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Intimate Preparations

Feb 20 13 • Ellen Gable Hrkach • 0 comments

“And so I take (my wife) not for any lustful motive, but I do it in singleness of heart. Be kind enough to…bring us to old age together.” Tobit 8:7 “..Now, gird up your loins and arise…” Jer: 1:17 Which scripture verse more accurately describes how a couple should prepare for the conjugal embrace? Praying […]

Glad You Asked

Feb 20 13 • Barb Lishko • 0 comments

“Why do you bring God into every conversation?” This simple question was posed to me recently by someone I love dearly. Let me attempt to explain. How do you not bring the Author of Life into life itself? How can I speak of the reason for my joy, my hope, my strength without naming its […]

The Gates of Hell Within Us Shall Not Prevail

Feb 19 13 • Jim Cole • 0 comments

“[A]nd on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.” Matt. 16:18. When we hear these words, we often think of the Church as a fortress whose foundation is sunk into bedrock. We imagine enormous waves of evil buffeting the walls, but always falling back, dissipated […]

Panel Calls Therapy for Homosexuals a Human Rights Violation

Feb 19 13 • Rebecca Oas Ph.D. • 1 comment

Therapy to help people change unwanted same sex attraction should be banned and labeled a human rights violation, according to a panel of advocates at the Church Center, a gathering place of left-wing groups near the UN. Although the event was advertised as “the first ever UN discussion on the legalities, ethics, and science behind […]

Discussing Discernment

Feb 19 13 • Stephanie Gulya • 0 comments

In most Catholic communities, “discernment” is a buzz word. Normally when I hear this word, my mind automatically connects it with another word: vocation. To be honest, this word used to frighten me. Every time I would hear the word at Mass or at another gathering, anxiety would soon follow. The following thoughts would stream […]

Fixing Our Kids

Feb 19 13 • Judie Brown • 0 comments

It is an ongoing dilemma, is it not? America’s young people don’t measure up to the academic standards of other nations, but when it comes to sex they are right up there in the top two or three. Take the example of New York City as a case in point. Recently New York City’s Mayor […]

If Only . . .

Feb 19 13 • Terry McDermott • 0 comments

We’re a peculiar bunch, we humans. Most of us never seem to be satisfied with our lot in life. No matter how good or how bad, we instinctively reach out for something more. As someone who wears many different hats in a 24-hour period, I hate to admit it but I am guilty as charged. […]

Catholics and the Living Word

Feb 18 13 • Philip Primeau • 3 comments

Communion with Christ in the eucharist is the greatest privilege and sweetest joy of Catholic life. However, we must not allow this heavenly banquet to displace the other feast to which we are called: that of the Word. The Scriptures are, in their own way, heavenly food, and we must relish them with all due […]

47 Lives Saved Already

Feb 18 13 • Shawn Carney • 0 comments

It’s the first Monday of this 40 Days for Life, and Monday is the day when we report to you on lives that have been saved from abortion thus far during this campaign. But first I have a special surprise for you! You can instantly download the “Day 6? chapter of the brand-new 40 Days for […]

Did You Develop a Website As Good As Everyone Else’s?

Feb 18 13 • Katherine Andes • 3 comments

A retail-store owner called and asked me to look at his website. I always try to find something nice to say about a prospect’s website, but this one was pretty challenging. It looked like it had been done in the early 1990s. It was slapped together, with glaring colors, strange navigation, and too much bold […]

The Meaning of Mercy (Part I)

Feb 18 13 • Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. • 0 comments

The Second Vatican Council taught us that the Eucharist is the “Source and Summit” of the Christian life. Yet we must keep in mind that the same council makes clear that the Eucharist is not the sum total of the Christian life. In fact, the Eucharist and all the other sacraments are memorials of a […]

Lincoln Presenting Emancipation Proclamation to His Cabinet

Abraham Lincoln and Slavery

Feb 18 13 • Dr. Gary Scott Smith • 0 comments

He insisted for three decades that slavery was a moral evil.

