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Sacred Experiences of the Small and Weak

Jul 16 14 • Mark Davis Pickup • 1 comment

A few years ago, I entered my room to discover my little grandson looking up at a large crucifix on the wall above my bed. He turned and asked if that really happen?” “Yes it did.” I replied. “Did Jesus die?” he asked, turning back to look at the crucifix. “Yes, he did. But that’s […]

After Hobby Lobby Comes Priests for Life — Why We Are Confident

Jul 16 14 • Fr. Frank Pavone • 12 comments

On Monday, June 30, Priests for Life expressed satisfaction with the Supreme Court’s decision in the Hobby Lobby case. Upon further analysis of that decision, we continue to be encouraged by it and by its implications for our own case, which has already been argued in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, which could issue […]

Poem: “Peril as a Possession”

Jul 15 14 • Emily Dickinson • 0 comments

Peril as a Possession (Part Five: The Single Hound VI) Peril as a possession ’T is good to bear, Danger disintegrates satiety; There ’s Basis there Begets an awe, That searches Human Nature’s creases As clean as Fire Emily Dickinson

Paul in Arabia: The History of the Temple

Jul 15 14 • Rev. Tucker Cordani • 0 comments

The story of Paul’s journey into Arabia begins and ends in the Temple at Jerusalem (Acts 7:1—8:1; 22:17-21). Paul made his scriptural debut as the young prosecutor who guarded the cloaks of the members of the lynch mob who stoned Stephen (Acts 7:58; 8:1). Scripture offers scant details about the next few years of Paul: […]

A Place for Family Prayer

Jul 15 14 • Fathers for Good • 0 comments

Life today is fast-paced and can lead us astray, so we need to slow down sometimes and reset our direction toward God. The best way to begin this reorientation is by making space – both physically and spiritually – for prayer in the home. This is the message of the book The Little Oratory: A […]

The Bad Evangelist Club: <em>Sola Scriptura</em> and the "Essentials"?

The Bad Evangelist Club: Sola Scriptura and the “Essentials”?

Jul 14 14 • David Gray • 1 comment

One common response that Protestants will use to defend or explain away their clear disunity in doctrine is by retreating into the dichotomy dogma, which they call the essentials of the faith, versus non-essentials of the faith. Their defense begins like this, ‘Our unity is found in that all true Christian churches agree on the […]

Be Someone to Somebody Else

Jul 11 14 • Elizabeth Tichvon • 0 comments

This evening on Facebook, someone posted one of those reassuring Pinterest boards that read, “Sometimes in life we just need someone to be there for us. Someone who will listen. Someone who will understand us.” In past years, I would have grabbed onto this one and held tight. But I’ve come to believe that when we […]

Gay Rights Hit Roadblocks Around the World

Jul 11 14 • Stefano Gennarini, J.D. • 0 comments

The most powerful countries and institutions in the world promoting homosexual “rights” are finding resistance even where gay activists thought the battle had been won. The goal of normalizing same-sex relations through legislation is hitting roadblocks in legislatures, courts, and among people around the globe. While activists have succeeded in getting western societies to require […]

Christian Exodus from Iraq Accelerates

Jul 11 14 • ACN-USA News • 1 comment

The migration of Christians out of Iraq will accelerate. This was the view held by the head of the Chaldean-Catholic Church, Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako. In an interview with the international Catholic pastoral charity, Aid to the Church in Need given on Saturday, June 28th in Ankawa, near Erbil, he said, “When I was […]

Movie Review: <em>The Jewish Cardinal</em>

Movie Review: The Jewish Cardinal

Jul 11 14 • Sr. Helena Burns, fsp • 1 comment

The 2013 film (now on DVD and Netflix) The Jewish Cardinal is the life of the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, Aaron Jean-Marie Lustiger who died in 2007. May I say that this is the most tastefully, smartly irreverent life of a prelate ever on film? Jewish filmmaker, Ilan Duran Cohen, gets both Judaism and Catholicism […]

The Triumph of Law Over Ideology

Jul 10 14 • Ken Connor • 0 comments

It’s been a week since the Supreme Court issued their ruling on the Hobby Lobby case, and there appears to be no end in sight to the Left’s outrage over the outcome. As expected, given the controversial nature of the issue at hand, most of the ire is reflexive and purely visceral. It’s unlikely that […]

