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Tiny Violins and Tissues

Oct 13 11 • Karen J Rinehart • 0 comments

Oh, look: Another study conducted on what the undervalued, average American Housewife/ Full Time Mom would earn if she actually received an annual salary. Oh, look: More bank executives getting paid millions of dollars to not work. That’s right, Bank of America just fired Sallie Krawcheck, (now former) president of wealth and investment management and […]

UN Women: Right to Abortion = Right to Justice

Oct 13 11 • Timothy Herrmann • 0 comments

While many Americans took last Monday off for Columbus day, the Third Committee of the General Assembly at the United Nations was meeting in its 66th session to discuss Item 28 (a,b) concerning the Advancement of Women internationally. Arriving at the UN earlier than usual, we were surprised to find the Third Committee present in […]

Graceful Surprises Build a Family

Oct 13 11 • Marge Fenelon • 0 comments

Twenty-six years ago today, I gave birth to our first born. Amazing how those years slipped by so quickly. Now he’s a grown man with hopes and dreams of his own, and I feel privileged at being able to witness how they unfold. I remember the day I found out I was pregnant with him. […]

Poem: “The Call”

Oct 13 11 • Philip Kolin • 0 comments

The Call Two old aunts After many decades were called To raise an orphaned nephew Angels left behind but could not tame Into holiness; he was empty, So they feasted him On their sacrificing. When he needed gates, They petitioned a builder For a small house; they didn’t own A down payment. Their prayers And […]

How to Change the World

Oct 12 11 • Genevieve Kineke • 1 comment

The alignment of a few highly visible events this month provide an opportunity to consider the most important topic before us: life. There is the death of Apple founder, Steve Jobs; there is the 40 Days for Life campaign that takes place around the country; and finally there are the “Occupy” sit-ins around the country, […]

Love Is Strong As Death

Oct 12 11 • Philip Primeau • 0 comments

What has heaven to do with earth? Does the Divine One care about the comings and goings of men? After all, He is “the God of gods and the Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome” (Deuteronomy 10:17). Even Solomon wondered whether or not the Creator really deigns to walk among His creatures: […]

We’ve Been ZIRPed

Oct 12 11 • Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson • 3 comments

It isn’t easy to earn interest income these days. Interest rates on government T-bills, banks’ savings accounts, and certificates of deposit are microscopic. You can blame our government and central bank. They have “ZIRPed” millions of American savers. Here are the details: According to the U.S. Treasury Department, the average interest rate paid on federal […]

Optimum Global Energy Supply: A Technological Summary

Oct 12 11 • Michael Baruzzini • 7 comments

The purpose of this essay is to introduce you to the self-replicating organic fusion energy converter. Fusion energy, as you may know, is the dream of engineers. Fusion energy is produced when atoms collide together and fuse to form new elements. Now, when this fusion process occurs, energy is released. The challenge in energy production […]

Appreciating the Simple Moments

Oct 12 11 • Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur • 0 comments

Today was a beautiful fall day and I spent some of it outside blowing bubbles with a two-year-old. I would blow the bubbles and he would chase them and try to catch them – giggling with delight the whole time. As I blew the bubbles again and again, I couldn’t help but reflect on the […]

Wishing I was Wrong About the Occupiers

Oct 12 11 • Marybeth Hicks • 3 comments

I hate to say it, but watching the various YouTube videos of the “Occupy Wall Street” protests and reading accounts of protesters’ goals and “demands” prompts me to shake my head with a resigned “I told you so.” I’ve been warning this was coming. Recently, Regnery Publishing released my new book, Don’t Let the Kids […]

Poem: “The Mountains Tremble”

Oct 12 11 • Pavel Chichikov • 0 comments

The Mountains Tremble How many useless words and few: The loving prophet and the fool, For one the Father that He knew And for the other useless tools A fool is like a winter rain That rises up before it sinks With clouds of gray prophetic pain Profound as death before he thinks No one […]

Major Pro-Life Legal/Scientific Document Launched at UN Headquarters

Oct 11 11 • Austin Ruse • 0 comments

It is commonplace now for UN officials and American law professors to tell foreign governments that they are required by international law to liberalize their abortion laws. Just last month the UN Special Rapporteur on Health issued a report making this claim. The Secretary General endorsed his report. Shortly thereafter the UN High Commission on […]

