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Has anyone seen this new film? What did you think of it? (I came back to OBOB for a quick visit, to see the reaction to this film - am rather surprised not to see a thread about it!)

Dear friends, this is to announce that I am leaving OBOB. I have been a member since the day Pope John Paul 2 died - no coincidence, though the story is not worth telling - and I have learnt a tremedous lot, received a tremendous amount of blessings, shared, prayed, had fun. Thank you to...

Guys, I know this sounds trite in the midst of prayer requests about deaths and serious illness and the state of souls... but could you please pray that I finally manage to find a suitable apartment in the new place I have moved to? After almost a month of searching - I thought I had found a...

(This is a real exercise. I heard today that it was once used in a training course somewhere in Africa.) I would really like you guys to debate this! I will have something to add at the end. You are the head of the office. There are ten people present in the office: - yourself - your...

This question comes from another thread, but it's been bugging me, as a general question outside whatever particular context. I have no theological underpinning for this, but I feel it in my guts that outright Satanism - rites and rituals in honour of Satan, but even just when you consciously...

...., for all those who are being killed, for the ordinary people who are frightened and starving and being driven to even more extremism, for those who exact two eyes for an eye and a whole jaw for a tooth, for those who might have it in their power to stop what is happening but are stopped...

I like the way he puts it. Good inspiration! http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/04/03/collins.commentary/index.html?iref=newssearch

I have read so many uninformed, untrue statements about both candidates on this forum these last few months, it was painful. (I'm seriously wondering if one-man-one-vote is not a bad idea after all. But that is a different subject.) As a last-ditch attempt, may I suggest a good sub-page on...

History News Network 24 October 2008 By Gus Feissel and Chris O’Sullivan

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/10/15/congo.women/index.html

I have just come back from four days in the bush, reviewing projects that try to make peace between hostile communities, provide microcredits to the poor and give some useful work (planting trees, anti-erosion etc) to young people who would otherwise sit around doing nothing and losing hope. I...

I asked for prayers a week ago for my father, who died on the previous Saturday. Thank you all for your prayers - and thanks to those who contributed the Latin Mass text - I am composing a beautiful mass booklet for his funeral. Exactly one week later, this past Saturday, my husband's mother...

What Catholics Are (Ideally, And Sometimes Really) About by tristero Via pastordan, comes this moving story of Catholic behavior at its best. Some excerpts: "Four punks spewing hateful language at a transgender woman outside a shelter for gay and transgender young people in Queens beat up...

...after a painful battle with terminal emphysema. Not easy to watch your father suffocate slowly, slowly.... But thank God we were there to hold his hand to the end, my mother and I. Prayers requested, please. Thanks and please don't mind if I don't check in for a few days.

Well, here are the promised photos of our trip to the Holy Land. It was just one and a half days, and I was with my (irreligious) husband and a Muslim UN colleague, so – not much religious pilgrimage this time…. But we managed to do nearly all the essentials. I could have fitted in the Garden...

Guys, you probably think I am the most Islam-loving person on this forum, but it's not as simple as that. That other thread has been bugging me for days, and there is something serious I would like to say. Yes, we ARE at war with radical Islam, unfortunately. (There, I've said it!). But to...

.... Go read the original article (link in the OP) carefully! I only just noticed....The joke's on all of us! ...Then read the other link, the one to the FoxNexs article, and see how FoxNexs put it in such a way that people can easily overlook the fact that it's all satire - while Fox News...

Good morning, friends. We are having one of the usual discussions on OBOB and someone came up with these points on which our doctrines differ. Is this true, or how would you define these? Apologies if you find it put in a way that is offensive to you - no use changing the wording, you can read...

...I am not actually there - but I am in Catholic Europe (I flew in yesterday to pass Easter with my sick father - prayers for him would be very appreciated), where all of the Palm Sunday Papal Mass is transmitted live on TV. Just ended - and I felt like sharing with you all. Greetings to you...

:scratch: What is the difference between wisdom, understanding, counsel, and knowledge? Does anyone have a good meditation on the Seven Gifts? Thanks. (For those not familiar: the Catholic tradition, and Catechism, lists "Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit: wisdom, understanding, counsel...