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Poem: “Rejoice Sunday–Third Sunday in Advent”

Rejoice Sunday–Third Sunday in Advent In this time of waiting, watching The cold December grays Are decorated with anticipation — Banquets of glad tidings, the earth miraculously Greened from watercourses flowing From the stars. Mary’s sumptuous Magnificat Followed by rounds of Gaudetes on monks’ lips and Priests processing in pink colored vestments. Then comes the […]

Christmas: Expect More!

Dec 16 11 • Russell Shaw • 0 comments

The problem many of us have with Christmas isn’t that we expect too much of it but that we expect much too little. My Christmas wish for all of us, myself included, is that we raise our sights and ask for all that God really wants to give us. If we can open ourselves to […]

The Role of the State

Dec 16 11 • Nicholas Hosford • 0 comments

[How would you live, Pompey? By being a bawd? What do you think of the trade, Pompey? Is it a lawful trade? —Escalus, Measure for Measure] Enforce morality. The answer to critics who so frequently question the role of the state in Distributism or Catholic Social Teaching is simple. Excepting those who prefer anarchy, libertarian “free market” advocates and […]

Masquerades in the News

Dec 16 11 • Jann FritzHuspen • 0 comments

The Culture of Death reminds me of the dragon from the Book of Revelations; it is an “enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns” (NIV Rev 12:3). Two items in this week’s news reveal just how the Culture of Death masquerades as something supposedly good as it rears two of its ugly heads—the […]

Coping with Sibling Rivalry

Dec 16 11 • Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur • 0 comments

If you have a sibling or more than one child, chances are that you have dealt with the ugly green monster that is sibling rivalry. In a perfect world, children born of the same parents or adopted into the same family would always love, honor, and respect each other. They would share without complaint, applaud […]

Truth Makes the Enemy Cower

Dec 16 11 • Judie Brown • 2 comments

This is the season for Christian love and goodwill. Yet the air is polluted with the bombast of pro-aborts who never seem to stop spewing. These folks do not concern themselves with the true meaning of Christmas. Christ does not fit into their game plan—as recent comments from their choir make abundantly clear. The Harvard […]

Poem: “Enduring One”

Dec 16 11 • Pavel Chichikov • 0 comments

Enduring One It can’t be called, but it must come As rain arrives when sleepers sleep And wake to hear the roaring of The river’s flood when it runs deep It can’t be named but it must speak The secret name, the unconfined Until itself reveals itself – The naming of it is not mine […]

Action Needed Toward Kagan Recusal on Obama Care

Dec 15 11 • Fr. Frank Pavone • 0 comments

As you probably know, the so-called “healthcare reform” legislation known as “ObamaCare” – which was narrowly passed by Congress (and only after intense pressure tactics from the White House) – is now facing its toughest challenge ever. It’s being challenged in court over the constitutionality of its key provision of requiring every U.S. citizen to […]

Lowe’s Errs in Pulling TLC Ad

Dec 15 11 • Bill Donohue • 2 comments

I have not been shy in my criticism of Muslim extremists who hate Israel and equally loathe the United States. Nor have I been reluctant to condemn Islamism: Sharia law is totalitarian. Furthermore, I am not opposed to boycotting sponsors of TV shows that bash Catholicism (I have led such initiatives). But count me out […]

Where is John the Baptist When You Need Him?

Dec 15 11 • Robert J. Gieb • 0 comments

During the season of Advent the readings at Mass include passages about John the Baptist, the humble inhabitant of the Judean desert who possessed nothing but the truth and owed no one but the God who created him. He was fearless in his preaching. He discomfited all in their complacency, but to all he gave […]

Are You Dating a Pharisee?

Dec 15 11 • Anthony Buono • 3 comments

Do you feel that you are dating someone who strikes you as having an overly high moral, education, or even cultural standard? Do you feel like your every action is being observed? Is the person overly critical of you? Are they quick to find fault in you but not in themselves? Do they make you […]

The Rich Are Getting Richer; So Are the Poor

Dec 15 11 • Jarrett Skorup • 6 comments

“No matter your thoughts about the Occupy Wall Street movement, the protesters were right in at least one respect: The rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer.” Variations on this statement were repeated in dozens of blogs, commentaries, and even news reports in the past months. The claim comes via a Congressional […]

