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Belgium’s Culture of Death

Dec 5 13 • Wesley Smith, J.D. • 7 comments

If you want to see what happens when a society enthusiastically swallows the euthanasia poison, look at Belgium. Perhaps influenced by its neighbor the Netherlands — which pioneered euthanasia permissiveness — Belgium legalized euthanasia in 2002. The country has since leaped head-first off a vertical moral cliff. As usual, when the law was being debated, […]

This is My Calling, This is My Vocation

Dec 5 13 • Melanie Jean Juneau • 0 comments

I am a conundrum: a rather outmoded sort of woman, ridiculed by modern career women, vilified by the earth’s prophets of doom and sanctified by the religious right. I was the least likely candidate to have a lot of children. I had never even held a baby before my first born.You would think having nine children would have […]

Fluke’s Gimmick

Dec 5 13 • Judie Brown • 0 comments

Sandra Fluke was once a law student at Georgetown University. One day, in 2012, the Speaker of the House of Representatives—pro-abortion Catholic Nancy Pelosi—held a Congressional hearing specifically to hear testimony from one witness. That witness was Sandra Fluke. According to reports, Fluke had been blocked from testifying at a House Oversight and Government Reform […]

Refuting the Myth of the “Invisible Church”

Dec 4 13 • David Gray • 0 comments

After they rejected the hierarchical Catholic Church, one of the early tasks of the protestant reformulators was to redefine what Church is; more precisely, to define the visible nature of the New Covenant community of God’s chosen people. It being clear to them through sacred Scripture that Christ Jesus actually did established a Church; they […]

Book Review: Yes, God!

Dec 4 13 • Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur • 0 comments

Have you ever looked at a priest or religious and wondered how it was that he or she came to be there – what made that person willing and able to say “yes” to God’s call? Susie Lloyd, author of Please Don’t Drink the Holy Water and Bless Me, Father, For I Have Kids, decided […]

Alabama v. Auburn: A Metaphor for Life

Dec 4 13 • Ken Connor • 1 comment

College football fans across the country are still buzzing over the shocking outcome of the Alabama-Auburn game. As a graduate of Florida State University, I couldn’t be more proud of Auburn. What a game! War Eagle! As expected, the odds makers picked Alabama to win. Who wouldn’t? Alabama has been unstoppable all year, and this […]

O Holy Night

Dec 4 13 • Elizabeth Tichvon • 0 comments

A reflection on today’s Sacred Scripture: “They glorified the God of Israel” (Matthew 15:31). Wherever we turn these days, Christmas music plays, and for some of us this year, the words to the traditional carols we’ve come to know by heart have suddenly taken on new meaning. Old familiar jingles about Christ’s birth now seem […]

Our Physical God

Dec 4 13 • Fr. Frank Pavone • 0 comments

It’s Christmas time again, and the Church focuses on the Incarnation, a word coming from the Latin “in carne,” which means, “in the flesh.” Christmas is God in the flesh: no longer only an eternal Spirit who fills the universe, but our brother, whom we can hear, see, and touch. One of the reasons he […]

Tabb’s Poetry XLV

Dec 4 13 • John B. Tabb • 0 comments

Five poems by John B. Tabb.

Pouring Ourselves Out

Dec 3 13 • Barb Lishko • 2 comments

Trying to come up with an intentional and authentic name for a blog is challenging. It needs to encompass a bit of who we are, and inviting enough for further readership outside of one’s own loving mother. I ended up choosing; Poured Myself Out In Gift. It is not something mind-blowing to be sure, or […]

Shakespeare’s Nativity Scene

Nov 30 13 • Emi Parker • 0 comments

The works of William Shakespeare abound with the truths of the Catholic faith. Especially in his later plays (often called the “romances”), Shakespeare focuses his poetic imagination on the mysteries of grace, redemption, and resurrection. The results are surprising, strange, and wonderful stories that can do far more than entertain us. When he needed to […]

The Advent of Virtue – Week One

Nov 29 13 • Fathers for Good • 0 comments

How do we make “Keep Christ in Christmas” more than a bumper sticker in our family’s life? This Advent, let us prepare to welcome our Savior into our homes and into our hearts in a new and special way, setting our own pace for the season and setting aside the commercial pressures of the culture. […]

Poem: “Be His Boatman, Be His Mountaineer”

Nov 29 13 • L. Lapiz • 0 comments

Be His Boatman, Be His Mountaineer Praise and Glory to God, The King of all salvation. It is He Who has given us Jesus, It is He Who has set us free. Praise Him, children, with your whole being, With your life give testimony to His goodness. Let the mountains peal With the sounds of […]

Thanksgiving Day Among the Puritan Fathers in New England, Harper's Weekly, December 3, 1870

Three Historic American Proclamations of Thanksgiving Day

Nov 28 13 • E. L. Core • 0 comments

Continental Congress, Pres. Washington, Pres. Lincoln

Reasons for Hope – Reflections on Evangelization, Part II

Nov 28 13 • Patrick Morris • 0 comments

In my last article, I discussed the importance of evangelizing in ways that speak to the needs of the human heart. This is especially important, because the culture at large is too often allowed to control the conversation by insisting that the message of Christianity, Catholicism in particular, is one that is ultimately at odds […]

Tabb’s Poetry XLIV

Nov 27 13 • John B. Tabb • 0 comments

Five poems by John B. Tabb.

Poem: “A Question”

Nov 25 13 • Francis Thompson • 0 comments

A Question O bird with heart of wassail, That toss the Bacchic branch, And slip your shaken music, An elfin avalanche; Come tell me, O tell me, My poet of the blue! What’s YOUR thought of me, Sweet?– Here’s MY thought of you. A small thing, a wee thing, A brown fleck of nought; With […]

Ten Tips To Help You Stay a Sane and Effective Catholic

Nov 23 13 • Nicole DeMille • 0 comments

Just diving right in: 1. Do not get your news and information about your religion, your Church, your Pope, or anything even remotely related to any of the aforementioned, from secular mainstream media, whether televised, in print, or online. They are not with us, and they are not neutral. They are against us. Moreover, they […]

C. S. Lewis on Tyranny

Nov 22 13 • E. L. Core • 0 comments

CSL died 50 years ago today, November 22, 1963.

Poem: “In Evening’s Peace”

Nov 22 13 • Katie Furman • 0 comments

In Evening’s Peace Blue twilight soft as angels’ wings Has swept old Winter’s sky, Where icy winds slipped through the trees And sought the mountains high. From one small home, one shining light Illuminates the snow, Where burns the warmth of love and fire, As evening’s shadows grow. The smoke ascends the silvered sky, A […]

JFK’s Unspoken Words

Nov 22 13 • E. L. Core • 0 comments

JFK died 50 years ago today, November 22, 1963.

The Billionaire’s Club: Philanthropy or Mischief?

Nov 20 13 • Judie Brown • 0 comments

Led by the wealthiest of the wealthy—Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffet—an organized effort is afoot to entice fellow high rollers to be charitable toward the less fortunate. Their brainchild, a club for billionaires, is exclusively for those who are worth at least a billion dollars and have pledged to give no less than […]

Tabb’s Poetry XLIII

Nov 20 13 • John B. Tabb • 0 comments

Seven poems by John B. Tabb.

Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg (Bliss Copy)

150th Anniversary of the Gettysburg Address

Nov 19 13 • E. L. Core • 4 comments

Dedication Day 2013

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