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Distributism and the Local Organic Food Movement

Great change for the good often comes slowly. It creeps up through the cracks in a broken system, and begins to take the place of its previous forms. Slowly, public opinion, public actions, and individual sentiments begin to be formed in a new way. This is exactly what is happening in America today. The Local […]

Where Love Shines: An Epiphany

Jan 5 13 • Heidi Hess Saxton • 2 comments

Love can take many forms. A gentle hand on a feverish brow. A knowing smile across a crowded room. A deep breath that swallows a word best left unsaid. And once, in all of human history, love took the form of a star. And behold, the star that they had seen at its rising preceded […]

Are Abortion Rights Activists Losing the Battle?

Jan 5 13 • Dave Andrusko • 0 comments

How’s this for a lead to “Has The Fight For Abortion Rights Been Lost?” by Kate Pickert? She writes: “In January 1973, the Supreme Court made access to abortion a federally protected right. As I write in this week’s TIME cover story, that seemingly decisive victory 40 years ago kicked off a war that the […]

Poem: “The End and the Beginning”

Jan 5 13 • Wislawa Szymborska • 0 comments

The End and the Beginning (Translation by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh) After every war someone has to tidy up. Things won’t pick themselves up, after all. Someone has to shove the rubble to the roadsides so the carts loaded with corpses can get by. Someone has to trudge through sludge and ashes, through the […]

Helping Young Families: The Church’s Job?

Jan 4 13 • Leah Jacobson • 3 comments

This past month I’ve been thinking about the difficulties of raising young families. Conversations with friends and family and my own lived experiences have left me wondering how we are supposed to do all that is asked of us in raising a young family. No sleep, diapers, laundry, meals….it’s just crazy hard sometimes! After reading […]

Hope for 2013: Embracing Human Nature

Jan 4 13 • Rebecca Taylor • 1 comment

Peering into the abyss of biotechnology, I have often mused that the problem with much of what goes on in fertility clinics and laboratories of the world is a denial of human nature. The denial that living human organisms, regardless of how they are created, are indeed human beings. They are small and immature, but […]

Natural “Spark” to Treat ADD and Other Conditions

Jan 4 13 • Karen Lynn Ford • 0 comments

Last night I finished reading Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by John J. Ratey, M.D (2008). My family physician recommended the book at my annual checkup last month. I told my doctor of my various discomforts and moodiness—I’m pretty healthy, but hadn’t been feeling 100%. He didn’t offer pills or […]

Weekly Wits 1/4/13

Jan 4 13 • Cartoon Editor • 0 comments

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Slouching From Gomorrah: Remembering Robert Bork

Jan 3 13 • Dr. Paul Kengor • 4 comments

It has been a couple of weeks since the death of Robert Bork, which occurred shortly before Christmas and didn’t really get the news coverage that Bork merited. Bork died at age 85. In 1987, he became a national headline when President Ronald Reagan nominated him to the Supreme Court. He was a judicial conservative, […]

40 Days for Life Deadline Approaches

Jan 3 13 • Shawn Carney • 1 comment

2013 is a brand new year, but it also marks the 40th anniversary of the unjust U.S. Supreme Court decisions that imposed abortion on America. Let’s resolve to make this critical year a turning point in our unified efforts to end abortion! If you’ve ever felt called to lead a 40 Days for Life campaign in […]

Movie Review Les Miserables

Jan 3 13 • Leticia Velasquez • 2 comments

There is something in me which resists popular movies, music, and TV series. That new piece of entertainment that everyone is talking about so often disappoints me by its shallowness or downright offensiveness. “It can’t be good if it’s that popular;” I argue, “we have such abominable collective taste”. A quick view of the cable […]

The Challenges that Face the Prolife Movement

Jan 3 13 • Russell Shaw • 0 comments

As the prolife movement contemplates four decades of legalized abortion in the United States and asks itself what really needs doing to halt this hideous scandal, prolifers should consider adding a new word to their vocabulary: ambivalence. According to the dictionary, ambivalence is the state of having mutually conflicting emotions or thoughts about something. And […]

Book Review: <i>My Sisters the Saints</i>

Book Review: My Sisters the Saints

Jan 3 13 • Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur • 0 comments

“Is this all there is?” Colleen Carroll Campbell found herself asking that universal question midway through college. Every generation needs to discover the role of faith in their lives and to seek answers to the hard questions such as the meaning of life and the role of suffering. While human nature may remain fairly consistent, […]

