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A Catholic Response to Joel Osteen Broadcast 10/07/12: What to Do While Waiting

This week Joel Osteen’s message, “Trust God’s Timing,” was focused on the attitude that we display while we are waiting for God to answer a prayer. Joel used the examples of someone praying for healing, praying to find a spouse, praying for the return of a wayward child, or praying for promotion at work. Joel said […]

The Post-Constitutional President

Oct 10 12 • Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. • 2 comments

Team Obama insists that next month’s presidential election is “a choice, not a referendum.” It sure seems to be with respect to the two candidates very different views on the Constitution. Mitt Romney makes plain at every turn his commitment to that document, while Barack Obama’s conduct in office has marked him as the post-constitutional […]

UN Human Rights Council Affirms Traditional Values

Oct 10 12 • Stefano Gennarini, J.D. • 0 comments

Delegations from European Countries and the United States suffered a setback last week when the Human Rights Council adopted a resolution affirming a positive link between traditional values and human rights. The European and U.S. delegations view traditional values as threats to women, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual persons. This is the third resolution […]

Philadelphia Teacher Turned Citizen Mission into a Joke

Oct 10 12 • Marybeth Hicks • 0 comments

The mission statement of Philadelphia’s Charles Carroll High School, displayed prominently on its website, offers a hopeful vision of an educational institution: “Providing all students with the academic, technological & social skills needed to be productive & contributing citizens in our society.” This week, the specific mention of “social skills” and citizenship likely sounds like […]

Opportunities to Glorify God

Oct 9 12 • Mark Davis Pickup • 1 comment

I was recently told I have cancer. We often hear that other people have the dreaded “C” word but now it is my turn. Initially it was hard to get my head around the news. The oncologist at the Cross Cancer Institute was unsure how to approach my treatment. My situation is complicated by the […]

Can the Government Veto a Sermon?

Oct 9 12 • Fr. Frank Pavone • 2 comments

Sunday, October 7, 2012 was “Pulpit Freedom Sunday.” It is based on a simple question: May the government filter, edit, or veto the contents of a sermon? No court has ever heard a case regarding whether the Internal Revenue Service can do so. Yet every day – and especially in these weeks prior to an […]

Romney Channels George W. Bush’s Middle East Policy

Oct 9 12 • Daniel Pipes • 0 comments

Mitt Romney gave a generally fine speech [yesterday] on the Middle East. Sensibly, he criticized the Obama administration for its Benghazi shenanigans, for the “daylight” with Israel, fecklessness vis-à-vis Tehran, and the cuts in military spending. Very justifiably, he called it “time to change course in the Middle East.” But I worry about three specifics. First, […]

We All Know it’s Wrong

Oct 9 12 • Jennifer Lahl • 0 comments

CBC President Jennifer Lahl interviews Alana S. Newman, the founder of the Anonymous Us Project about an event that took place in New York on October 1. Jennifer: Last week I received a Google alert telling me about a charity fundraising event in New York City to raise money for Gay men to have babies via reproductive technology […]

Blessed John Henry Newman, Ora Pro Nobis

Oct 9 12 • E. L. Core • 2 comments

167 years ago today, Thursday, October 9, 1845, the Anglican priest Rev. John Henry Newman was received into the Catholic Church by the Italian Passionist priest Rev. Dominic Barberi. Today, both Fr. Barberi and Fr. Newman are beati of the Catholic Church: Bl. Dominic of the Mother of God was beatified by Pope Paul VI […]

153 Years Later—Our Lady’s Message to Adele Brise Is Still Relevant

Oct 9 12 • Fr. Edward Looney • 0 comments

The Queen of Heaven Visits Adele Brise On October 9, 1859, the life of a Belgian immigrant named Adele Brise was forever changed. It was on that day she received her third apparition of the Blessed Mother, who identified herself as the Queen of Heaven. Our Lady’s specific request of Adele was to pray for […]

Do We Expect Too Much from Parents Today?

