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Commenator Sheila Liaugminas to address August 8 CCI Lunch forum on the subject of Media Bias as it impacts Catholics and Catholic issues
7/15/2008 9:15:00 PM -CCI
Sheila Liaugminas, a regular commentator on Relevant Radio, has had extensive experience in print and broadcast journalism. She was a reporter for the Midwest Bureau of Time Magazine for over twenty years and did a year-long series on historic Chicago for Crain's Chicago Business. Sheila was host of an award-winning feature magazine program YOU on WMAQ-TV and guest hosted a morning talk show. She hosted The Right Questions and Issues & Answers for Relevant Radio. She recently provided coverage of Pope Benedict's visit to the United States for Relevant Radio. The subject: "Media Bias." CCI's monthly luncheon forums are held on the second Friday of every month, from 11:45 AM To 01:30 PM, at a new location, the Union League Club 65 W Jackson Blvd, Chicago, 60604 - (312) 427-7800. Ticket price includes for a full course meal, and are $30.00. Reservations required. Call Maureen at 708-352-5834. The public is welcome.
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CCI Seeking Volunteers For One Hour Timeslots on October 4 During 40 Days for Life Prayer Vigil
7/14/2008 5:52:00 PM Catholic Citizens of Illinois encourages all members to participate in the 40 Days for Life national campaign, to be held from September 24 to November 2. We need volunteers to sign up for any of the one-hour timeslots on Saturday, October 4. The 24-hour prayer vigil will take place in front of the Abortion Aid clinic, 5228 N. Elston near Foster - not far from the Women's Center in Chicago. Many other organizations and parishes are participating in this important vigil: the Respect Life Office of the Archdiocese of Chicago, the Pro-Life Action League, Couples for Christ, Knights of Columbus, Illinois Right to Life. We very much want to have a strong presence from CCI on October 4. Please send an e-mail to mary_kelly33@hotmail.com with your name, e-mail address, and telephone number and your preferred timeslot.
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Patricia Bainbridge, director of the Respect Life Office of the Diocese of Rockford to address July 11 Catholic Citizens Lunch Forum
7/5/2008 7:34:00 PM -CCI
Patricia Bainbridge, director of the Respect Life Office of the Diocese of Rockford and chairman of the Department for Life of the Catholic Conference of Illinois and serves as chairman of the board of Human Life International. She has been a guest on EWTN's "The Journey Home" where she discussed her journey to the Catholic Faith. The subject: "My Journey from Agnosticism to Catholicism." Luncheons are at 12:00 noon at the Union League Club, 65 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago (corner of Jackson & Federal). Tickets are $30.00. Reservations required. Call Maureen at 708-352-5834. The public is welcome.
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Catholic Citizens of Illinois Calls on Cardinal George to Remove Rev. Pfleger Immediately6/15/2008 4:30:00 PM -CCI
CCI Lunch Forum June 13 at Chicago's Union League Club features Rev. Richard T. Simon, "The Crisis in Catholic Education"6/2/2008 6:30:00 PM
St. Sabina's website continues to go after political opponents: Criminalizing gun ownership encouraged, State Reps. and Senators who support Second Amendment are targeted5/31/2008 12:00:00 PM -CCI
In Spite of Cardinal George's Directions, St. Sabina Website Continues to Spout Political Nonsense5/30/2008 8:14:00 AM -CCI
"Irrational and Ridiculous" Thug Tactics of Depaul Administrators to Stomp Out Conservative Views on Campus Exposed by THE STATESMAN: Independent Campus Newspaper Struggles to Represent Catholic and Conservative Views on Campus5/20/2008 8:38:00 AM
By The Depaul Conservative Alliance and THE STATESMAN at www.depaulca.org
-Joseph Blewitt, Editor-in-chief
Patrick J. Reilly, founder of the Cardinal Newman Society, at the May 9, 2008 Catholic Citizens Lunch Forum5/2/2008 9:21:00 PM
Former Illinois Catholic Conference Director Doug Delaney to Assist USCCB with Media Relations During Pope's US visit in April, 20084/12/2008 6:00:00 PM -Diocese of Joliet Press Release
Loyola Prof. Dennis Martin and Depaul Student Nicholas Hahn Discuss the Role of the Catholic University at the April 11 Catholic Citizens Luncheon4/5/2008 7:28:00 PM
Immigration Debated at the March 14 CCI Luncheon Forum3/8/2008 1:51:00 PM
