This week in The Criterion
January 15, 2010 issue
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The contents of this newsletter are:
- A listing of the full contents of the print edition
- Items of Interest
- Web-only Features
- National and World News you may have missed
- Links to the daily readings
Full Contents
Local stories:
- Church supports Senate proposal to cut off
funding for Planned Parenthood in Indiana
- ICC makes
political action
easier than ever
- Father Albert Ajamie loved liturgy, the arts and justice
- Paying it forward:
Students’ random acts of kindness offer lesson of thinking beyond yourself
Regular local features:
- Seeking the Face of the Lord: Catholics have an obligation to speak out for the dignity of human life
- Buscando la Cara del Señor: Los católicos tienen la obligación de hablar abiertamente sobre la dignidad de la vida humana
- Editorial: Where today’s Catholics are
- From the Editor Emeritus: Charity in Truth - The environment and energy
- Cornucopia: We can be glad that it’s that time of year again
- Twenty Something: Seize your
second chance
in this
second decade
- The Green View: New hope and momentum in the cause for going green
- Letters to the Editor
- Climate change legislation money can be better spent on world’s poor
- Events Calendar
- Obituaries
- My Journey to God: Keep Me Humble, God
Catholic News Service:
- White House protest new this year to
March for Life activities, Roe anniversary
- A tightrope act?
Pope prepares
to visit Rome’s
main synagogue
- Australian woman tells of cure that advanced Blessed MacKillop’s cause
- First American Indian prelate, Bishop Donald Pelotte, dies at age 64
- Migration week brings legislative push, prayers and walk to Washington
- Officer: Security worked perfectly on eve woman knocked pope down
- Studying the heavens keeps Jesuit astronomer on the edge of his seat
- New York doctor works to deliver care consistent with Catholic values
- Pro-life Catholic congressman advocates for ‘left-behind parents’
- Archbishop Kurtz praises New Jersey vote ‘for the truth of marriage’
- Pope lauds North American College in Rome on its 150th anniversary
- Column: Today’s medicine and the true cost of being in denial
- The Sunday Readings: Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
- Question Corner: Striking your chest three times during
Mass prayers is a penitential gesture
FaithAlive!
- Prophets communicated about God’s care for the people
- Discussion Point: Isaiah’s prophecies came to fruition
Items of Interest
Here are a few items that may be of particular interest to you -- and you can get them online right now!
Church supports Senate proposal to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood in Indiana
What can one person do to end abortion? This is a question that college student Lila Rose and several other pro-life, young adults asked themselves. The answer—Live Action: The Mona Lisa Project —is a young-adult-led, pro-life media project aimed at exposing the true nature and purpose of Planned Parenthood. Their work, recorded in Bloomington and Indianapolis Planned Parenthood clinics, prompted Sen. Greg Walker
(R-Columbus) to introduce a bill which would remove all state funding for Planned Parenthood. (Pages 1, 8)
Read the story
Paying it forward:
Students’ random acts of kindness offer lesson of thinking beyond yourself
Sixth-grade students at St. Mary School in Greensburg have focused on doing random acts of kindness in their school and community during this school year. A project encouraged the 27 students in the class to do random acts of kindness—with no expectation of receiving any recognition or compensation in return. (Page 16)
Read the story
Web-only features
CRS rep expects 'thousands and thousands' of dead, injured in Haiti
From Catholic News Service: Catholic Relief Services was preparing for "thousands and thousands" of dead and injured people in the wake of the most devastating earthquake to strike Haiti in two centuries, said Karel Zelenka, the agency's country representative. Among those reported dead were Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot of Port-au-Prince
Read the story | Donate to Catholic Relief Services
Photo gallery: Seminarian grows in faith on centuries-old pilgrimage
Last spring, seminarian Dustin Boehm made a pilgrimage. He walked 850 miles in the footsteps of countless pilgrims who have taken similar routes for the past 1,000 years to the Spanish shrine of Santiago de Compostela—on the western tip of Europe—that tradition holds is the resting place of St. James. See photos from his pilgrimage on our website.
Go to the gallery | Read the accompanying story
National and world news you may have missed...
Here's a sampling of some news stories that ran on our website this past week or so that you may have missed. Click the headline to see the story:
Daily Readings
Wednesday, Jan. 13
Hilary, bishop and doctor of the Church
1 Samuel 3:1-10, 19-20
Psalm 40:2, 5, 7-10
Mark 1:29-39
Thursday, Jan. 14
1 Samuel 4:1-11
Psalm 44:10-11, 14-15, 24-25
Mark 1:40-45
Friday, Jan. 15
1 Samuel 8:4-7, 10-22a
Psalm 89:16-19
Mark 2:1-12
Saturday, Jan. 16
1 Samuel 9:1-4, 17-19; 10:1
Psalm 21:2-7
Mark 2:13-17
Monday, Jan. 18
1 Samuel 15:16-23
Psalm 50:8-9, 16-17, 21, 23
Mark 2:18-22
Tuesday, Jan. 19
1 Samuel 16:1-13
Psalm 89:20-22, 27-28
Mark 2:23-28
Wednesday, Jan. 20
Fabian, pope and martyr
Sebastian, martyr
1 Samuel 17:32-33, 37, 40-51
Psalm 144:1b, 2, 9-10
Mark 3:1-6
Thursday, Jan. 21
Agnes, virgin and martyr
1 Samuel 18:6-9; 19:1-7
Psalm 56:2-3, 9-13
Mark 3:7-12
Friday, Jan. 22
Vincent, deacon and martyr
1 Samuel 24:3-21
Psalm 57:2-4, 6, 11
Mark 3:13-19
Saturday, Jan. 23
2 Samuel 1:1-4, 11-12, 19, 23-27
Psalm 80:2-3, 5-7
Mark 3:20-21
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