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Republicans Won. Now What?

Well, it’s finally over. With the exception of a few run-offs and perhaps a re-count or two, the 2014 elections are history. The House and the Senate are firmly in the grasp of the GOP, giving America a divided government for at least two more years. It didn’t take long for pundits to begin issuing their […]

Poem: “A Book”

Nov 14 14 • Emily Dickinson • 0 comments

A Book There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry. This traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of toll; How frugal is the chariot That bears a human soul! Emily Dickinson

The Hour of Mercy

Nov 13 14 • Tara Brelinsky • 0 comments

Eight months ago after welcoming my youngest into the wide world, I rediscovered the wee hours of the morning. After my longest gap between newborns (almost five years) in which I’d grown used to sleeping and waking according to my own wants and needs, I had to relearn that sacrificial habit of fumbling in the […]

The One Way Street Called Sperm Donation

Nov 13 14 • Rebecca Taylor • 0 comments

Creating children with sperm donation has gone on for a long time. In fact, the first documented case of a woman becoming pregnant by donor insemination was in 1884. A Quaker woman and her merchant husband, not able to conceive, approached Dr. William Pancoast of Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. When Dr. Pancoast presented this […]

Will the New U.S. Congress Protect Life?

Nov 12 14 • Steven W. Mosher • 0 comments

For the last four years, the U.S. Senate has been the place where pro-life legislation went to die. Of more than a dozen pieces of pro-life legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives during the last two Congresses, not a single one was taken up by the Senate. Violating the Senate’s century-long tradition of […]

The Grace of Admitting Our Brokenness

Nov 12 14 • Karee Santos • 0 comments

Even healers need to be healed. Even teachers need to learn more. And even those who advise perfection aren’t perfect. If we’re willing to admit that, then we have the grace of integrity, explains Lisa Hendey in her fourth book The Grace of Yes, released yesterday by Ave Maria Press. Integrity gives people in authority (including […]

Okay, Kid, Offer it Up

Nov 12 14 • George Galloway • 0 comments

Tyler Blanski wrote a fabulous and insightful article on fatherhood the other day on Catholic Exchange. It reminded me of my own father and one of his favorite sayings: “offer it up.” Whenever something traumatic happened in the lives of his ten children, like spraining an ankle during football practice or hearing something hurtful by […]

Remembrance Day

Nov 11 14 • Mark Davis Pickup • 0 comments

There is an old country graveyard near the town where I live. For years the small Clearwater Cemetery was all but forgotten and neglected. In the middle of that graveyard lies the forlorn grave of a young soldier who died six days before the end of the First World War. The decrepit fence surrounding the […]

Each Person Is a Divine Revelation

Nov 11 14 • Guy McClung • 0 comments

In touring some underground caverns recently, the cave guide said that the exquisite formations all around us took tens of millions of years to form from billions of acidic water droplets which had entrained trillions of tiny particles of materials. Conditions above and beneath the surface had to be precisely correct, and changes in and […]

A Pivotal Opportunity to Rally in Defense of Life

Nov 11 14 • Fr. Shenan J. Boquet • 0 comments

While it’s great news that substantial political pro-life victories were won in the mid-term elections, we must now ask ourselves, “What do these victories mean for the protection of human life and family?” Pope Saint John Paul II inspires and instructs us in this opportune and pivotal moment to rally in defense of life: “What […]

Nine Words We Must Say Every Day

Nov 11 14 • Shiela • 0 comments

When I was young child growing up in the 70’s, I remember seeing greeting cards and cheesy home décor with the quote, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry,” an oft quoted line from the melodramatic film Love Story. It never made sense to me. If that is indeed true, I would tell myself, […]

Hidden Treasures

Nov 10 14 • Rob Guinan • 0 comments

Working with the ‘least’ among us in nursing homes Over the years, I have had some interesting and exciting professional experiences as an interviewer and a writer. But nothing quite compares to my time visiting people in nursing homes. I’ve lived in six states, visited a number of facilities, and my interest hasn’t waned. Sometimes […]

Martin Luther King Jr. - Berlin - September 13, 1964

Martin Luther King and the Berlin Wall

Nov 9 14 • Dr. Paul Kengor • 0 comments

A speech that has slipped through the cracks of time.

