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Merry Christmas, everyone! A recent Sneed reader is responsible for the repeat of a column I wrote nearly 20 years ago.She says her 88-year old mother clipped and saved the column . . . and asks: Could a meeting with her mother and the man I wrote about be arranged? The man’s real name was “Tom,” an old friend who wanted to remain anonymous, but in the column I called him “Paul.” My friend is now dead, and his story a distant memory, happening at a Christmastime past. I first wrote about the “Nativity” experience he and his wife had...

Featured Term (selected at random):LIQUEFACTION The miraculous act of liquefying of solid matter, especially congealed blood, as reported of certain relics of saints. The best known liquefaction is that reported of St. Januarius (d. c. 305), Bishop of Benevento. A glass phial containing his dried blood is seen to liquefy in public eighteen times a year. This phenomenon has been recorded for 500 years, and no natural [explanation] has been given. All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission

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Although the sophisticated may deride them as simple-minded, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said traditional Christians should have the courage to embrace their faith. Scalia spoke to members of the St. Thomas More Society of Maryland who gathered Oct. 21 at the Westin Hotel in Annapolis following the 52nd annual Red Mass, held at nearby St. Mary Church. The liturgy, celebrated by Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, marked the beginning of the judicial year. During a hotel banquet, the St. Thomas More Society honored Scalia with its “Man for All Seasons Award,” given to members of the legal profession who...

Father Claude Grou stands in front of a statue of Brother Andre at St. Joseph's Oratory. The humble hero would have been comfortable with canonization, the oratory rector argues, "if this can help people to love St. Joseph better, if this can help people come closer to God." Before recognizing a saint, the Catholic church says it thoroughly investigates the subject to ensure he or she led a remarkable and exemplary Christian life. The subject must also have at least two miracles recognized as taking place through his or her intercession. The Vatican says it must confirm that "the act...

Naples: Miracle of the Blood of St. Januarius Happened on Schedule Cardinal Sepe made sharp criticisms of the most recent Mafia Crimes when he preached at the St. Januarius Feastday Service. Rome (kath.net/KAP) At the time of the feast of St. Januarius, the legendary transformation of blood in Naples takes place again. Still, before the sermon of Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe during the Sunday Mass happens in the Cathedral he shows with the motion of a white drapery, the expected miracle. Finally, Sepe presented the ampules of the early Christian martyrs flowing blood to applause. A delay or the absence of...

FOR THEY HEARD THEM SPEAKING IN TONGUES AND PRAISING GOD! ACTS 10:46 The train from Colon, Panama, brought several passengers to the village of Frijoles one Sunday morning. Many had heard of the miracles of God in this church and came for physical healing. One was an elderly woman known as Mama Mecha. That morning Mama Mecha received Jesus as her Savior. After the service, the congregation went to the inlet of Gatun Lake, which is a short distance from the church, to baptize the new converts. Her testimony of her conversion that morning stirred many hearts. As Mama...

SALT LAKE CITY — The last time Rosaelia Nevarez was diagnosed with cancer, her doctors weren’t optimistic about her chances for recovery. She needed an emergency operation, they said, and suggested she call her family to her hospital bedside. During the operation, she dreamed of the Virgin Mary. “She said, ‘You will be OK. You don’t have to be afraid,” Nevarez said. Appearing with Mary was Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, a saint Nevarez had heard of but didn’t know much about. Though a Catholic, Nevarez had left the Church several times, “but my faith has always been that without God...

It's Memorial Day, and it is not an abuse of the word "miracle" to suggest that it applies to the volunteering of the soldier who gives his life so that we might live in freedom.Here is what I would consider a miracle: a generous, exceedingly wealthy patron decides, after reading this blog, that this man William M. Briggs deserves financial independence so that he is able to continue his curmudgeonly investigations of science and philosophy without having to worry about procuring his rent; and thus the patron provides this man Briggs a sack full of (tax free) gold. I hope...

