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Front Row With Francis: The Meaning of Lent

Pope Francis looked up during his General Audience on Ash Wednesday and ditched the script, putting aside his prepared remarks to question the spectators gathered for the weekly encounter, “I want to ask: Your children, your kids—do they know how to make the sign of the cross? Do your grandchildren know how to make the […]

Five Tips for Helping Children Carry Their Crosses

Mar 7 14 • M. R. Zapp • 0 comments

As Catholic parents we all want to see our children grow in the Faith, overcome their temptations, and ever approach sanctity, but when John and Jane are screaming at each other over who is going to get the stuffed monkey, we might wonder how they are going get there. Rather than telling them to share, […]

Baby Farms

Mar 7 14 • Christopher White • 1 comment

Today’s Daily Mail features an article titled “Wombs for Rent” and praises the surrogacy enterprise as a means of “transforming the lives of poverty-stricken women” in India. India has been a hotspot for commercial surrogacy since the early 2000s, particularly for couples from the UK, Australia, and the United States looking to avoid the costly fees associated with surrogates […]

The Nature of Fasting

Mar 7 14 • Melanie Jean Juneau • 0 comments

Reading: Is 58:1-9; PS 51:3-4, 5-6AB, 18-19 The words of the first reading from Isaiah 58:1-9 are like brilliant beams of light, cutting through any false notions we might have about this season of repentance that we call Lent. Often we tend to think of Lent as a time to share in the suffering of Christ yet when we […]

Ecce Homo

Mar 7 14 • Matthew B. Rose • 0 comments

He is alone in the dream. The stink of the jail cell dissipates and the smell of the seashore plucks at the man’s memory. He stands alone on the seashore. Small waves kiss the shore, like some nervous school girl who knows she shouldn’t but kisses a boy anyway. He thinks of the waves, then […]

Ode to Feminine Genius: What is This Homemaker Stuff, Anyway?

Mar 6 14 • Martina • 2 comments

When we first started hammering out details for this series, I got really excited. Then, I saw the word homemaker used repeatedly. Not really knowing much about the word, I looked up the definition and found: HOME·MAK·ER [hohm-mey-ker] noun 1. a person who manages the household of his or her own family, especially as a principal occupation 2. a person employed to manage a household and do household chores for others, as for the sick or elderly. Origin: 1885–90; home + maker Can be confused: homemaker, housewife (see usage note at housewife). Usage note 1. See housewife. HOUSE·WIFE [hous-wahyf or, usually, huhz-if for 2] noun, plural house·wives [hous-wahyvz] 1. Sometimes Offensive. a married woman who manages her own household, […]

Taking Up Our Cross

Mar 6 14 • Carolyn Moebest • 0 comments

A reflection on the Responsorial Psalm for today (PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 AND 6) and the Gospel (LK 9:22-25) Jesus said to his disciples: “The Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised.” Next to the […]

Doctor Prescribed Death-Advocates in High Gear in New England

Mar 6 14 • Jennifer Popik, JD • 0 comments

On Wednesday, the New Hampshire House of Representatives were slated to consider a batch of assisting suicide bills. New Hampshire, along with other New England states, has become a high priority target of the death advocates after Vermont legalized doctor-prescribed suicide last year. Connecticut also has an active bill. Additionally, Massachusetts, which narrowly defeated a […]

Reform of the Reform 2.0?

Mar 6 14 • Kevin M. Tierney • 0 comments

Over the past two weeks, the “reform of the reform” has found its way in the news, and in a lot of discussion within the Catholic commentariat. It all started when Fr. Thomas Kocik, one of the leading lights of the reform of the reform, wrote an article stating that the current reform movement was […]

Obama Should Study the History of Reaganomics

Mar 6 14 • Dr. Paul Kengor • 1 comment

Obama’s and Reagan’s policies for economic recovery were completely different.

