Louisville students learn about value of life by studying Holocaust
At the ceremony, several of the eighth-graders recounted how
nervous they were testifying before a House committee earlier this
year, and how nervous they were when their legislation languished for
weeks in the Senate after overwhelmingly passing the House.
But they persisted in visiting, calling and e-mailing their
legislators until the Senate also overwhelmingly passed it on a voice
vote.
The students followed the advice of seasoned veterans of Frankfort to
"be annoying," said eighth-grader Jalen Chang.
He said they were told, "Don't stop bugging the people with power,
and eventually they will give in." |
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Fr. Elias Dietz was
elected 10th abbot of Gethsemani
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Gay marriage ruling mixed
But he
speculated that the case against Spahr failed on a technicality:
charging her with performing a same-sex marriage rather than of
representing a same-sex ceremony as a marriage.
Neither New York nor California allows civil marriages of same-sex
couples, but Spahr said she considered the ceremonies to be
"ecclesiastical" marriages. |
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Retired jockey Pat Day on a mission to spread God's message
He believes it's because God replaced that passion "with renewed
enthusiasm … to win but not to win races, to win souls for the
kingdom of heaven." |
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Local group joins effort to reduce global warming
The Rev. Joe Mitchell, a Passionist priest and
director of the center, said stewardship has always been a key
component of the Christian understanding of humanity's relationship
to creation, but the consensus of what it means has been shifting
toward kinship and caring for the Earth. |
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Singing his views
In his new
song "Left Ain't Right," Roger Weber says it's time for liberals
stuck in the '60s to "get real." |
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Will papal trip heal wounds? |
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Louisvillians among crowd at Yankee Stadium for pope's visit
Louisville Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz was one of the
principal celebrants of the Mass along with the pope, while 18 other
Louisville priests also took part.
Matt Hardesty, a seminarian from the archdiocese, was a torch-bearer
by the altar, an experience he described as "amazing." |
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Many local Catholics excited about pope's visit
The Rev.
Denis Robinson, incoming president of St. Meinrad School of Theology
in Southern Indiana, said those who follow Benedict's career aren't
surprised by his "extraordinarily pastoral pontificate," marked by
humor and strong connections. |
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Judge: Teen can attend St. X
Finally, he said that Ryan's expert
witness, a retired educator from Georgia, who testified that KCD
would be the best place for Michael, was clearly biased, as evidenced
by his testimony that he agreed with the philosophy that
"indoctrination of children in a religious belief constitutes a form
of child abuse." |
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'Peace picnic' set for Thunder
Hettinger
said he realizes "there are groups out there who refer to all this as
a war machine. But the other side of the coin is that it is a peace
machine." Representatives of the military "are putting their lives on
the line for us every day," he said. |
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Letters to the editor: Group steals choice from passers-by
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Hanging it up
In the
"old" days about 35 years ago, dressing up for church was a given.
But today, if dad's wearing a golf shirt to church, he can't require
his young son to wear a blazer or suit, said Ron Sanders, owner of
Showers Boys' & Young Men's Shop. |
'26 St. X class ring returned to family
It's a simple golden ring, lost and forgotten for
nearly a century. |
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Service remembers Holocaust
The service
also featured a mourner's prayer chanted in Hebrew and the lighting
of 11 candles to commemorate the 6 million Jews killed in the
Holocaust, the systematic genocide of Jews conducted by Nazi Germany
and its allies in the 1930s and 1940s. |
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Coverage of Pope
After
watching wall-to-wall coverage of Pope Benedict XVI's arrival in the
United States Wednesday, I was shocked to see that his arrival was
only worthy of page 3 coverage in The C-J. |
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Tai chi puts mind, body in harmony
"You are
centered," he said. "You are not thinking to the past, you are not
going to the future. You're just being still … you just … are."
Doesn't
this sound like "Be still and know that I am God"? |
Presentation reaches out on spring break
The Presentation Academy Mission Club, a
group of 14 Presentation Academy students, went on a four-day mission
trip in Auxier, Ky., about 20 miles south of Prestonsburg, during
spring break. |
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Pounding pavement
Meet Elder
Scott Syndergaard, 20, and Elder Roger Call, 20, — two young men on a
mission. For up to 10 hours a day, the duo, who are missionaries for
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, talk to anyone they
can in Nelson County about their religion. |
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Event benefits premature babies
The March
for Babies, which is the organization's largest fundraiser, supports
research and programs to help prevent or treat premature births,
birth defects and other threats to infants' health. |
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Peter
Smith's Blog on the Papal Mass |
Graphic
abortion photos displayed at Transylvania
Jesse Kenney, 21, a U of L junior majoring
in accounting and a member of the campus' anti-abortion
group, is volunteering with the Center for Bio-Ethical
Reform. Kenney said the pictures were meant to grab the
attention of viewers.
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Rally promotes effort to prevent child abuse
There were
about 65,000 reports of abuse and neglect of children in Kentucky in
2007 and about 70,000 reports in Indiana, officials said yesterday. |
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'Religion in the Public Square' - RCCouncil Monthly
Meeting
If this is the public market for religion today, how
should people of faith portray their convictions in the public
square? Is it better to play down the religious angle, or is it
better to lift up the religious perspective as the basis for the
other work we do? How can religion communicators be heard in the
public square when the market takes it to the extreme? |
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Bellarmine receives $2.5 million gift
The gift,
from the family of Bellarmine trustee Nolen Allen, will create an
endowment to help fund the Catholic university's goals of tripling
enrollment, doubling the campus facilities and increasing the number
of programs and offerings by 2020. |
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Sacred Heart's newspaper recognized |
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Kentuckians touched by visit |
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Sex-abuse bill is signed into law
"Perhaps no
institution has desecrated its sacred trust of our youth more than
the Catholic Church in America during the last 70 years," the Rev.
Joseph Fowler, a retired priest in the Archdiocese of Louisville,
said during the ceremony.
He applauded the victims and activists in the group Voice of the
Faithful for promoting the legislation.
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Kentucky releases rules for executions
The Rev.
Pat Delahanty, chairman of the Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the
Death Penalty, questioned whether a warden is capable of determining
whether an inmate is unconscious.
"That seems to me to be a serious flaw that could lead to pain and
suffering," he said. |
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Pageant drew 81,000 |
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Presentation principal honored by magazine
Presentation Academy principal Barbara Flanders Wine has been named a
2008 Today's Woman Magazine Most Admired Woman in the category of
education. She will appear in the magazine's June issue. |
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Cora Lee,
the secretary at Beechwood Baptist Church, talked with Sister
Georgine Grabenstein, a St. Matthews Area Ministries volunteer.
(By Martha Elson, The Courier-Journal)
St. Matthews Area Ministries addressing reported increase in area
poverty
Sister Georgine Grabenstein recently set out donated
day-old Panera bread and pastries at Beechwood Baptist Church for one
of two weekly giveaways by St. Matthews Area Ministries.
The giveaways are among efforts by the ministries group and others to
serve the growing number of needy people in St. Matthews.
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