Skeptics of JFK assassination official version say they're barred from 50th...
Skeptics of JFK assassination official version say they're barred from 50th anniversary A Washington-based group that has long questioned the official version of John F. Kennedy's assassination says...
View ArticleDoes a Lower Thermostat setting really save energy?
Happy New Year everyone..... I've had this thought bouncing around in my brain (retirement does that sometimes) and since it's kind of scientific in nature, I thought I'd toss it out here just for...
View Article2013 NFL Playoffs (Not spam!)
Wondering if anyone is going to watch the NFL playoffs? I am go Houston Texans :D, who sadly blew their chance at getting a bye:( Anyhow if the rules allow it this could be the official thread for...
View ArticleCreation ex nihilo: temporal or atemporal
We know that God created the universe ex nihilo, that is, out of nothing. In this age of the popularity of the Big Bang theory we Christians often equate the two, imagining the Big Bang or a moment...
View ArticleDifferent theologies about the Immaculate Conception
I am currently having a discussion with a Protestant on the terms "Immaculate Conception" and Virgin Birth. I have been reading the debate on Helium.com on the queston: "Was Jesus mother Mary human or...
View ArticleAppropriate to exorcise/bless a church bldg. when desecrated/used...
Let's say a priest is a chaplain at a university and he is unfortunately forced to use a "mixed use" chapel to celebrate Mass for those under his care. Say Chaplain Jill, affiliated with an unnamed...
View ArticleI need urgent Prayers for a young missing woman
An old school friend of mine, a 20 year old woman from Australia is a missing person. She was last seen on the 21st December being dropped off at a friends house, her phone hasn't been turned on, her...
View ArticleInfallibility and the Crusades
So the Pope is infallible when speaking on matters of Faith and Morals and ex cathedra. So Pope Urban II guaranteed salvation for those who up took the first crusade? It seems a rather official...
View ArticleClinic for the Soul
To make the story short, my cousin came back from Mexico on Monday night, and she went inside my grandmother's house which has been abandoned for some 12 yrs now. She brought back precious items that...
View ArticlePrayer for two relatives
Please say a prayer for my two aunts, aged 95 and 91, who live together in an apartment with a nurse who comes in to care for them and a daughter of one of them (my cousin). Both have been showing...
View ArticleAttack
Please pray for me especially in your rosaries, I love the Rosary! I feel so guilty and burdened when I sin and I have no control! Satan is making me have intrusive thoughts. Please pray for...
View ArticleWas Sodom's crime homosexual sex?
Hey everyone. I watched a video online that claims that the sin of Sodom or the crime of Sodom was not homosexual sex but that it was gang rape. Anyway, the sins of Sodom are listed in Ezekiel. Here is...
View ArticleHealing prayers
Hi I just joined this site. I see it is filled with beautiful caring people. I would love to ask for prayers for myself as I have been ill. I have hypothyroidism and recently have been experiencing...
View ArticlePlenary Induldge
On a Catholic blog I read something that if we do a certain thing in a Church on January first we receive a plenary indulge. Can someone explain what that indulgence consist of, and can it me after...
View Articlethrew them away ........
Hi everybody. I am just desperate right now. And confused. I shouldn't be posting such things in the forum due to my scrupulosity, but this is just too much and it is already almost midnight here....
View ArticlePopular Egypt satirist accused of mocking president
Quote: "A popular Egyptian political satirist is being investigated by prosecutors for allegedly insulting the president. A formal complaint was brought against Bassem Youssef for "undermining the...
View ArticleWhat is the Church's teachings on the Antichrist?
I'm curious on what the Church teaches as far as end times stuff goes. I know the Rapture is rejected. But what about the Antichrist and the tribulation period?
View ArticleHistory of the Holy Communion Chaplet
I was recently introduced to the Holy Communion chaplet and was looking for some history on it and haven't found anything. Does anyone have information of when this devotion started and if the form...
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