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Smarter Parenting: Just Think About It

There’s a radical idea surfacing in the world of psychology, and it may turn out to be a game changer when it comes to parenting in America. Thinking. That’s right, thinking. But not just thinking – smart thinking. Imagine what might happen if we stop parenting by thoughtlessly developing habits over time and instead institute […]

Want to Lose Weight? Find Out How the Experts Do It!

Jan 5 12 • Peggy Bowes • 7 comments

“Physician, heal thyself.” (Luke 4:23) As a fitness expert, I practice what I preach, exercising regularly and eating a healthy diet. Yet, like most people, I occasionally find that life gets too busy and the workouts and healthy habits temporarily fall by the wayside. My clothes start to feel a bit snug and the number […]

Did Somebody Let a Bird In?

Jan 5 12 • Barb Lishko • 0 comments

I sit here amongst a discombobulating array of items that all beckon my attention. Butz, the bird annihilator has bagged the catch of the day and the remains lie strewn all over the front room. I have already performed the grisly task of dislodging bird pieces from the table and now feathers which used to […]

Poem: “Christmas 2011, I Want to get it Right”

Jan 5 12 • Michele Marie • 0 comments

Christmas 2011, I Want to get it Right At one Black Friday shopping frenzy A lady uses pepper spray Causing burning and panic Outside a mall, a large crowd waits anxiously To get their Air Jordan’s XI retro concords A man shoots his gun in the crowd The line outside the Coach Purse store Snakes outside into […]

A New Year’s Moral Resolution for Fathers

Jan 4 12 • Marlon De La Torre • 0 comments

One of the most amazing things about fatherhood is my children’s capacity to analyze every little thing I do. Give them an inch and they will take it a mile with anything I either said or did. No one ever wants to be challenged or corrected for their wrongs. This is a basic fact of […]

Friends and Strangers: A Meditation on Money

Jan 4 12 • John Médaille • 1 comment

I start my meditation with a true story that will serve as a parable. On his 21st birthday, the nature writer Francis Thompson was presented by his father with a bill for all the expenses of his upbringing including the costs of his birth and delivery. Francis paid the bill, but he never spoke to his […]

How You Can Help Save Lives in 2012

Jan 4 12 • 40 Days for Life • 0 comments

The first 40 Days for Life campaign of 2012 is set for February 22 – April 1 and if you’re interested in leading this life-saving outreach in your community, it’s time to apply! By early indications, this is going to be a very exciting 40 Days for Life. Applications have already been pouring in from […]

Finding God in the Everyday

Jan 4 12 • Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur • 1 comment

Time has gone by quickly, but it has been eight years since I started working as a Catholic writer. In that time, my mission has remained the same – I have always wanted to help women find God in the everyday busyness of their lives. I walk in those shoes. I know how crazy life […]

2012: A Year to Give Our Lives More Fully to the Lord

Jan 4 12 • Maurice Blumberg • 0 comments

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. (John 3:16) I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship. […]

Poem: “Christmas Gold”

Jan 4 12 • Hilary McRee Flanery • 0 comments

Christmas Gold If I had a big house, As a rule-of-thumb, At Christmas I’d have loved-ones And others, if they’d come. If I had a big, house, A cupboard, warm and round, Would feed my Christmas guests The staff of life, here, found. If I had a big, house, All men I would let in, […]

A Response to Keith Ablow

Jan 3 12 • Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse • 1 comment

Celebrity therapist and “life coach” Dr. Keith Ablow just jumped on the “let’s get the government out of the marriage business” bandwagon. I have been writing against the “privatizing marriage” mantra, going all the way back to 2005. (See also here and here.) I do not wish to rehearse those arguments here. But Dr. Ablow’s […]

GOP Hypocrisy on Display in Virginia

Jan 3 12 • Ken Connor • 0 comments

In case you haven’t noticed yet, the battle for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination has been a highly volatile, highly unpredictable roller coaster ride. With a different candidate emerging at the top of the polls week after week, it would be folly for any of them to take their chances for granted. It is no […]

The Best and Worst in Biotechnology for 2011

Jan 3 12 • Rebecca Taylor • 4 comments

Reflecting on 2011, I began thinking of the 5 events in biotechnology that were the greatest threats to the sanctity of human life. True to my mission though, I couldn’t just talk about what is bad in the biotech arena. I also have to celebrate the 5 ways biotechnology has improved or preserved human life. […]

Hillary Clinton Pushes for Coercive Power of State on Behalf of LGBT Interests

Jan 3 12 • Russell Shaw • 0 comments

An address by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on gay rights as a priority of U.S. policy deserves far more attention than it’s gotten up to now. As a statement of the views of the Obama administration, Clinton’s remarks were a remarkably candid—and remarkably chilling—exposition of official determination to make the world safe for LGBT […]

Dear Saint Anthony, Look Around . . .

