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by Day Vol I, Edition 4, 8-14- 2013 –
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NEWS AND VIEWS
NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER- The latest in daily news around the world.
TODAY'S GOSPEL-
Matthew 18:
15-20
If your brother listens to you, you have won him over
If your brother listens to you, you have won him over
Dealing
With Sin in the Church
15“If your brother or sisterb
sins,c
go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over.
16But
if they will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every
matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’d
17If
they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church; and if they refuse
to listen even to the church, treat them as you would a pagan or a tax
collector.
18“Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will bee
bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will bef
loosed in heaven.
19“Again,
truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they
ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.
20For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”
PRAYER -A Prayer
for America
Father, we beg Your blessing
for the Right
to Life, the Unborn, the weak, the sick and the old; all who are
finding themselves being targets of the vicious culture of death;
that our Lord
Jesus bless and
protect all who stand up for the Christian
dignity of persons. That God
enlighten those who are traveling down death's highway by their
involvement, in any way, with either the contemporary death culture,
self ism, relativism, or any of the new age errors of our times, that
God
envelop our culture with His Divine protection and help us both
individually and as a nation to true enlightenment, conversion
and repentance of our selves and our culture. Help us to turn from
our national sin
of abortion, and return to, and once again become a Christian
nation, on the narrow road, that is, the path to becoming a nation
and culture, under God. Amen.
The
moral of this story could be “Don’t believe everything you read,”
because not only do writers make occasional mistakes, some writers
intentionally insert fake facts into their works of non-fiction.Authors or publishers have a lot of reasons for inserting the occasional fake fact in an otherwise rigorously researched reference book—they may be laying a “copyright trap” to see if anybody uses their book without giving credit. Or sometimes they just do it because it’s fun to trick people.
FAKE SONG. Joel Whitburn compiles music chart history books based on Billboard’s many charts, which go back to the 1930s. A number of his books note a very obscure song called “The Song of Love” recorded by bandleader Ralph Marterie. Whitburn says the song debuted and peaked at #84 on the pop chart for the week of December 26, 1955. However, Marterie never recorded “The Song of Love.” Nor did Billboard put out a chart the week of December 26, 1955. Whitburn included it to track just how far and by whom his research goes. (Ralph Marterie, however, was a real bandleader and made several recordings in the 1950s.)
FAKE FACT. In 1977,
Fred L. Worth wrote The Complete Unabridged Super Trivia
Encyclopedia. Since there are lots of other trivia books out
there (Really?), Worth wanted to protect the hard work he’d done
compiling his book, so he included one fake fact in his book—a
“gotcha” in case he ever saw that “fact” in another book.
Seven years later, Trivial Pursuit became a huge fad,
selling more than $200 million worth of games. Worth noticed that a
lot of the material on the cards was very similar to the stuff that
in his book, and sued the makers of the game for copyright
infringement. His smoking gun: a Trivial Pursuit card
claimed that the rarely-spoken first name of ‘70s TV detective
Columbo was Philip. Except that it wasn’t true—Worth made it up
for just such a reason. The case was thrown of court; the judge ruled
that facts cannot be copyrighted—fake ones notwithstanding. (By the
way, Columbo’s name was never actually revealed on the
show—although lots of TV trivia websites and books out there still
insist that it was Philip.)
FAKE MOVIE. The 1980 book The Golden Turkey Awards was one of the first ever to celebrate bad movies for being bad—for example, it renewed interest in the work of ’50s B-movie director Ed Wood, whom authors Michael and Harry Medved say directed the worst movie of all time, Plan 9 From Outer Space. Many of the movies detailed in the book were well-known but others were obscure, particularly Dog of Norway, a terrible animal movie starring Muki the Wonder Hound. But Dog of Norway, it turned out, was a hoax, and two clues to that fact were in book: A dog named Muki is included in the author’s photo, and the book is dedicated to Muki. Source: Uncle Johns Bathroom Reader
NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE Advance praise for: Proof of Heaven Dr. Eben Alexander's near-death experience is the most astounding I have heard in my whole life. He is living proof to me of an afterlife. As hard as the idea is to believe this doctor relates his experiences clinically from the doctors and nurses who treated him those many days he was brain-dead. Dr. Alexander has been an academic neurosurgeon for the last 25 years, including 15 years at the Brigham & Women's and the Children's Hospitals and Harvard Medical School in Boston. Visit him at www.lifebeyondeath.net
Photo
Credit: Amazon - First,
he saw white-pink clouds against a blue-black backdrop (purportedly
the
sky).
Above the clouds, he claims to have observed “flocks of
transparent, shimmering beings arced across the sky.” While he
isn’t able to define exactly what he observed, he called them
advanced, higher forms of being. The creatures were so content and
overjoyed, Alexander recalls, that they created a “glorious chant”
as they moved. He also stressed the interconnectedness of
everything he observed, writing, “Everything was distinct,
yet everything was also a part of everything else, like the rich and
intermingled designs on a Persian carpet … or a butterfly’s
wing.” On this
journey, Alexander said a woman was with him and that she delivered
to him very pointed messages. While she didn’t speak in the
traditional sense, Alexander was able to understand her every word.
The general messages were: “You are loved and cherished,
dearly, forever,” “You have nothing to fear” and “There is
nothing you can do wrong.”
