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Poem: “Unborn Me”

Unborn Me Here I am in my mothers’ womb, Safe and warm and comfortable. Life has just begun for me, Here in my mothers’ womb. To be loved and have life Is a wondrous feeling. Being loved and alive Is my joy this day. In here I wait for my bright tomorrow. In here I [...]

Weekly Wits: 4/26/13

Apr 26 13 • Cartoon Editor • 0 comments

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Is It Really About Catholic Identity?

Apr 26 13 • Marlon De La Torre • 0 comments

Imagine a Bishop exercising his rightful authority to assure authentic Catholic teaching and practice in Catholic Schools. If this proposition sounds reasonable, then you will find Bishop Vasa of the Diocese of Santa Rosa, CA to be a reasonable man. He had requested/required that all Catholic School teachers to publicly affirm Catholic Church teaching and [...]

Inequality for All

Apr 26 13 • Daniel Greenfield • 0 comments

Inequality in the name of equality has become an institution.

Messaging

Apr 25 13 • Judie Brown • 0 comments

Overwhelmed by messages that come through texting, e-mails, the computer, and various apps on phones and iPads, today’s culture seems to be missing something. It is slowly becoming obvious that people are losing the ability to think, hear, and understand. Life seems to revolve around sending and receiving, even when the substance is totally lacking. [...]

I Come to Heal, Not Accuse

Apr 25 13 • Kevin M. Tierney • 0 comments

One of the greatest obstacles to presenting the Sacrament of Confession is exposing perfectly good Catholics to a worldview they are completely unfamiliar with.

Parental Responsibility Trumps Child’s Privacy

Apr 25 13 • Marybeth Hicks • 3 comments

To: Marybeth From: Message-reading Mom My daughter’s smartphone buzzed when she was out of the room. I picked it up to see who was texting her and was puzzled by the message that previewed on the screen, so I read the entire exchange. What I discovered concerned me. When I talked to her about it, [...]

Marriage: 2 Sexes? 2 Persons?

Apr 25 13 • E. L. Core • 0 comments

The next step in the “Progressive” deconstruction of a fundamental institution of our society.

Mass of Christian Burial: Ecclesial Crisis on Display

Apr 25 13 • Louie Verrecchio • 0 comments

Make no mistake about it: The Church in our day is in the midst of a terrible, and in many ways unprecedented, crisis of faith. This objective reality, however, is largely lost on the overwhelming majority of Catholics, both clerical and otherwise. While some Catholics, with deliberate intent, actively promote the various agendas that underlie [...]

Catholic Mom’s Café: 5-Minute Retreats for Every Day of the Year

Apr 25 13 • Patti Maguire Armstrong • 1 comment

Do you think you would benefit spiritually by spending thirty hours in prayer and meditation? Yeah, right, you are likely thinking. Where would I find time for that? I’m a very busy mother. Motherhood has its ironies. When we are pregnant and feel the need to “rest up,” sleep is often hard to come by. [...]

The Biggest Mistake a Catholic Can Make At Work

Apr 24 13 • Ryan Eggenberger • 21 comments

A few years ago I was working in a small office of five or six people. Everybody in the office knew I was Catholic. It was hard to hide, considering I went to Mass nearly every day, a blessing afforded to me by the fact that my parish was one block away from the office. [...]

The Dangers of an Aging World

Apr 24 13 • Stefano Gennarini, J.D. • 0 comments

Wolves prowl the streets of abandoned cities. Only prostitutes are left to take care of the elderly. War is looming. This is 2013 and the global population is aging. These are only a few of the alarming anecdotes retold at a conference last week. Decades of policies to reduce the number of people on our [...]

Courage and Coherence

Apr 24 13 • Carlos Caso-Rosendi • 0 comments

It is the incoherence of the faithful and the pastors what undermines the witness of the Church. The apostles were simple people, but they were not afraid of anything or anyone. Those were the concepts at the center of Pope Francis’ homily during a Mass at the Church of Saint Paul Outside the Walls earlier [...]

