Category Archives: Catholic

Tornado Help

By Beth | Published: March 9, 2012

http://otritt.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/tornado-help/   The above link will take you the letter written by Father Shaun Whittington, Diocese of Indianapolis, Indiana. He is asking for help for Osgood, Indiana, the town he is serving in as it was hit hard by a tornado last week. We have a special place in our hearts for Fr. Whittington, he [...]

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Torture and the Catholic Church

By Beth | Published: February 19, 2012

CCC 2297 Kidnapping and hostage taking bring on a reign of terror; by means of threats they subject their victims to intolerable pressures. They are morally wrong. Terrorism threatens, wounds, and kills indiscriminately; it is gravely against justice and charity. Torture which uses physical or moral violence to extract confessions, punish the guilty, frighten opponents, [...]

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Just Thinking….

By Beth | Published: February 18, 2012

I am pretty disgusted with so called Pro Life groups supporting a candidate who think nothing wrong with funding Title X, yet ignore the man who has introduced more pro-life legislation than any other person in Congress. Honestly, why aren’t more people upset about this? Are we perfectly okay to sit back and let our [...]

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My Beloved St. Josemaria Escriva

By Beth | Published: February 12, 2012

“Have you ever bothered to think how absurd it is to leave one’s Catholicism aside on entering a university, or a professional association, or a scholarly meeting, or a congress, as if you were checking your hat at the door?” – the Beloved St. Josemaria Escriva

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Integrity

By Beth | Published: February 9, 2012

  I believe, Mr. Santorum, you were elected, in some part, on your pro-life convictions, therefore, you should have stood up and said that you would not vote for a budget that funded any sort of abortifacient birth control and voted no, it’s called INTEGRITY. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyFSXGVX73s&feature=player_embedded

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This Week in Saints

By Beth | Published: February 5, 2012

On the calendar this week, we celebrate the feasts of St. Paul Miki and Companions (February 6), St Jerome Emiliani and St. Josephine  Bakhita (February 8), St. Scholastica (February 10) and Our Lady of Lourdes (February 11). St. Paul Miki and his Companions lived in 16th Century Japan. They were martyred by being hung on [...]

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{pretty, happy, funny, real}

By Beth | Published: January 26, 2012

Today I am joining Leila over at Like Mother, Like Daughter for this week’s {pretty} I wrote earlier this week about visiting the Carmelite Sisters in Savannah, Georgia. They were all so beautiful that I wanted to share the picture again. {happy} A few weeks ago, we made homemade from scratch bolognese sauce and noodles. [...]

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Savannah Carmelite Sisters!

By Beth | Published: January 24, 2012

This weekend we went to Savannah, Georgia. It was my first time in Savannah and I was really excited to go. We heard that there was a cloistered order of Carmelite Sisters in Savannah, so we went to find and visit them while up there. As we had no appointment or any contact with them [...]

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Ron Paul IS Pro-Life

By Beth | Published: January 18, 2012

Ron Paul IS Pro-Life Being Pro-Life Is Necessary to Defend Liberty by Congressman Ron Paul Libertarians for Life Copyright 1981 Pro-life libertarians have a vital task to perform: to persuade the many abortion-supporting libertarians of the contradiction between abortion and individual liberty; and, to sever the mistaken connection in many minds between individual freedom and [...]

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Weekend Update!

By Beth | Published: November 27, 2011

So we grilled our turkey and let me tell you, it was awesome, awesome, like totally awesome. We will probably do it like that again next year. On to bigger and better things. We ordered chickens this week and starting in January, we will have 15 chickens hanging around the house! The kids and Joshua [...]

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