American Archbishop Fulton Sheen, one of the first and greatest televangelists of all time, who believe it or not once had his own prime time network television show, titled "Life is Worth Living," which was watched by 30 million viewers weekly (and even won an Emmy), is now one step closer to sainthood.

Pope Benedict XVI declared him "venerable" for living a life of "heroic virtues."...

It's time to pay the piper, or in Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul Coakley's case, it's time to pay his fellow archbishop for losing an NBA Finals bet.

As we all know by now, the Miami Heat were crowned NBA Champions despite having lost the first game of the series, when the Archbishop of Miami Thomas Wenski and Coakley placed the friendly wager.

The Oklahoma City Thunder didn't win another game.

The plot thickens.

The Miami-Dade Medical Examiner's Office concluded that, aside from traces of marijuana, which can be detected in the body for up to several months after being ingested, Rudy Eugene did not have any other drug, alcohol, prescription drug or other mind altering substance in his system.

St. John Chrysostom once wrote, "Not to enable the poor to share in our good is to steal from them and deprive them of life. "

While I'm not sure if San Francisco 49ers Coach Jim Harbough has ever considered this thought, it apparently has not been lost in his charity.  

The first year NFL head coach just returned from a missionary trip to a small town in Peru, where the majority of the population is lives in poverty.

Harbough, who is Roman Catholic, visited Piura, Peru with a group of U.S.
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“When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her.

Despite being down one game to none in the series, and the Miami Heat looking a bit sluggish against the younger and more athletic Oklahoma City Thunder, Archbishop of Miami Thomas Wenski is not giving up hope.

In fact, he’s putting his money where his mouth is and announced having made a friendly wager with Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul Coakley on the NBA Finals.

About six months ago, a self proclaimed poet named Jeff Bethke posted a You Tube video titled, Why I Hate Religion But Love Jesus, which went viral and has gotten over 21 million hits thus far.

It expresses the sentiments of many disenfranchised Christians, who are fed up with the doctrinal division between denominations (about 35 thousand Christian "churches" in the U.S.

What would make an otherwise “sweet and well-mannered man,” who friends called “preacher,” because he liked carrying his Bible and quoting it, completely snap, to the point of tearing off all his clothes on a busy thoroughfare, and viciously attacking a helpless elderly homeless man that came into his path; pummeling him senseless, gauging out an eye out and chewing off most of his face?

It wasn't like an attack that escalated from a robbery.
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Born in Oriente, Cuba, raised in Hialeah, Fl and graduated from The U. I’m a husband, father, son and older brother. I was a lapsed Catholic for most of my life until attending a men’s spiritual retreat in April 2006, which totally changed my perspective on life. That weekend, the emptiness I had always tried to fill with the things our culture promises will make us happy (wealth, pleasure, power and honor; St. Thomas Aquinas’ 4 substitutes for God), was filled with the love of God. I have been passionately studying my faith and, hopefully, drawing closer to God ever since. Now, I see my purpose in life is to become a saint and to lead my wife and kids to heaven. It’s not easy! I am no expert by any means. I'm just learning and trying to live my faith to the best of my abilities.
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  • Long Shot by Mike Piazza with Lonnie Wheeler
  • The Protestant's Dilemma by Devin Rose
  • Jacob's Ladder; 10 Steps to Truth by Peter Kreeft
  • Absolute Relativism: The New Dictatorship and What to do About it by Chris Stefanick
  • Special Heart: A Journey of Faith, Hope, Courage and Love by Bret Baier
  • The Church and New Media by Brandon Vogt
  • The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
  • Confessions of a Mega Church Pastor by Allen Hunt
  • The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Be A Man! Becoming The Man God Created You to Be by Fr. Larry Richards
  • Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life by Charles J. Chaput
  • Raising Good Kids Back to Family Basics by Ray Guarendi
  • The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
  • The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming by Henri J. M. Nouwen
  • How Firm a Foundation by Marcus Grodi
  • First Comes Love: Finding Your Family in the Church and the Trinity by Scott Hahn
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