Nicole Pickett

How to run the race of your life this Lent - Part Four

You are in the race of your life, spiritually speaking. With a strong commitment to prayer and meditation, and a special diet targeting that which will nourish you emotionally and spiritually, you are in it to win it.So...

Be on the jury at the Trial of the Shroud of Turin

What is the only image on Earth that cannot be recreated, nor explained by modern science?This image existed as a photographic negative BEFORE a picture of it was ever taken.This same image is encoded throughout with 3-D...

How to run the race of your life this Lent - Part Three

So, you're committed. Your Lenten journey is well underway and you are dedicated to the first of our spiritual disciplines -- A STRONG COMMITMENT. No one can run your spiritual race -- your marathon -- for you. So...

How to run the race of your life this Lent - Part Two

Lent is the ideal time to test our spiritual endurance. The Lenten journey can truly strengthen our life of faith, if, as discussed in Part One of this series, we practice four disciplines as we prepare to run the...

How to run the race of your life this Lent - Part One

It has often been said that the journey of faith is a marathon, not a sprint.While I've never run a full marathon, I have competed in three half marathons, and am currently training for my fourth. ...

Tucson teen combines passion for film-making with pro-life message

Tucson teen, Alexis Stypa, isn’t completely discouraged by the negative images portrayed in the media today. Instead, she sees the media and film industry as an open door, an opportunity to promote virtue in society and...

Mayor Walkup proclaims 9 days of fasting and prayer for Tucson

Tucson Mayor Bob Walkup proclaimed March 27 through April 4, 2010, to be Days of Fasting and Prayer for Tucson’s Economic Recovery.The proclamation, issued March 27, cites Tucson’s “…severe and prolonged economic recession...

Pelosi misrepresents the Catholic Church in health care debate

Much has been made of the position of the Catholic Church regarding the health care legislation passed by the House of Representatives last Sunday. Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, who claims to be a faithful Catholic, can take...

Go beyond 'giving up' -- 'add to' this Lent

The season of Lent marks the forty days Jesus spent in the desert, fasting and praying, prior to his Passion, death, and resurrection. During this liturgical season, the faithful are invited to enter into their own personal desert, by...

Gloria Allred seeks to abort Tebow's pro-life Super Bowl ad

The frenzy surrounding CBS’s airing of a Super Bowl commercial featuring Florida Gator’s quarterback Tim Tebow and his mother, Pam, has sparked public outcry from abortion rights advocates, including feminist and pro-choice attorney Gloria Allred...

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