Rev. Robert Sirico at the University Club April 2: The Rise (and Eventual Downfall) of the New Religious Left3/1/2008 7:00:00 PM
Father Martin Heinz to speak at Catholic Citizens Lunch Forum, Friday Feb 82/3/2008 9:00:00 AM
Dr. Kenneth Howell at Jan. 11, 2008 CCI Lunch Forum: "Today's College Students: Can They Be Brought to Catholicism." 1/5/2008 10:00:00 PM
Msgr. Schmitz of the Institute of Christ the King CCI Lunch Forum On Dec 14: "The Classical Roman Rite and Its Future"12/8/2007 5:27:00 PM
Stephen J. Safranek, Professor of Law at Ave Maria School of Law at the November 9 CCI Lunch Forum: "Annulments and No Fault Divorce"11/3/2007 7:49:00 PM -CCI
Ave Maria University Founder Tom Monaghan and President Nick Healy Provide an Update to Supporters, Nov 1 in Oak Brook, IL10/25/2007 7:51:00 PM
October 12 CCI Lunch Forum DOUBLE HEADER: Rev. Robert Barron at noon on "Beauty & Evangelization" followed by Clare Asquith, Viscountess Asquith at 2PM "Was Shakespeare a Catholic?"10/6/2007 7:43:00 PM
"How Political Should Faithful Catholics Be?" by Rev. Frank Pavone, Founder of Priests for Life, Keynote Speaker at Catholic Citizens of Illinois Annual Awards Banquet on Sept 25, 20079/22/2007 8:41:00 PM
By CCI
CATHOLIC VIEWS
 | | Romney Packaging Warning: Caveat Emptor? |
Is Obama Considering Romney As V-P Choice, or McCain Considering Romney As V-P Choice? Is the Later or the Former A Better Fit?
7/20/2008 8:38:00 PM
By Gregg Jackson and John Haskins
-www,rffm.org
When Ann Coulter endorsed Mitt Romney she called the former Massachusetts governor "manifestly our best candidate" -- though the paper for which she is "chief legal correspondent," Human Events, ranked Romney the #8 RINO (Republican In Name Only) in the nation in 2005. GOP establishment pom pom girl Laura Ingraham and water boy Sean Hannity evangelize Romney on their radio shows as the second coming of Ronald Reagan. Curiouser and curiouser! Romney the wallflower bats his eyelashes and coyly pretends not to notice the increasing speculation of a McCain-Romney ticket--even as he criss-crosses the country campaigning and fundraising for McCain--the same John McCain who Romney said during the primaries was "almost indistinguishable" from Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.
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 | | St. Dominic of Gusman accepts the Rosary from the Blessed Mother |
The Luminous Mysteries: Progressive Novelty or Natural Extension of the Rosary?
7/19/2008 10:22:00 AM
By A. S. Guimarães
-Tradition in Action
(CCI NOTES: There has been much discussion of the Luminous Mysteries since their unexpected addition to Rosary by John Paul II. It's hard to imagine the glorious mother of God, Mary Most Holy, declining additional glory and prayers. On the other hand, it is reasonable to ask why Mary would have waited 800 years to reveal, through John Paul II's actions, that the Rosary was incomplete.) "...In many important apparitions, Our Lady asks Catholics to pray the Rosary as we always knew it - the Creed, the introductory Our Father, three Hail Marys, and Glory be; and the body of 150 Hail Marys, 15 Our Fathers, and 15 Glory Bes divided into three sets of five mysteries, the Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious. It seems quite clear that the innovation (of adding the Luminous Mysteries) is opposed to the expressed will of Our Lady...
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 | | Henry VIII: How much damage can one man do? Ask the dwindling members of the breakaway Anglican Church |
An Open Letter to the Bishops of the Anglican Church: Your pathetic situation is entirely of your own making
7/18/2008 9:37:00 PM
By Human Life International
-Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer
With all due respect for persons and motives, the historical record of Anglicanism's doctrinal surrender has clearly prepared the way for the problems you are now having, problems which get increasingly worse as time goes on. The Anglican Church was created by an act of rupture of unity from the Church that Christ founded and its apostolic succession in 1534. It capitulated on the fundamental question of divorce and re-marriage in 1536; presided over thousands of unconscionable martyrdoms between 1534-1729; broke the centuries-old Christian consensus on contraception in 1931; took the unprecedented step of ordaining women priests beginning in 1944; caved in on abortion in 1967; allowed women's episcopal ordination in 1989; and endorsed openly gay clergy in 2003.
