The Love of Many Will Grow Cold…, But Not Within This Heart… Fratres Blog News 06.29.08

Tamil Tigers hold Our Lady of Madhu hostage (for protection!)..

The Catholic community in Bethlehem, Palestine has issued a statement urging the leaders of the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka to persuade the LTTE to return the statue of our Lady of Madhu to its original shrine so that it would be accessible to devotees who belong to all religions in the island, foreign websites reported. Read The Story.

Immigrant song is a dirge for Catholic families…

Immigration arrests by feds is causing turmoil and fear in the midwest town of Postville, Iowa. Parish priest, Rev. Paul Ouderkirk, mourns not only the arrests but working conditions of the transient poor. Note: And would someone please tell the company rep. that his workers are hispanic and not spanish–You’ve offended the poor enough, don’t you think? Read the Story/watch the video

The love of many will grow cold…, but not within this heart…

In the fall of 1999, Mr. Conard, a school teacher, encouraged students to work on a year-long National History Day project under the classroom motto, “He who changes one person, changes the world entire”.

Four girls accepted the challenge. Mr. Conard showed them a short clipping from a March 1994 issue of News and World Report, which said, ‘Irena Sendler saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942-43′. He told the girls the article might be a typographical error, since he had not heard of this woman or story. The four young students from Kansas began their research, and discovered a Catholic woman, who saved Jewish children… Read The Story w/Video

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