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Ignorance of Scripture is Ignorance of Christ

Jan 28 13 • Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. • 4 comments

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle C There is a myth that we must lay to rest, once and for all — the myth that Protestants are all about the Bible, while Catholics are all about the Sacraments. While I can’t speak for my Protestant brethren, I can say this with certainty: the Catholic Church […]

Abortion and the Will to Power

Jan 28 13 • Hilary White • 0 comments

An item came to my attention today in my daily inspection of the internet, asking a very pertinent question. And though I’m sure it was meant rhetorically, I thought I’d have a go at answering it. A short piece, clearly published in answer to the hundreds of thousands gathered this week on the Washington Mall demanding […]

4 Steps to Reclaim Your Power This Year

Jan 28 13 • Amy Bonaccorso • 0 comments

I attended two New Year’s events this season that featured bonfires. At each gathering, we were encouraged to say goodbye to anything negative that happened in 2012 by burning lists or symbolic items. These annual cleanses resonated with me because I believe that God taught me some huge business and life lessons last year. I […]

“He is Living Because of You”: Changing Hearts to Choose Life

Jan 27 13 • Adam Cassandra • 2 comments

Standing outside of an abortion clinic is not a pleasant experience. No matter how many friends or family members are there praying and helping to counsel women close by, the thought of innocent lives being ended in the building right behind you is inescapable. Sometimes it can seem like no one is even listening, and […]

Sides of the Same Coin: St. Angela Merici and [Sister] Adele Brise

Jan 27 13 • Fr. Edward Looney • 1 comment

This year January 27th falls on the Third Sunday of Ordinary Time. Ordinarily the Catholic Church would celebrate the memorial of St. Angela Merici, an Italian saint on this date. When I first heard the story of St. Angela Merici in the college seminary, I was struck by the similarities St. Angela shared with [Sister] […]

Poem: “At Home”

Jan 27 13 • Christina Rossetti • 0 comments

At Home When I was dead, my spirit turned To seek the much-frequented house: I passed the door, and saw my friends Feasting beneath green orange boughs; From hand to hand they pushed the wine, They sucked the pulp of plum and peach; They sang, they jested, and they laughed, For each was loved of […]

Book Review: <em>Straight from My Heart</em>

Book Review: Straight from My Heart

Jan 27 13 • William Schuh • 1 comment

Straight from My Heart is a collection of fifteen short stories and seventy-three poems, approximately chronological, with each story being independent and individually rewarding. Yet all of the pieces collectively draw the reader to something larger. The stories are engaging, at times fascinating, and always thoughtful. Patricia Devlin’s stories follow an autobiographical journey through the […]

Chilling View from the Joint Chiefs

Jan 26 13 • Genevieve Kineke • 4 comments

With the recent declaration by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, it would seem that there is an indisputable decision to allow women to serve in combat units in the future. To argue to the contrary might be an exercise in futility—much like closing the barn door after the horses have bolted—but this is not so. […]

Labor of Love: Suffering and the Motherly Vocation

Jan 26 13 • Heidi Hess Saxton • 0 comments

This week I happened across this YouTube video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVUZzgswJaY) in which two strapping young Dutch men experience the joy of childbirth … well, two hours of simulated labor pains. That’s almost the same thing, right? Sure. In his classic work Life of the Beloved, Henri Nouwen acknowledges that the mystery of suffering will remain […]

The Supreme Court Looks at Marriage and Gender

Jan 25 13 • Russell Shaw • 2 comments

Defenders of traditional marriage may not believe it, but the Supreme Court’s apparent intention to decide two important same-sex marriage cases by midyear may be a stroke of good fortune for their side. This timing means the Supreme Court’s first head-on tangle with this issue almost certainly will come before President Obama gets an opportunity […]

Abortion Remains a Big Deal 40 years After Roe

Jan 25 13 • Marybeth Hicks • 0 comments

In this, 40th year of legalized abortion in America, Hollywood and Planned Parenthood want you to know abortion is no big deal. That’s the message we’re to infer from the recent episode of NBC’s hit show “Parenthood” titled “Small Victories,” in which the teen character Amy casually decides to abort her baby because, as she […]

Weekly Wits 1/25/13

Jan 25 13 • Cartoon Editor • 0 comments

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What’s On Your Mantle?

