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Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles?

Some 22 years ago when I was being catechized, preparing to enter into the Church, I was much troubled by the Eucharistic phenomenon, transubstantiation. As a physicist, I could not understand how the wafer could become the flesh of Christ and the wine His Sacred Blood. The wise old priest who was instructing me asked: […]

Abstinence Education Works, Condoms Don’t: New Teen Pregnancy Data

Jul 4 16 • Rebecca Oas Ph.D. • 2 comments

New evidence from the United States suggests abstinence education is a reason why teen pregnancy has fallen to historically low rates. Nearly sixty percent of high school students had never had sex, up from 46% in 1991. Meanwhile, another new report links condom giveaways in schools with increases in teen pregnancy. This investigation of the […]

Poem: “Praise Christ our Purifier”

Jul 4 16 • Mary Harwell Sayler • 1 comment

Praise Christ our Purifier Who filters the spite from our souls and decontaminates our spirits, Who cleanses us from all dross and removes anything ill or gross from our memories and old ways of doing things. Christ we praise for bathing us with His Blood on His cross of wood, cleansing us from sin, and […]

Don’t Feed the Trolls – It Just Encourages Them

Jul 1 16 • Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse • 2 comments

As an observer of the human species, I believe I have discovered a new type. I call them “paid internet protesters,” or “PIPs” in internet-speak, who are all armchair culture warriors. Dr. Rachel Lu, a senior contributor at The Federalist, wrote an article called, “The LGBT Movement Will Self-Destruct.” My response was titled, “The LGBT […]

Universal Call to Detachment

Jul 1 16 • Mike Eisenbath • 0 comments

In a recent conversation, I mentioned to a friend that I had started writing a new book. He immediately seemed interested and asked about the subject. “Well,” I said, “it’s about how we’re all called to be saints and what that requires of us.” “I look at a lot of the qualities of saints and […]

The Fight for Religious Freedom in Catholic Schools

Jul 1 16 • Dan Guernsey • 2 comments

We are now in the Fortnight for Freedom — a two-week period the U.S. bishops have set aside for Catholics to appreciate our God-given right to religious freedom, the “first freedom” affirmed by the Bill of Rights. Our First Amendment freedoms are endangered in a myriad of ways today, and the threats to Catholic schools are greater […]

The Allahu-Akbar Escalation

Jun 30 16 • E. L. Core • 1 comment

What will it take to make us believe them?

Poem: “O Eternal Spring”

Jun 30 16 • Joann Nelander • 0 comments

O Eternal Spring O Eternal Spring O sweet refreshment of my soul Look on me And draw me ever nearer Thee. In the furnace of Your Heart Make me like unto Thee, That my mortal frame May melt and meld, To be of Thee, eternally. © 2016 Joann Nelander

God Works Through Weakness to Bring Strength to His People

Jun 29 16 • Mark Davis Pickup • 0 comments

It was five years ago. The memory is still in my mind.I entered my room to discover my five-year-old grandson looking up at a large crucifix on the wall above my bed. He turned and asked if that really happened. “Yes it did,” I replied. “Did Jesus die?” he asked, turning back to look at […]

Today’s Betrayal of Women by the Female Block on SCOTUS

Jun 27 16 • Dr. Gerard Nadal • 1 comment

If ever there were a law that so embodied the original argument in favor of abortion, it was the Texas law struck down today by the U.S. Supreme Court. If ever there were a mockery of all that the early proponents of abortion held dear, it was made by the united votes of the three […]

Transgender Health Experts Contradict Themselves in New Publication

Jun 27 16 • Rebecca Oas Ph.D. • 0 comments

A leading medical journal published its first series on transgender health and reveals what appear to be major contradictions. On the one hand the journal argues there is nothing medically wrong with transgenderism. On the other hand, it argues transgenderism is a condition that requires medical attention, setting up transgenderism as the first non-medical condition […]

Poem: “I Am: The Divine Mystery of the Triduum”

Jun 25 16 • Avellina Balestri • 0 comments

I Am: The Divine Mystery of the Triduum (Note: As a Catholic Christian, I have just recently celebrated the Triduum marking the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ. As a student of Celtic literature, I have always been drawn to the style of the ancient Druidic bards, on which this poem is based.) I Am […]

