Archive for July, 2012

Book Review: <em>Eco-Tyranny</em>
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Book Review: Eco-Tyranny

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by on Jul 31, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, On Books, The Economy
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In Eco-Tyranny, author Brian Sussman sounds a timely and important warning: The radical “greens” are not in retreat. With the defeat of cap-and-trade legislation in 2010 and the increasingly discredited alarmist theory of anthropogenic global warming, the greens may have lowered their public profile; however, with the full cooperation of the Obama administration, they are […]

The Government's Argument is Atrocious!
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The Government’s Argument is Atrocious!

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by on Jul 31, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice, MyChurchParish.com
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On Friday, a federal judge in Colorado granted a preliminary injunction barring the HHS mandate from taking effect against a small, family-run business that holds strong beliefs that abortion-inducing drugs, contraceptives, and sterilization violate their religious faith. The Newland family owns and operates Hercules Industries, a private, for-profit HVAC equipment manufacturer.  Their 265 full-time employees […]

Culture War & The Armor of God
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Culture War & The Armor of God

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by on Jul 31, 2012 in Featured, Live in Christ, MyChurchParish.com
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My friend Gary Zimak recently wrote, “One of the biggest mistakes that we can make is to treat the Bible as an ordinary book. Although it may look like a book, it is so much more. When we open up the pages of Sacred Scripture, we can actually hear Jesus speaking directly to us.” It inspired […]

The Morality of Testing for Down Syndrome
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The Morality of Testing for Down Syndrome

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by on Jul 31, 2012 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Featured
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A response to the many queries I’ve been receiving about this topic: The technological genie is out of the bottle. We live in the age of Molecular Biology, where diagnostics (including those for Down Syndrome) are becoming much more accurate, sensitive, and inexpensive. It’s a blessed thing to behold. That may come as a surprise […]

Maslow’s Hierarchy Revisited—Parenthood’s On Top!
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Maslow’s Hierarchy Revisited—Parenthood’s On Top!

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by on Jul 31, 2012 in Featured, Parenting
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Sometimes you just want to roll your eyes and say “Duh!”  A team of researchers at Arizona State University, led by evolutionary psychologist Douglas Kenrick, has noticed that most people really like being parents.  Despite the challenges of child-rearing, Kenrick reported that the warmth, the love, the creativity, the sense of purpose and belonging—all of these […]

Poem: "The Wind at My Back"
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Poem: “The Wind at My Back”

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by on Jul 31, 2012 in Poetry
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The Wind at My Back I look for a path in the new fallen snow For it is night and not wise to travel Where am I going? I want to know As the wind at my back does show me It howls in the night like a wolf at the moon As it rushes […]

The Prophecies of Humanae Vitae
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The Prophecies of Humanae Vitae

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by on Jul 30, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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You may be forgiven for not knowing that July 25, was the 44th anniversary of encyclical Humanae Vitae. Who, after all, is going to remind you? Not the secular media, which scoffs at the idea that men and women can practice self-control in matters of sex. No, they will not breathe a word about Pope […]

Using the Gifts God Has Given You, Part 4
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Using the Gifts God Has Given You, Part 4

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by on Jul 30, 2012 in Featured, Live in Christ, Men
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Please read Using the Gifts God Has Given You, Part 1, Using the Gifts God Has Given You, Part 2 and Using the Gifts God Has Given You, Part 3. The spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him: a spirit of wisdom and of understanding, a spirit of counsel and of strength, a spirit […]

Nothing Vain About It
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Nothing Vain About It

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by on Jul 30, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, Live in Christ, On Media
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“So basically you are a ‘vanity press,’” was the question posed to me that really sounded more like a statement of fact—and an unattractive one at that. “Well, we offer a variety of publishing services and some of those services are that authors do, indeed, pay to have their books published with us,” were the […]

Do Abortion Comparisons Make Sense?
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Do Abortion Comparisons Make Sense?

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by on Jul 30, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Is it right to compare abortion to the Colorado theater shooting,the Nazi Holocaust, and other tragic losses of life? To answer this question one must first answer the question: what is abortion? Abortion is simply a word used to describe the action of killing a human person in one of the early stages of that […]

Reflections for Sunday, August 5, 2012
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Reflections for Sunday, August 5, 2012

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by on Jul 30, 2012 in Catechesis, Featured, Live in Christ, Sunday Reflections
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Meditation and Questions for Reflection or Group Discussion (Exodus 16:2-4,12-15; Psalm 78:3-4,23-25,54; Ephesians 4:17,20-24; John 6:24-35) Spending Time with Jesus, The Bread of Life “My Father gives you the true bread from heaven.” (John 6:32) After another long day of travel­ing in the desert, you and your fellow Israelites are tired, hungry, and dis­couraged. “Is […]

The Loss of Heaven?
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The Loss of Heaven?

