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The Forty Day Challenge: A Lenten Marriage Builder

Mar 5 11 • Heidi Hess Saxton • 0 comments

This week I’ve been reading Servant of God Fulton Sheen’s Love, Marriage and Children, and was struck by how much this man – a celibate who died more than thirty years ago – understood about contemporary married life. (His profound understanding of the human condition is partly responsible for the fact that his nationally syndicated […]

Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door

Mar 5 11 • Kathleen Woodman • 0 comments

We and our 4 daughters, ages 13 down to 1, needed a home, and we needed it soon. Our 6-month lease was soon to expire, and our family was living a make-do lifestyle in an apartment. Everything about our living space spoke the language of “temporary” — some nearly-weightless plastic chairs; a white, wobbly table with […]

The Dating Inbox

Mar 4 11 • Amy Bonaccorso • 0 comments

When dating, women can get concerned about preserving their sense of privacy. Boundaries are important – what if a guy turns out to be a pest? Here’s a quick tip: Create an email address specifically for the early stages of dating. Most of us have easy access to free email providers like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, […]

My Favorite Big Book – The Perfect Lenten/Easter Read for your Child

Mar 4 11 • Sarah Reinhard • 1 comment

I’ve looked high and low for years for the Catholic equivalent of the Bible story books I had as a child. It’s not that I don’t like the ones I had as a child; it’s that I want to share the delight of Tobit, the wonder of Sirach, and the adventure of Maccabees with my […]

Movie Review: <em>The Adjustment Bureau</em>

Movie Review: The Adjustment Bureau

Mar 4 11 • Aaron Maguire Armstrong • 0 comments

If every decision we make causes ripples that affect our ultimate future, what chance do we really have to end up where we are supposed to be? Some of the seemingly tiniest choices I’ve made throughout the course of my life, have, in hindsight, resulted in life altering changes. I can trace these moments back […]

Three Years after <em>Summorum Pontificum</em>

Three Years after Summorum Pontificum

Mar 4 11 • Michael J. Miller • 0 comments

In his letter accompanying the 2007 Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, Pope Benedict XVI invited the bishops to report in three years on their experiences in implementing the new liturgical legislation, which is designed to make Mass celebrated according to the 1962 Missal more widely available. Last fall the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei began to review […]

I Married A Sock Addict

Mar 4 11 • Karen J Rinehart • 4 comments

My mother says she’s color blind from a lifetime of matching socks. As I celebrate my 24th year of doing Scott Rinehart’s laundry, I now know why. According to my husband’s sock drawer, there are 17 shades of navy blue. Four of those shades belong on over the calf socks while the other thirteen are […]

Who is Behind the New Roman Missal?

Mar 4 11 • Ebeth Weidner • 1 comment

By now we all know that a new Roman Missal is on its way to use in our parishes. If you are like me, you want to know how and why things come about. So, consistant with this, I looked up the committees instrumental in the revising and establishment of our Roman Missals, past and present, here are my […]

Huawei? No way

Mar 3 11 • Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. • 1 comment

Last summer, a Chinese telecommunications giant founded by a former People’s Liberation Army (PLA) engineer was rebuffed in its effort to sell vast quantities of equipment to Sprint Nextel – an American company that provides communication services to the U.S. Defense Department and other government agencies. An interagency group known as the Committee on Foreign […]

Pro-life Advocates in Downtown Chicago to Launch Groundbreaking 40 Days for Life Campaign

Mar 3 11 • 40 Days for Life • 0 comments

“On March 9, pro-life advocates from downtown Chicago will join with people of faith from many other communities across the country to kick off our own version of the groundbreaking 40 Days for Life campaign,” said Christina Skelley, director of the Chicago-Old Town 40 Days for Life campaign. 40 Days for Life is an intensive […]

Improve Your Website Weekly

Mar 3 11 • Katherine Andes • 0 comments

When a merchant opens his store, he works very hard to get everything ready. He selects, purchases, and arranges furniture, fixtures, displays, decorations, and signage. He carefully selects his merchandise and ensures that it’s displayed with proper lighting. He hires and trains personnel. He plans his marketing efforts and allocates a certain amount of money […]

Big Grace and the Gift of Faith

Mar 2 11 • Amanda Vienne • 0 comments

A few months ago, an acquaintance told me she was in a RCIA program. I don’t call her a “friend” because I really do not know her quite well. I think she is a nice person who has the potential to be a good friend but my knowledge of her and her life is very […]

The Global Missal Dissent System

Mar 2 11 • Louie Verrecchio • 8 comments

Over the past year, I’ve spoken with countless individuals – from regular lay folk to educators, deacons to bishops – about the great blessing that is coming our way in the new English translation of the Roman Missal, and it seems to me that the overwhelming majority of Catholics tend to share my enthusiasm for […]