Jan 25 13 • Terry McDermott • 2 comments

It’s a rhetorical question, really. I could also ask: what’s hanging on your wall; what are you wearing around your neck; what does your bumper sticker say? Once a month, I visit a patient who lives in a B’nai B’rith sponsored family apartment building. There’s no mistaking that all the families living there are practicing […]

What Hungary and Poland Can Teach Us about a Post-Roe World

Jan 25 13 • Stephen Phelan • 0 comments

No democratic nation has ever voted in the majority to legalize abortion as such. Not one. Legalized abortion is always imposed by totalitarian or authoritarian regimes, or by elites who manufacture court cases designed to reverse duly created laws that actually protect innocent human beings. As the death toll rises in those nations that have […]

Poem: “Love’s Servile Lot”

Jan 25 13 • St. Robert Southwell • 0 comments

Love’s Servile Lot LOVE, mistress is of many minds, Yet few know whom they serve; They reckon least how little Love Their service doth deserve. The will she robbeth from the wit, The sense from reason’s lore; She is delightful in the rind, Corrupted in the core. She shroudeth vice in virtue’s veil, Pretending good […]

Choosing Life: The Crisis That Wasn’t

Jan 24 13 • Rebecca Taylor • 0 comments

As the 40th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade dawns, my friends that have adopted children have been posting pictures on Facebook of their beautiful families and thanking the birth mothers for their courage and sacrifice. These adoptive mothers asked everyone to choose adoption over abortion. As I contemplated praising my friends for telling their story, […]

Facing Infertility – A Catholic Approach

Jan 24 13 • Ellen Gable Hrkach • 0 comments

When I received a review copy of the newly-published book, Facing Infertility – A Catholic Approach, I was a bit surprised there wasn’t already a Catholic book which specifically dealt with the topic of infertility. When I searched online, I could only find secular or Christian books on this subject. Jean Dimech-Juchniewicz’s new book is […]

Two Women are Behind Legalized Abortion in America: Now Both of Them Want it Reversed

Jan 24 13 • John Jalsevac • 0 comments

In the debate over abortion in the United States, two women’s names appear more frequently than any others: Jane Roe and Mary Doe, the plaintiffs in the companion 1973 Supreme Court cases that legalized abortion in the country. With the 40th anniversary of those two cases – Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton – this month, news media […]

What Have We Learned About Injustice Over the Past 156 Years?

Jan 23 13 • Mark Davis Pickup • 6 comments

In his excellent (although vaguely anti-Catholic) book THE MARKETING OF EVIL: How Radicals Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom, David Kupelian wrote about the Dred Scott Supreme Court case of 1857. The Dred Scott decision denied blacks American citizenship and even questioned their full personhood. Kupelian laid out the case and quoted […]

The End of the Reagan Era?

Jan 23 13 • Dr. Paul Kengor • 0 comments

With Barack Obama’s second inauguration, liberals are touting an altogether new epoch: the end of the Reagan era. Unfortunately, I believe they are largely correct. We are witnessing a period of left-wing ascendance, marked by gay marriage, forced taxpayer funding of abortion, an exploding government class, and big government. As to the latter, Ronald Reagan […]

Tabb’s Poetry IV

Jan 23 13 • John B. Tabb • 0 comments

Five poems by John B. Tabb.

40 Years Later: It’s Never Too Late to Turn the Tide

Jan 23 13 • Judie Brown • 0 comments

It is extremely difficult to think about what one might say after 40 years of decriminalized barbarism. Yes, that is exactly what abortion is—and yet most people are blind to the effect it has had on the family and on our nation. Haven’t we heard it all before? Of course we have. Each of us […]

The Homeless Reality

Jan 23 13 • Marge Fenelon • 19 comments

As I write, the weather station says that it’s 1° F, but it feels like -17°F. With the wind chill, it’s expected to drop as low as -30°F tonight. Tomorrow will more of the same. Even with the furnace chugging away, the perimeters of the house are cold. Upon passing by the windows and doors, […]

Abandoned— The Untold Story of the Abortion Wars

Jan 23 13 • Patti Maguire Armstrong • 0 comments

If you knew beforehand that a gunman planned on going to a kindergarten class at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, would you do everything in your power to avert the violence and save innocent lives? During a news conference on January 16, President Obama expressed that if we could save even one life […]