Catherine Hannah Elizabeth was born on September 28th, 2005 with red hair and quite a cry! She weighs 14 pounds as of 1/13/06 and the lactation consultant said she’s doing a great job at nursing. She likes to make cute little noises and lift her head up while on her back to see her toes, and lift her head while on her stomach. If she would move her knees, she could crawl! Here’s a webpage about her: http://cora.dashjr.org/catherine.html
Here’s a new Catholic publication, The Four Marks:
http://thefourmarks.blogspot.com/
It’s named after the four marks of the one true church, the Catholic Church: one, holy, catholic and apostolic. The Catholic Church is one church, not split up into thousands of denominations like the Protestant churches. She is holy, having produced thousands of saints in her 2,000-year history. She is catholic (universal), spread out all over the world. She is apostolic, teaching the same things that Christ taught to His Apostles.
A good book that I recommend is “The Incorruptibles”, about Catholic saints whose corpses didn’t decompose. It has a short biography for each saint and details about how people found out that the corpses didn’t decompose. Sadly, many bodies were destroyed during the Protestant Revolt (Reformation) and the French Revolution. St. Catherine of Siena, my patron saint, is one of the saints who was blessed with this privilege.