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{mosimage}"Christopher Cross has his bags packed for the Holy Land for the 50th time."
The 60-year-old retired Vietnam veteran has been organizing pilgrimages to Israel for close to three decades. For most of those years, he was running the tour on the side 鈥� what he considered a ministry of sharing the story of the Holy Land with other Catholics 鈥� while working full-time in his insurance business.
During this economic downturn, Cross says there is a surprising demand for his tours.
鈥淲e鈥檝e seen a change in spirituality because of everything happening in the world,鈥� he told The Register from New York.
When the 75-year-old Quigley made her first retreat in 1973 she was a woman just beginning to catch her breath at the tail end of more than 20 years of full-bore motherhood 鈥� four girls and a boy. Her oldest was just about to get married. She still had three teenagers and one pre-teen at home, but she was beginning to feel a little freedom coming on.
The National Catholic Broadcasting Council will again present the annual National Catholic Mission on April 6 and 7. Check local listings for times in your area.
Jesuit's fast shows care for creation
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register鈥淚 haven鈥檛 noticed anything yet, other than a bit of weight loss,鈥� McCarthy told The Catholic Register from Corner Brook, Nfld. 鈥淏ut in terms of energy level and everything else 鈥� well, it鱿鱼视频app only 11 days.鈥�
That is 11 days living on nothing but water and juice. McCarthy never liked V8 juice, but he鱿鱼视频app acquiring a taste for the low-sodium variety. The most substantial thing he drinks is Sunkist strawberry and banana smoothies. He鱿鱼视频app going through a fair amount of cranberry juice. He doesn鈥檛 have a blender.
Taiz茅 spirituality brings calm in chaotic world
By Myles Gough, The Catholic Register鈥淚t鱿鱼视频app a crazy and chaotic world,鈥� said Lindsay Moore.
Moore, a youth minister at Toronto鱿鱼视频app Holy Rosary parish, is the lead organizer of an event, however, which she believes will help people escape the chaos of urban life, if only for a few hours.
Music ministry all in the family
By Carolyn Girard, The Catholic RegisterBlue Veil is a non-profit, non-denominational, Toronto-based charity 鈥� the creation of executive director Cris Smith and half of her eight children: Jeff, 28, Phill, 26, Donny, 24 and now David, 20.
Christians need to understand Jewish roots
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterSo who cares about Catholic-Jewish relations?
Fine line between politics and faith
By Sheila Dabu Nonato, The Catholic RegisterIn it, the pope wrote about the church鱿鱼视频app duty to intervene in social matters and help the poor, as well as the state鱿鱼视频app responsibility to help those who suffered the most from the economic system.
Ancient prayer draws new interest in Canada
By Sheila Dabu Nonato, The Catholic Register{mosimage}ACTON, Ont. - Lee Anne Berry calls herself a 鈥渓amb seeker.鈥�
Berry, a retired special needs educational assistant, is a member of the contemplative prayer group the Intercessors of the Lamb and leads the group in Acton, west of Toronto. Berry said she named her group the 鈥渓amb seekers鈥� because she and her group members want to bring those who are lost back to God through intercessory prayer.
Christian voice can be heard
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterEvangelization gets a (Second) Life
By Peter Kavanagh, Catholic Register Special{mosimage}Missionaries are all around us, on our streets, in advertisements and infomercials, during the occasional sermon or special parish appeals. And from time to time missionaries make the news. Sometimes dramatically as in the case of the Korean young adults seized off a treacherous highway in Afghanistan and only released after weeks of captivity and serial deaths.
In search of answered prayers
By Catholic Register StaffRoman Catholic journalist James Risdon is launching a Canada-wide appeal for examples of answered prayers. He hopes that people will write to him with their testimonials, which will serve as material for the book he is writing.