Catholic Forum: Patron Saints & Solomon's Wisdom
Maybe you can find a lost object with a little prayer. Six saints are listed as patron saints of lost articles, according to the online Patron Saints Index -- www.catholic-forum.com/saints/indexsnt.htm -- including Anthony of Padua and Vincent de Paul. Another, Zita, guards against losing keys, among other patronage. If prayer doesn't help, Michael Solomon suggests the three Cs: comfort, calmness and confidence. Solomon is the author of "How to Find Lost...
Catholic Forum: Russian Catholics invite Pontiff to visit Moscow
Moscow, 21 June: Russian Catholics have sent an invitation to Pope John Paul II to visit Moscow, Apostolic Administrator of European Russia Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz told a news conference in Moscow today.He said the first invitation was sent a year ago by an eucharistic congress in Moscow. Since then Russian Catholics - and there are about 600,000 of them according to Kodrusiewicz - have been inviting the Pope to come to Moscow in one form or another.At the end of May, another Catholic...
Catholic Forum: RELIGION EVENTS
CLEVELAND Amish lecture David Kline, an Amish farmer, writer and minister, will give a talk on "The Way of the Amish" at 7:45 p.m. Wednesday at the Bishop Cosgrove Center, 1736 Superior Ave. His talk will be preceded at 7:15 by evening prayer at St. Peter Church, 1533 East 17th St., adjacent to Cosgrove Center. Call 440-838-5225.Discussion on race The Racial Fairness Report Project and the Cleveland Bar Association will present a seminar on "Race...
Catholic Forum: INTERNET INSIDER
Hot clicks God bless us everyone The Catholic Community Forum has a thorough and perhaps surprising list of patron saints for seemingly everyone. Longaberger workers, for instance, might ask Anthony the Abbot, patron saint of basket makers, to petition God in their behalf. Honda employees might do similarly with Eligius, patron saint of carriage makers. Journalists are in such desperate straits that we need three: Francis de Sales, Maximillian Kolbe and Paul the Apostle. Find the...