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The Main Rules of the Mainstream-Media Herd

Jan 10 15 • E. L. Core • 6 comments

In case you were wondering.

Poem: “Catholyric I Had a Dream Dedicated to Sr Marie Jude”

Jan 10 15 • TJ Burdick • 0 comments

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Blessed Mother Knows Best

Jan 9 15 • Gabriel Somarriba • 0 comments

Passing on the faith at home with Marian piety During his installation at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago last November, Archbishop Blase Cupich challenged those in attendance to pass on the faith to young people through their “authenticity of life, where words match deeds.” The message was not just for Catholic teachers and youth ministers, […]

Finding Peace

Jan 9 15 • Judie Brown • 1 comment

Commentators, politicians, and world leaders often bandy about the word “peace.” But I wonder if there are many in our midst who actually comprehend the true meaning of the word, not to mention how to find it. Webster defines peace as “a state in which there is no war or fighting.” That sounds simple enough, […]

Conscience Counts

Jan 9 15 • Ken Connor • 1 comment

America has always been a nation with great respect for the right of conscience. As a people, we like the idea that a person should follow their heart, go with their gut, do what feels right. Our laws have traditionally followed this course by according deference to individual conscience on a whole host of matters. […]

The Then and The Now

Jan 8 15 • Robert J. Gieb • 0 comments

St. Augustine is famously quoted as teaching that our hearts are restless until they rest in God. The word “restless” captures this truth well, although here in Texas the condition might also be described as an itch that can’t quite get scratched. However it is described the great bishop of Hippo is correct. Our hearts […]

The Inhuman Relationship of Mary and Joseph

Jan 8 15 • Anthony Buono • 0 comments

Every year at Christmas time I think of the many people who experience a more acute loneliness that the season has a way of drawing out of those who are literally alone or feel alone, even among their friends and family. It’s an inescapable desire to have that one special person with whom you can […]

Saved Through the Flesh

Jan 8 15 • Michelle Fritz • 0 comments

Jesus Christ didn’t save us with an idea, with an intellectual program, no. He saved us with his flesh, with the concreteness of the flesh.” -Pope Francis This quote from Pope Francis slipped across my screen as I was scrolling through my Facebook news feed. I didn’t slow down as I was looking for something […]

A Preachable Message: The Dynamics of Preaching NFP

Jan 8 15 • Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur • 7 comments

When was the last time you heard a priest give a homily that mentioned Natural Family Planning? If you are like me, the answer is never. Admittedly, it isn’t necessarily a topic that I would want discussed at a Mass where younger children are present, but there are many times when it would be appropriate, […]

A New Year’s Resolution for You

Jan 7 15 • Zachary Gappa • 0 comments

New Year’s Resolutions tend towards the personal: lose weight, take up a hobby, spend more time with the family, get up earlier, read great books, etc. But this new year I beg people to take some time to learn more about bioethics. The stakes are high. Our definitions of life, death, and human dignity are […]

Speak Out!

Jan 6 15 • Guy McClung • 0 comments

There are those who can evangelize hundreds, even thousand. Radio preachers and televangelists speak to millions. Sidewalk prophets publicly and loudly tell the world the Kingdom is near or here. Still, we can choose to just live our lives quietly, privately trying our best to get to Heaven. Personal, isolated Christianity is just fine. Well, […]

Eliminating the Impoverished Does Not Eliminate Poverty

Jan 6 15 • Denise J. Hunnell, M.D • 1 comment

On Nov. 8, 2014, Dr. R.K. Gupta set about performing tubal ligations on 80 women at a mass sterilization camp in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. He completed all the surgeries in less than six hours. Subsequently, dozens of these women fell ill and at least 13 died.[i] An investigation is ongoing but it appears that gross […]

What do Traditionalists Want?

