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  1. the_Abbot

    Finally Becoming a Catholic

    Hello everyone! I been a member of CF for many years and although I hardly ever post anything I'm always around here reading. Anyways for past year I have been attending the Catholic Church and started attending RCIA classes. Always felt drawn to both the Catholic and Orthodox Church. I...
  2. the_Abbot

    Doctors license revoked for aborting wrong fetus

    TAMPA -- A Florida OB-GYN who was supposed to abort a deformed fetus in a twin pregnancy but leave the normal one alone made the worst kind of mistake. Dr. Matthew J. Kachinas got the twins mixed up and injected a killing chemical into the wrong one, records show. At a weekend meeting in Tampa...
  3. the_Abbot

    Fedor Emelianenko

    My favorite MMA fighter is an Orthodox Chistian. Here is a clip from his last fight on CBS a few months ago giving a little shoutout to the Orthodox Christians. I saw this fight when it was on TV and just decided to see clips of it on youtube so I thought I would share with you one of the...
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    Walk for Life West Coast 2010

    Shadow of the Locust presents "Inheritance." Filmed at the 2010 Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVXHYr5ADns
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    Baptist Church Members Kidnap Haitian Children

    Haiti detains Americans taking kids across border - Yahoo! News I guess the EO of Russia really should be concerned so this don't happen to them. It seems to me that they took advantage of the disaster and chaos in Haiti to take these children illegally and do whatever they want with them.
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    A question about icons

    I received the Orthodox Study Bible recently and I was reading the part about images. Anyways it states that St. Luke the Evangelist made at least three icons. My question is do these icons still exist somewhere?
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    Pro life commercial starring President Obama

    Pro life commercial NBC refused to play during Super Bowl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt8C5MsnCp0
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    Pro life commercial starring President Obama

    Pro life commercial NBC refused to play during Super Bowl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt8C5MsnCp0
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    Thinking about going to a Catholic Church

    I am having a real struggle in my life with Church. I have attended Protestant churches in the past, but not too often. Anyways I want to start going to Church, but I cannot decide between going to a Catholic or Orthodox Church. I though that I would only go to an Orthodox Church, but the more I...
  10. the_Abbot

    My prayers are evil

    I just been told my prayers are done by an evil spirit by a self proclaimed "apostle" because I am amillennialist :confused: :P http://christianforums.com/showthread.php?t=7232493&page=4
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    Interracial Marriage

    I was on another website and an Orthodox poster there stated "Orthodoxy doesn't advocate or encourage intermarriage and never has". Is this true? The website is a racist website so i went to the theology section and typed Orthodox in the search box and there seems to be a lot of racist...
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    Catholic priest defends Rev. Jeremiah Wright

    Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiSutcBArDU Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBKeCIDGvwY
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    Israel blocked thousands of Christians from being baptized where Jesus was baptized

    Thousands of Christians baptized near Jordan River site Published: 4/22/08, 1:05 PM EDT By BETH MARLOWE QASR EL-YEHUD, West Bank (AP) - Israel blocked thousands of Christians from making a Tuesday pilgrimage to the Jordan River site where Jesus was baptized, citing safety concerns. About...
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    Bill Maher to Apologize for Calling Pope a 'Nazi'

    http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200804/CUL20080417b.html
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    OT: One Loaf Of Bread

    This is such a powerful song and video I think http://content.onsmash.com/music/339
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    Bishop Kidnapped in Iraq Dead

    Report: Bishop Kidnapped in Iraq Dead Published: 3/13/08, 8:25 AM EDT ROME (AP) - A Chaldean Catholic archbishop kidnapped in Iraq last month has been found dead, the news agency of Italian bishops' conference reported on Thursday. The SIR news agency says Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho...
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    Bishop Kidnapped in Iraq Dead

    Report: Bishop Kidnapped in Iraq Dead Published: 3/13/08, 8:25 AM EDT ROME (AP) - A Chaldean Catholic archbishop kidnapped in Iraq last month has been found dead, the news agency of Italian bishops' conference reported on Thursday. The SIR news agency says Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho...
  18. the_Abbot

    Chaldean Archbishop Kidnapped in Iraq

    Chaldean Archbishop Kidnapped in Iraq Published: 2/29/08, 3:07 PM EDT By SAMEER N. YACOUB BAGHDAD (AP) - Gunmen kidnapped a Chaldean Catholic archbishop Friday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police and the church said, in another attack targeting Iraq's small Christian community. The...
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    Chaldean Archbishop Kidnapped in Iraq

    Chaldean Archbishop Kidnapped in Iraq Published: 2/29/08, 3:07 PM EDT By SAMEER N. YACOUB BAGHDAD (AP) - Gunmen kidnapped a Chaldean Catholic archbishop Friday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police and the church said, in another attack targeting Iraq's small Christian community. The...
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    How do I deal with this?

    I am a single father with a 12 year old son. Anyways my son just came up to me and told me about a note some girls in class gave him today. The note was signed by a few of the girls and it said "whenever you want it you can have it". He asked me what does that mean. I didn't know how to answer...