By Marty Perez on 2/19/2008 9:51 PM
Martyr of the Agrupacion Rogelio profiled in a book about future Saints.... by Ann Ball published by OSV
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By Marty Perez on 12/6/2007 10:07 PM
Francis Beckwith is a recent “revert” to the Catholic faith who made headlines in when he stepped down as president of the Evangelical Theological Society in May 2007 after reentering the Church in late April 2007.
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By Marty Perez on 11/22/2007 10:58 PM
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.
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By Marty Perez on 11/12/2007 12:06 PM
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
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By Marty Perez on 11/12/2007 12:06 PM
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.
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By Marty Perez on 11/12/2007 12:06 PM
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.
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By Marty Perez on 8/17/2007 10:28 PM
Agrupado Fr. Rafael Garcia, SJ, pastor of the Jesuits’ Sacred Heart Church in El Paso
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By Marty Perez on 6/1/2007 9:19 PM
Francis J. Beckwith is a tenured associate professor of church-state studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, the largest Baptist university in the world. He resigned as president of the Evangelical Theological Society May 5, after entering into full communion with the Catholic Church a week earlier.
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By Marty Perez on 6/1/2007 9:18 PM
Episcopal Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh has been interviewed by nearly every major news outlet in the country within the past few years, but not necessarily for something he wishes was happening.
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By Marty Perez on 5/30/2007 4:01 PM
Until a few weeks ago, Francis Beckwith was president of the Evangelical Theological Society, an association of 4,300 Protestant theologians. Now he has returned to the Church of his baptism.
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