FAITH/STORIES
“I haven’t noticed anything yet, other than a bit of weight loss,” McCarthy told The Catholic Register from Corner Brook, Nfld. “But in terms of energy level and everything else — well, it’s only 11 days.”
That is 11 days living on nothing but water and juice. McCarthy never liked V8 juice, but he’s acquiring a taste for the low-sodium variety. The most substantial thing he drinks is Sunkist strawberry and banana smoothies. He’s going through a fair amount of cranberry juice. He doesn’t have a blender.
“It’s a crazy and chaotic world,” said Lindsay Moore.
Moore, a youth minister at Toronto’s Holy Rosary parish, is the lead organizer of an event, however, which she believes will help people escape the chaos of urban life, if only for a few hours.
Blue Veil is a non-profit, non-denominational, Toronto-based charity — the creation of executive director Cris Smith and half of her eight children: Jeff, 28, Phill, 26, Donny, 24 and now David, 20.
Christians need to understand Jewish roots
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterSo who cares about Catholic-Jewish relations?
Fine line between politics and faith
By Sheila Dabu Nonato, The Catholic RegisterIn it, the pope wrote about the church’s duty to intervene in social matters and help the poor, as well as the state’s responsibility to help those who suffered the most from the economic system.
Ancient prayer draws new interest in Canada
By Sheila Dabu Nonato, The Catholic Register{mosimage}ACTON, Ont. - Lee Anne Berry calls herself a “lamb seeker.”
Berry, a retired special needs educational assistant, is a member of the contemplative prayer group the Intercessors of the Lamb and leads the group in Acton, west of Toronto. Berry said she named her group the “lamb seekers” because she and her group members want to bring those who are lost back to God through intercessory prayer.
Christian voice can be heard
By Michael Swan, The Catholic RegisterEvangelization gets a (Second) Life
By Peter Kavanagh, Catholic Register Special{mosimage}Missionaries are all around us, on our streets, in advertisements and infomercials, during the occasional sermon or special parish appeals. And from time to time missionaries make the news. Sometimes dramatically as in the case of the Korean young adults seized off a treacherous highway in Afghanistan and only released after weeks of captivity and serial deaths.
In search of answered prayers
By Catholic Register StaffRoman Catholic journalist James Risdon is launching a Canada-wide appeal for examples of answered prayers. He hopes that people will write to him with their testimonials, which will serve as material for the book he is writing.