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Wrapping ‘Summer Love’ into a New School Year

Aug 27 13 • Christine Capolino • 0 comments

I’ll admit it’s work, but I love it. I love camping…. the dust clouds and the cicadas’ rhythmic swell and the sun leaking into the thin tent nylon in the early morning, insistent. Our rusty old camp grill and the Coleman torch that scatters just a bit of an ethereal Hey-summer-we-survived-this-year’s-algebra-and-ancient-history-and-disappointments-and-triumphs-and-we’re-back-to-settle-in-your-scheduleless -rustic-August glow. The whispers […]

Gestational Serfs

Aug 26 13 • Wesley Smith, J.D. • 0 comments

Good science fiction tells a morality tale about the dangerous directions in which contemporary society is heading. For example, Brave New World—perhaps the most prescient novel ever written—warned against the dystopian impact that using biotechnology to perfect the human race would have on society. Similarly, the Dune novels—which feature a breeding device known as an […]

A Theology of Women? What Does Pope Francis Mean?

Aug 26 13 • Pat Gohn • 6 comments

During his now-famous impromptu interview while returning to Rome from World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro, Pope Francis declared the ordination of women a question settled definitively by Blessed Pope John Paul II, but suggested that women’s gifts might be used in other ways. His suggestion that a deeper “theology of women” might have […]

The Greatness of St. Pius X

Aug 26 13 • Kevin M. Tierney • 4 comments

The only way to describe something is “great.” Babe Ruth was great at baseball and anything less than great simply wouldn’t do it justice. Likewise, if you describe the pontificate of Guiseppe Sarto as anything below “great”, you should probably have your head examined. By any possible metric, his pontificate was a success, and there is a reason he was the first Pope to be canonized a saint since the 16th century.

How Can I Forgive When I Can’t Forget?

Aug 26 13 • Patti Maguire Armstrong • 2 comments

While many people believe forgetting an injury is part of forgiveness, Fr. Justin Waltz, pastor of St. Leo’s Church in Minot, ND, suggested just the opposite. In fact, he stated that forgetting is not even possible. “The only type of forgetting I have heard of is stuffing,” he said during a retreat presentation and added, “The […]

<em>Liberty Amendments</em>, by Mark Levin: A Five Part Series of Commentaries, Part One

Liberty Amendments, by Mark Levin: A Five Part Series of Commentaries, Part One

Aug 26 13 • Robert Struble, Jr. • 7 comments

Readers of “Farewell to Apostate America,” my four part series advocating for an Article V Convention (among other avenues to restoration of the written Constitution) can imagine my interest in seeing Mark Levin’s just released book, The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic (Threshold Editions, Simon & Schuster, 2013). Currently it is number one on the […]

Poem: “The Red Winged Blackbird”

Aug 25 13 • Katie Furman • 0 comments

The Red Winged Blackbird It’s said that once, long, long ago, When Christ had come to die, The Blackbird saw Him on the cross And wouldn’t pass Him by. He landed there, beside Our Lord To see what he could do To free the deadly crown of thorns That pierced Our Savior through. He worked […]

What Five Star Christian Hospitality is About

Aug 24 13 • Anabelle Hazard, Esq. • 1 comment

Everything I ever needed to know about hospitality, I learned from my children. When their grandparents, friends or birthday party guests are scheduled to come, my children are beside themselves with excitement. The front door is opened about as much times as I hear the question “When will they get here?” The neighborhood playmates, who […]

Talking Catholic Fiction with Marcus Grodi

Aug 24 13 • Cheryl Dickow • 4 comments

How many books have you read in the past year or so? (This doesn’t count the ones that you started but did not finish and now languish on a shelf gathering dust.) I’m talking about books that you have read cover to cover. That may reduce the number by as much as half if you […]

Poem: “My God is with Me”

Aug 23 13 • L. Lapiz • 0 comments

My God is with Me The Lord my God is with me, But I do not feel His breath. His closeness does not warm me. But I know, I believe He is near. I trust He has not fled me, In spite of my ways, My sinfulness does not impede Him. For “Forgiveness” is His […]

Pope’s Vision for Restructuring the Church

Aug 23 13 • Russell Shaw • 6 comments

Pope Francis is contemplating a major reworking of the top-level administrative machinery of the Church. Commentators sometimes describe this as “reforming the Roman Curia,” but if the Pope’s own words–together with public and private proposals intended to influence the result–are any indication, the project could extend far beyond reshuffling dicasteries and straightening out the affairs […]

