Archive for November, 2013

Save the Pandas <em>and</em> Down Syndrome
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Save the Pandas and Down Syndrome

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by on Nov 15, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured
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One of the casualties during the recent Government shutdown was the Washington DC Zoo Panda Cam: “The National Zoo announced that all its live zoo cams, including the one trained on the zoo’s 5-week-old panda cub, will go dark.”  The Panda Cam allows viewers to watch the activities of Giant Pandas Mei Xiang and Tian […]

Working Mom’s Survival Kit
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Working Mom’s Survival Kit

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by on Nov 15, 2013 in Featured, On the Job, Parenting, Tips, Tools, Tech
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Today is my first “normal” day back at work (from my home office) since Chris came home. Now, under ideal circumstances (everyone but me — including the dog — out of the house for an eight-hour stretch, the house clean and crock pot simmering), I enjoy working from home. However, since “ideal circumstances” seldom present themselves […]

Why You Should Receive Communion Kneeling and on the Tongue
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Why You Should Receive Communion Kneeling and on the Tongue

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by on Nov 15, 2013 in Apologetics, Catechesis, Featured, MyChurchParish.com
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In the 13 years I have been a practicing Catholic, I have been a traditionalist all but two of them.  As a result, I have received communion on the tongue and kneeling for eleven years.  I’ve also found that the way we traditionalists receive communion is something that many Catholics outside of the Extraordinary Form […]

Appeals Court Blocks HHS Mandate for Catholic Business Owners
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Appeals Court Blocks HHS Mandate for Catholic Business Owners

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by on Nov 14, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Law & Justice
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The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked enforcement of ObamaCare’s controversial contraception mandate in the case of two Catholic business owners. Cyril and Jane Korte, who own and operate Korte & Luitjohanm Contractors, Inc., and the Grote Family, which owns and manages Grote Industries, Inc., argued that the law forces them to violate their […]

Why We Can't Save Marriage in Five Easy Steps
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Why We Can’t Save Marriage in Five Easy Steps

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by on Nov 14, 2013 in Canon Law, Catechesis, Featured, Marriage
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The way to save marriage isn’t by new laws, but new hearts.

Force the Vote!
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Force the Vote!

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by on Nov 14, 2013 in Columnists, Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics
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Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), along with a third of his colleagues as co-sponsors, has introduced in the US Senate a bill to protect children from abortion starting at 20-weeks of fetal age (“22 weeks LMP”). The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act has already been passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, has been enacted in […]

Faith Comes Down to This
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Faith Comes Down to This

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by on Nov 14, 2013 in Featured, Live in Christ
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Living the Christian faith comes down to these three ways of life: prayer, humility, and obedience.  No matter who you are or where you come from, if you truly want to be a committed and faithful Christian: (1) you must spend some serious time engaged in vocal prayer (both privately and with the community in […]

Book Review: <i>Pope Francis: I Believe in Mercy</i>
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Book Review: Pope Francis: I Believe in Mercy

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by on Nov 14, 2013 in Featured, On Books
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Known for their work on the Manga Hero edition of Habemus Papem which told of Pope Benedict XVI, the creative team of Regina Doman as writer and Sean Lam as artist has once again joined to tell a pope’s life story. This time the attention is on Pope Francis. Intended for teens and young adults, […]

Miracle of Faith
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Miracle of Faith

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by on Nov 13, 2013 in Featured, Live in Christ
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A reflection on today’s Sacred Scripture: “One of them, realizing he had been healed, returned, glorifying God in a loud voice” (Luke 17:15). Jesus always responds to prayers made in faith. The faith of the ten lepers brought them a miraculous cure, but the faith of one brought him back to the feet of Jesus, where […]

ObamaCare’s Marriage Penalty
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ObamaCare’s Marriage Penalty

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by on Nov 13, 2013 in Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, Marriage
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Would you pay $10,000 a year to stay married to your spouse? Some American couples are being faced with exactly that decision as they consider their health insurance options under ObamaCare. One of the most controversial provisions of ObamaCare is that it requires all Americans to purchase health insurance, whether they want it or not, […]

Did You Run Out of Sins?
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Did You Run Out of Sins?

