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January 8, 2016 issue
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Local stories:
- ‘God was holding my hand the whole time’: 82-year-old woman shares story of love, faith and fleeing from communism
- Vigil for Life, solemn observance of Roe v. Wade set for Jan. 21 and Jan. 22
- Made a resolution to improve your health this year? Try these health/faith improving methods to strengthen connection with God
- Mass highlights joyful expression of faith and farewell to a friend
- What was in the news on Jan. 7, 1966? First black bishop for the U.S. in the 20th century is ordained, and Race-Religion group moves to Indiana
Regular local features:
- Rejoice in the Lord: God is the merciful source of peace and justice for all
- Alégrense en el Señor: Dios es la fuente misericordiosa de paz y justicia para todos
- Editorial: Welcoming the stranger
- From the Editor Emeritus: Medieval Church - Turmoil in the 14th-century papacy
- It's All Good: Find the courage to say ‘yes’ to God’s plan in life
- Twenty Something: Tackling the new year one heroic minute at a time
- Letters to the Editor
- Reciting Hail Mary a good practice for extraordinary ministers of holy Communion
- Events Calendar
- Attorney representing Priests for Life against HHS mandate to speak on Jan. 16
- St. Patrick Parish in Terre Haute celebrating 60th anniversary of church building on Jan. 17
- Human trafficking talk set for Jan. 16 at St. John Paul II Parish’s St. Joseph Campus
- ‘Passion and Purpose for Marriage’ event at St. Luke the Evangelist Church on Jan. 30
- St. Malachy Parish offers ‘Catholics Returning Home’ series starting on Jan. 12
- Obituaries
- General listing
- My Journey to God: The Holy Family
Catholic News Service:
- God’s mercy knows ‘no limits,’ frees people from despair, pope says
- March for Life changes venues, but strengthens message of ending abortion
- Away in a manger: Pope makes secret stop at Nativity scene’s birthplace
- White House strives to clear up misconceptions about religion that cause religious discrimination
- Christ’s birth can bring peace, hope to suffering world, pope says
- Pope Francis recognizes miracle needed to declare Mother Teresa a saint
- St. Louis area parishes respond to victims of record flooding
- Federal judge says state can cut contract with Planned Parenthood
- Video messages of pope’s prayer intentions will hit social media
- Vatican agreement with Palestine goes into effect
- Canada on track to welcome 25,000 Syrian refugees, says ambassador
- Column: ‘Ex Corde Ecclesiae’ after 25 years
- Column: Affirming the special vocation of the religious brother
- The Sunday Readings: Feast of the Baptism of the Lord
- Question Corner: Holy days of obligation determined by national bishops’ conferences
FaithAlive!
- Discerning how to show mercy is a necessary challenge
- The corporal and spiritual works of mercy are at the heart of Jesus’ teaching
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Made a resolution to improve your health this year? Try these health/faith improving methods to strengthen connection with God
To improve one’s health by focusing only on the body addresses just a part of the equation. As the catechism states above, one can’t be healthy bodily if one is not healthy emotionally and spiritually. With this in mind, we’ve compiled a list of resources we're familiar with that seek to improve at least two if not all three components of the body/mind/soul connection, particularly uniting exercise with prayer and improving your relationship to God. (Page 7)
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82-year-old woman shares story of love, faith and fleeing from communism
Maria Moko sat at her kitchen table holding an old, black-and-white photo of her husband, Leslie. She placed the photo to her heart, gave it another look, then kissed it softly and said, “You were the love of my life. I miss you so much.” Like many widows, Moko mourns the loss of her husband, who died in 2012. Unlike many widows, Moko shared harrowing experiences with her husband as, by the dark of night, they escaped the Soviet invasion of their native Hungary in 1956. (Page 1)
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Web-only features
Front Page Image Compilations
We've taken the past five years of Criterion issues from our print edition and made separate compilations of front page images. You can look at 2005-15 and see every front page from that year put into one picture -- kind of a birds-eye view of the year in Catholic news in Indiana.
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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.
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- Vatican newspaper: Being PC, disdainful of religion is 'sad paradox'
- California bishops saddened that drive to overturn physician-assisted suicide fails
- Away in a manger: Pope makes secret stop at Nativity scene's birthplace
- South Sudan bishop urges peace, says attack on nuns shakes church
- God's mercy knows 'no limits,' frees people from despair, pope says
- Pharmacists ask Supreme Court for review of conscience on contraceptives
- Vatican agreement with Palestine goes into effect
- St. Louis area parishes respond to victims of record December flooding
- Mercy enlightens past year, gives hope for new year, pope says
- Federal judge says state can cut contract with Planned Parenthood
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