Jan 6 15 • William Bornhoft • 30 comments

Dear Kevin, Thank you for your continued work on this dialogue. It’s been a pleasure reading the comments from Catholic Lane readers. I encourage anyone with questions or concerns about anything I’ve written here to email me. As a self-described orthodox Catholic, I guarantee that any differences I may have with traditional Catholics are small […]

A Look Back and a Peak Forward

Jan 5 15 • Austin Ruse • 0 comments

UN radicals are rightly peeved at their lack of progress. Last year, like in the previous twenty, they did not advance their agenda on abortion even one syllable beyond what they got at the Cairo Conference in 1994. We noticed this a few years ago at the 20th anniversary of the Rio Conference on the […]

Looking to the Star of the New Evangelization

Jan 5 15 • Fr. Edward Looney • 0 comments

Stars are significant in the Christian tradition. For example, God promised Abraham descendants more numerous than the stars of the sky (Genesis 22:17). And yesterday a star played a prominent role in our celebration of the Epiphany when a star guided the Magi to the stable (Matthew 2:9-11). Additionally, the Church has had a longstanding […]

Poem: “Oculus”

Jan 5 15 • Scott Warren • 0 comments

Oculus At the appointed hour, all other time becomes Not This. I am in the sanctuary and it is the hour of Adoration. All is dim shadow and stillness and quiet drapes around me like a monk’s cowl. A slender beam illuminates the monstrance And the Sacred Host- I swear it!- Pulses with shimmers of […]

The Journey of the Magi: Baby, You’re Gonna Be a Big Star Someday

Jan 4 15 • Rev. Tucker Cordani • 0 comments

Now the shepherds were not the only ones who visited the Holy Family after Jesus was born. Stargazers from Arabia soon arrived. They stopped off at the fortress-palace of Herod the Great because they needed directions. Men are often too proud to admit when we’re lost but the stargazers swallowed their pride and entered the […]

Poem: “There’s a Certain Slant of Light”

Jan 3 15 • Emily Dickinson • 0 comments

There’s a Certain Slant of Light There’s a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons – That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes – Heavenly Hurt, it gives us – We can find no scar, But internal difference – Where the Meanings, are – None may teach it – Any – ‘Tis the seal Despair […]

Does the Slaughter of Innocents Bear a Witness?

Jan 2 15 • Mark Davis Pickup • 1 comment

I’ve noticed that before a colossal spiritual event in history, a slaughter of innocent children occurs. Satan seems to know something is about to happen and strikes out at the most innocent of God’s image bearers. Prior to the birth of Moses, Pharaoh ordered the mass murder of all baby boys (Exodus 1:15-22). At the time […]

Jordan Church Struggles to Accommodate Refugees, Shield Youth from Extremism

Jan 2 15 • ACN-USA News • 0 comments

For years now, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has been a haven for refugees from Iraq. However, a critical limit is in view as the country is also forced to accommodate a huge, and growing, influx of refugees fleeing ongoing war and violence in Syria. Along with Lebanon, the country is threatened by chaos as […]

Ask Mary to Speak to Her Son

Jan 1 15 • Guy McClung • 2 comments

You cannot count the number of times in your life you have said these words: “Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death, Amen.” Why do we do this? Why ask Mary to pray for us? Many say “No need to get the Mother involved, just […]

Russian Orthodox Condemn Pro-Homosexual UN Children’s Fund

Dec 31 14 • Stefano Gennarini, J.D. • 1 comment

As Christians around the world got ready to contemplate the innocence of the child Jesus, last week the Russian Orthodox Church took on a UNICEF paper that says children have LGBT rights. The Patriarch’s Commission on the Family of the Russian Orthodox Church released a scathing statement criticizing a UNICEF position paper that urges countries […]

TV Review: <em>The Sisterhood: Becoming Nuns</em>

TV Review: The Sisterhood: Becoming Nuns

Dec 30 14 • Sr. Helena Burns, fsp • 0 comments

Reality TV about five young women discerning their vocation at three different convents? How could this be the proper vehicle? Won’t the cameras interfere with or even hamstring this very personal and intimate process? Will it “work”? When I heard that such an animal was coming down the pike, I had great apprehension, even when […]

You Choose Hell (or Heaven)

Dec 29 14 • Guy McClung • 3 comments

An inner voice says“That is wrong” or “This is right” and then one makes a choice – to freely do a human act. That inner voice is God’s voice through the spiritual smartphone of conscience. The divine voice speaks in a language with the syntax and vocabulary of the Natural Law, a law mirroring the […]