The impact of ‘The Greatest Generation’ “The Greatest Generation” is the term that journalist Tom Brokaw chose to describe the generation of Americans who grew up during the great depression and came to maturity during the Second World War. Catholics, like others of their generation, had been tested and refined by the events of their early years and emerged with a sense of purpose and commitment that would reshape their society and their church.  Read More Annual Appeal vital to dozens of ministries   Bishops: Set aside politics in health care debate Dona Martinez, a parishioner at Holy Trinity Church, says there is one major reason she donates to the Bishop’s Annual Appeal for Catholic Ministries. “It keeps me from having to write 50 checks instead of one,” she said with a laugh. Martinez is only half kidding. The Bishop’s Annual Appeal supports more than 20 ministries of the Diocese of Dallas, grouped in four major categories: social services, Catholic ministries, Catholic education, and priest and deacon formation.  Read More WASHINGTON – Three leading U.S. bishops are calling on Congress to "set aside partisan divisions and special-interest pressures" to achieve genuine health reform. "The health care debate, with all its political and ideological conflict, seems to have lost its central moral focus and policy priority, which is to ensure that affordable, quality, life-giving care is available to all," said a letter signed by Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston and other bishops.   Read More FAITH ALIVE MOVIE REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS 'The Gospel of Luke'  In Luke's Gospel, the Spirit plays a decisive role in realizing God's plan of salvation. Luke sees Jesus as an incarnation of God's reconciling mercy: All are to be included in God's kingdom. Jesus' message of healing and restoration for the marginalized demands that those well established in their own communities make room for the excluded.   'Fame'           NEW YORK - Director Kevin Tancharoen's remake of Alan Parker's 1980 film "Fame" (MGM) jettisons most of the elements that rated the original an "O" classification from the Office for Film and Broadcasting. But, though the proceedings are tidier, the results are mostly tepid.  Lively look at angels   "Angels are everywhere, as Mike Aquilina points out in "Angels of God: The Bible, the Church and the Heavenly Hosts." They appear in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, playing "crucial roles in the drama of our creation, fall and salvation."

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