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In Politics, Money Talks

They say that money is the mother’s milk of politics, and now that the field of Republican presidential hopefuls has solidified, the media has locked onto fundraising numbers as the primary means of measuring the viability of the candidates. Not surprisingly, establishment favorite Mitt Romney is far and away the best funded candidate. Rick […]

The Difference Respect for Human Dignity Makes

Oct 22 11 • Marlon De La Torre • 0 comments

As many of you have already witnessed the disturbing video of a young Chinese girl involved in a hit and run and seemingly ignored by the whole world as she lay on the street with life-threatening injuries, it prompts the question: do we truly see ourselves as children of God? If you were to pose […]

Detacho: Modular Dollhouses for Fractured Families

Oct 22 11 • Kathy Schiffer • 0 comments

Okay, now this is just sad. Toys help children to learn and prepare them for life. That’s why industrial designer Ben Forman (benformandesign.co.uk) has introduced a new dollhouse to help today’s modern preschooler prepare for the inevitable unhappy changes in her family structure. It’s called Detacho. Detacho families, like so many contemporary American families, can […]

Poem: “Don’t be Gloomy…”

Oct 22 11 • Pavel Chichikov • 0 comments

Don’t be Gloomy… Don’t be gloomy, we could be As cheerless falling from the tree, Scarlet, crimson, dark of gold Rich with browns of autumn mold Let the wind swing out, detach The wings of us the earth to catch, Do not grieve or boast thereof, It is more colorful to love We are born […]

The Word of God Takes Root in Thessalonica

Oct 21 11 • Rev. Tucker Cordani • 1 comment

“For our gospel did not come to you in word alone but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with much conviction” (1 Thess 1:5). In ancient times the city of Thessalonica was an important trade city situated along the Via Egnatia, the Roman Empire’s major east-west thoroughfare, running from Byzantium to the […]

Movie Review: The Mighty Macs

Oct 21 11 • Patti Maguire Armstrong • 1 comment

The Mighty Macs is the kind of film that makes you want to cheer from your seats. It’s a Cinderella in basketball sneakers story of an underdog earning the crown. The film is based on the true story of the 1971-72 Immaculata University women’s basketball team. This small — under 800 students — Catholic women’s […]

Catholic Historical Sci-Fi for Teens,Young Adults: <em>Young Chesterton Chronicles</em>

Catholic Historical Sci-Fi for Teens,Young Adults: Young Chesterton Chronicles

Oct 21 11 • Kay Anne Kelly • 0 comments

The Tripods Attack! is the first book in the Young Chesterton Chronicles, an adventure series aimed at middle and high-school age boys. Its main character is a fictional, teenaged GK Chesterton. In The Tripods Attack! Gilbert fights off an alien invasion with the help of his mentor, Father Brown, and his best friend, the youthful […]

Snowmen: A Film for Humans

Oct 21 11 • Susan Soesbe • 0 comments

As I walked into the theater for a screening of Snowmen, the film’s publicist handed me materials and remarked that there was no sex and no explosions, “just cute kids in snow.” She was right, but that doesn’t fully explain why this movie is good. Goodness cannot be defined by what it is not. In […]

The Council of Europe Recognizes Necessary Restrictions on Abortion

Oct 21 11 • Grégor Puppinck, Ph.D • 0 comments

On 3 October 2011, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted Resolution1829 (2011) and Recommendation 1979 (2011) on Prenatal Sex Selection. For the first time in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the promoters of an alleged right to abortion have, on their own initiative, admitted that abortion has negative […]

Poem: “Why do some Trees Dance?”

Oct 21 11 • Michele Marie • 0 comments

Why do some Trees Dance? Why do some leaves flutter, wave, and tremble, Shimmering sunlight Like a thousand tiny mirrors, With barely a breeze going by? Why are some branches quite limber? Shaking leaves in spritely waves, Making a new music of light and sound On the stillest of days? Why do some trees dance? […]

Presidential Aspirants Clamber Over Mutilated Bodies of Their Grandbabies

Oct 20 11 • Mary Kochan • 9 comments

The state of American politics is such that the question of whether or not their own grandchildren should be torn limb from limb and thrown in the garbage has become a routine subject of speculation for presidential candidates. The state of American presidential candidates is such that they can dispassionately entertain the dismemberment of their own smallest progeny. They are the men of whom C. S. Lewis wrote, the men without chests.