In Armenia, the Pope Will Visit a Very Special Convent

Jun 24 16 • ACN-USA News • 0 comments

By M.Z. de la Morena GYUMR?, Armenia—Sister Arousiag proudly points out the dormitory of the convent of Our Lady of Armenia here: it is where Pope Francis will rest for a few hours on the second day of his June 24-26, 2016 visit to Armenia. “It is the best room we have,” she assures a […]

Poem: “The Baptist by the River Jordan”

Jun 24 16 • Michele Marie • 0 comments

The Baptist by the River Jordan This one is like a comet Long ago promised A white force sent from the heavens To sear the earth- He roams in leather and camel’s hair Set in a wilderness mist Skin black as the fishermen of summer No earthly prince, and yet In droves they gather From every […]

Catholic Colleges: ‘Gender Identity’ in Title IX Threatens Religious Freedom

Jun 24 16 • Adam Cassandra • 0 comments

In letters to the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) the presidents of five Catholic colleges cited their institutions’ faithfulness to Church teaching in explaining how the expansion of Title IX to include “gender identity” posed a significant threat to the religious mission of the colleges. College requests for religious exemptions from […]

Eyelash to Eyelash with God

Jun 23 16 • Nicholas Senz • 0 comments

Whenever I show anyone a picture of my beautiful, bouncing baby boy, inevitably one of the first three things they say is, “Oh my goodness, his eyelashes are so long!” (The other two are some variation of “Wow, he’s big!” and “He is so handsome!” I’m not biased—just reporting the facts.) It’s true, his eyelashes […]

Benevolent Global Village is a Myth

Jun 23 16 • Mark Davis Pickup • 1 comment

The architects of a new world order often speak of a global village. Hillary Clinton tells us that it takes a village to raise a child. Are they speaking of the same village? If there is a benevolent global village then where is it and why is so much of humanity exiled from it? If the […]

Homosexual Marriage Not a Right Says European Human Rights Court

Jun 22 16 • Stefano Gennarini, J.D. • 1 comment

A unanimous decision of the European Court of Human Rights has once again said that homosexual marriage is not a human right under European law. Almost one year after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the Obergfell v. Hodges case, which imposed homosexual marriage on the entire United States, the European Court opted with caution, […]

Many California Docs Say No to Assisted Suicide!

Jun 21 16 • Judie Brown • 0 comments

This past October, California governor Jerry Brown signed an assisted suicide law making it legal in the state for “physicians to provide lethal prescriptions to mentally competent adults who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness and face the expectation that they will die within six months.” However, not all medical professionals and hospitals agree […]

‘Mother Teresa Was the Best Missionary of the Millennium’

Jun 21 16 • ACN-USA News • 0 comments

By Eva-Maria Kolmann NEW YORK—An Indian prelate has described Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, who will be canonized by Pope Francis Sept. 4, 2016, as the “best missionary of the millennium.” Bishop Salvadore Lobo of Baruipur, who headed the canonization committee, reported that Christ had said to Mother Teresa in a vision: “Go into the houses, […]

Poem: “On the Pages Before Me”

Jun 20 16 • L. Lapiz • 0 comments

On the Pages Before Me In the evening hours, When the night is still. Comes the Lord my God, To his servant. There he sits awaiting, The God of all Glory. And wonders, wonders, wonders, How is this so? Where in his life, Had he been so good? How in his life could he, Achieve […]

Poem: “Reaching Eyes”

Jun 15 16 • Gabriel Garnica • 0 comments

Reaching Eyes A hand reaches out, with eyes behind and yet I may not glance, to avoid the dance of charity not felt for I am a judge in motion ever ready to drop my gavel deciding who is true or false when in reality it is I who should be the first defendant resplendent […]

Movie Review: Me Before You

Jun 15 16 • Sr. Helena Burns, fsp • 1 comment

WARNING: I TELL YOU THE END OF THE FILM IN THE NEXT SENTENCE. Due to the serious subject matter of the film Me Before You (euthanasia), and the fact that most people already know how the movie ends (euthanasia), combined with the fact that the film is based on a novel by the same name […]

Fight for the Right

Jun 14 16 • E. L. Core • 0 comments

He would know.