Catholic Chat: SECTORS / Commack Software Firm Chats Up Web Business
CATHOLIC.NET bills itself as the Catholic information center on the Internet, and soon software from a company in Commack will make it a Catholic chat center as well. The Web site will install software from eShare Technologies Inc., allowing Web surfers to engage in online discussions about pro-life issues and home-schooling and to talk to bishops and Catholic authors.The addition of chat to Catholic.net reflects a trend that is spreading among organizations and corporations. And eShare,...
Catholic Chat: A RITUAL RETURNS: CATHOLICS RE-EMBRACE ROSARY
The rosary, the centuries-old meditation on the mysteries of God that Catholics recite while clenching a string of prayer beads, is making a comeback.Driven by a return to ritual by many religious people and a revival of devotion to Mary by Catholics, sales of rosary beads have steadily increased in recent years, according to manufacturers and merchants. The resurgent popularity of saying the rosary comes after years in which the practice was frowned upon as old-fashioned, distracting,...
Catholic Chat: WHEN HARDWARE DRIVES YOU CRAZY, REINSTALL THE CODE
Q. My CD-ROM drive (E) has worked fine for three years. All of a sudden, after installing the PrintMaster desktop publishing software, the CD no longer wants to work. Each time I try to use it, a text message comes up saying that Drive E is not accessible. I've tried multiple disks and always get the same response. Has the drive gone south? Does it need replacing? Any other checks I can do?Ed Powell @pe.net A. Lots of folks can apply the answer you need to their own glitches...
Catholic Chat: This priest's job: The devil makes him do it
The Roman Catholic Church's best-known exorcist led the way down a long hallway that was dark but not particularly spooky, dim in a way that evoked only thrift, to the small office where he performs his rite. The Rev. Gabriele Amorth, who is an awfully jolly priest, given his specialty, did not even take Christmas off this year. These are boom times for his opponent, after all, Amorth said. Exhibit A: the world. He sees 10 people a day, give or take, for demonic possessions,...
Catholic Chat: A loss of the sense of sin,
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The Liberal and Conservative factions of the Catholic Church are at odds over confession. The Pope has asked for an end to the practices of group absolution. But will this drive the faithful away? Richard Owen reports from Rome IF YOU WANT TO confess your sins this Easter you could do worse than head for Rome. It is an ill-kept secret that on Good Friday the Pope himself descends from his study high above St Peter's Square and enters the great Basilica to bend his elderly...