Farmer Wisdom

Jul 10 14 • Mike Eisenbath • 0 comments

The theme my personal website, www.eisenbath.com, is “Hope.” Simple in many ways, so elusive for people in others. When I need some fresh inspiration, I often will roam around looking for interesting thoughts from a variety of sources. Recently, I ran across this: An old horse, an old dog and an old farmer have much in […]

My Rules for Discourse on the Internet

Jul 10 14 • Rebecca Taylor • 20 comments

I could be having a great day and a nasty exchange on the Internet will always bring me down. Whether I am involved or not, uncivil discourse sucks the joy out of the Internet for me. I suspect it does for most people who are not secret psychopaths. I am especially discouraged when I see […]

When Untruth and Violence are Confronted by Truth and Peace

Jul 9 14 • Mark Davis Pickup • 0 comments

It never ceases to amaze me that in the 21st Century there are still people who pose the ridiculous question: “When do you think life begins?” Quite frankly, it does not matter when you or I think life begins: Biology established long ago – before abortion on demand became legal in Canada – that human […]

Poem: “There is Hope in my Heart”

Jul 9 14 • L. Lapiz • 0 comments

There is Hope in my Heart Here in my heart is where You belong. Here is where I want You to stay. Forever Friend, Lord and Master, Do not go away. I have such great need of you, Always, and always, and always You are my life’s desire, My Forever Faithful Friend. Stay close, stay […]

Are We Really Teaching the Catholic Faith?

Jul 9 14 • Marlon De La Torre • 0 comments

“We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves; let each of us please his neighbor for his good to edify him. For Christ did not please himself; but, as it is written, ‘The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me. For whatever was […]

Science Ignored: Dissecting Pregnancy as a Disease

Jul 8 14 • Anne Morse • 5 comments

Last week, the United States Supreme Court decided Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, and ruled the federal government could not require closely-held corporations to provide no-cost contraception for their employees. Although that was the question before the Supreme Court, there were many things the Supreme Court didn’t have the jurisdiction to rule on yesterday. And the […]

Synod on the Family: A Preview of Coming Attractions

Jul 8 14 • Karee Santos • 0 comments

The recently released working document for this October’s Extraordinary Synod on the Family presents a remarkably candid view of the troubles besetting Catholic marriages and families today. Young people are frequently afraid to commit. Marriage preparation is often seen as a useless obligation. Ignorance of Church teaching is widespread. Few understand that using contraception is sinful. Many […]

Social Media Fasts: Making Room for Blessings

Jul 7 14 • Amy Bonaccorso • 0 comments

Remember when social media fasting was trending during Lent? My big undertaking for Lent was to fast from Facebook, and though it wasn’t complete, it was my first attempt and pretty strict. It was such a huge change for me that months later, I’m still processing the experience and reaping rewards from the fast. My […]

The Peril of Power

Jul 7 14 • Erica Wanis • 1 comment

“Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.” Colossians 3:1-2. As a Christian, I’m quite familiar with this passage, and always took it as an admonition against the kind of […]

Loving The Unlovable

Jul 7 14 • Nicole DeMille • 0 comments

On social media as in your dining room or your workplace, you are guaranteed to encounter people who test your patience. We are, as Catholics, commanded to love all people. There is no exclusion in Scripture or Tradition for jerks. There is no asterisk that features an addendum explaining that I am not required to […]

U.N. Resolution on the Family Dampens Gay Pride Festivities

Jul 7 14 • Stefano Gennarini, J.D. • 1 comment

The United Nations put a damper on “gay pride” festivities last Thursday when it re-affirmed that the natural family is the fundamental unit of society. The Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on “Protection of the Family” with a traditional definition of the family last Thursday, even as revelers readied themselves to celebrate gay pride […]

Thinking Liturgically: Who is Our Helper?

Jul 6 14 • Kevin M. Tierney • 0 comments

Why do we go to Mass? While this might seem like an easy question, try and figure out a way to describe why we go to Mass in a quick and easy fashion. Traditionally, it is said the point of Mass is fourfold: that of adoration, reparation, intercession and thanksgiving. To anyone well versed in […]

Doubting Thomas

Jul 5 14 • R. Jared Staudt, Ph.D. • 0 comments

Thomas Welbourne had no children. His wife Mary had been pestering him, even pleading about it, for years. He hadn’t decided against having them, but then, he never quite made up his mind to have them. He had never quite made up his mind about anything much. He was waiting for something – for something […]