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I’m Not Sure if This is a Date

Sep 19 13 • Arleen Spenceley • 5 comments

Have you ever been on an “I’m not sure if this is a” date? We probably all are more sure than we say we are, but deny that we’re sure so if we discover that one of us isn’t getting what we want, it doesn’t hurt. It’s one of life’s little dramas. This is how […]

Welcome to the Club

Sep 19 13 • Ken Connor • 0 comments

In the last 50 years or so, America has become a nation obsessed with rights. Elites in government, academia, the media, and entertainment take great pains to inculcate an attitude of tolerance, acceptance, multiculturalism, and diversity in the American people. The self-evident truths articulated by our Founding Fathers have been expanded upon and augmented in […]

Names of God

Sep 19 13 • Cheryl Dickow • 2 comments

Knowing God by name allows us to enter into a relationship with him in a very intimate, personal way. While many of us know Him as “God” or “Father,” there are a vast array of names to which he will answer—and each signifies yet another of his unique aspects. The Eternal One The name of […]

Living Our Lives “Under God”

Sep 18 13 • Dr. Gary L. Welton • 0 comments

The American Humanist Association has renewed the efforts of some atheists to remove the words “under God” from our Pledge of Allegiance. The organization argued recently in the Massachusetts Supreme Court that the inclusion of these words is a violation of atheists’ religious liberty and equality. In A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway claimed that, […]

Book Review: Totally Catholic

Sep 18 13 • Patti Maguire Armstrong • 0 comments

Our children are often the impetus that draws us closer to God. In between diapers, sleepless nights and planning for college, parents contemplate something more. For many poorly catechized Catholics, however, the “something more” is a bit intimidating. Our children have souls that need more than the ABC’s and a good college fund, but where […]

The Fertility Industry Superhighway

Sep 18 13 • Jennifer Lahl • 0 comments

Miriam Zoll, author of the recent book Cracked Open: Liberty, Fertility and the Pursuit of High-Tech Babies, has a terrific piece in the New York Times on “Selling the Fantasy of Fertility” to those struggling with infertility. She’s co-written the piece with Pamela Tsigdinos, and their voices are important as they write from their personal […]

Tabb’s Poetry XXXV

Sep 18 13 • John B. Tabb • 0 comments

Five poems by John B. Tabb.

The Human Machine?

Sep 17 13 • Judie Brown • 0 comments

In modern times, skewing the image of the human being as a child of God, created in His image and likeness, is a process that started the day the first condom was sold in a vending machine early in the 1940s. While it is equally true that, since the beginning of time, man has tried by every means […]

Keep the Faith in Syria

Sep 17 13 • ACN-USA News • 0 comments

A Syrian prelate, ordained a bishop only last month, has spoken of his dismay at the country’s mass exodus of Christians, but he is convinced that the future of one of the world’s oldest Church communities is assured. Melkite Greek Catholic Bishop Nicolas Antiba of Bosra and Hauran described how his faithful in southern Syria […]

Understanding Pro-Choice Arguments, Part II

Sep 17 13 • Emma Smith • 0 comments

My last article proposed the option of converting pro-choice minds by listening to their arguments. Aside from the fact that a world without abortion is very bleak for pro-choicers, what does a world with abortion look like? Obviously they’re not happy with the way it looks now, otherwise they wouldn’t be marching around, topless, screaming, […]

A Man’s Job

Sep 17 13 • Fletcher Doyle • 0 comments

A founding principle of the Knights of Columbus was to help men protect their families from financial ruin should disaster strike the husband and father. As the son of a woman who was widowed with four children ages 5-15, and a member of the Order, I support this work. Yet a husband’s job goes far […]

Book Review: In the Custody of Words

Sep 16 13 • E. L. Core • 0 comments

The book comprises twenty poems, and leaves one wishing there were more.

Patterns and Incidents

Sep 16 13 • Daniel Greenfield • 0 comments

Incidents take place all around us, but patterns have to be articulated.

