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(JPost) — Israel’s Mossad is responsible for training and paying the assassins of a number of Iranian nuclear scientists over the past two years, TIME magazine reported Saturday citing unnamed Western intelligence sources. In addition to the assassinations of the scientists, all of which were carried out using nearly identical magnetic bombs attached to the side of their cars, the intelligence sources claimed Israel was responsible for an explosion at an Iranian missile base outside Tehran late last year. Majid Jamali Fashi, one of several suspects arrested, tried and sentenced to death by the Islamic Republic in the past two...

20 US Colleges and 1 Canadian are North America's Most Faithful to Catholic Identity Solid alternatives to larger number of sexually liberal, dissident, secularized Catholic colleges in US today MANASSAS, VA, October 3, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Today The Cardinal Newman Society announced the publication of a new comprehensive college guide for students and parents, The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College: What to Look for and Where to Find It. Edited by Joseph A. Esposito, The Newman Guide will be officially published on Nov. 1, 2007. The culmination of two years of research and interviews, the unique Newman Guide...

The Identity Crisis in Catholic Schools By: Deacon Keith A. Fournier © Third Millennium, LLC Introduction From January 28 through February 3, 2006, we observed Catholic Schools Week in the Catholic Dioceses of the United States of America. The theme for the week was, “Good News in Education”. Materials were sent to every Catholic School in the United States along with offers for clothing, posters, and other self congratulatory items. I do not believe it is a time to send up balloons. Rather, it is a time for deep soul searching concerning the state of Catholic schools; time for real...

Identity Crisis By John R. Dunlap Published 4/18/2003 12:05:00 AM Near the end of the past winter quarter, one of the courses I'd been teaching for the classics department was taking its usual, peculiar toll. The course is titled "The World of Augustine." It's about St. Augustine of Hippo (A.D. 354-430), the most influential and prolific of the Church Fathers, who wrote during a tumultuous era broadly similar to our own: the dissolute century issuing in the collapse of the western Roman Empire. In some ways, it's my favorite course. It draws above-average students who don't flake out under a...