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Antonio Gramsci Is Alive And Well In The Academy And The Fourth Estate In America 7/18/2008 8:30:00 AM
By Gary L. Morella
Cancer's Unexpected Blessings: When you enter the Valley of the Shadow of Death, things change.7/17/2008 1:29:00 PM
By Tony Snow
-www.christianitytoday.com
Catholic Doctrines Versus Obama's Left-Wing Extremism 7/16/2008 5:56:00 PM
By www.spectator.org
-Peter Ferrara
The NAACP and Black Abortions: How is it that black leaders so aggressively support the accelerated abortion of the black population? 7/15/2008 8:49:00 PM
By WILLIAM MCGURN
-Wall Street Journal
Tim Russert: The Story Untold 7/13/2008 1:00:00 PM
By Hadley Arkes
Religion in Europe: Christianity on the defensive/Christianity under siege7/12/2008 8:33:00 PM
By JOHN L. ALLEN
-www,ncronline3.org
THE LAST WORD ON CARDINAL GEORGE?7/11/2008 9:15:00 PM
By Judie Brown
-www.all.org
PRAVDA UPDATE: Tribune Columnist Eric Zorn More Of An Activist Than Anything Else7/10/2008 7:00:00 PM
By IFI Media Watch
-Daniel T. Zanoza
Roman Catholics for Obama 2008: Some ignore his pro-abortion voting record, others rationalize it.7/10/2008 7:00:00 PM
By Paul Kengor
The U.S. Catholic Church Is Sinking Fast -- Part III 7/6/2008 9:25:00 PM -www.newoxfordreview.com
"Summorum Pontificum" One Year Later (Part 1): Father John Zuhlsdorf Analyzes Its Effects7/6/2008 8:53:00 PM
By Annamarie Adkins
-www.zenit.org
McCain, Obama, & the Catholic Vote: Which one is a natural? 7/5/2008 7:47:00 PM
By Ryan T. Anderson
-www.weeklystandard.com
Who signed the Declaration of Independence, and their sacrifices for this great country7/4/2008 8:10:00 PM
By Arlene Sawicki
OBAMA'S FAITH-BASED GAMBIT IS A FRAUD7/4/2008 11:36:00 AM
By Bill Donohue
-www.catholicleague.org
The Fairness Doctrine: Censorship at its Worst 7/3/2008 8:24:00 PM
By Daniel T. Zanoza
-Illinois Family Institute
Firing Back at King Richard in Self-Defense7/3/2008 8:17:00 PM
By Dan Proft
-www.urqmedia.com
The case against same-sex marriage6/28/2008 7:31:00 PM
By Jane Chastain
-www.worldnetdaily.com
CATHOLIC NEWS
NEWS YOU WON'T SEE ON TV: Final Mass was largest gathering of people in Australia's history
7/20/2008 12:00:00 PM -Catholic News Service
The Final Mass concluding World Youth Day celebrations contained a number of distinctive features. First and foremost among the highlights is that it was the largest gathering of people in the history of Australia. This Mass was the grandest and most significant one in Australia's history, attended by twenty-six cardinals, 420 bishops and thousands of priests and religious. Another extraordinary occurrence was the Confirmation of 24 people, including fourteen Australians and Juan Martinez from the U.S.A. It was a momentous task to distribute Communion to the masses, which involved 1,300 priests, Acolytes and Extraordinary Ministers.
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 | | Would a pope of the 1500's prayed for the unity of Luther's break from the Roman Catholic Church? |
ECUMANIA UPDATE: INFRA, a European Catholic news agency, reports Pope has asked Catholics to pray for the unity of the Anglican "church?"