Global is the New Local

Mar 2 11 • Mary Biever • 0 comments

The world wide web has made the other side of the planet a little bit closer place to connect. With the Internet, global is increasingly our new local. When my husband and I started Copper Lion, Inc.’s digital retouching and illustration services to photographers and ad agencies 10 years ago, we found Copper Lion, Inc. could quickly service […]

Blasphemy Laws and the Death of Shahbaz Bhatti

Mar 2 11 • The Becket Fund • 0 comments

The Becket Fund grieves the assassination of Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan’s Minister for Minorities Affairs, today. Mr. Bhatti was gunned down leaving his home on Wednesday morning in Islamabad. He was an outspoken critic of Pakistan’s draconian blasphemy law, which prescribes death for offending Islam. “The last time that Mr. Bhatti was in the offices of […]

Jesus before Pilate: Excerpt from <em>Jesus of Nazareth, Part 2</em> by Joseph Ratzinger

Jesus before Pilate: Excerpt from Jesus of Nazareth, Part 2 by Joseph Ratzinger

Mar 2 11 • Pope Benedict XVI • 3 comments

An excerpt from Jesus of Nazareth PART TWO Holy Week From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection by Joseph Ratzinger Pope Benedict XVI Jesus before Pilate Jesus’ interrogation before the Sanhedrin had concluded in the way Caiaphas had expected: Jesus was found guilty of blasphemy, for which the penalty was death. But since only […]

Mystery of the Betrayer: Excerpt from <em>Jesus of Nazareth, Part 2</em> by Joseph Ratzinger

Mystery of the Betrayer: Excerpt from Jesus of Nazareth, Part 2 by Joseph Ratzinger

Mar 2 11 • Pope Benedict XVI • 3 comments

An excerpt from Jesus of Nazareth PART TWO Holy Week From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection by Joseph RatzingerPope Benedict XVI The mystery of the betrayer he account of the washing of the feet presents us with two different human responses to this gift, exemplified by Judas and Peter. Immediately after the exhortation […]

Catholics and Their Rosaries!

Mar 2 11 • Cheryl Dickow • 0 comments

Let’s face it; Catholics love Mary and the Rosary. Trying to sift through all the Marian devotions and offerings is testament to that fact. Some Catholics are accused of “worshipping” her and relying on rote, impersonal prayers while holding beads; but those of us in the know understand that our love for her and for […]

Hiding Out at the Clock Tower Resort

Mar 1 11 • G. Tracy Mehan, III • 0 comments

Driving up to Madison, Wisconsin, on Interstate 90, from Chicago’s O’Hare airport on business last week, a colleague pointed out the Clock Tower Resort as we passed through Rockford, Illinois. This establishment was recently elevated to the status of a historic landmark by the Wisconsin Democratic senators who decamped there with the aim of blocking […]

Solidarity Can Transform the World

Mar 1 11 • Kenneth F. Hackett • 0 comments

The Lenten season is full of discussion about sacrifice, what it means and how it connects you and me to the selflessness that is at the center of our commitment to Christ. Consider what Pope Benedict XVI said in his Lenten message this year about fasting and the other sacrifices we make for Lent: By […]

Missionary Intention for March 2011

Mar 1 11 • Catholic Lane Administrator • 0 comments

That the Holy Spirit may give light and strength to those in many regions of the world who are persecuted and discriminated against because of the Gospel

An International Right to Life

Feb 28 11 • Fr. Frank Pavone • 0 comments

Advocates of legal abortion want more than to keep Roe vs. Wade intact. They want to establish an international right to abortion, enforced on an international level, and overriding the decisions of individual nations to protect their own preborn children. But, as usual, these people have it not only wrong, but completely upside-down. The international […]

Book Review: <i>Breakfast with the Pope</i>

Book Review: Breakfast with the Pope

Feb 28 11 • Amy Bonaccorso • 2 comments

If you are tired of sugar coated Catholic prose, and want a more raw account of a person who tries to lead a Catholic life, drop what you are doing and buy Breakfast with the Pope. Click the link and insta-order. Seriously. Susan Vigilante chronicles her struggle with infertility, her quest to become a writer, […]

The Debt-Ceiling Dance and the Annual Budget Ritual

Feb 28 11 • Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson • 2 comments

Once again it’s time to talk about raising the statutory limit on the U.S. government’s debt—the so-called “debt ceiling.” Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has estimated that Uncle Sam will reach the debt ceiling before Tax Day, possibly even before the end of March. Even earlier, on March 4 to be precise, the current appropriations resolution […]