Generation ‘X’: Germany to Allow Third ‘Blank Gender’ for Birth Certificates

Aug 23 13 • Hilary White • 0 comments

The German government has invented a third “indeterminate” gender for official purposes on government documents. Instead of “M” or “F,” parents may list their children’s sex as “X.” Starting November 1, the parents of babies without “clear gender-determining physical characteristics” can register them without a sex on their birth certificates and other official documents. Parents […]

Seeking God’s Face

Aug 23 13 • Mike Eisenbath • 0 comments

I always cringe a little when I hear people of various Protestant denominations say they belong to a “Bible-based” church and that, as a Catholic, I don’t. They aren’t right, of course. Unfortunately, they aren’t completely wrong, either, when they imply that, generally, Catholics don’t “know our Bible” the way many of them do. I […]

NARAL Video on “Lies CPCs Tell Women” Contains Zero Falsehoods

Aug 22 13 • Adam Cassandra • 0 comments

“Crisis pregnancy centers lie to women about abortion and contraception,” NARAL Pro-Choice America President Ilyse Hogue declared in an email to supporters Thursday. The email contained a link to a video attacking crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) as “fake ‘clinics’ set up by the anti-choice movement.” The real aim of the video was to smear Virginia […]

10 Steps to Selecting a Catholic Homeschool Curriculum

Aug 22 13 • Raising Saints • 0 comments

Selecting a curriculum can be a truly overwhelming task each year for homeschooling mothers. So many times I have said to myself, “if I could see that book, I’d know if I want it!” Right? Then you hop online look through blogs of perfect homes, with perfect mom teachers, that have the perfect school rooms, […]

When a Saint Imitates a Saint

Aug 22 13 • Thomas Colyandro, MA, MDiv • 1 comment

Throughout this Year of Faith it has become abundantly clear how important it is for each of us to live and to pray like Mary. Why? In the introduction to his October 1954 encyclical titled Ad Caeli Reginam, Pope Pius XII explains it this way: From the earliest ages of the catholic church a Christian […]

Catholic Health and Wellness

Aug 21 13 • Cheryl Dickow • 0 comments

The path to Hell is paved with good intentions. I don’t get that. It seems to me that good intentions ought to be worth more than a ticket to Hell. Having said that, I definitely get that the good intentions I have for any number of things can always be a hellish path. Exercise comes […]

Tabb’s Poetry XXXI

Aug 21 13 • John B. Tabb • 0 comments

Five poems by John B. Tabb.

Am I Dumb Because I Have Eight Kids?

Aug 21 13 • Terry McDermott • 2 comments

The Guardian U.K. recently published an article entitled Should we care that smart women aren’t having kids? The piece was based on the work of Satoshi Kanazawa, a London School of Economics psychologist who conducted research on the link between intelligence and maternal urges and wrote the book The Intelligence Paradox based on his findings. […]

Chilean Twin Brothers Saved from Abortion Became Catholic Priests

Aug 20 13 • Sofia Vazquez-Mellado • 0 comments

Fathers Felipe and Paulo Lizama, two twins saved from abortion when it was legal in Chile, are now both Catholic priests. The siblings say their mother’s determination to protect them in her womb fostered their vocations. “My mother was told to abort because the baby she was carrying had two heads, three legs, and four […]

Big Brother is Watching You

Aug 20 13 • Ken Connor • 4 comments

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last month or so, chances are you’ve heard the latest revelations regarding the NSA’s unlawful invasion of American citizens’ privacy. According to the Washington Post, “The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted […]

Imposing Death With Quality Control Standards

Aug 20 13 • Judie Brown • 0 comments

We’ve all heard the “quality of life” argument applied to everything from an excuse for abortion to the reason posited to justify assisted suicide or some other form of euthanasia. Ongoing debates relating to various segments of Obama’s national health care law—the Affordable Care Act—challenge us to sort out and explain the problematic nature of using a slide rule […]

A Fresh Start for Religious Ed at Home

Aug 20 13 • Connie Rossini • 0 comments

Some families are already gearing up to start school on Monday. We don’t start back until September 8, just after our parish festival. But no matter when you begin, here are some ideas to take your religious education to the next level. If you are doing all this already, kudos to you. Pray every day […]

Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life

Aug 19 13 • Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur • 0 comments

The First Commandment is probably the one of the ten that we worry about the least. “I am the Lord your God. You shall have no other gods before me.” After all, most of us haven’t spent time worshiping any of the Roman or Egyptian gods recently or paid homage to any pagan spirits. In […]