Orphan’s New Year’s Resolution: Build a House for Other Orphans

Jan 2 13 • Patti Maguire Armstrong • 0 comments

Imagine a Kenyan AIDS orphan living in a mud hut with his two brothers and walking several miles to school on an empty stomach. After the devastating loss of both of his parents, facing daily grinding poverty, would he have any energy left to dream of a better future? This boy is not imaginary; his name […]

Hobby Lobby – Crafting Religious Freedom

Jan 2 13 • Birgit • 1 comment

As a group of crafty Catholic women, joining Pinterest was a no-brainer for many of the Catholic Sistas Ink Slingers. As an Art Major, former Catholic school art teacher, homeschool mother, and now homeschool Nana this was certainly true for me. Therefore, this past Advent and Christmas season brought me to Hobby Lobby more times than I can count. They […]

A Politically Incorrect Guide to ‘Sexual Orientation’

Jan 2 13 • J. Matt Barber • 1 comment

It’s a mixed up muddled up shook up world … ~ The Kinks Through the secular — ”progressive” looking-glass, the term “sexual orientation” has, in a few short years, evolved to accommodate an ever-expanding fruit basket of carnal appetites. First it was “LGB” — liberal shorthand for “lesbian, gay and bisexual.” Then they added a “T” […]

Is International Planned Parenthood Abetting Criminal Activity?

Jan 2 13 • Piero A. Tozzi, J.D. • 1 comment

International Planned Parenthood Federation’s Carmen Barroso sent around an e-mail this week soliciting year-end donations. She illustrates the role IPPF plays throughout the Western Hemisphere by telling the story of Valeria, a young Argentine woman: “This year, we provided vital health services to individuals like Valeria, a young Argentine woman who never received sexuality education […]

Tabb’s Poetry I

Jan 2 13 • John B. Tabb • 0 comments

Five poems by John B. Tabb.

Father, Forgive Us

Jan 2 13 • Barb Lishko • 1 comment

My initial response to the outcome of the election was visceral. Fixing my eyes on the heavens, tears pouring down my cheeks, I searched for answers in the night sky. I did a lot of praying for this election. Issues that should abhor any God-fearing human didn’t seem to sway, move or even nudge the […]

Poem: “Farewell to Apostate America”

Jan 2 13 • Robert Struble, Jr. • 2 comments

Farewell to Apostate America Some terms ring untrue, like songless birds, Whose yakking do lovers loath and rue. Under God,” and “Republic,” now voided words, To which pupils pledge, “indivisible” too. When grand lady’s turned to ruse and scorn, Gone hussy in hulk with virtue shorn, Willingly deflowered by Sodom and porn, Then must beauteous […]

What Makes 2013 the Year for Cautious Optimism?

Jan 1 13 • Judie Brown • 0 comments

As a new year approaches, we naturally reflect on the one past. While it’s easy to get caught up in the negatives of the past year, we must identify and focus on the positive things that have happened as well. When we do this, we see that there are many reasons to look to this […]

New Year Plenary Indulgence Prayer, <em>Veni Creator Spiritus</em>: Latin-English

New Year Plenary Indulgence Prayer, Veni Creator Spiritus: Latin-English

Jan 1 13 • Catholic Lane Editor • 1 comment

There is a plenary indulgence (under the usual conditions, i.e., Confession, Communion, and prayer for the intentions of the Holy Father) for singing or reciting the Veni Creator Spiritus on January 1st. Veni Creátor Spíritus, Come, Holy Spirit, Creator come, Mentes tuórum vísita, From Thy bright heavenly throne! Imple supérna grátia Come, take possession […]

John B. Tabb: America’s Forgotten Priest-Poet

Jan 1 13 • E. L. Core • 0 comments

A Very Brief Biography Rev. John Banister Tabb (March 22, 1845 – November 19, 1909) was a Catholic priest and professor of English. Born into one of Virginia’s oldest and wealthiest families, at “The Forest” in Amelia County, Tabb fell in love in his teens, though his marriage proposal to the neighbor girl was declined. He […]

New Year’s Resolutions: Bl. Cardinal Newman’s Way

Dec 31 12 • Terry McDermott • 0 comments

Most of us make and break the same New Year’s Resolutions each year: eat less, exercise more, spend less, get out of debt. . . and on and on. My resolutions, while well-intentioned, often fall away by the end of January. This year, I’ve decided to do things differently. Instead of putting all the emphasis […]

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