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by on Jul 30, 2012 in Featured, Live in Christ
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“…because I dread the loss of Heaven and the pains of Hell…” I was in confession a few years ago when the priest, just before the part where you’re supposed to make your Act of Contrition, advised me to recite the version with the above line in it, rather than the one that says, “because […]

The Loneliness of Singlehood
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The Loneliness of Singlehood

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by on Jul 30, 2012 in Dating & Singles, Featured
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“You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have eyes to see” Mother Teresa profoundly remarks in this video (at about 2:20). She explains that, “Material poverty you can always satisfy with material. The unwanted, the unloved, the uncared, the forgotten, the lonely: this is much greater poverty” (at 4:15). There are many that […]

Poem: "A Dead Astronomer"
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Poem: “A Dead Astronomer”

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by on Jul 29, 2012 in Poetry
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A Dead Astronomer (Father Perry, S.J.) Starry amorist, starward gone, Thou art–what thou didst gaze upon! Passed through thy golden garden’s bars, Thou seest the Gardener of the Stars. She, about whose moon-ed brows Seven stars make seven glows, Seven lights for seven woes; She, like thine own Galaxy, All lustres in one purity:- What […]

The Politics of Resentment
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The Politics of Resentment

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by on Jul 28, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics
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Last month, President Barack Obama declared that “the private sector is doing fine.” Last week, he claimed that his main first-term mistake was a mere failure to “tell a story to the American people.” But Obama’s biggest blunder of the summer may be the bizarre claim he made at a campaign rally in Virginia last […]

Ferial Day
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Ferial Day

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by on Jul 28, 2012 in Saint of the Day
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Be Still My Soul (Healing in the Fire, part 6)
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Be Still My Soul (Healing in the Fire, part 6)

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by on Jul 27, 2012 in Featured, Live in Christ
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Please click for: Part1, Part2, Part3, Part4, Part5 I considered not including the first part of this posting. It’s too incredible for most people to believe and so I rarely mention it, but it’s absolutely true.  It happened. I decided to include it to illustrate God’s hand over my life. In 1982, there was a recession […]

Natural Family Planning Builds a Culture of Life
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Natural Family Planning Builds a Culture of Life

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by on Jul 27, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Marriage
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Pope Benedict XVI offered an encouraging message to the recent meeting of the Equipes Notre Dame (translation: Teams of Our Lady), a pro-marriage apostolate. The Holy Father invited all Christian married couples to be “the gentle and smiling face of the Church.” There is no greater way for couples to achieve this than to joyfully […]

Help Wanted: Father
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Help Wanted: Father

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by on Jul 27, 2012 in Featured, Parenting
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Job Description  Long term (as in lifetime) position in challenging and ever-changing work environment. Candidates must possess excellent communication skills and be willing to adopt a G-rated vocabulary. Applicants must also trade any existing sports vehicles in for a “babe” repelling, baby-friendly minivan. Some undercover work necessary such as checking up on kids and getting […]

Ferial Day
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Ferial Day

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by on Jul 27, 2012 in Uncategorized
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It Takes a Village to Raise a Business
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It Takes a Village to Raise a Business

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by on Jul 26, 2012 in Featured, Government & Politics, The Economy
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Many conservatives are reacting strongly to a recent speech given by President Obama in which he seems to denigrate the entrepreneurial spirit of American enterprise. “If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own,” said the president at a campaign event [the other] week in Virginia.”You didn’t get there on your own,” he reiterated. […]

The Crisis of Community
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The Crisis of Community

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by on Jul 26, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, The Social Order
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In recent years social critics like Robert Putnam (Bowling Alone) and Charles Murray (Coming Apart) have documented and deplored a decline of community among Americans. It’s  a development that affects churches along with other institutions of civil society. But “decline of community” is an abstraction and hardly self-explanatory. A story told by a man I […]

Court Asked to Immediately Stop the HHS Mandate
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Court Asked to Immediately Stop the HHS Mandate

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by on Jul 26, 2012 in Featured, Law & Justice, MyChurchParish.com
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The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, today announced it has filed an emergency motion asking that Federal District Judge Robert H. Cleland of the Eastern District of Michigan stop the HHS Mandate which goes into effect on August 1, 2012.  The motion was filed late […]

America, Wake Up!: There’s No Such Thing As ‘Safe Abortion’
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America, Wake Up!: There’s No Such Thing As ‘Safe Abortion’

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by on Jul 26, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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As Planned Parenthood faces national scrutiny over the gruesome death of 24-year old Tonya Reaves in an Illinois clinic last week, the abortion giant has issued a statement expressing condolences to the family. “While legal abortion services in the United States have a very high safety record, a tragedy such as this is devastating to loved ones and we […]