Win One of Five Copies of the <em>Dolphin Tale</em> DVD

Win One of Five Copies of the Dolphin Tale DVD

Dec 15 11 • Peggy Bowes • 7 comments

To celebrate the DVD release of *Dolphin Tale, Grace Hill Media, a company that promotes quality entertainment for faith-based audiences, has graciously provided five DVDs to be given away to Catholic Lane readers. Details are provided at the end of this article. As a freelance writer who reviews family movies, I often have the opportunity […]

Poem: “First Encounter”

Dec 15 11 • Thomas A. Flynn, LC • 0 comments

First Encounter Mary sat down with utmost care As a burst of joy from her pure heart rose For the Child awoke from his slumbered repose Deep within her womb-kept lair. A tiny kick though a grand affair To the Virgin Mary whom the Father chose As it revealed the presence of her little Rose […]

Catholic Health Care in Jeopardy

Dec 14 11 • Steven W. Mosher • 1 comment

Evidence continues to pile up that the huge expansion of government formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) — Obamacare, for short — poses huge risks to religious freedom, to the rights of conscience, and to our very lives. Health and Human Services recently issued a directive dealing with so-called “preventive […]

How to Become a Suicide Bomber (in 3 Easy Steps!)

Dec 14 11 • David Monahan • 4 comments

Shortly after 9/11 an acquaintance of mine pointed out that while their cause was obviously wrong, there was something to be admired about the single minded determination with which the attackers carried out their mission. Being a devout Catholic, he even doubted that God would be harsh when judging such sincerely committed souls. The idea […]

China’s “Superior” Economic Model?

Dec 14 11 • Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson • 0 comments

In a recent piece for the Wall Street Journal, Andy Stern, an Obama insider and one of organized labor’s more aggressive personalities, praised what he called “China’s superior economic model.” Does China have a superior economic model? That depends: Superior to what? Mr. Stern, who headed the Service Employees International Union, cited Andy Grove, founder […]

Accepting ‘Help’ Only to Find Rights Forfeited

Dec 14 11 • Marybeth Hicks • 1 comment

Cable’s Home and Garden Television (HGTV) appears to have a new reality show about what happens when the government buys itself the right to tell you what to do. In theory, anyway. According to HGTV.com, the new show “My House, Your Money” […] reveals what really goes on behind closed doors as prospective homebuyers turn […]

The Triumphs and Failures of Feminism

Dec 14 11 • Dale Ahlquist • 4 comments

Some of the worst feminists are men. The classic feminist is a woman, of course. She emerged as a public spectacle about a century ago and has become something of an institution in our own time—thanks to the state-supported propaganda of our public schools and the history-by-pictures that passes for education. She is pictured as an […]

Book Review: <em>Economics for Helen</em>

Book Review: Economics for Helen

Dec 14 11 • Peter Chojnowski • 0 comments

Economics” is the name which people have come to give to the study of wealth. It is the study by which we learn how wealth is produced, how it is consumed, how it is distributed among people, and so on. It is a very important kind of study, because it often depends upon our being […]

A Book of Saints For Catholic Moms And So Much More

Dec 14 11 • Fran Rossi Szpylczyn • 3 comments

Like any good Catholic kid growing up in the ’60s, I had favorite saints, those holy people who brought me comfort and fed my curiosity and imagination. How I loved the Blessed Virgin Mary! Then there was Saint Anthony, who stood there in his plaster glory, with all the old ladies standing around the base […]

Poem: “Can Look at Me”

Dec 14 11 • Pavel Chichikov • 0 comments

Can Look at Me Jewel box with cover, Legs, a tail, an eye, Orange, black, discovered Too chilly to be shy Along the trail it blundered Within the darksome night, Gusts of wind and thunders Splendid in their might But turtle in her cabin Of sweet unconscious beauty Calm as any mountain Will never be […]

Eurocracy Run Amuck

Dec 13 11 • Samuel Gregg • 0 comments

“We must re-establish the primacy of politics over the market.” That sentence, spoken a little while ago by Germany’s Angela Merkel, sums up the startlingly unoriginal character of the approach adopted by most EU politicians as they seek to save the common currency from what even Paul Krugman seems to concede is its current trajectory […]

Phoenix Hospital Says Nun Who Approved Abortion No Longer Excommunicated

Dec 13 11 • Kathleen Gilbert • 2 comments

An Arizona hospital that lost its Catholic affiliation by procuring a direct abortion two years ago says that the nun responsible for the decision to do the abortion has regained good standing with the Catholic Church. The local diocese did not confirm the statement, calling the issue a personal one. Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix […]