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Perverse Fruits of IVF

In vitro fertilization is one of many procedures listed as a specialty in the field of reproductive medicine. Everything from treating pregnancy to aborting children to birth control to treating infertility is included. “Infertility” is the inability of a couple to achieve pregnancy the natural way. It is this condition that first generated the interest […]

Mind Control

Feb 19 14 • Dr. Gary L. Welton • 2 comments

Biblical examples of meditation are focused on the content of our minds.

The Bad Evangelist Club: How NOT to Refute Sola Scriptura

Feb 19 14 • Kevin M. Tierney • 52 comments

When discussing the arguments against Sola Scriptura, we Catholics have a lot of strong arguments. Here at The Bad Evangelist Club, we help you to avoid bad arguments like the one below so the good ones have more credibility. The Argument Any debate around Sola Scriptura will focus on 2 Timothy 3:14-17, which goes as […]

Lay Wisdom Welcome

Feb 19 14 • Fathers for Good • 0 comments

If there’s a crisis in Catholic marriage and family life today, the solution will come not solely from the higher echelons of the Church. The active involvement of faithful couples will also be needed. That’s the view of a lay official of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), looking ahead to the synod […]

Get Ready for a Busy 2014 in Bioethics

Feb 18 14 • Wesley Smith, J.D. • 0 comments

My taskmasters at the CBC never allow me to rest on my laurels. Fresh off several years of stellar prognosticating, I am now forced to answer the question: “But what have you predicted, lately?” Okay, let’s take a look. Oh! Oh my. Please remember, the following predictions are what I see happening. They do not […]

Central African Republic: Saying “No” to Hatred and Revenge

Feb 18 14 • ACN-USA News • 0 comments

A local Catholic has expressed a resounding “No” to hatred and revenge in the Central African Republic in that face of hatred and conflict. Archbishop Dieudonnè Nzapalainga of Bangui made his commented while speaking recently with international Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). In the interview, the archbishop lamented that the Central […]

How to Glorify God in Your Singleness, Part II

Feb 18 14 • Mary Pearson • 0 comments

This is the second of a two-part guest post from Lisa Marie Hunt on glorifying God with your singleness. Click here to go back and read Part One. Last week, I wrote a article answering why we women (and really just people in general) have a tendency to long for marriage. Now I would like […]

The Decline of the “Right” to Abortion in Europe

Feb 18 14 • Grégor Puppinck, Ph.D • 0 comments

Two million abortions are legally practiced each year in Europe. To this day, only a third of European States still prohibit abortion on demand. However, the proportion of States which pose conditions on abortion during the first weeks of gestation may increase. In fact, in recent years, a growing number of European and American States […]

Ronald Reagan on Religious Tolerance

Feb 18 14 • Dr. Paul Kengor • 0 comments

He would be horrified at what liberals are doing today, though not surprised.

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Presidents Day Mea Culpa to Two Great Leaders

Feb 17 14 • Luke Hamilton • 1 comment

We began to shrink from the dangerous blessing of liberty.

Ode to Feminine Genius: Proverbs 31 Catholic Woman, Intro

Feb 17 14 • Alessandra • 1 comment

Achieving perfection that is pleasing to God by imitating the Blessed Virgin Mary is the goal of this new series entitled Ode to Feminine Genius: The Proverbs 31 Catholic Woman. In our quest for doing God’s will, intentional homemaking, and becoming a woman of inner beauty by focusing our study in this series of Proverbs 31: 10-31, […]

Poem: “Who is Safe on Loose Planks?”

