A graphic look at the 'Ground Zero' Mosque controversy, courtesy of Mark A. Schmidt:
When words fail on Park51 . . . .
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History has ignored Joanna, as it has most of the other women who followed Jesus from Galilee to Jerusalem and provided for him and the Twelve “from their resources” (Lk 8:2-3).
For parishioners at Most Holy Trinity Church in Phoenix, Ariz., dramatizing Christ’s Passion on the Via Crucis is a way of passing on the faith.
During my time as the assistant Catholic chaplain at a state prison, I learned how chaplains must model their ministry to those who are vulnerable in the same spirit as St. Veronica.
For me, Communion is holy and very real, a connection to God and to God’s people. As a hospital chaplain, though, my job is to support the spirituality of patients and families right where they are.
We saw a few thousand Palestinians dancing in the streets on 9/11/2001, and very few (if any) of them were Al-Qaeda...maybe other terrorist Islamist groups such as Fatah and Hamas, but not Al-Qaeda.