7/20/2008 11:42:00 AM
By André Garcia
-Tradition in Action
Aboard the papal plane to Sydney on July 12, Benedict XVI asked prayers for the Anglican "church." According to a report from Infra, a Catholic news agency, he did not ask us to pray for the conversion of the Anglicans and their acceptance of the Catholic Faith. (1) He asked instead that we pray for the unity of the Anglican "church," so that there will not be any more splits in it. We know that the apparent unity of the Anglicans is on the edge of a complete break over the issues of making women and homosexual men bishops. Hence, Benedict tries to reinforce the position of Rowan Williams, the supposed head of the Anglicans, who is facing heat from both liberals and conservatives.
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 | | Gay burgers to go? Pro-family boycott of McDonalds growing |
Nationwide boycotters protest McDonald's support for 'homosexual agenda'
7/19/2008 11:59:00 AM -Catholic News Service
Some supporters of traditional marriage are protesting the fast food corporate giant McDonald's over its decision to join the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) and its spokesman's remarks suggesting those who disapprove of homosexual acts are driven by hatred. The American Family Association had organized a boycott of McDonald's for joining the NGLCC, Cybercast News Service reports. The boycott coalition also objects to the corporation's donation of $20,000 to the chamber and the chamber membership of Richard Ellis, McDonald's vice president of communications. The announcement of the boycott prompted McDonald's spokesman Bill Whitman to say in response "Hatred has no place in our culture. That includes McDonald's, and we stand by and support our people to live and work in a society free of discrimination and harassment." (CCI NOTES: Unless of course, the harassement is directed toward Christian beliefs and long established pro-family values. Skip the burger, and offer it up.)
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San Jose Professor Fired for Honestly Answering Question about Genetics and Homosexuality7/19/2008 10:00:00 AM -www.LifeSiteNews.com
Freed hostage Betancourt visits Lourdes 7/18/2008 9:00:00 PM -www.totalcatholic.com
Priest Expert Says Infanticide is 50 Years Away from Being Normalized 7/18/2008 9:00:00 PM
By www.lifesitenews.com
-Tim Waggoner
Cardinal Newman to be exhumed ahead of 'imminent' beatification7/18/2008 8:57:00 PM
By Peter Jennings
-Catholic Herald (England)
US Bishops Communications Committee that lavished praise on Democratic Party insider Tim Russert is silent on the passing of conservative Catholic reporter Tony Snow7/18/2008 9:00:00 AM -US Catholic Bishops Website
Professor who threatened desecration claims to have consecrated Hosts7/17/2008 5:23:00 PM -Catholic News Agency
HOW MANY ONE-TRUE-FAITHS ARE THERE? Vatican shuns defectors and backs calls for Anglican unity7/17/2008 5:00:00 PM
By James Macintyre, Religious Affairs Correspondent
-The Independent
Illinois Pastor challenges United Way for funding abortion group7/15/2008 8:00:00 PM -www.ifrl.org
Liberal Facists in San Francisco demonstrate the left-wing meaning of tolerance: City officially condemns Catholic Church7/15/2008 11:51:00 AM -www.worldnetdaily.com
AMCHURCH Catholic bishops reject Vatican changes to Mass prayers7/13/2008 8:41:00 PM
By Daniel Burke
-Chicago Tribune
Gay man sues publishers over Bible verses that caused him emotional pain and (obviously) mental instability7/13/2008 8:00:00 PM -USA Today
CNA introduces 'Indispensable Economics' with Dr. William Luckey7/12/2008 8:16:00 PM -www.catholicnewsagency.com
Catholic League Responds to Paul Zachary Myers, a professor at the University of Minnesota-Morris who has pledged to desecrate the Eucharist.7/12/2008 9:24:00 AM -te-deum.blogspot.com
SCANDALIZING CATHOLIC YOUTH UPDATE: Catholic University of San Diego Honors Radical Non-Christian Feminist With Theology Chair7/12/2008 8:55:00 AM
By www.LifeSiteNews.com
-Peter J. Smith
Vienna Cardinal awards notorious pro-abortion-politician7/11/2008 9:10:00 PM -en.kreuz.net
McCain campaign plans 'very aggressive' outreach to Catholic voters 7/11/2008 8:28:00 PM -Catholic News Agency
Catholic for late-term abortion, homosexual rights, gagging religious expression... and Obama7/11/2008 8:28:00 PM -www.catholics4obama.com
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