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The Amazing Power of Checklists for Web Pages and More!

Checklists have been with us for many years, especially in critical industries where a mistake could make the difference between life and death. We’ve all seen footage of pilots in the cockpit doing a careful checklist before takeoff. And we know the ground crew does similar check listing before each takeoff. I suspect commercial aircraft […]

Church Bombed in Iraq

Aug 3 11 • ACN-USA News • 0 comments

A leading Catholic bishop in Iraq has spoken of his people’s shock and courage after a car bomb outside a church left 13 people injured. Archbishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk said he and his faithful “will never stop witnessing to Christ” in spite of the bomb which went off directly outside the Holy Family Syrian […]

Polygamists Exploit Same-Sex Precedents

Aug 3 11 • Joseph Backholm • 0 comments

The last thing in the world same-sex “marriage” advocates want to talk about is polygamy. If you ever tell them marriage recognition for same-sex relationships requires recognition of polygamy as well, the usual response is, “we’re not talking about polygamy.” Nor will they, even if you want them to. Polygamy exposes the weakness of the […]

Catholic Bishops, CRS Condemn Proposed Foreign Aid Budget Cuts

Aug 3 11 • Catholic Relief Services • 0 comments

The foreign assistance appropriations bill proposed by a House subcommittee “makes morally unacceptable, even deadly cuts to poverty-focused humanitarian and development assistance,” said Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany, chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on International Justice and Peace, and Ken Hackett, President of Catholic Relief Services, in a […]

What is God Collecting from You?

Aug 3 11 • Cheryl Dickow • 0 comments

What you put in the collection basket says a lot about you and where you are at in your journey. Some of us put in our 10% tithing without a second thought. Some of us put in the few “extra” dollars we may have. Some of us struggle with the need to “give” to the […]

Distributism and the Health Care System, Part 2: Ending Oligarchies and Monopolies

Aug 3 11 • John Médaille • 2 comments

It should be clear that the vast majority of current thinking about the problem does little to address the underlying causes of our dilemma [see Part 1]. And this is odd because the mechanics of prices are well known and have been since the time of Aristotle. No competent economist of whatever school disputes these […]

USCCB: HHS Must Think Catholics are Fools

Aug 3 11 • Kathleen Gilbert • 0 comments

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) sharply criticized a new HHS “preventive services” mandate requiring private health plans to cover sterilization and all FDA-approved contraceptives, including drugs which can abort a child before and after implantation in the womb, with no co-pay. “Although this new rule gives the agency the discretion to authorize a […]

Young Voices Speak the Truth about Human Life to United Nations

Aug 3 11 • Lauren Funk • 0 comments

The enthusiastic voices of pro-life youth from around the world dominated the events of [last] week’s High Level Meeting on Youth at the United Nations, drawing the attention of UN bureaucrats and delegates alike. “I keep running into all these pro-lifers, they’re everywhere…in fact most of the people I’ve interviewed are pro-life,” a young woman working […]

Poem: “Love as Mongrel”

Aug 3 11 • Pavel Chichikov • 0 comments

Love as Mongrel We will be forgotten Here and on this world As worlds themselves go rotten Dispersed into the void Paul the last disciple Said wisdom, strength of will Loveless be and futile As empty broken shells But even love as mongrel Deformed with grief and rage And savaged by the devil Will long […]

When Did the Redefinition of Marriage Really Happen?

Aug 2 11 • Dr. Mark Discher • 0 comments

New York is now the fifth state in which activist judges have imposed legalized homosexual marriage. Conservatives are once again lamenting this historic “redefinition of marriage.” But they’re wrong. The historic redefinition of marriage took place at the seventh Lambeth conference in 1930 when the Anglican Church made it licit for its members intentionally to […]

What the Catholic Church Teaches on Evangelization

Aug 2 11 • Maurice Blumberg • 0 comments

Author’s Note: I read with interest Mary Kochan’s article on the Catholic Lane website, “Catholics, Please Say Something about Jesus!” I was somewhat surprised by the passionate responses, both pro and con, to her article. As I said in my own response to Mary’s article: “I think the argument should not be over what you […]

New York Times Fans Dissent

Aug 2 11 • Bill Donohue • 0 comments

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a news article in [Sunday’s] New York Times on the Catholic Church: A priest, Fr. Roy Bourgeois, decides to break with the Catholic Church’s teachings on ordination and “ordains” a woman in an illicit ceremony. He is given three years to recant, but he refuses, and is now […]