Book Review: <i>A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms</i>

Book Review: A Book of Saints for Catholic Moms

Oct 20 11 • Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur • 1 comment

There are many wonderful books about Catholic saints available. Most of you probably own some of them. Perhaps you even have some collecting dust in your home. They looked so interesting, but you never found the time to read them. So, why should you purchase another one? Because in the new A Book of Saints […]

The Persecution Has Begun

Oct 20 11 • Russell Shaw • 2 comments

“What the Catholic Church in the United States really needs to stiffen its backbone is a good persecution.” How often, I wonder, have I heard somebody say something like that? How often have I said something like it myself? Be careful what you ask for—you may get it. The persecution of religion in America has […]

The Rosary: A Weapon of Mass Instruction, Part 3

Oct 20 11 • Louie Verrecchio • 0 comments

We continue our reflection on the mysteries of the rosary as a means of entering more deeply into sacred mysteries made present in Holy Mass with an examination of The Sorrowful Mysteries 1. The Agony in the Garden And going out, he went, according to his custom, to the Mount of Olives. And his disciples […]

<em>St. Mary’s Messenger</em>, Catholic Magazine for Kids

St. Mary’s Messenger, Catholic Magazine for Kids

Oct 20 11 • Patti Maguire Armstrong • 0 comments

How would you like to be splashed with water as you walk down the street? In Poland, that’s how they say, “Happy Easter!” If you had read last Easter’s issue of St. Mary’s Messenger magazine for children, you would have known that. I recently stumbled upon St. Mary’s Messenger through a phone call from Kris […]

The Role Monogamy Must Play in the Future of Marriage

Oct 20 11 • Steve Pokorny • 0 comments

The Atlantic recently posted an article by Rachel R. White entitled, “The Role Non-Monogamy Will Play in the Future of Marriage” (Oct. 3, 2011), in which she interviews Pamela Haag, the author of the book Marriage Confidential. Haag claims that “marriage has changed over time in both perception and practice,” stating that “even the Bible was […]

Poem: “Stars of Mercy”

Oct 20 11 • Pavel Chichikov • 0 comments

Stars of Mercy What strange dreams, what nightmares! Aztec temples and cathedrals, Pyramids and blazing terrors, Fortresses, Great Walls And yet three horses graze at night Beneath the silent quarter moon, Rivers flow of endless light, Shine as smooth as stone For one such night I would give all The temples to the sun To […]

Our Lord Deserves It!

Oct 19 11 • Michael Seagriff • 8 comments

Adoration is not for a handful or a selected few. It is for everyone. It is what our loving Lord asks for, and more importantly, what He deserves. Blessed John Paul II went so far as to urge EVERY parish in the world to have Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration. Let me put one hour of Adoration […]

Is Whether Mormons are Christians a Political Question?

Oct 19 11 • Ken Connor • 3 comments

A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic – on the level with a man who says he is a poached egg – or he would be the devil of hell. You must take your […]

The Court of Justice of the EU: No Patent on Embryo Destroying Procedures

Oct 19 11 • Grégor Puppinck, Ph.D • 1 comment

In an important and closely-monitored judgment, the Court of Luxembourg has decided, in the case C-34/10 “Oliver Brüstle v Greenpeace e.V.”, that an invention is excluded from being patented where the process requires either the prior destruction of human embryos or their use as a base material. This is applicable even if, in the patent […]

Some Belated Parental Advice to Protesters

Oct 19 11 • Marybeth Hicks • 17 comments

Call it an occupational hazard, but I can’t look at the Occupy Wall Street protesters without thinking, “Who parented these people?” As a culture columnist, I’ve commented on the social and political ramifications of the “movement” – now known as “OWS” – whose fairyland agenda can be summarized by one of their placards: “Everything for […]

Phill Kline: The Man Who Knows Too Much

Oct 19 11 • Judie Brown • 0 comments

Former attorney general Phill Kline is under attack by the world’s leading proponent of abortion, Planned Parenthood. It isn’t stated that way in the media headlines, of course, but the facts are clearly evident among those who have eyes to see, ears to hear, and the ability to discern the presence of evil. The 1956 […]

Poem: “Holy… GHOST in the GRAVEYARD”

Oct 19 11 • Hilary McRee Flanery • 0 comments

Holy… GHOST in the GRAVEYARD It’s Friday night Of the fourth week of school A bit of a nip Beginning to cool. After supper In the night It’s “Ghost in the graveyard” Children take flight! They run round corners Of neighbors’ homes Hide behind cars With duct-taped chromes. Quiet brown Crackling leaves breeze They all […]

America’s Orwellian Liberalism

Oct 18 11 • Dr. Marvin Folkertsma • 0 comments

The ink was barely dry on the asterisk in Jimmy Hoffa Jr.’s rant about taking out those “sons-of-b*tches”—referring to Tea Party members—when the vice president made his own contribution at a Labor Day rally. “This is a fight for the existence of organized labor,” the veep shouted. “You are the only ones who can stop […]