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Eric Holder: Deceiver or Deceived?

Attorney General Eric Holder explained the Obama administration’s decision not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) against court challenges by claiming that “a growing consensus accepts that sexual orientation is a characteristic that is immutable.” Gay activists have for years forwarded the notion that same sex attraction (SSA) is immutable — people are […]

Poetry and the Lost Sacramental Sense

Mar 10 11 • Russell Shaw • 1 comment

Some years ago the critic George Steiner published a provocative book called Real Presences . As far as I know, Steiner wasn’t a believer, but his book was a respectful look at something he considered a serious problem: the loss of the sacramental sense in Western culture. It can be read as a kind of […]

What Do You Think: Is Facebook a Place for Priests?

Mar 10 11 • Thomas A. Flynn, LC • 10 comments

It’s true. I do not use Facebook. Now before you jump to any conclusions, I am not Amish and no, I did not grow up in a cave. I do not use Facebook because, quite frankly, I ‘m not sure I should be using it. Like so many things of this world, Facebook is just […]

Lent and Social Media

Mar 10 11 • Mary Biever • 0 comments

A few years ago, I gave up Facebook for Lent. Sort of. I said I would limit myself to 15 minutes daily. I couldn’t leave for 40 days because Facebook was the means by which I communicated with teen members of 4-H (I’m a 4-H leader), and I wanted to keep an eye on my […]

<i>The Wild Wild West</i>: My Father's Example of Forgiveness

The Wild Wild West: My Father’s Example of Forgiveness

Mar 10 11 • Marge Fenelon • 9 comments

My father taught me one of the most amazing lessons I’ve ever learned about forgiveness. It happened when I was a young girl, about eight years of age or so. I was at home with my mother and two sisters just doing things around the house. Suddenly, the atmosphere changed, and there was a flurry […]

Lent, A Time to Open Wide Our Hearts to Christ

Mar 9 11 • Maurice Blumberg • 1 comment

Lo, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me; And suddenly there will come to the temple the LORD whom you seek, And the messenger of the covenant whom you desire. Yes, he is coming, says the LORD of hosts. But who will endure the day of his coming? And who can […]

Lent, Ashes, and Death to Self

Mar 9 11 • Sonja Corbitt • 1 comment

“[F]or dust thou art, and to dust thou shall return” (Gen. 3:19). We are food for worms, and yet our culture, our modernist worldview, pretends that nature can somehow be betrayed. We worship the appearance of youth while we are alive, and when those around us give in to inevitability, we hide the reality of […]

Book Review: <em>The Little Way of Lent</em>

Book Review: The Little Way of Lent

Mar 9 11 • Br. Benet Exton, O.S.B. • 0 comments

The Little Way of Lent: Meditations in the Spirit of St. Therese of Lisieux is a very good tool to use in one’s Lenten journey. It is written by Fr. Gary Caster, a priest of the Diocese of Peoria. He is a contributor to the popular Magnificat magazine and to the EWTN TV network and […]

A Tale of Two Union Disputes:

Mar 9 11 • Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson • 1 comment

There are two high-profile labor disputes in the news these days. One involves Wisconsin’s public-school teachers; the other, the National Football League’s players. I mentioned this to a friend, who responded that the NFL dispute was more troublesome. The very idea of people making such high salaries possibly striking for more irked her. While I […]

Tempted Yet?

Mar 9 11 • Msgr. Richard Soseman • 0 comments

An Ice Cream Sundae. At 11:30 p.m. or so on Mardi Gras. My yearly custom, for many years, was to take a bowl of Whitey’s Ice Cream, cover it with Butterscotch and/or Carmamel and/or Chocolate Sauce, maybe throw on some peanuts, and enjoy my last indulgence before the start of Lent. Ice Cream. I was […]

Join Fr. Frank Pavone’s Urgent Plea: Release Baby Joseph’s Medical Records!

Mar 9 11 • Fr. Frank Pavone • 2 comments

As I’m sure you know, the now-famous case of Baby Joseph in Canada is becoming critical. He could die in the next couple of weeks if his breathing tube is removed as the hospital and the government intend. Baby Joseph is only 13 months old and often has difficulty breathing on his own. He needs […]

Who Does It Hurt?

Mar 9 11 • Mary Anne Moresco • 0 comments

Our then 4-year-old daughter decided that she’d had enough. We’d heard the complaints about a small group of boys in her preschool class and their trucks for a while. I can’t remember now exactly what it was the boys were doing with those trucks, except that they were breaking preschool truck rules in a way […]

Caliphate, Jihad, Sharia: Now What?