Only in California? Don’t Bet on It

Aug 2 11 • Marybeth Hicks • 1 comment

I recently heard the first radio ad of the season for school supplies, so it won’t be long before the bell rings and America’s children file back into the classroom for another year. Perfect timing for a pop quiz. Everyone grab a No. 2 lead pencil and join in. Question 1: At the end of […]

Another Islamist Soldier Turns Terrorist in Texas

Aug 2 11 • Daniel Pipes • 4 comments

U.S. Army Private First Class Nasser Jason Abdo, 21, first made the news last August when, arguing that his Islamic faith contradicts serving in the American military, he filed for conscientious objector (C.O.) status. Referring to current American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Abdo asserted that a Muslim “is not allowed to participate in an […]

AIDS and Population Control: Increasing Women’s Risk

Aug 2 11 • Steven W. Mosher • 0 comments

with Jennifer I Kimball, Be.L. Thirty years after the Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported the first US case of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), the disease continues to stretch its shroud of death across the world. This, despite the billions of dollars that have been invested in the development of vaccines, spent on anti-retroviral […]

Now is the Time

Aug 2 11 • Jake Frost • 0 comments

My brother John has a great photo from the birth of his first child. It’s a picture of his daughter’s unbelievably tiny baby-hand gripping his finger. His daughter’s whole hand, so perfectly formed and so amazingly small, can only just wrap around John’s bony knuckle. You just can’t conceive how they were ever that little. […]

Poem: “Speaking Other Language”

Aug 2 11 • Mary Harwell Sayler • 0 comments

Speaking Other Language What do we know of the cool brook’s rising slowly from its rock-source: trickling, winding, fading among the lilied grasses then suddenly splitting the tomb of another field where cows laze in live-oak shade, waiting good-naturedly for just such a miracle to happen? Mary Harwell Sayler

Two Negotiators: Obama vs. Reagan

Aug 1 11 • Dr. Paul Kengor • 0 comments

Presidential scholars write on all sorts of aspects of the American presidency. Among the most interesting have been several important works on so-called presidential character and temperament. And when it comes to the temperament of our current president, we’ve learned quite a bit during the recent debate over the debt ceiling. The most illuminating report […]

Life-Changing Lessons from St. Alphonsus Liguori

Aug 1 11 • Trent Beattie • 0 comments

What does a man do after reading powerful, potentially life-changing words from a saint? Hopefully he actually changes his life. Additionally, he could slice and dice the words up, put them in a book, and try to get as many other people as possible to read them. That’s what I did after reading the works […]

Re-branding the College of St. Mary Magdalen

Aug 1 11 • Patti Maguire Armstrong • 1 comment

The College of St. Mary Magdalen in Warner, New Hampshire, has had a make-over. On October 16 of 2010, this small liberal arts college rededicated itself to rigorous intellectual and spiritual formation while unveiling a new name: the College of Saint Mary Magdalen. The name was modified to serve notice that the Catholic identity remained […]

Poem: “Chance”

Aug 1 11 • Pavel Chichikov • 0 comments

Chance We can’t go on the way we go, In moving darkness ruin grows, Living in my eighth decade I see the bedlam we have made What’s to stop the monstrous form That we have made, already born Engendered of a crippled lust Conceived within time’s uterus Matured become the king or queen Or both, […]

Poem: “Your Hand I’d Kiss”

Jul 31 11 • Hilary McRee Flanery • 0 comments

Your Hand I’d Kiss Your hand, I’d kiss But not for this, The mundane games Men play. Your hand, I’d kiss For doing this, Absolve my sins Away. Your hand, I’d kiss But not for this, That any man Can do. Your hand, I’d kiss, For doing this God’s strong, His choice, the few. Your […]

Miracle of the Loaves

Jul 30 11 • Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. • 2 comments

Only one miracle of Jesus is recorded in all four gospels — the multiplication of the loaves and fishes. I once heard a homilist give what he said was the real meaning of the story: the people in the crowd took out food they were hiding under their cloaks and shared it. Jesus’ preaching inspired […]

The Significance of Congressman Allen West

Jul 30 11 • Dr. Marvin Folkertsma • 0 comments

Amidst the rhetorical pyrotechnics surrounding July’s debt-ceiling debates, another controversy streaked across the sky like a comet, flared for an instant, then receded into the maelstrom of ongoing partisan attacks. The shooting star in question involved an exchange between two of Congress’ most controversial members, Allen West (R-Fla.) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), whose regard […]