Help a Catholic Farming Family!

Apr 24 13 • Mary Kochan • 0 comments

Please, open your heart and consider this situation. Brian Gadbois is a permanent deacon and his wife Nissa has just, as in today, given birth to their ninth child. A couple of years ago a dream that they had nurtured for many years came true when they purchased a foreclosed and abandoned farm property. As a [...]

A pro-marriage rally in France in March.

France Passes Gay ‘Marriage’

Apr 24 13 • Jeanne Smits • 0 comments

The French National Assembly voted for the text legalizing same-sex “marriage” and adoption by 331 votes against 225 on Tuesday afternoon. The Socialists were joined by the Greens, the Communist party and the Radicals and other leftwing groups, but also by Centrists and two members of the opposition UMP (ex-president Sarkozy’s party), in adopting what [...]

Tabb’s Poetry XVI

Apr 24 13 • John B. Tabb • 0 comments

Five poems by John B. Tabb.

On Women Marrying Young

Apr 24 13 • Brianna Heldt • 0 comments

Did any of you catch the recent “Princeton mom” flap? Princeton alumna Susan Patton, in an open letter to women attending Princeton, advised that they should find a husband in college–otherwise they’d wind up divorced from a not-very-smart man they’d meet later in life. (Ouch!) Then Kathleen Gerson fired back, countering that it’s objectively better for young women to marry later in life. And then Ross Douthat turned [...]

Church Architecture 101, Part One

Apr 24 13 • Mark Wilson • 4 comments

There are strong feelings being expressed about church architecture today. It is my hope in writing these articles that the reader will feel empowered to think for himself and not feel obligated to follow directions established by art and architectural historians who intentionally and sometimes unintentionally use their ‘special’ language and terminology to make the [...]

Academic Freedom, Civility, and the Name of Jesus

Apr 23 13 • Dr. Gary L. Welton • 0 comments

A healthy classroom engages students in a rich debate of ideas

Dr. Kermit Gosnell - Philadelphia Clinic

Why Dr. Kermit Gosnell’s Case Matters

Apr 23 13 • Dr. Gerard Nadal • 0 comments

Dr. Kermit Gosnell is on trial for his life in Philadelphia because of how he ran his medical clinic, the “Women’s Medical Society” at 3801 Lancaster. That impressive establishmentarian-sounding title belied a business which reflected the abortion philosophy lived to its fullest expression and logical conclusion. In the final analysis, the Gosnell case reveals much [...]

Divine Detours

Apr 23 13 • Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur • 0 comments

One of my simple pleasures in life is reading Victoria magazine. The May/June 2013 issue features an article called “Destiny’s Detour.” The editors had asked readers to share stories of how their lives had turned out compared to what they thought life would hold for them when they graduated from high school or college. Victoria [...]

What Is Social Justice?

Apr 22 13 • Jason Hall • 2 comments

When last we met, we looked at Rerum Novarum, Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical which inaugurated modern Catholic social thought. We now continue our magical mystery tour by turning our attention to Pope Pius XI’s Quadragesimo Anno of 1931. Before we explore the major themes of this incredibly important document, however, it would serve us well [...]

Poem: “Two Mothers, and One More”

Apr 22 13 • Stacy Peterson • 0 comments

Two Mothers, and One More Until she squawked, preened her feathers and skittered away, I didn’t see her, As I jogged around the perimeter of the field On which my children played. I continued running, occassionally turning my head Making sure my little ones were safe And “boo-boo” free. During my second loop around the [...]

Better Communication = Better Sex

Apr 22 13 • J.Q. Tomanek • 0 comments

Dustin, before we get started talking about the conjugal act of marital intercourse, why don’t you introduce yourself for a moment. Are you married? How many kids do you have? How do you bring home the bacon? What is Engaged Marriage? DR: Thanks for having me! I’m 33-year-old Midwestern who’s been married to my high [...]