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Want to stay in Chennai hostel? Spell catechism

Edit The Times of India 17 Jun 2016
CHENNAI. Faced with a high demand of hostel rooms on the campus, Loyola College in Chennai has found a unique way of weeding out some inmates. giving tests for English vocabulary. Residents of Loyola College hostel were puzzled on Thursday when they were asked to write an English test. They had to pass the test to continue staying in the hostel, they were told ... They were also told it was an exercise to enhance their vocabulary ... RELATED....

I have to work on Sunday – Am I sinning? (Diocese of Fargo)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Jun 2016
(Source. Diocese of Fargo). by Father Dale Kinzler June, 8 2016, 01.33 PM ... Kinzler ... Let's review our Catholic Catechism position on this question. ... Our first concern is that people required to work on Sunday still make every effort to set aside the time for worship at Mass ... Regarding the principle of Sabbath rest, our Catechism states the basic reason for the command. ... Our Catechism treats this question in a balanced, well-reasoned manner.....

The prophets of modern dieting want you to feel guilty about food

Edit The Guardian 16 Jun 2016
There have always been diet books – and they’ve always been stupid. But now they have added a moral dimension. Every Sunday in the centre of Brixton, a group of Afro-Caribbean women of a certain age, gather on Atlantic Road to sing lustily about Jesus while wearing big hats. As a diehard atheist I am meant to have no time for organised religion ... If only all religions were so benign ... But they are not ... They are secular catechisms ... ....

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill chairs session of the Supreme Council of the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Jun 2016
(Source. Moscow Patriarchate). Share the post 'His Holiness Patriarch Kirill chairs session of the Supreme Council of the Russian Orthodox Church' ... The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church welcomed the participants and delivered an address on the agenda ... Metropolitan Varsonofy of St ... Metropolitan Merkury of Rostov and Novocherkassk, chairman of the Synodal Department for Education and Catechization; ... Mr ... (noodl. 34131655) ....

Is 'The Conjuring 2' the evangelical horror hit of the year?

Edit Boston Herald 13 Jun 2016
In an age of corporate marketing, movie audiences, more than ever, are divided into tidy demographic slivers, even if some of the slivers are pretty big (e.g., teenage fanboys). One demo that has received increasing attention from the industry over the last decade is the faith-based audience ... a tantalizing myth of inhuman sightings that has become, in the culture, a kind of catechism -- a testament to the existence of the uncanny....

Gay, closeted and shot dead: my uncle's life was erased. Mine won't be

Edit The Guardian 13 Jun 2016
Gay Oklahomans like my uncle, son of Oral Roberts, bear the weight of stories the straights refuse to tell. Now I am chasing down – and sharing – his own tale. My uncle, Ronald David Roberts, was the oldest son of Oral Roberts, one of the first televangelists in America. At age 37, Uncle Ronnie was found in a car on the side of a backcountry road, shot dead ... One ... its attendant testimony, catechisms, and shibboleths have weight, gravitas ... ....

Foxlowe by Eleanor Wasserberg review: a richly atmospheric Gothic debut

Edit The Irish Times 11 Jun 2016
Of all the themes that we recognise as belonging to the Gothic tradition, secrecy is perhaps the most enduring and indispensable. Ever since Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho, the ur-text of the genre, crumbling manors have harboured their locked rooms ... But she also undertakes a number of ingenious subversions ... The Family has devised its own creepy catechism (“All the Ways Home Is Better”), which the children have to recite....

‘Apologetics Forum: The Catholic Faith Explained’ surveys indulgences (Diocese of Allentown)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Jun 2016
(Source. Diocese of Allentown). June 08, 2016 at 1.56 PM. By TARA CONNOLLY Staff writer. 'Apologetics is not an apology ... Margaret, Reading, during 'Apologetics Forum. The Catholic Faith Explained.' ... Tags.. Category ... An indulgence, according to the Catechism of Catholic Church, is 'a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven,' and is granted by the pope or a bishop in his own diocese ... 21....

Evangelicals like me can’t vote for Trump — or Clinton. Here’s what we can do instead.

Edit Vox 07 Jun 2016
Suppose you believe the presidential frontrunners are unfit for office — so unfit, in fact, that they are a threat to the moral, political, and social fabric of our nation ... Bush in 2004 ... My experience in the Presbyterian Church in America has taught me that "I am not my own, but belong — body and soul, in life and death — to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ," as it says in the opening to the Heidelberg Catechism ... Why not Trump ... Hong) ... ....

A Share in God’s Life: Committing to the Common Good (University of Saint Thomas)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Jun 2016
(Source. University of Saint Thomas). Foreword by Dr. Robert Kennedy. Alumni profiles by Kate Norlander and Kelsey Wanless '11. In his 1961 encyclical, Mater et Magistra, Pope St. John XXIII offered what is now considered the classic definition of common good ... This spring, St ... In Pope St ... And this is where much of the ambiguity lies ... He and his wife have examined how they spend their time, talent and treasure in light of the catechism and....

‘Doesn’t Mary have a lovely bottom?’ – Catholicism, sex and girls in Father Ted

Edit The Irish Times 06 Jun 2016
After all, the Catholic Catechism denounces homosexual acts as “intrinsically disordered […] contrary to the natural law […] under no circumstance can they be approved”, while the 1986 Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons by the then Cardinal Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) similarly describes homosexual inclination as a “strong tendency ordered towards an intrinsic moral evil” ... ....

Paul McCartney: The Biography review – the gospel according to Macca

Edit The Irish Times 04 Jun 2016
Paul McCartney gave his “tacit approval” to a man he always hated to write his biography ... To this day McCartney refers to Shout! as Shite!. Shout! was published just weeks after Lennon was murdered, in New York, so McCartney couldn’t retaliate ... The Gene ... irresistible stories ... Yesterday and Michelle. Infuriated ... To this reviewer the story of The Beatles – once described as the greatest romance of the 20th century – is a catechism ... ....

Uganda Martyrs Day Gives Us an Opportunity to Renew Our Faith

Edit All Africa 03 Jun 2016
[Monitor] The word martyr means "witness" in the Latin language. Martyrdom , according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, is "the supreme witness given to the truth of the faith; it means bearing witness even unto death" ... ....
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