/

 

Bishop David L. Ricken of Green Bay, Wisc., chairman of the Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), offers “10 Things to Remember for Lent” as the Church prepares to begin the season with Ash Wednesday on Feb. 22:

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Getting more Mileage

By Saint Gabriels Newsroom / February 21, 2012

Fr. Terry Sawchuk

https://saintpetersthunderbay.blogspot.com/2012/02/getting-more-mileage.html

 

 

Some thoughts on Life, Lent, and Mark 2:1-12

 

This Lent you may wish to adopt a different way of praying with scripture, particularly the Gospels. An especially  powerful way involves reading a passage from the Gospel while imagining ourselves to be in the story as it unfolds.

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