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https://aleteia.org/2020/05/22/how-st-rita-miraculously-saved-a-girl-from-a-plague/?utm_campaign=NL_en&utm_source=daily_newsletter&utm_medium=mail&utm_content=NL_en Aleteia is an online Catholic news and information website founded in 2011/2012 by Jesús Colina via the Foundation for Evangelization through the Media. It is based in France and operates in six languages worldwide. Wikipedia How St. Rita* miraculously saved a girl from a plague Published in Aleteia by Philip Kosloski St. Rita of Cassia When many Italian cities were suffering from a contagious disease, one girl turned to St. Rita’s intercession. St. Rita of Cascia is known by many as the “Patron Saint of the Impossible,” as countless miracles have been attributed to her intercession. One example comes from Italy during the 17th century, when a vicious plague ravaged many different cities. According to an early 20th-century book entitled Life of St. Rita of Cascia, during 1656 a young girl who was devoted to St. ...

Published in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times newspaper #interfaithcolleagues Eulogy b y Imam Ossama Bahloul : Longtime Corpus Christi Rabbi Kenneth Roseman dies after battle with COVID-19 Rabbi Roseman and I met in the mid-2000s. He was the only rabbi in Corpus Christi, Texas and I was the only imam. He was not only the first rabbi that I had met but also the first person of his faith that I had a deep discussion regarding the conflict in the Middle East. He was direct, respectful, full of experience and committed to not only the Jewish faith but also the community at large. Our relationship continued to grow even after Ivey and I, along with our daughter Jana, moved to Middle Tennessee. "His memory is a blessing to all who had the honor of meeting and learning from him and he leaves an incomparable legacy for our congregation and the Corpus Christi community as a whole," according to an obituary widely shared on social media over the weekend. He had a doctorate in A...

"If we love enough, we are going to light a fire in the hearts of others," Dorothy Day. The funeral procession for Dorothy Day makes its way to the Church of the Nativity in New York Dec. 2, 1980. (CNS photo/Tom Lewis) Still a Sign of Contradiction ‘Dorothy Day’ By Michael J. Baxter April 30, 2020 During the first two decades after her death in 1980, Dorothy Day was revered as a life guide, mainly by devoted followers and fellow travelers. In their pastoral letter on nuclear weapons, The Challenge of Peace (1983), the U.S. Catholic bishops praised her pacifism but only as an individual witness; they did not recommend it for society at large. Catholic scholars commended her heroic service to the poor, but criticized her theology as utopian and sectarian.  Dorothy Day (1897-1980) After the end of the Cold War, when the “end of history” seemed to vindicate free-market economies and liberal democracy, her critique of capitalism and the state was deemed irrelevant....

This interesting essay was published in the History News Network and originated in The Contingent Magazine , written by Vanessa R. Corcoran.   Medieval icon honoring the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Rosary, 15th century, the J. Paul Getty Museum A fourth-century text of The Apostle's Creed that many Christians still recite today, states that following Jesus’ crucifixion, death, and burial, “he descended into hell.” Often called The Harrowing of Hell, this is the moment when Christ “opened Heaven’s gates for the just who went before him.”  Yet Christians in the later Middle Ages sought the protection of a different intercessor, one who would descend into hell to shame, debate, and even physically assault the devil to save people from damnation: the Virgin Mary. Yes, the Mother of God, more familiar to modern audiences as the serene woman gazing at the Infant Jesus, was portrayed as the powerful Queen of Heaven and Empress of Hell in many later medieval devotional so...