Poem: “My Church Brother”

Nov 9 14 • Stacy Peterson • 0 comments

My Church Brother He came in oversized 550 Levi jeans colored deep Jean Blue, Size 36/36, but he required a few inches smaller. No problem, the silver woven belt cinched his waist, Balooning his billowing wrinkled white shirt over his chest. He came wearing a Christmas tie, with the knot askew, Apparently unaware of Halloween […]

Is It Happening Again?

Nov 7 14 • Robert J. Gieb • 0 comments

How did it happen that so many prominent Catholics, especially those in politics and in academia, moved from being ardent defenders of the unborn and the culture of life to advocates of the culture of death with such ease. It all seemed so smooth and unremarkable. In such a short time after the January 1973 […]

The Unbearable Lightness of Feminism

Nov 7 14 • Daniel Greenfield • 0 comments

Feminism is a prisoner of the Left.

Vocations: All About Life

Nov 6 14 • Fr. Frank Pavone • 1 comment

This week (November 2 – 8) is Vocations Awareness Week. Since I began my full-time work with Priests for Life over 20 years ago, one of the first things I became aware of was that many young people today are finding their vocation precisely because of the Church’s witness to the sanctity of life amidst […]

Ode to Feminine Genius: the Merciful Woman

Nov 6 14 • Anonymous • 0 comments

Four years ago, my husband became someone else almost overnight. We’d been married for more than a decade and I’d always known I’d gotten one of the good ones. My husband was naturally compassionate, attentive to me and our children, and easygoing about most things. Reprinted with permission from Catholic Sistas. But then it was […]

Poem: “Dream Land”

Nov 6 14 • Christina Rossetti • 0 comments

Dream Land Where sunless rivers weep Their waves into the deep, She sleeps a charmed sleep: Awake her not. Led by a single star, She came from very far To seek where shadows are Her pleasant lot. She left the rosy morn, She left the fields of corn, For twilight cold and lorn And water […]

Book Review: <i>The Light is On for You</i>

Book Review: The Light is On for You

Nov 6 14 • Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur • 0 comments

Confession, also known as The Sacrament of Reconciliation, can be a hard sell, even among Catholics who actively practice their faith. In the Introduction to The Light is On for You: The Life-Changing Power of Confession (The Word Among Us Press), Cardinal Donald Wuerl acknowledges that only “slightly more than 60 percent of practicing Catholics […]

I Get Knocked Down, But I Get Up Again

Nov 5 14 • Jake Frost • 0 comments

Life is more about getting up than it is about not falling. So my father commented once, long ago, when (of all things) we were watching figure skating. It wasn’t just any figure skating, though, it was the return of Scott Hamilton after his battle with cancer. For those too young to remember, Scott Hamilton […]

Empty Full Pews

Nov 5 14 • Zachary Gappa • 2 comments

Christianity Today’s online magazine Parse recently posited that the rise of the automobile laid the groundwork for the modern megachurch. It’s a recommended read that gets to the crux of a problem in modern Christianity – a problem that cars only amplified: our self-centeredness. There are, of course, plenty of God-fearing Christians attending megachurches, but […]

Movie Review: Gone Girl

Nov 4 14 • Sr. Helena Burns, fsp • 0 comments

I don’t know why this simple premise intrigued me when the best-selling book and now movie, Gone Girl first came out, but it did: A young married couple. The wife suddenly disappears. Was it murder? Did her husband do it? But alas, the film, for all its accolades, is a massive disappointment, and really, a […]

The One-Issue Voter

Nov 4 14 • John Kirkwood • 3 comments

Will you stand for righteousness, come what may?

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