A Crime in Time—and Again

Sep 16 13 • Steven W. Mosher • 1 comment

Anne Roback Morse also contributed to this article. California has a long-history of eugenics, and it is easy to condemn the eugenics laws that the Golden State passed in 1909 and implemented until 1952. These sterilizations were visited upon “the unfit” in mental hospitals, upon the uneducated, and upon non-white minorities in disproportionately high numbers. […]

From Worship to a Moral Life and Charity

Sep 16 13 • Robert J. Gieb • 0 comments

In an interview by Edward Pentin of Zenit on July 25, 2013, Cardinal Raymond Burke was asked if the abuses of the liturgy that abounded after the Second Vatican Council affected the moral life of Catholics. “There’s no question in my mind,” he said, “that the abuses in the sacred liturgy, reduction of the liturgy […]

Preying on the Disabled

Sep 16 13 • Mark Davis Pickup • 0 comments

I came across a headline that posed a bold idea: Killing MS Patients VIA Assisted Suicide to Harvest their Organs? As a theoretical question for provocative bioethicists to ponder or advocate, it may be interesting, but I live in the real world far from academia. The real world is being asked to answer that very […]

What Can We Do in the Face of Suffering?

Sep 16 13 • Mike Eisenbath • 1 comment

I remember a couple of years ago seeing some TV reports about a heartbreaking situation in Somalia and Kenya that continue today. The commentator said, “We must warn you. Some of the images you are about to see are quite disturbing.” We proceed to see starving infants and children with distended tummies, crying children who […]

Poem: “Hear This Day My answer O child”

Sep 15 13 • L. Lapiz • 0 comments

Hear this day My answer O child Hear this day My answer O child, The answer you have sought from Me. Know that it is the Lord Who speaks, He Who knows your every need. I am faithful to my servants, I am truth everlasting, I am life eternal, I am Lord of all. He […]

It’s (No Longer) a Jeep Thing

Sep 14 13 • Tom Purcell • 0 comments

I became upset when I got word. Jeep, reports Automotive News, is shifting its focus away from hearty off-road 4X4’s to, mostly, dinky little two-wheel-drive cars that ride smoothly on paved roads — the kind of cars Europeans like to drive. This is what happens when an iconic American brand is sold to a European […]

Why I Should Move to North Dakota

Sep 14 13 • Leticia Velasquez • 2 comments

I don’t have a paying job at this time, but I am very busy. Even though I no longer homeschool and my girls are over ten, my house is messy. I spend most of my day on Facebook and Twitter. Why? Christina, my daughter, is growing up in a world where no one invites her […]

Fox News Raises the Rainbow Flag

Sep 13 13 • John Kirkwood • 47 comments

Five out of five of “The Five” agree with the “evolved” Obama on same-sex marriage.

Poem: “On This Long Storm the Rainbow Rose”

Sep 13 13 • Emily Dickinson • 0 comments

On This Long Storm the Rainbow Rose (Time and Eternity V) On this long storm the rainbow rose, On this late morn the sun; The clouds, like listless elephants, Horizons straggled down. The birds rose smiling in their nests, The gales indeed were done; Alas! How heedless were the eyes On whom the summer shone! […]

The Fallacy of Solo Scriptura

Sep 13 13 • Denise Bossert • 2 comments

I must have been around four years old when I was first paraded in front of the church to sing with my sister. The song was “The B-I-B-L-E,” and I belted the words out with all the zeal I could muster. The B-I-B-L-E, yes that’s the book for me; I stand alone on the Word […]

Will Advancements in IVF Ever Lead to Acceptance By the Church?

Sep 13 13 • John-Henry Westen • 0 comments

For many years now, pro-life leaders have pointed to the massive loss of life that comes with in vitro fertilization (IVF) as one of the key evils of the procedure. Additionally, the extreme cost of the procedure, the likelihood of multiple embryos implanting resulting in selective reduction abortions, and health risks to both mother and […]

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