The Most Important Person

Oct 11 11 • Jake Frost • 2 comments

Every child deserves to be the most important person in the world to someone. The ever pithy Lou Holtz, who said of himself: “I’m so old I don’t even buy green bananas anymore,” once made an observation to the effect of: “80% of people don’t care about you one way or the other. 19% of […]

Obama, the Pill, and Catholics: The Sham

Oct 11 11 • Judie Brown • 0 comments

The Obama administration is close to proclaiming from its glass mountaintop the final decision to require most health insurers to cover contraceptives, the morning-after pill, and elective sterilization. The public comment period is over. The people have spoken into that vacuum known as government of the people, by the people, and for the administration. The […]

Ark of Grace Ch.6, Mary and the Brothers of Jesus

Oct 11 11 • Carlos Caso-Rosendi • 0 comments

Chapter 6 Mary and the Brothers of Jesus If Mary is ever-virgin, who are then the “brothers” of Jesus mentioned in several places in the Gospels? Mark 6, 1-4 — He went away from there and came to his own country; and his disciples followed him. And on the sabbath he began to teach in […]

Poem: “All God’s Creatures”

Oct 11 11 • Hilary McRee Flanery • 0 comments

All God’s Creatures My house It has some termites. My house It is their feast. My house God gave Them termites He really likes them beast. But just like me Them termites Were made by God Creator And God His Greatest work? The termite Exterminator! Hilary McRee Flanery

The Miles Jesu Intervention: Through the Eyes of a Former Member

Oct 10 11 • Andrew Sullivan • 0 comments

Andrew Sullivan was a member of Miles Jesu for 28 years, a priest for seven years and served as General Secretary of the Society of Miles Jesufor four years. Miles Jesu, a Catholic religious congregation underwent a visitation by the Vicariate of Rome in 2007 and later a Commissioner was appointed to take control and re-found […]

Discovering Jesus on Vacation Adventures

Oct 10 11 • Mary Biever • 1 comment

When my family visits other parishes during our travels, we’re touched and uplifted spiritually. If I copied Geoffrey Chaucer and his tales of Canterbury, I could call them Biever Tales. But then people would think of something else, and my purpose would be lost. In Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, many pilgrims share stories on their journey. In their […]

A Renewed Call to Faithful Citizenship and the Priority of Life

Oct 10 11 • Fr. Frank Pavone • 0 comments

[Author’s note: This week the US House of Representatives will vote on a very important Bill, the Protect Life Act (HR 358) which would bar abortion funding in the President’s health care law. Call your Representative in Congress today and ask him or her to vote YES on the Protect Life Act. You can call the […]

Christian Maturity and Mitt Romney

Oct 10 11 • Vince DePalma • 2 comments

In 1983, I became an ordained minister in the Southern Baptist Convention, and I arrived there, ironically, thanks in part to the loving support of several good Mormons. Prior to my ordination I had studied in a variety of schools including Bucknell University, Bangor Theological, Pacific School of Religion, Jesuit School of Theology, and Golden […]

Living What We Believe as Catholic Men

Oct 10 11 • Maurice Blumberg • 2 comments

When Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi* he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” They replied, “Some say John the Baptist,* others Elijah, still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter said […]

Looking for Salvation in All the Wrong Places

Oct 10 11 • Ken Connor • 1 comment

The need to worship is hardwired into the human psyche. Yet, as unfashionable as it’s become in the last century to worship the God of Creation, the same cannot be said of the worship of political heroes. The most notable — and horrific — examples that come to mind are found in the frenzied, almost religious zeal […]

Poem: “Where was the Wind?”

Oct 10 11 • Pavel Chichikov • 0 comments

Where was the Wind? She was riding the powerful gelding, Jack, In the shadows cast on the narrow trail When the trees above her, soaring poplars Whipped like masts from side to side Poles on a ship in a switching gale Pitching hard in baffled seas No wind there to move the trees The rushing […]

Poem: “Like Jonah”

Oct 9 11 • Michele Marie • 0 comments

Like Jonah Hands shaking Stiff body aching Face white as a lily Your story so familiar Three days in the belly of that whale Forced your faith You set off running To where before you dared not go And saved a nation. I laugh because Now I understand Like so many others, Hands shaking Stiff […]