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Catholic Friends: CONCEPT OF PURGATORY IS A CATHOLIC BELIEF
Q. At our ecumenical Bible study club, our non-Catholic friends say there's no such thing as purgatory because it's not mentioned anywhere in the Scriptures. They say that if you accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you will go to heaven. I do accept Jesus, but I'm also aware of the vast and varied degrees of imperfection in us humans, so my friends' view seems naive. Who is right? -- P.M. in cyberspace A. The concept of purgatory is a Catholic...

Catholic Friends: FOOD IS HEAVENLY BUT SERVICE IS HECK
Purgatory, say my Catholic friends, is the place between hell and heaven, where souls go before gaining entrance to heaven. There, in purgatory, they must endure temporary punishment until God deems them fit to enter the pearly gates of heaven.Well, if you want to teach your kids a lesson, take them to Italianni's, Orlando's own version of purgatory here on Earth.At Italianni's, the food is wonderful. But before you get the food, you must pay your...

Catholic Friends: LENT CAUSES A FEW PANGS OF JEALOUSY
We are deep into the season of Lent, and some remarkable things have been happening to me.For starters, I am surprised to find that I am no more Catholic than I was when "holy season" started. I have also discovered that not being Catholic at this time of year means I don't have to give up a bunch of stuff as my Catholic friends do. Normally the idea of giving up stuff I like is not something that appeals to me. But because I am a guy --and not a very...

Catholic Friends: Poland Tunes in on Pope
In a small apartment here, a group of Catholic friends gather daily around a shortwave radio to hear about the travels in America of Pope John Paul II, the Polish pope.They are listening to Polish-language broadcasts on the U.S.-Government-backed Radio Free Europe. "I listen about eight hours a day," says one man. "My Russian-built radio picks up very nicely." The station is a long standing irritant to the Soviet Union, and its broadcasts are...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland - Gunmen trying to stir up hatred with Northern Ireland's Catholic community promised more bloodshed Monday after killing a Protestant teen-ager standing with his Catholic friends.Police and politicians said Gavin Brett's killers wrongly assumed the 18-year-old, like the others outside a sports club late Sunday, was Catholic.Such killings were routine in Northern Ireland before paramilitary cease-fires took root in the mid-1990s. Now,
BELFAST, Northern Ireland - Gunmen trying to stir up hatred with Northern Ireland's Catholic community promised more bloodshed Monday after killing a Protestant teen-ager standing with his Catholic friends.Police and politicians said Gavin Brett's killers wrongly assumed the 18-year-old, like the others outside a sports club late Sunday, was Catholic.Such killings were routine in Northern Ireland before paramilitary cease-fires took root in the mid-1990s. Now,...

Can Jewish Americans Still Have Devout Catholic Friends?
America is dividing again. Jewish Americans are finding it hard to discuss issues with devout Catholics who go with the flow and support the new Pope, Benedict XVI a former Hitler Youth. The Catholic Church says that he only joined because all citizens of his age were compelled to join.

Catholic Friends: Ecumenism's friends - The Vision of the Ecumenical Movement and How It Has Been Impoverished by Its Friends - Book Review
The Vision of the Ecumeniscal Movement and How It Has Been Impoverished by Its Friends. By Michael Kinnamon. Chalice, 183 pp., $29.95 IF YOU CARE about the ecumenical movement or would like to kn

Catholic Friends: Negotiating complex identities: scholar, artist, minister and more: Filipina-American theologian values being 'multilingual' - Word Made Fresh - Rachel
Rachel Bundang rocks. She sings, plays jazz and gospel piano, and listens to hip-hop, classical and Brazilian music. On her laptop are musical selections ...

Catholic Friends: Family gathering: at national congress, black Catholics tackle racism, call for stronger ties with Africa - National Black Catholic Congress, Chicago,
In a year when the U.S church has been badly battered, some 3,000 of its African-American members met Aug. 24-Sept. 1 and unabashedly proclaimed their ...

Catholic Friends: On The Right - problems in the Catholic Church, answering machines and e-mail, and Israel's military policy - Column
Can the Church Survive? NEW YORK, MARCH 29 Time magazine's cover line is "Can the Catholic Church Save Itself?" Author Frank McCourt is quoted: "The church is going to lose children and familie