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City of Blood: St. Paul in Arabia — A Lenten/Desert Journey, Part I

Feb 27 12 • Rev. Tucker Cordani • 0 comments

“At once, the Spirit drove him into the wilderness, and he remained in the desert for forty days, tempted by Satan. He was among wild beasts, and angels ministered to him” (Mark 1:12-13). These are the words written by Saint Mark that begin the story of Jesus’s works following his baptism in the Jordan River […]

Airport Fiasco

Feb 27 12 • Barb Lishko • 0 comments

“Wait right here while we recheck your bags,” advised airport security to my daughter. We stood there in stocking feet, staring blankly. Suddenly, she giggled and leaned in close whispering, “I know what it is.” I pointed out that voluntarily disclosing that information is usually the best policy in these situations. “I know what it […]

U.S. Delegation to UN Women Commission Stacked With Abortion Advocates

Feb 27 12 • Lisa Correnti • 0 comments

Last Thursday, a State Department press release announced the delegation they would be sending to the the 56th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women beginning this week at UN headquarters in New York and running two weeks. The two co-leaders of the delegation are Susan Rice, US Ambassador to the United Nations and Melanne […]

The Mommy Rhythm

Feb 27 12 • Karen J Rinehart • 1 comment

It’s what makes you, unconsciously, rock back and forth, shifting your weight from one foot to the other, cradling your little baby, while waiting in the one out of 32 currently open grocery store lanes. It’s what lets you ease your minivan onto the highway at the precise merging speed while refereeing a third row […]

The Social Kingship of Christ

Feb 27 12 • Louie Verrecchio • 0 comments

In the Gospel reading for the First Sunday of Lent in the Ordinary Form of Holy Mass, Jesus proclaims, “The Kingdom of God is at hand,” but what does that mean? Is this Kingdom still to come such that we might participate in bringing it to fulfillment, or is the reign of Christ the King […]

Poem: “In His Place VI”

Feb 27 12 • Thomas A. Flynn, LC • 0 comments

In His Place VI Behind each act of generosity There lies a hint of eternity. That is how I leave my trace; My seal of love for all. As when Veronica, filled with grace Slipped through the guards to wipe my face I left my mark within her shawl For every man to behold. And […]

Syria: Arguing for U.S. Inaction

Feb 26 12 • Daniel Pipes • 0 comments

Some thoughts on U.S. policy toward Syria on the occasion of the just-ended “Friends of Syria” meeting in Tunisia: Since the end of the cold war, many Americans have a sense of being so strong, they don’t need to think about their own security but can afford to focus on the immediate humanitarian concerns of […]

Canada’s New Tyranny: The State’s Takeover of the Family

Feb 26 12 • John Jalsevac • 0 comments

The great English writer G.K. Chesterton once wrote: “The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.” But if what Chesterton says is true, then Canada fails the test, because the Canadian family is no longer free. In the past […]

What Christians Can Learn from <em>Act of Valor</em>

What Christians Can Learn from Act of Valor

Feb 25 12 • Marc T. Newman, Ph.D. • 0 comments

The Bible is a war manual. You don’t have to read very far before you discover that there are, as Chuck Colson once noted, “kingdoms in conflict.” The spiritual life is referred to as a battle, and (as descriptions of Armageddon clarify) Jesus is not just Lord of your life, He is a Lord of […]

Get Out of Your Spiritual Comfort Zone

Feb 25 12 • Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur • 0 comments

I am a creature of habit. I tend to exercise the same way, eat the same things, and engage in the same activities. When I go for a walk, I usually take the same route. My work, though varied, normally involves the same type of tasks. I get up and go to bed at the […]

A Lesson Learned?

Feb 25 12 • Fr. Shenan J. Boquet • 1 comment

Yes, America, you are beautiful indeed, and blessed in so many ways … But your greatest beauty and your richest blessing is found in the human person: in each man, woman and child, in every immigrant, in every native-born son and daughter. For this reason, America, your deepest identity and truest character as a Nation […]

Noah’s Ark and the Baptismal Flood

Feb 25 12 • Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. • 0 comments

In today’s fuzzy moral landscape, it is quite unpopular to even speak of sin, never mind condemn it. It’s even more politically incorrect to talk about God taking stern action against sin and those who promote it. But that is exactly what the story of Noah and the flood is all about, as we are […]

Poem: “Walking Trees”

