Mark Armstrong is married to Patti and the couple has 10 children, including 2 adopted AIDS orphans from Kenya. He travels and presents a PowerPoint presentation on "Our Lady of Guadalupe" to retreats, church events and conferences. He also spent 9 days in Italy in 2010, including three hours before the Shroud of Turin and has an amazing PowerPoint presentation on the Shroud of Turin, believed by many to be the actual burial cloth of Jesus Christ. He also co-authored the best-selling Catholic book, "Amazing Grace for Fathers." Mark is also an occasional guest host for both Sean Herriott on Morning Air and The Drew Mariani Show on the Relevant Radio Network, Talk Radio for Your Catholic Life
Reflections of a Shroud Pilgrim – One Year Later By Mark Armstrong For The Integrated Catholic Life™ One year ago, on May 23, 2010, the Holy Shroud of Turin was placed out of public view at St. John the Baptist Cathedral in Turin (Torino), Italy. We are not expected to see it again until the year [...]
“This case is not over,” said lead attorney Samuel B. Casey about Friday’s 2-1 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington D.C. that gave the green light for the destruction of human embryonic stem cells for research purposes. That action overturns an injunction put in place by a District Court judge last summer. [...]
The U.S. Appeals Courts for Washington D.C. has given the green light for the destruction of human embryonic stem cells for research purposes. The action overturns an injunction placed by a federal judge, last August, who ruled such destruction violated Congressional spending laws, in place since the 1990’s. It was a 2-1 decision and a [...]
Four Catholics, Four Takes… on How Making The Movie, The Rite, Impacted Their Lives – by Mark Armstrong The Integrated Catholic Life recently screened The Rite, visited with the stars, director and screenwriter and spoke to them concerning how the movie impacted their views of Catholicism, the rite of Exorcism and the presence of evil in the world today. [...]
The Integrated Catholic Life spoke with the stars of the new movie – The Rite – including Sir Anthony Hopkins, the 73-year old Welsh actor who might be best known for his Academy Award winning performance as Hannibal Lector in the 1991 movie, The Silence of the Lambs. This new movie, which is inspired by true [...]
I’m tough to buy for at Christmas. Since I’ve been married nearly 30 years and have ten kids, I’ve gotten a lot of “stuff” over the years. Ties, bags of beef jerky, shirts, sporting goods of all kinds, cigars and my favorite really: cards with coupons redeemable for everything from backrubs to doing the dishes [...]
“A Healthy Person with a Sick Soul is Still a Sick Person” – St. Giuseppe Moscati (1880-1927), “the holy physician of Naples” You are an orthopedic physician, the patient is a woman in her early 40’s who you are treating for a simple fracture. She isn’t healing properly. You recognize signs of emotional, maybe even spiritual [...]
SEATTLE — If the Catholic Medical Association wins the battle on the frontlines in the war to preserve the culture of life, it will only happen when the rest of us better understand our faith. If we don’t understand it, then we won’t accept what doctors, scientists, theologians or philosophers tell us is true. The [...]
SEATTLE — Traveling from England, Stratford Caldecott talked about the medical implications for Catholic physicians of protecting human dignity from the moment of conception until natural death in light of Fides et Ratio, the papal document Faith and Reason. This encyclical was promulgated by Pope John Paul II in 1998. For Catholic physicians, Faith and [...]
SEATTLE — “Pope John Paul II was right, we are at war between the culture of life and the culture death,” said Dr. José-Maria Simon, President of the World Federation of the Catholic Medical Association. Dr. Simon is waging that war from Barcelona, Spain. He called upon fellow physicians at 79th annual conference of the [...]
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Daily Catholic Quote from King David
“Turn away your face from my sins; blot out all my guilt. A clean heart create for me, God; renew in me a steadfast spirit. Do not drive me from your presence, nor take from me your holy spirit. Restore my joy in your salvation; sustain in me a willing spirit. I will teach the [...]
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