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Nine Words We Must Say Every Day

When I was young child growing up in the 70’s, I remember seeing greeting cards and cheesy home décor with the quote, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry,” an oft quoted line from the melodramatic film Love Story. It never made sense to me. If that is indeed true, I would tell myself, […]

Hidden Treasures

Nov 10 14 • Rob Guinan • 0 comments

Working with the ‘least’ among us in nursing homes Over the years, I have had some interesting and exciting professional experiences as an interviewer and a writer. But nothing quite compares to my time visiting people in nursing homes. I’ve lived in six states, visited a number of facilities, and my interest hasn’t waned. Sometimes […]

Martin Luther King Jr. - Berlin - September 13, 1964

Martin Luther King and the Berlin Wall

Nov 9 14 • Dr. Paul Kengor • 0 comments

A speech that has slipped through the cracks of time.

Poem: “My Church Brother”

Nov 9 14 • Stacy Peterson • 0 comments

My Church Brother He came in oversized 550 Levi jeans colored deep Jean Blue, Size 36/36, but he required a few inches smaller. No problem, the silver woven belt cinched his waist, Balooning his billowing wrinkled white shirt over his chest. He came wearing a Christmas tie, with the knot askew, Apparently unaware of Halloween […]

Is It Happening Again?

Nov 7 14 • Robert J. Gieb • 0 comments

How did it happen that so many prominent Catholics, especially those in politics and in academia, moved from being ardent defenders of the unborn and the culture of life to advocates of the culture of death with such ease. It all seemed so smooth and unremarkable. In such a short time after the January 1973 […]

The Unbearable Lightness of Feminism

Nov 7 14 • Daniel Greenfield • 0 comments

Feminism is a prisoner of the Left.

Vocations: All About Life

Nov 6 14 • Fr. Frank Pavone • 1 comment

This week (November 2 – 8) is Vocations Awareness Week. Since I began my full-time work with Priests for Life over 20 years ago, one of the first things I became aware of was that many young people today are finding their vocation precisely because of the Church’s witness to the sanctity of life amidst […]

Ode to Feminine Genius: the Merciful Woman

Nov 6 14 • Anonymous • 0 comments

Four years ago, my husband became someone else almost overnight. We’d been married for more than a decade and I’d always known I’d gotten one of the good ones. My husband was naturally compassionate, attentive to me and our children, and easygoing about most things. Reprinted with permission from Catholic Sistas. But then it was […]

Poem: “Dream Land”

Nov 6 14 • Christina Rossetti • 0 comments

Dream Land Where sunless rivers weep Their waves into the deep, She sleeps a charmed sleep: Awake her not. Led by a single star, She came from very far To seek where shadows are Her pleasant lot. She left the rosy morn, She left the fields of corn, For twilight cold and lorn And water […]

Book Review: <i>The Light is On for You</i>

Book Review: The Light is On for You

Nov 6 14 • Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur • 0 comments

Confession, also known as The Sacrament of Reconciliation, can be a hard sell, even among Catholics who actively practice their faith. In the Introduction to The Light is On for You: The Life-Changing Power of Confession (The Word Among Us Press), Cardinal Donald Wuerl acknowledges that only “slightly more than 60 percent of practicing Catholics […]

I Get Knocked Down, But I Get Up Again

Nov 5 14 • Jake Frost • 0 comments

Life is more about getting up than it is about not falling. So my father commented once, long ago, when (of all things) we were watching figure skating. It wasn’t just any figure skating, though, it was the return of Scott Hamilton after his battle with cancer. For those too young to remember, Scott Hamilton […]

Empty Full Pews

Nov 5 14 • Zachary Gappa • 2 comments

Christianity Today’s online magazine Parse recently posited that the rise of the automobile laid the groundwork for the modern megachurch. It’s a recommended read that gets to the crux of a problem in modern Christianity – a problem that cars only amplified: our self-centeredness. There are, of course, plenty of God-fearing Christians attending megachurches, but […]

Movie Review: Gone Girl

Nov 4 14 • Sr. Helena Burns, fsp • 0 comments

I don’t know why this simple premise intrigued me when the best-selling book and now movie, Gone Girl first came out, but it did: A young married couple. The wife suddenly disappears. Was it murder? Did her husband do it? But alas, the film, for all its accolades, is a massive disappointment, and really, a […]

The One-Issue Voter

Nov 4 14 • John Kirkwood • 3 comments

Will you stand for righteousness, come what may?

Thinking Liturgically: The Creed

Nov 4 14 • Kevin M. Tierney • 0 comments

When one considers what the most important part of the Liturgy of the Word is, you would think that the proclamation of that word would easily rank in the top slot. I don’t wish to tell my reader they are wrong, but I submit there is something else that is also of the highest importance. […]

Still a Bottomless Pit

Nov 4 14 • E. L. Core • 0 comments

Shouldn’t this figure be newsworthy?

Congress Makes History

Nov 3 14 • Dr. Paul Kengor • 2 comments

I honestly didn’t think I’d ever live to see it.

What Would You Say to Someone Who Wants to Leave the Catholic Church?

Nov 3 14 • Marlon De La Torre • 11 comments

I would imagine that no one ever wants to see a loved one walk away from the Church. This scenario plays out more often than naught with the people I speak to on a daily basis. A day doesn’t go by without encountering someone who is Catholic but not practicing. When I recently taught on […]

Book Review: The Grace of Yes

Nov 3 14 • Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur • 0 comments

What does it mean to live generously? That is the question at the heart of Lisa Hendey’s new book, The Grace of Yes: Eight Virtues for Generous Living (Ave Maria Press, 2014). Hendey, founder of CatholicMom.com and well-known speaker, offers readers an intimate look at her own struggles as she attempts to follow God’s will […]

An Open Letter to Brittany Maynard

Nov 1 14 • Barb Lishko • 4 comments

Dear Brittany Maynard, You don’t know me, and sadly, I don’t know you. I have something to tell you. Why should you care what another voice among millions is saying? Because I have good news. Like so many, your story has crashed into my world, just as cancer crashed into yours. As expected by your […]

Poem: “Holy Wholly Holy”

Nov 1 14 • Guy McClung • 1 comment

Holy Wholly Holy Child, more than dear, Three, Father, father and me, Made you, Wholly, completely, holy. I surround you. Not part of me, You are in me, Wholly, totally, holy. For this time, You move and I hold all of you, Wholly, entirely and holy. How many times have Your lips touched me ? […]

Reformation Day: To Celebrate or Lament?

Oct 31 14 • Denise Bossert • 3 comments

Last year on Reformation Day (October 31) one of my cousins mentioned the Protestant “holiday” on Facebook. It was a celebratory post. “Happy Reformation Day!” Reformation Day marks the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. It highlights the Protestant reformers who began new denominations rather than remaining within the Catholic Church. I mention it in this […]

U.S. Borders Open Wide and Encourage Reproductive Tourism

Oct 30 14 • Jennifer Lahl • 0 comments

Last night before heading off to bed I happened to check my email, only to read this unbelievable headline – “Obama Administration Allows Fertility Clinics To Sell US Citizenship.” Boy, did that catch my eye! I’ve just finished reading the Policy Alert issued by the Department of Homeland Security. You can read it here but […]

The Power of Tears

Oct 30 14 • Fr. Edward Looney • 0 comments

I have witnessed the tears of many people. Some have been tears of joy for an answered prayer. Others have been tears of sorrow when mourning the death of a loved one who just died of cancer or unexpectedly. Some tears were shed when someone shared a personal story that called to mind painful memories, […]

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