WINTER SPRINGS, Fla. — James King said it was an act of God that led him to find Nadia Bloom in a thick swamp early today. “God directed me to her,” King said hours after finding the 11-year-girl alive. A day earlier, the 44-year-old University of Central Florida alum was part of a volunteer search crew that had been unable to find Nadia. But at first light today, King, a military contractor, entered the woods armed with two cell phones, his shoes taped to his feet and some food and water to give Nadia if she was found. He prayed,...

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Well. It looks like the Democrats will spend this weekend threatening all the House member to vote this garbage in. I think I am going to go home and just drink myself into an oblivion and hopefully somehow a miracle will happen. I have called all my Congresscritters and Senators. I have done all I can. I can not imagine having to live in America under Commie rule. The players and sellouts have been amazing. Hopefully one day..I will be able to piss on their graves. Bottoms Up!!

“A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined” (David Hume). That quote, taken from the Scottish philosopher David Hume, would summarize what the average person believes about miracles. Miracles are impossible because they violate laws of nature, and the very nature of these laws dictates that they are inviolable. Certainly in discussing the Christian faith with unbelievers the Christian evangelist often encounters this...

Mark Hemingway, staff writer for Danish publication Politiken, asserts The Islamic Boy in the Oval Office is greater than Galilee’s Jesus. Remember the Beatles? Didn’t they claim the same for their elevated position on the planet? Ooops. Didn’t happen.

A White Christmas in Dallas. Never before in my 44 years. I have now seen everything. "Snow" (Irving Berlin, 1954) Snow It won't be long before we'll all be there with snow Snow I wanna wash my hands, my face and hair with snow Snow I long to clear a path, and lift a spade of snow Snow oh, to see a great big man entirely made of snow Snow where it's snowing all winter through That's where I want to be Snowball throwing, that's what I'll do How I'm longing to ski through the Snow Those glist'ning houses that...

A little girl went to her bedroom and pulled a glass jelly jar from its hiding place in the closet. She poured the change out on the floor and counted it carefully. Three times, even. The total had to be exactly perfect. No chance here for mistakes. Carefully placing the coins back in the jar and twisting on the cap, she slipped out the back door and made her way 6 blocks to Rexall's Drug Store with the big red Indian Chief sign above the door. She waited patiently for the pharmacist to give her some attention, but he was...

CCTV footage of a baby's miracle escape when a pram was slammed by a peak-hour train has been released. Witnesses at a suburban Melbourne station feared the worst but were stunned when the six-month-boy was hauled from the tracks with little more than a bump on his head. The near-miss happened at Ashburton station as a city-bound train pulled into the station just after 4pm yesterday. The baby was strapped into a three-wheeler pram that rolled forward and toppled on to the tracks. The pram was carried 30 metres as the desperate driver tried to pull up the 250-tonne train....

MELBOURNE, Australia — A 6-month-old baby has miraculously survived a train hitting his stroller, which rolled onto the tracks when his mother let go for an instant. The escape was captured on security camera footage that shows the red, three-wheeled stroller plunging off a station platform just as the commuter train pulls in, and the mother's panicked lunge to grab it. The train pushed the stroller about 130 feet (40 meters) along the tracks before it stopped, but it did not go under the train. The baby, who was strapped into the stroller, received only a bump on the head....

I have been trying to find a good explanation for the crosses in the eyes of St. Therese in this photograph of her taken in 1892. For more details and to see the photo visit my blog at http://saint-joan-of-arc.blogspot.com/ Obviously I have received many thories ranging from internet hoax to a large cross in the backround but these have all been disproven. Anyone have a valid explantion?

Grieving father finds 'dead' baby son ALIVE in coffin Premature: Doctors said the baby boy's heartbeat was undetectable A premature baby declared dead by doctors was found to be alive hours later when he was taken home for a funeral wake. The baby's father, Jose Alvarenga, was told by doctors that his son had died shortly after birth. Staff from the state-run hospital in Asuncion, the Paraguayan capital, delivered the infant's body to Mr Alvarenga's home fours hours later. Shortly afterwards, the grieving father opened the baby's coffin to bid an emotional farewell to his son. "I opened it to...