Feb 15 14 • L. Lapiz • 0 comments

Who is Safe on Loose Planks? If I am to have hope, it must be in the Lord For in who else can I turn in an hour of darkness? Who else can provide lasting assurance, but the Lord? There are many who can arise to the occasion. But which of these will survive the […]

“My Beautiful Woman” Outclasses Raunchy Victoria Secrets

Feb 15 14 • Wendy Wright • 0 comments

Wacoal, a Thai lingerie company, is redefining beauty with its “Beauty Inside” campaign. The short 7-minute videos tell stories, based on actual events, of women whose quiet sacrifices — including for an unborn child — win the admiration of men who tell the stories. And, tears from viewers. The message? Virtue is gorgeous. “Beauty Inside” […]

Five Christian Ways to Celebrate Valentine’s Day

Feb 14 14 • Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble • 2 comments

I am not a fan of Valentine’s Day. I’m not the most sentimental person around so I have always found the day to be not much more than a trite, commercialized excuse to sell greeting cards. But like most things in life, there are always deeper Gospel connections than what we see on the surface. […]

An American Antidote for Belgium Euthanizing Children

Feb 14 14 • Dr. Gerard Nadal • 0 comments

News today that Belgium has approved euthanasia for any age. From BBC: Parliament in Belgium has passed a bill allowing euthanasia for terminally ill children without any age limit, by 86 votes to 44, with 12 abstentions. When, as expected, the bill is signed by the king, Belgium will become the first country in the […]

Shirley Temple’s America

Feb 13 14 • Dr. Paul Kengor • 3 comments

Her movies reflected what was good and decent in this country.

Why We Long For Love and How to Glorify God in Your Singleness, Part I

Feb 13 14 • Mary Pearson • 0 comments

Question: A question that has been bugging me lately: Why are we women so in a rush to get married? I’m a 26 year old medical student and I’ll be graduating at age 30. I was dating this guy…but sadly we had to separate. The event devastated me and I started to seek God more, and trust […]

Prelude to a Persecution?

Feb 13 14 • Fr. Shenan J. Boquet • 0 comments

Last Wednesday morning the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child published its Concluding Observations concerning the Catholic Church’s treatment of children. In this widely-denounced document (see HLI’s statement here), the Committee chastises the Church for supposedly ignoring or refusing the rights of children. It called for the Church to amend Canon Law, […]

How’s That New Year’s Resolution Working Out?

Feb 13 14 • Deanne Miller • 0 comments

Colleen Scariano also contributed to this article. January is the month of new year’s resolutions. It’s a month that sees new gym memberships surge and bad habits wane (hopefully)! What’s really interesting, however, is how ‘resolved’ folks are come next month. Will your life remain changed next month? Will you still be a new person? […]

Coming Out of Our Caves

Feb 13 14 • Melanie Jean Juneau • 0 comments

When I speak with someone who is curious about the faith, I realize my revelations about the spiritual life in the Mystical Body of Christ are completely foreign. I might as well be a fantasy character explaining life in an alternate reality outside of their own personal cave. The worst possible fate for me would […]

The Right to Own Property is Important, but Not Absolute

Feb 12 14 • Jason Hall • 10 comments

Our political discourse often consists of a back-and-forth discussion between two seemingly irreconcilable extremes. Many on the Left attack those on the Right as radical individualists who care nothing for the common good or for those who are less fortunate and in need of assistance. Many on the Right attack those on the Left as […]

Her: A Cautionary Tale

Feb 12 14 • Christopher White • 0 comments

Spike Jonze’s film Her, currently out in theaters and an Academy Award nominee for Best Picture, is a cautionary tale of the future that awaits us if we continue to hail technology as our savior. Set in the not too distant Los Angeles, Tom Twombly (masterfully portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix) is reeling from a failed […]

Winter Games in a Wintering Nation

Feb 12 14 • Anne Morse • 1 comment

Reports of terrorist threats, human rights abuses, and general economic incompetency have already marred the opening of the 2014 winter Olympics. These failings in Russia represent the face of the greatest myth propagated this past half-century: that low-fertility creates a successful society. Population controllers lure countries into population control programs with the promise of nice […]

Abraham Lincoln on the Bible

Feb 12 14 • E. L. Core • 0 comments

Not an atheist, he.

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