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Another New Year’s Resolution?
by Dr. Gary L. Welton
Focus on a sustainable change.
Category: Featured
Book Review: By What Authority by Mark Shea
by Mary Kochan
by Mary Kochan on Jan 02, 2014 in Apologetics, Evangelization, Featured, MyChurchParish.com, On Books 
Resolve to read “By What Authority?” in 2014.
Motherhood Full of Grace
by Cindy Bird
There have been certain times in my life when I felt uncomfortable about my relationship with Mary. And by Mary I mean the mother of God. I felt that I was supposed to be close with her, as a Catholic, but I just wasn’t sure what that was supposed to look like. When my sister became pregnant […]
To See or Not to See
by Nicole DeMille
“I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I’ve tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth.” Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man Christmas flows into 2014, and the busy-ness of the worldly life pulls us away from our true center. These times when we are […]
The Bottom Five: The Worst Events of 2013
by Stefano Gennarini, J.D.
by Stefano Gennarini, J.D. on Jan 01, 2014 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, The Homosexual Agenda
The global abortion lobby has been starved for victories for quite some time. Even so, they made some advances this past year. We call these the Bottom Five, the worst events in 2013 1. Women Deliver Abortion groups highly anticipate this global conference on women’s health. This year it featured clandestine abortionists, late term abortionists […]
Russia Chooses Life
by Steven W. Mosher
Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law banning abortion advertising. Some members of the Duma (the Russian state assembly), are talking about going even further and banning the procedure itself. The Russian Orthodox Church, whose numbers are swelling with converts and “reverts,” is weighing in as well. One Orthodox prelate called abortion a […]
Shattered and Reborn
by Melanie Jean Juneau
I once asked a priest what my life would have been like if I had not experienced suffering, if I had married a well-off dentist, had 1.25 kids and lived in an efficient, modern house. He put on a phony, pious face, put his hands together in prayer, and said in a high, mocking voice […]
Jeremiah, Christmas Trees, and the King James Bible
by E. L. Core
Responding to an annual fundamentalist canard.
Christmas and Holy Impatience
by Fr. Frank Pavone
Christmas is about self-giving love. God becomes human to set humanity free from the oppression of sin and death. Accepting Christ, and celebrating Christmas, means welcoming that freedom, and striving that every human being may experience it. Hence we evangelize. And hence we work for justice. “Truly he taught us to love one another; His […]
The Book Whisperer: Two Special Books on Adoption
by Heidi Hess Saxton
To kick off my first “Book Whisperer” column, I thought I would share some wonderful adoption resources. If you have other recommendations, why not send me a note? My first favorite is Ten Days and Nine Nights by Yumi Heo (Random), for families with older children who are awaiting the adoption of a younger sibling (in this case, […]
The Nativity Scene Opens Our Hearts to the Mystery of Life
by Fr. Shenan J. Boquet
Tradition teaches that Saint Francis of Assisi set up the first Nativity scene in order to inspire and encourage a greater appreciation of the wonders of the first Christmas. The year was 1223, and Francis created the scene in a cave outside Greccio, Italy featuring a wax figure of the infant Jesus and a man […]
Vatican II One-Year Reading Plan
by E. L. Core
One-year reading plans for Vatican II, New Testament, and Catechism.
The Key to New Year’s Resolutions
by Tom Purcell
There’s a reason why only 8 percent of New Year’s resolutions are kept: Too many of us make resolutions that lack resolve. “Resolve” is a powerful world. According to one dictionary, it means “to solve a problem, or to find a satisfactory way of dealing with a disagreement.” Bill Gates elaborated on the concept in […]
The Incarnation and the Family
by Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D.
Every year right after Christmas, we celebrate the feast of the Holy Family. There is an important reason for this. It’s easy to think the “incarnation” means God took on a human body, that he appeared in human flesh. But there is much more to it than that. In Jesus, God unites himself to an […]
Christmas: No Longer Afraid
by Dr. Gerard Nadal
Pondering the Gospel narratives from the Annunciation to the Presentation, it is striking how all of the principals in the story were confused, troubled and even gripped by fear. All of them. And from Heaven came the constant, soothing admonishment: “Do not be afraid.” Beginning with the appearance of the Angel Gabriel to the priest, […]
The School of the Gospel is Always in Session
by Rev. Tucker Cordani
The home of Nazareth is the school where we begin to understand the life of Jesus—the school of the Gospel (CCC No. 533). My parents married in 1969. The day before the wedding my father got cold feet. In the hotel bar he sat drinking beer with the lawyer Tom Wall who counseled my father […]
Reflections for Sunday, December 29, 2013
by Maurice Blumberg
Feast of the Holy Family Meditation and Questions for Reflection or Group Discussion (Sirach 3:2-6,12-14; Psalm 128:1-5; Colossians 3:12-21; Matthew 2:13-15,19-23) View NAB Reading at USCCB.org What it Means to “Put on Love” Put on then, as God’s chosen ones … love. (Colossians 3:12, 14) You are about to head out the door for a family […]
Avoiding the Climax of Intellectual Stupidity
by Trent Beattie
Until relatively recently, atheism just seemed to me like a phase for confused college students—usually nothing to be taken seriously, only something to be outgrown. However, atheism has become more pernicious in recent years. Aside from those who are going through a phase of “amateur atheism” occasioned by trendiness, myopic biology professors, or tough situations […]
Is There Still No Room for Him at the Inn?
by Judie Brown
by Judie Brown on Dec 27, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Live in Christ, The Social Order
At this time of year we frequently see a clash between the secular and the religious. We hear arguments that make many of us cringe while others rub their hands together with joy, pleased with the debate they have again provoked. For instance, we hear from those like Bill O’Reilly that Christmas was declared a […]
Pope Francis: Christmas Urbi et Orbi Message
by Pope Francis
Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace among those whom he favours (Lk 2:14) Dear brothers and sisters in Rome and throughout the whole world, Greetings and Happy Christmas! I take up the song of the angels who appeared to the shepherds in Bethlehem on the night when Jesus was born. It is […]
Ebenezer Scrooge: Christmas Eve Conversion
by E. L. Core
by E. L. Core on Dec 26, 2013 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, The Social Order
“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
One of the Most Powerful Christmas Lessons
by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson on Dec 25, 2013 in Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, The Economy
What we can grasp is the innocence and gentleness of the baby Jesus.
The Christmas Metamorphosis
by Jake Frost
I’m like a Christmas caterpillar. During the holidays, I put on a fuzzy sweater and eat my way through the season. By the Epiphany, the sweater is a little snug. But that’s ok. I think of it as just a phase in my evolving yuletide metamorphosis, as I pass through different stages of development on […]