Jan 3 12 • Kathleen Woodman • 2 comments

Like a log rolling down an easy hill, I drifted out of bed late one morning in a tired funk. Dragging along at a snail’s pace, my mental fog would sharply clear up when I opened my refrigerator door. Resembling a hungry beast with a wide open mouth, the deep expanse of whiteness and sparsely […]

Top 10 Things I Heard in 2011

Jan 3 12 • Julie Filby • 0 comments

It’s that time of year. Billboard selects the Best of the Year in Music (I like Adele too). Newsweek determines Epic Wins (Tebow) and Fails (Tiger). And the Most Fascinating People of the year are named by ABC News (Steve Jobs, OK; but I’m afraid Barbara missed the mark with the Kardashians). Here’s my contribution […]

Poem: “Sunset for 2011”

Jan 3 12 • Robert Struble, Jr. • 2 comments

I pulled the car off to the side Got out to see the sky’s ebb-tide. Beheld the best I ever saw, A sunset psalm-like, full of awe. The clouds’ clean lines were all aglow, A crimson scene viewed from below. It ended the trip fittingly, And the year, magnificently. South of Ephrata, on the road, […]

Iraq’s Christians Near Extinction

Jan 2 12 • Raymond Ibrahim • 0 comments

A recent Fox News report tells of how “a rash of attacks on Christian-owned businesses in northern Iraq has raised troubling questions about the future safety of the country’s shrinking Christian community, particularly as U.S. forces withdraw completely from the nation they’ve refereed since 2003.” In fact, “questions about the future safety of the country’s […]

Grouchy Treasures

Jan 2 12 • Patti Maguire Armstrong • 2 comments

When you stop to count your blessings, do not forget to give God a big thank you to for all the difficult people in your life. Those cranks that cross your path and darken your doorway are just bursting with the potential to bless you. Every person who provokes you is an opportunity, but it […]

Child-Killing and the New Evangelization

Jan 2 12 • Fr. Frank Pavone • 0 comments

Recently, at the invitation of Vatican officials, our Priests for Life team prepared some input for next year’s Synod of Bishops on the topic of the New Evangelization. Every few years, representatives of bishops’ conferences from around the world gather for several weeks of deliberations in Rome concerning one or another aspect of the Church’s […]

Good Deeds Create Good News

Jan 1 12 • Dr. Gary Scott Smith • 0 comments

Have you heard any good news lately? Bad news abounds. It’s been another tough year. Economic woes continue. Greece and Italy are on the verge of bankruptcy. Unemployment is still high in the United States (around 8.6 percent), and the stock market has taken a beating. With approximately $108 billion in insured catastrophic losses, 2011 […]

Abortion Insanity

Jan 1 12 • Stacy Trasancos • 0 comments

The 252 page systematic review “Induced Abortion and Mental Health” published in December 2011 by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges is easily dismantled by appealing to its fundamental premise. You don’t have to be a medical doctor to know that if you ask the wrong question, your entire premise is flawed and time spent […]

Abba! New Year’s Peace Through the Spirit of God’s Adoption

Jan 1 12 • Rev. Tucker Cordani • 0 comments

Once I ran for public office. Actually, it was more like a popularity contest. I was elected the most pessimistic member of the Torrington High School Class of 1989. I won by a large margin. My lone opponent, J.W., was confident he could win, and he campaigned aggressively throughout the halls of THS on a […]

The Tough Work of Virtue

Jan 1 12 • Jake Frost • 0 comments

My grandfather was a hardworking man. Growing up in frontier country, he started his career as a carpenter building barns; then travelled the West as an itinerant farm laborer. In World War I, he enlisted in the Marines and fought in Europe, including the Battle of Belleau Wood and the Battle of Chateau Thierry. He […]