Pope, President Offer Point/Counterpoint on Marriage

Feb 18 13 • Kathy Schiffer • 7 comments

In his inaugural address on Monday, January 21, Barack Obama called for Americans to embrace same-sex marriage, saying: Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law–for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal […]

Poem: “Seven Cities”

Feb 17 13 • Pavel Chichikov • 1 comment

Seven Cities Beware. Beware. Be wary as you go All around the country, trees of anger grow Some are of the oak, some are of the beech Some are of the old wood and have a higher reach Look inside the circle where seven cities burn, Of those who enter inward, none of them return, […]

Corporate Ladder to Heaven

Feb 16 13 • Fathers for Good • 1 comment

Randy Hain is a model of a man with an “attitude of gratitude,” and his new book tells something of his personal journey from a man with little hope to one with much to be thankful for. Raised a Southern Baptist, he left that church for pursuit of his own worldly goals, but God kept […]

Pope Benedict and the Cause of Life

Feb 16 13 • Fr. Frank Pavone • 0 comments

It was a surprising announcement indeed that Pope Benedict made this week. Of course, a Pope has the authority to say he will no longer be the Pope. But this will certainly be a new experience for the Church in our day. Having worked in the Vatican, it also raises some interesting protocol questions in […]

Erasing Reagan? The Illiberal War on Truth

Feb 15 13 • Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson • 0 comments

Falsehood is the enemy of human progress.

Weekly Wits 2/15/2013

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Poem: “Man’s Civil War”

Feb 15 13 • St. Robert Southwell • 0 comments

Man’s Civil War MY hovering thoughts would fly to heaven And quiet nestle in the sky, Fain would my ship in Virtue’s shore Without remove at anchor lie. But mounting thoughts are haled down With heavy poise of mortal load, And blustring storms deny my ship In Virtue’s haven secure abode. When inward eye to […]

Theology of the Wounded

Feb 15 13 • Kevin M. Tierney • 5 comments

I am of the opinion that we cannot develop a proper evangelization and theology centered around the sacraments because of the way we currently practice our faith. Any proper evangelization begins at home, and we need to take a better look at some realities of our faith.

Alliance for Catholic Education – Service through Teaching

Feb 15 13 • Lisa Hendey • 1 comment

Today, I’m happy to feature the fantastic “ACE” program at the University of Notre Dame. The Alliance for Catholic Education is a true model for service in Christ to others. In this part of our feature, we share a recent conversation with Amy Wyskochil, Director of Operations for ACE, as we cover a basic introduction […]

The Guttmacher Institute Has a Bad Prescription for Mothers in Uganda

Feb 15 13 • Rebecca Oas Ph.D. • 1 comment

The Guttmacher Institute released a brief report titled Unintended Pregnancy and Abortion in Uganda in which they make their case for why increased contraception and access to “safe” abortion will reduce maternal mortality. Briefly, their argument is that unintended pregnancy in Uganda is high, and this is because women don’t have access to contraceptives. Because […]

Without a Script: The Professor Pope from the Heart on Vat.II and the Church

Feb 14 13 • Dr. Robert Moynihan • 0 comments

“Only a permanent formation of the heart and mind can actually create intelligibility and participation which is more than one external activity, which is an entering of the person, of his or her being into communion with the Church and thus in fellowship with Christ.”—Pope Benedict XVI this morning, in his annual address to the […]

Assessing the Pope’s Record

Feb 14 13 • Bill Donohue • 1 comment

Garry Wills [ex-seminarian]: “What we really need are no priests.” James Carroll [ex-priest]: The pope “has seen only a solemn obligation to defend the church.” [Italic added.] Richard Sipe [ex-priest]: “Certainly, he did a lot, but it was all reactionary.” [Italic added.] Daniel Maguire [ex-priest]: The “scandal of the papacy [is] one of the last absolute monarchies in a […]

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