Mar 8 11 • Raymond Ibrahim • 1 comment

“You can sit here and talk about jihad from here to doomsday, what will it do? Suppose you prove beyond any shadow of doubt that Islam is constitutionally violent, where do you go from there?” Such was Columbia professor Hamid Dabashi’s response to my assertion that Islamists seek to resurrect the caliphate and wage offensive […]

Spiritually Adopt a Radical Liberal for Lent

Mar 8 11 • Peggy Bowes • 42 comments

The radical liberals are coming for your children. It’s time to wake up, people. These extremists have become emboldened by the decaying morals and rising apathy in America and they are now hard at work re-programming your children through our educational system. A recent article from the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute included several […]

Don’t Let Your Computer Whiz Kid Get You Banned From Google

Mar 8 11 • Katherine Andes • 0 comments

A common mistake many small to medium size businesses make is to rely on the in-house computer whiz-kid for everything related to their websites. The whiz kid might be the controller who is also good with computers, or a sales staffer, or even the college-age son of the owner. These people may be very good […]

Litany of the Everyday

Mar 7 11 • Jake Frost • 0 comments

In our family we observe a common Catholic tradition: whenever we hear a siren, we say a Hail Mary, “for whoever is in need and for the first responders”. Since we live just a few blocks from a fire station, we get lots of practice in this devotion. Which also affords our daughter Liz, now […]

Does it Really Matter?

Mar 7 11 • Patti Maguire Armstrong • 0 comments

While getting ready for a dance at the University of Detroit during a freshman college orientation weekend, I had a life changing experience. It was a moment of awakening that has stayed with me for over thirty years. The roommate I was assigned for the weekend was a tall, slim girl with short black hair. […]

May You Rest in Peace, Dr. Nathanson

Mar 7 11 • Steven W. Mosher • 0 comments

This past year has been one of personal loss for me. This past April our founder, Father Paul Marx, O.S.B., Ph.D., passed away in the odor of sanctity. Now we have lost another great pro-lifer—and personal friend of mine—Dr. Bernard Nathanson. I first met Dr. Nathanson, fittingly enough, at a 1985 conference in Washington, D.C., […]

Christians in Pakistan “Oppressed, Repressed and Depressed”

Mar 7 11 • ACN-USA News • 1 comment

The outlook for Christians in Pakistan is bleak according to the country’s Catholic leader, who described how Shahbaz Bhatti’s death has robbed minority groups of a “great leader” and left them feeling “oppressed, repressed and depressed.” Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha of Lahore said the murder of the Federal Minister for Minorities showed how extremist religious parties […]

When Winston Warned America: Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” at 65

Mar 7 11 • Dr. Paul Kengor • 2 comments

It was 65 years ago, March 5, 1946, when Winston Churchill delivered his “Iron Curtain” speech in Fulton, Missouri. It was a speech that rocked the world and changed history. By then, Churchill was no longer British prime minister. He and his conservatives had been replaced by Clement Attlee and the Labour Party, which busily nationalized […]

Who Wants to be Miss America When You Can be Miss Western Civilization?

Mar 6 11 • Virginia Fisher Murdoch • 4 comments

I grew up in Bombingham at a time in history when the unholy trinity was “Catholics, niggers, and Jews.” Somehow, I rejected that fairly early as I rode my ice blue bike with the white banana seat in the shadow of Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church. I had earned that bike by going to summer school […]

As His Beatification Nears, the JPII Generation Tells Its Story

Mar 6 11 • Mary Kochan • 0 comments

Beloved Pope John Paul II, already acclaimed “the Great” by so many, shaped the faith of millions of Catholics for whom he was the face and mind of the Church all during their formative years. With his beatification nearing, we are journeying together to a very special Lent. In addition to the graces of any Lenten […]

Book Review: <i>When Mommy Loses Her Hair</i>

Book Review: When Mommy Loses Her Hair

Mar 6 11 • Carolyn Moebest • 0 comments

I had a good laugh with my sister today. This last year has been a tough one for my family. My father Angelo, who was never supposed to die, died in June — of cancer. My youngest sister still pretends he is alive. I know that most people would suggest that she see a therapist […]

Mosques Flourish in America; Churches Perish in Muslim World

Mar 6 11 • Raymond Ibrahim • 4 comments

As Muslims prepare to erect a mega-mosque near the site of the 9/11 atrocities, it is well to reflect that the sort of tolerance, or indifference, that allows them to do so, is far from reciprocated to churches in the Muslim world. I speak not of Islamist attacks against churches—such as the New Year attack […]