Feb 25 12 • Stacy Peterson • 1 comment

Walking Trees Superficial sorrow Tears white-washing your sepulchre. Soon, soon enough Dry bones will crumble Into the eternal stone sarcophagus Of a life barely lived. A Walking Tree, bearing no fruit, For, your roots penetrated only The surface of His mantle, Never reaching His core: The consuming fire of love That streams under roots drawing […]

Are Gabe Lyons’ <em>The Next Christians</em> Really What’s Next? Part 3

Are Gabe Lyons’ The Next Christians Really What’s Next? Part 3

Feb 24 12 • Mark Gonnella • 0 comments

Thus far, in evaluating Mr. Lyons’ ‘Next Christian’ vision (part 1, part 2) we have seen how his vision fails to include the Church that Christ established. His vision precludes the Mystical Body of Christ, and supplants it with ecclesiastical amateurism: a weakly-structured, free-floating Christianity that lives and dies on spontaneity. His low-churchmanship does not […]

<em>Erie Times News</em> and Church Teaching -- A Reader Speaks Up

Erie Times News and Church Teaching — A Reader Speaks Up

Feb 24 12 • Greg Schlueter • 2 comments

Reading James Drane’s article (and corresponding cartoon) today in Erie’s Times News (“Catholic Church should change its policies on birth control”) made us want to cancel the paper… again. Of course, it demands a reply, but why bother? What good does it do? Where is the Church’s official reply? But then I’m haunted by the awareness that if […]

A Whiff of Privatization

Feb 24 12 • Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson • 0 comments

Three decades ago, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher implemented a policy called “privatization” to rejuvenate the moribund economy of the United Kingdom. Like the United States today, the cost of a too-large government was sapping the vitality of the U.K.’s economy. The private sector was staggering under the heavy tax burden needed to fund the public […]

They Just Don’t Understand

Feb 24 12 • Patti Maguire Armstrong • 2 comments

I once did not understand. So now, instead of getting upset when others don’t understand, I see it as an opportunity to inform or at least to pray for them. When I came to understand Catholic teaching on love and marriage, my heart grew to include the unborn children I once thought I did not […]

The Way of the Cross: Christian Living During Lent

Feb 24 12 • Marlon De La Torre • 0 comments

I’m not strong enough. Imagine if these were the words you told Christ when He asked you to take up your Cross and follow him. St. Mark’s Gospel reminds of us this very notion where Christ provides us with His unique blueprint on discipleship: And he called to him the multitude with his disciples, and […]

Seven States Sue Obama Administration Over ObamaCare Mandate

Feb 23 12 • Ben Johnson • 2 comments

Seven states filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration today seeking to overturn the mandate that religious employers provide contraception, sterilization, and abortifacients to their employees as part of their health care plans. The state attorneys general of Florida, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas filed suit today in U.S. District Court, arguing […]

Dare to Dream

Feb 23 12 • Ken Connor • 2 comments

“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Phil 4:13 During the presidential contest of 2008, Barack Obama inspired millions of followers with his trademark slogan “Yes we can!” Against the odds, the little known Senator from Illinois went on to defeat the 600 pound gorilla in the 2008 Democrat primary – Hillary Clinton […]

A Healthy Child Can Never Be Guaranteed

Feb 23 12 • Rebecca Taylor • 0 comments

A couple in Texas is suing a sperm bank in New England because their child has cystic fibrosis. Cystic fibrosis is a devastating disease that is caused by mutations in the CFTR gene. People with cystic fibrosis have mutations in both their copies of the CFTR gene; one mutation from their father and one mutation […]

The Forty Days and the Fortieth Day

Feb 23 12 • Deacon Joshua LeBlanc • 0 comments

As we approach this season of Grace, there are often a few questions and misconceptions about Lent which arise. Most people assume that the Lenten season is forty days in length, which isn’t exactly true. This idea comes from a time in which Lent was forty days long, but let’s look at the history of […]

CSA: A Distributist Agrarianism

Feb 23 12 • Kevin Ford • 1 comment

After quitting my job as a school teacher in 2010 to become a full-time organic farmer, I was left with a dilemma. I was quite certain that I could grow high quality produce, but what was I going to do with it? I had heard about Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs from various other small-scale […]

Cooking the Books, Disparaging Catholics

Feb 23 12 • Judie Brown • 1 comment

The only folks who might have missed the fallacious claim that 98 percent of Catholics use contraception are those who have no newspaper or television set around. Lucky folks! The rest of us must consider the stark reality that whatever the media reports, no matter how wrong it might be, it will grab hold, stick […]