Oct 9 12 • Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur • 5 comments

The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article on The Perils of Texting While Parenting. The point it was trying to make was simple. Parents are spending too much time on their mobile devices and not enough time paying attention to their children. Also, while there is only anecdotal evidence, it is believed that this […]

Ten Ways to Celebrate the Year of Faith

Oct 9 12 • Marge Fenelon • 2 comments

With his Apostolic Letter of October 11, 2011, Porta Fidei, Pope Benedict XVI declared that a Year of Faith would begin on October 11, 2012, and conclude on November 24, 2013. The first day of the Year of Faith marks the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council and the twentieth anniversary of the publication […]

Scientist Who Developed Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Wins Nobel Prize

Oct 8 12 • Rebecca Taylor • 3 comments

The man that envisioned a better way than destroying human embryos to get embryonic-like stem cells has won the Nobel Prize for Medicine. Dr. Shinya Yamanaka developed the technique to take an adult cell and reprogram it to an embryonic-like state as a way to avoid the destruction of human embryos. Dr. Yamanka’s reprogrammed adult […]

40 Days for Life: Have You Come Out to Pray Yet?

Oct 8 12 • Shawn Carney • 0 comments

Many of the 316 cities participating in 40 Days for Life this fall are holding 24-hour vigils. That’s 960 total hours! It is a very powerful witness to know that before any couples show up for an abortion and long after the last abortion worker leaves, there is someone there praying and bearing witness to the community. For […]

Pondering the Future of American Catholicism

Oct 8 12 • Russell Shaw • 1 comment

Two new books by thoughtful Catholic authors take deeply different views of the future of American Catholicism. Both deserve serious pondering. One of them is called Why Catholicism Matters. The subtitle tells it all: “How Catholic Virtues Can Reshape Society in the 21st Century” (Image Books). It’s the work of Bill Donohue, feisty president of […]

Use the Smile Factor in Your Website Redesign

Oct 8 12 • Katherine Andes • 0 comments

When I was in college, I took a “singing for the stage” class. The instructor once put me in front of the class and told me to sing a song, but not to smile. Then she had me sing the same song again; but, this time, she had me smile. The class overwhelmingly thought my […]

A Year of Faith . . . for Parents of All Children

Oct 8 12 • Heidi Hess Saxton • 0 comments

In this week’s Gospel, Mark paints a touching portrait that is familiar to most of us, of the Christ who loves all children: And people were bringing children to him that he might touch them, but the disciples rebuked them. When Jesus saw this he became indignant and said to them, “Let the children come […]

The Deadly Legacy of a Dozen Years of Chemical Abortion

Oct 8 12 • Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D • 3 comments

It was on September 28, 2000, when we got the news. Nearly eight years after it had first been submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), RU-486, the French abortion pill, had been approved. No one in the U.S. wanted to make the pill–there had been lawsuits between the pills promoters, inspections at […]

What It Feels Like To Wonder About Miscarriage

Oct 8 12 • Stacy Trasancos • 0 comments

This is to share the intense feelings of a mother wondering if a frail little life in the womb will survive or not. Many, many women know this feeling and it’s not easy to give it words, a mixture of hope and faith, heartbreak and yearning, and no one – no one – but the mother knows exactly what […]

Making a Mystic a Doctor of the Church

Oct 8 12 • Cheryl Dickow • 0 comments

With the October 7th announcement that Pope Benedict XVI will pronounce that 12th century German mystic St. Hildegard of Bingen is a doctor of the church—as well as announcing that same honor being bestowed upon St. John of Avila—there is a renewed interest in the understanding of “mysticism” with our church. The church’s history with mystics actually […]

Through the Year of Faith with the Catechism of the Catholic Church

Oct 7 12 • E. L. Core • 4 comments

The Year of Faith — Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012 through Sunday, Nov. 24, 2013 — begins this week. Thursday will be the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council and the twentieth anniversary of the promulgation of the original Latin version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The Year of […]

The Politically Incorrect Billionaire

Oct 7 12 • Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson • 2 comments

Two news items about “the rich” recently popped up online within a couple of hours of each other. Story No. 1: Pew Research Center found that non-rich Americans have ambivalent feelings toward the rich: On the positive side, there was admiration for those “who get rich by working hard” and a sense that rich Americans […]

Poem: “The Godliest Hour”

Oct 7 12 • María Morera Johnson • 0 comments

The Godliest Hour In the cool darkness before the dawn when the stars shine brightest against a dark blue night, the silent stillness envelopes me and I can hear even the softest whisper in this, the Godliest hour. ~Maria Morera Johnson

Hollywood’s Bigots and Censors

Oct 6 12 • Bill Donohue • 2 comments

When we learned about a TV show this fall that offers an incredibly vicious portrayal of nuns and employees at a Catholic home for the criminally insane, I decided to write a full-page ad for placement in The Hollywood Reporter; the first episode is Oct. 17. The FX show, “American Horror Story: Asylum,” was the subject of my […]