Seven Lessons in Pope Francis’ Lenten Message

Mar 5 14 • Carlos X • 0 comments

Pope Francis has asked Catholics to meditate on poverty this Lenten season, by focusing his message for Lent on St. Paul’s words to the Corinthians, that Christ “became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich” (2 Cor. 8:9). The Pope’s emphasis on poverty dates back to the earliest days of his Pontificate, when […]

The War on Humans

Mar 5 14 • Mark Davis Pickup • 0 comments

I believe that God uses people at certain junctures in history to speak to their generations when they’ve lost their moral way. God used Abraham Lincoln to set slaves free in America. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke for racial equality. Dr. Bernard Nathanson (and many others) exposed the corruption of the abortion industry. During […]

Poem: “He who Seeks Me will Find Me”

Mar 5 14 • L. Lapiz • 0 comments

He who Seeks Me will Find Me Hear this day My answer O child, The answer you have sought from Me. Know that it is the Lord Who speaks, He Who knows your every need. I am faithful to my servants, I am truth everlasting, I am life eternal, I am Lord of all. He […]

Praise the Lord and Pass the Forceps

Mar 5 14 • Ken Connor • 0 comments

Secular humanists like to sneer at religious folk for our stubborn insistence upon seeing God’s hand at work in the world. We call “providence” what the materialist sees as a random unfolding of events. We see a blessing where the nonbeliever sees nothing more than the mundane workings of physics or biology. This mentality has […]

Anxiety Disorders? Who Cares What People Say?

Mar 5 14 • Stacy Trasancos • 0 comments

I do not like this article at The Huffington Post titled, “7 Things You Shouldn’t Say To Someone With Anxiety.” Here’s the list for all you list-watchers: 1. “Don’t sweat the small stuff.” 2. “Calm down.” 3. “Just do it.” 4. “Everything is going to be fine.” 5. “I’m stressed out too.” 6. “Have a drink — it’ll take your […]

Your Father Who Sees in Secret Will Repay You

Mar 5 14 • Elizabeth Tichvon • 0 comments

“When you pray, go to your inner room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret” (Matthew 6:6). Ash Wednesday allows us to practice what Jesus taught as we observe this first day of Lent. We fast and receive God’s blessing with ashes on our foreheads to express our sorrow for offending Him. Today’s […]

Last Minute Lent

Mar 4 14 • Nicole DeMille • 2 comments

If you still haven’t decided what is beneficial and appropriate for you to fast for Lent, you’re not alone. For most of us, the really inspired ideas are pretty rare. It’s easy to turn Lent into a diet, or a way to boast publicly of doing without something pleasurable. I don’t know if we need to identify […]

Once Upon a Time

Mar 4 14 • Fathers for Good • 0 comments

Electronic devices are everywhere. We know about the negative effects of too much TV, but now kids are watching videos in the car and accessing games and social media on computers and mobile devices. There was a time when kids would snuggle up with a good book to read or have their parents read to […]

The War Against Work and Wealth

Mar 4 14 • Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson • 0 comments

Our standard of living depends on the production of wealth.

Obama Team Tries to Scrap Parts of Universal Human Rights Declaration

Mar 4 14 • Stefano Gennarini, J.D. • 1 comment

Angry over not getting a same-sex-friendly definition of the family into a new UN document, the Obama Administration tried to delete language agreed upon by the founders of the UN and repeated in documents since then. Regularly contentious in recent decades, the family has been a diplomatic football with one side eager to recognize “diverse […]

Our Lenten Journey

Mar 4 14 • Kevin M. Tierney • 0 comments

As we begin our Lenten season tomorrow (our Eastern brethren began it yesterday), we Catholics are given the opportunity to once again discover the key to spiritual growth, and to once again correct our vices and imperfections we have accumulated since last Lent. In many Catholic circles today, Lent is viewed simply as “what food […]

Government Power is an Economic Inequality

Mar 3 14 • Daniel Greenfield • 0 comments

The real concentration of wealth is no longer among men, but among institutions.

Six Ways to Pray Your Way Through Lent

Mar 3 14 • Karee Santos • 0 comments

Lent is coming soon, and many of us are already pondering what resolutions we’ll choose this year. No resolution can succeed without prayer, however, so here’s six ways to improve your prayer life this Lent. 1. Make a daily prayer date with God. Best friends talk every day, so use the days of Lent to renew […]

It’s Judgmental, Hateful, and Intolerant

Mar 3 14 • Judie Brown • 0 comments

Over the years the supporters of abortion have used a variety of adjectives to describe those of us who work to ensure equal protection for every human being from creation to death. For example, when Walk for Life West Coast sponsored an exhibition including placement of signs that read “Abortion Hurts Women” the Silver Ribbon Campaign to Trust […]

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