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by on Nov 13, 2013 in Catechesis, Featured, Live in Christ
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Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman once said: “Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.” If the will is the source of action and faith is illuminative because it comes from God, then […]

Movie Review: <em>Gravity</em>
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Movie Review: Gravity

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by on Nov 13, 2013 in Featured, On Media, On TV and Movies
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“Just when you thought it was safe to go back in space…,” a terrifying movie like “Gravity” hits you in the face. “Gravity” is one of those films that’s truly an experience that one undergoes: one of the tensest time periods ever spent in a cinema. This is an extremely uncomfortable film. Space is the […]

African Women Beware – Harmful Contraceptive Due in Bulk
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African Women Beware – Harmful Contraceptive Due in Bulk

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by on Nov 13, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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This week family planning and abortion advocates are coming out in force for an International Family Planning conference co-hosted by Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health and Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population. The 3-day conference opened in Addis Ababa with the theme “Full Access—Full Choice.” Stakeholders will present on greater access to abortion and how […]

Lone Soldier
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The Unseen Scars Are Often As Painful As The Ones Seen

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by on Nov 13, 2013 in Featured
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Actions produce some effects that are readily apparent and others that are not.

John B. Tabb - Priest-Poet
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Tabb’s Poetry XLII

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by on Nov 13, 2013 in Featured, Poetry
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Five poems by John B. Tabb.

Reflections for Sunday, November 17, 2013
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Reflections for Sunday, November 17, 2013

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by on Nov 13, 2013 in Catechesis, Featured, Sunday Reflections
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Meditation and Questions for Reflection or Group Discussion (Malachi 3:19-20; Psalm 98:5-9; 2 Thessalonians 3:7-12; Luke 21:5-19) Joining All Creation in Praising the Lord Shout with joy to the Lord, all the earth. (Psalm 98:4) Rivers “clapping their hands.” Mountains “shouting for joy.” What extraordinary images these poetic descriptions of nature evoke for us! These […]

We Must Evangelize
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We Must Evangelize

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by on Nov 12, 2013 in Apologetics, Featured
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It’s the great dilemma for Catholics. We know that we are to share Christ. We are to go into the highways and byways and even into the Internet superhighway and tell the world about Jesus Christ and His Church. But we don’t know what to do about that troublesome word: proselytizing. Evangelism is good. Proselytizing is bad. […]

Abortion Advocates Vocally Frustrated at the UN
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Abortion Advocates Vocally Frustrated at the UN

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by on Nov 12, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Advocates for abortion at the UN are vocally frustrated with their lack of advancement since the Cairo conference on population twenty years ago. This becomes increasing evident as they gear up for two big events in the coming year. Next year will see not only the twentieth anniversary of Cairo but the negotiation of a […]

Lilypad Ecopolis, 2008, Vincent Callebaut Architectures
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Apologies from Utopia

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by on Nov 12, 2013 in Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, The Economy
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What was once character has become branding.

Obama 2013 vs. Reagan 1988
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We Were Warned

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by on Nov 11, 2013 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics
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Obama vs. Reagan

Thousands of Lives to Give: The Philippines
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Thousands of Lives to Give: The Philippines

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by on Nov 11, 2013 in Featured, History, MyChurchParish.com, Those in Need
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By now you probably have heard that a massive typhoon hit the Philippines last Friday. Named Haiyan (or Yolanda), the typhoon is reportedly the strongest ever recorded in history, with winds of 195 miles per hour and gusts up to 235 mph. Early reports coming out of the country say that as many as 10,000 people lost […]

Defeating Autism: Joseph at Year Three in Boy Scouting
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Defeating Autism: Joseph at Year Three in Boy Scouting

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by on Nov 11, 2013 in Disability, Sickness & Suffering, Featured, Health & Fitness, Parenting
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This is a story about defeating autism, the practical attainment of hope for devastated parents, and a whole new way of approaching a scourge upon our beloved children. Our son, Joseph, happens to be its protagonist; but the joyful hope in this story resides in the certainty that it is a template into which parents […]

Sinner’s Guide to Natural Family Planning: Interviewing Simcha Fisher
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Sinner’s Guide to Natural Family Planning: Interviewing Simcha Fisher

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by on Nov 11, 2013 in Featured, Marriage
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Simcha Fisher’s book, The Sinner’s Guide to Natural Family Planning, is still sitting pretty in the Top 10 on Amazon’s list of Catholic books. The incredible interest in the book isn’t surprising since frank, balanced conversations about natural family planning –- the only method of spacing children approved by the Catholic Church –- are desperately […]

Teddy Roosevelt on Horseback
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Theodore Roosevelt and Veterans Day

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by on Nov 11, 2013 in Featured, Government & Politics
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Roosevelt strove to promote peace by strengthening the United States.