Robyn Gioia doesn't look like a troublemaker. Far from it. Gioia is a wife, mother and teacher, and her green eyes twinkle when she talks about her fifth-grade students at the Bolles School just north of here in Ponte Vedra. But Gioia, 53, has written a children's book, and just the title is enough to peeve any Pilgrim: America's REAL First Thanksgiving. Read More »

CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH RESPONSES TO CERTAIN QUESTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS CONCERNING ARTIFICIAL NUTRITION AND HYDRATION First question: Is the administration of food and water (whether by natural or artificial means) to a patient in a “vegetative state” morally obligatory except when they cannot be assimilated by the patient’s body or cannot be administered to the patient without causing significant physical discomfort? Response: Yes. The administration of food and water even by artificial means is, in principle, an ordinary and proportionate means of preserving life. It is therefore obligatory to the extent to which, and for as long as, it is shown to accomplish its proper finality, which is the hydration and nourishment of the patient. In this way suffering and death by starvation and dehydration are prevented. Second question: When nutrition and hydration are being supplied by artificial means to a patient in a “permanent vegetative Read More »

Rabbi Mario Rojzman and Bishop Justo Laguna were at the Agrupacion in Miami on Tuesday October 9, 2007 and presented there talk in Spanish to the Agrupacion. Below is a Miami Herald article that describes the book "All Roads Lead to Jerusalem . . . and also to Rome" that Rabbi Mario Rojzman and Bishop Justo Laguna cowrote. Read More »

Was written and published in the year of Ignatius' beatificaion, 1609 by Nicholas Lancicius, S.J., Filippo Rinaldi, S.J. and Peter Pazmany, S.J.he sketches were made by the Society's good friend, Peter Paul Rubens who greatly desired to help in the cause of the canonization of Ignatius Loyola. Read More »