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Obama State Department Offers Funding to Trans Pressure Groups Overseas

Obama State Department Offers Funding to Trans Pressure Groups Overseas

Jun 14 16 • • 0 comments

The Obama State Department is putting enormous pressure on traditional countries to regularize, promote, and protect what many consider to be disordered, even psychotic behavior, specifically related to those who think they are the wrong sex. The Global Equity Fund, founded in 2011 by the US State Department, is inviting applications for groups that want […]

The Unexpected Snake

The Unexpected Snake

Jun 13 16 • • 0 comments

The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.

The Genius of Jesus: We Learn Through Stories

The Genius of Jesus: We Learn Through Stories

Jun 13 16 • • 0 comments

For me, the cliché “I can read you like a book,” means I understand a person very well, that I can tell what they’re thinking without having to ask. Indeed, we’re all living and breathing books. I have believed that since I began my professional writing career more than 30 years ago. Most of that […]

Extreme Christianity

Extreme Christianity

Jun 13 16 • • 2 comments

I fancy myself a Christian. I was baptized Catholic and have practiced the faith over fifty years. I’m convinced I will need a lifetime of practice to make any noteworthy progress. My love for the Lord is deep. Teaching, writing, and talking about God, His love for humanity, and the necessity to be authentic witnesses, […]

Thousands of Children in Syria Pray for Peace

Thousands of Children in Syria Pray for Peace

Jun 10 16 • • 0 comments

By Eva-Maria Kolmann  NEW YORK—On June 1, thousands of Christian children of all denominations gathered in several Syrian cities to celebrate “International Children’s Day” as a day of prayer for peace. In Homs, the occasion marked the first public event held with children since the liberation of the city by the Syrian regime. Christian television […]

Diocese of Phoenix Partners with Catholic Colleges for Unique Coalition

Diocese of Phoenix Partners with Catholic Colleges for Unique Coalition

Jun 9 16 • • 0 comments

The Diocese of Phoenix is joining with Arizona’s Catholic colleges to form a unique partnership in higher education that stresses an integral human formation at both Catholic and secular universities in the Grand Canyon State, according to school superintendent MaryBeth Mueller. “It is important for the Diocese to support Catholic colleges as an alternative to […]

Vatican Defends Unborn at UN World Summit

Vatican Defends Unborn at UN World Summit

The Vatican reminded world leaders there is no international right to abortion at a global summit in Istanbul last month. The Holy See rejected European proposals to create a new right to abortion under the Geneva Conventions, also known as international humanitarian law or the laws of war. The “Holy See emphasizes that there is […]

Uterus Transplants Are ‘Supremely Risky’

Uterus Transplants Are ‘Supremely Risky’

Jun 7 16 • • 0 comments

It was a first in the United States. A woman, only identified as Lindsey, received a uterus from a deceased woman. Lindsey was born without a uterus, and she was hoping this transplant would enable her to get pregnant. At a press conference at the end of February, Cleveland doctors announced it was the first […]

'Armenians, Whether Catholic or Orthodox, Love the Pope'

‘Armenians, Whether Catholic or Orthodox, Love the Pope’

Jun 6 16 • • 0 comments

By Oliver Maksan NEW YORK—Pope Francis’ upcoming visit to Armenia is boosting spirits and creating high expectations: “The Holy Father is coming to strengthen us Armenians in our faith. We Armenians, no matter whether Catholic or Orthodox, love him. After all, he recognized the genocide of our people. We will always remember him for that.” […]

Poem: "$cientist$"

Poem: “$cientist$”

Jun 3 16 • • 1 comment

$cientist$ $cientist$ $eeker$, $age$, $avior$ $ervant$, $oldier$, $lave$, $keleton$, $oul$, $cientist$ Guy McClung Copyright © 2016

A Message for Those Who Have Despaired of Life

A Message for Those Who Have Despaired of Life

Jun 3 16 • • 0 comments

Saint Anthony of Padua said: “Among all things that are lovable, there is one that is more lovable than the rest, and that most lovable thing is life.” Amen. It is in life that love and joy are possible, not death. The Apostle John tells us that Christ is source of life.[1] Christ came that […]

Got To Have Heart – His and Yours!

Got To Have Heart – His and Yours!

Jun 3 16 • • 0 comments

When God created us, He inserted a heart within our chest, the mechanism that He made to pump blood and oxygen throughout our bodies. We all have one. Most of us rarely take notice of its rhythmic beats. It’s there but we pay little or no conscious attention to it – much like many of […]

Why Everyone Should Oppose Surrogacy

Why Everyone Should Oppose Surrogacy

I am an outspoken critic of gestational surrogacy, in which the gestational mother carries a child to term for another person or couple. I have noticed that many people do not understand the stakes in this issue. Pro-life people think, “Gosh, surrogacy makes babies, how can that be bad?” Feminists think, “Gosh, surrogacy allows people […]

Jesus and the Dead Gorilla in the Looking Glass

Jesus and the Dead Gorilla in the Looking Glass

Jun 1 16 • • 2 comments

Two radically different strains of Americans emerged over the weekend in response to the Cincinnati Zoo killing a gorilla in order to save the life of a four year-old boy who tumbled into his enclosure. After viewing videos of the gorilla dragging the boy haplessly through the water at great speed, and climbing with the […]

<em>Me Before You</em> and the Slow Suicide of the West

Me Before You and the Slow Suicide of the West

Jun 1 16 • • 1 comment

Sometimes movie spoilers are a welcome thing. Several months ago I saw a trailer for the movie Me Before You and got a little excited. A modern romance featuring a disabled main character. It looked so positive and promising. I should have known better. Apparently Me Before You, which hits theaters this weekend, was a […]

In Malawi, Church Eyes Islamic Radicalization With Concern

In Malawi, Church Eyes Islamic Radicalization With Concern

May 31 16 • • 0 comments

By Eva-Maria Kolmann  NEW YORK—A bishop from Malawi has expressed concern about the growing trend towards Islamization in his Mangochi Diocese, in the south of the country. Speaking with international Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need, Bishop Stima Monfort stressed that traditional Islam in Malawi has been moderate and that Christians and Muslims […]

Longings from the Land of Nod

Longings from the Land of Nod

May 27 16 • • 0 comments

I dreamt of sailing a grand tall ship. Initially gentle billows swelled beneath her massive hull.  Gradually the wind began to pick up and filled the ship’s enormous sails.  Silently the large ship started to move as though being pushed by an invisible hand.  At first, the bow gently sliced through the water as we […]

Poem: "I Recognize You, Lord"

Poem: “I Recognize You, Lord”

I Recognize You, Lord When we walk together, discussing scripture as though we’re on the Emmaus Road. I recognize You in the breaking of communal bread at communion, family suppers, and potluck dinners when we talk of You around the table. Your peace, I recognize within – and without as trouble stirs when I forgot […]

Book Review: <em>Find a Real Friend in Jesus</em>

Book Review: Find a Real Friend in Jesus

Find a Real Friend in Jesus: Ten Amazingly Easy Steps by Gary Zimak could as easily have been titled “The Catholic Guide to a Personal Relationship with Jesus.”  Catholics often think of a personal relationship with Jesus as a Protestant idea, but Jesus wants to be close to all of us and not just in […]

The Narrow Way

The Narrow Way

May 25 16 • • 1 comment

The most terrifying aspect of living out Catholic sexuality is that it requires us to unflinchingly kill an entire world of potentials. In this world of dreamers, it can be very difficult to commit oneself to a given way of life simply because it entails giving up all other ways of life. It can be […]

Running to Win the Spiritual Race

Running to Win the Spiritual Race

May 24 16 • • 0 comments

William Shakespeare famously wrote “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players,” and so it is with us. Each of us “performs” each day on the world’s stage before the spectacle of our fellow man and before the saints and angels in heaven, under the watchful eyes of God. We […]

A Tale of Mercy in Rwanda

A Tale of Mercy in Rwanda

May 24 16 • • 0 comments

Hope in the midst of hopelessness “Christ revealed Himself to Sister Faustina between the two World Wars” reflects Fr. Stanislaw. “At a moment of deep hopelessness, when people were afflicted with tragedy after an evil that was done, exactly in this very moment, out of the deepest hopelessness when everything was lost, ruined, God revealed […]

Poem: "Keep Me Not From the Battlefield"

Poem: “Keep Me Not From the Battlefield”

May 23 16 • • 0 comments

Keep Me Not From the Battlefield O my Lord of Wisdom and Grace, Take hold of me and set me in my place. Therein I shall be for You, All that You wanted from me. Take me now and do me this service, That You may begin Your work in me. Let me be the […]

Book Review: <em>The Walls Are Talking</em>

Book Review: The Walls Are Talking

May 23 16 • • 0 comments

The Walls Are Talking: Former Abortion Clinic Workers Tell Their Stories, is Abby Johnson’s second powerful exposé of the abortion industry. A collection of personal testimonies from those who have left the abortion industry, it is a book of woe: broken hearts, dead children, mistreated women and abortion workers whose consciences were systematically seared and […]