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Social Justice and Pope Francis: Choosing Freedom Over Serfdom

Mar 22 13 • Alejandro A. Chafuen • 5 comments

Society ensures social justice when it respects the dignity and the rights of the person as the proper end of society itself.

March for Marriage Set for Next Week in Washington DC

Mar 22 13 • Austin Ruse • 0 comments

Much of the world looks to the United States for guidance on issues of social policy. The fact of abortion on demand in the U.S. has been a powerful example that other countries have continued to follow. Marriage is the latest battleground social issue in the U.S. and in many parts of the world. So, […]

An Interview With St. Padre Pio’s Secretary

Mar 22 13 • Arleen Spenceley • 4 comments

On August 31 in 2009, I – then a staff writer for the Tampa Bay Times – followed a Capuchin friar from the chapel at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Tampa to his desk in his office next door. Fr. John Aurilia, then Most Holy Redeemer’s pastor, agreed to let me interview him for the paper. I […]

‘Pro-Choice’ Slave Masters Losing War

Mar 22 13 • J. Matt Barber • 0 comments

The pro-aborts are losing. They know it, and they hate it. As LifeNews.com reported in January: “CNN released the results of a new poll showing a majority of Americans want all or most abortions prohibited – a clear pro-life majority.” Indeed, the winds of life are blowing free the foul stench of a pro-abortion culture of death. […]

They’ll Know We Are Christians By Our Love

Mar 22 13 • Terry McDermott • 0 comments

If you’re of a certain age, you’ll recognize the title from an old folk hymn; we sang it repeatedly at Folk Mass in the 70’s and early 80’s. While the song itself is no longer popular, the message behind it is timeless. I was contacted to see an inpatient at one of our busiest hospitals. […]

Book Review: Brilliant Souls

Mar 22 13 • Leticia Velasquez • 0 comments

Stephanie Wincik is a registered nurse who doesn’t consider herself pro-life, or subscribe to any particular religious belief, yet after 25 years of working with the medically fragile disabled patients, she stumbled upon an article which galvanized her into writing a pro-life book, Making the Case for Life, which has in its enhanced second edition, […]

Poem: “Eleventh Station”

Mar 22 13 • Matthew B. Rose • 0 comments

Eleventh Station Good Friday “My friends, you are my closest ones. You alone I can trust. You are my closest companions, James, here, you have some dust Stuck to your shirt, There, cleaned off the dirt. My three friends, Peter, James, and John, Are closer to me than the rising sun. I tell you this, […]

My Brother Andrew

Mar 21 13 • Dr. Robert Moynihan • 0 comments

The key thing that Pope Francis did yesterday was to greet Patriarch Bartholomew I, ecumenical patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church, based in Constantinople, as “my brother Andrew.” Now, Andrew was the brother of Simon Peter, the first Bishop of Rome. They were fishermen together on the Sea of Galilee, 2,000 years ago. So Pope […]

Offensive USAID-Funded Ad Pulled in Kenya After Public Outcry

Mar 21 13 • Lisa Correnti • 0 comments

Just one day after USAID released a progress report on development reform, a US and UK funded AIDS prevention ad was pulled for being offensive and immoral for its promotion of extramarital affairs. While Christian and Muslim religious leaders called on the Communications Commission of Kenya to remove the ad from airwaves, it was a […]

Lenten Music: Kyrie XVII (B)

Mar 21 13 • Kevin Symonds • 0 comments

One of my passions is Gregorian Chant and since we are in the heart of Lent, it is a good time to look at a chant piece proper to the season: The Kyrie in the Sundays of Advent & Lent (Kyrie in Dominicis Adventus et Quadragesimae): Kyrie XVII. Though there are a few variations of […]

ACLU’s Embrace of Sex-Selective Abortion and the Elimination of Down Syndrome Babies

Mar 21 13 • Dr. Gerard Nadal • 0 comments

There is good news in North Dakota this week as the legislature there has passed two bills: one outlawing gender-selective and eugenic abortions rooted in genetic anomalies, and the other outlawing abortion once a heartbeat is detectable. Get the N.Y. Times story here. This news comes hot on the heels of Arizona’s banning abortions at […]

What We Can Learn from Pope Francis’ Example

Mar 21 13 • James Littleton • 0 comments

I want to reflect upon the election of our new Vicar of Christ, Francis from a view of application to our own lives. What is the raison d’être of a person being a witness, a living testimony? Is it to cause admiration, or is it primarily to inspire others to emulate him or her for […]

Balance: Gratitude and Grace-Filled

Mar 21 13 • Christine Capolino • 0 comments

As the mother of two lively boys, athletic boys, theater-loving boys, exploring boys, immersed-in-everything boys, I am forever seeking. Forever balancing. Forever juggling. Forever discerning. Activity versus stillness. Sound versus silence. Society versus solitude. I still, now for fleeting moments, still, have a measure of control over the feeling, the tenor, the rhythm of my […]

Remembering Jerome Lejeune

Mar 21 13 • Leticia Velasquez • 1 comment

Clara Lejeune Gaymard has a “servant of God” as a father: Jerome Lejeune, the French geneticist who discovered the cause of Down syndrome. Lejeune, who died in 1994 at age 67, was outspoken against legal abortion. He was named the first president of the Pontifical Academy for Life shortly before his death by Pope John […]

Funeral Cortege - Hugo Chavez - March 6, 2013

Preserving Hugo Chavez

Mar 20 13 • Dr. Paul Kengor • 0 comments

The far left has never been shy about venerating its heroes.

Baptism and Prophecy

Mar 20 13 • Kevin M. Tierney • 0 comments

In addition to sharing in Christ’s priesthood in baptism, the Catechism also tells us that we share in Christ’s prophetic office. The purpose of a Prophet (and hence Christ’s Office of Prophet) is something that is frequently misunderstood within Christianity today. The average answer will be that a prophet is essentially a divine fortune teller […]

In the Footsteps of Saint Peter

Mar 20 13 • Judie Brown • 5 comments

There have been some remarkable occurrences in the Catholic Church in recent days. And while numerous articles have been written about them, a couple of stunning realities occur to me based on the identity and invaluable worth of a single human being. These events have affirmed once again that God is in charge of the […]

Protect

Mar 20 13 • Dr. Robert Moynihan • 0 comments

Yesterday a new pontificate officially began. The essential message in the homily given by Pope Francis to open his pontificate draws on the work and image of St. Joseph, spouse of Mary, head of the Holy Family. And that message is to “protect.” This message is important at a time when the figure of the […]

It’s Spring! So…Should you Celebrate the Equinox?

Mar 20 13 • Mary Kochan • 4 comments

Today is the first day of spring because it is the day of the vernal (spring) equinox. Okay, just a quick review of your high school astronomy. In summer and winter we have solstices — the summer solstice is the longest day of the year and the winter solstice is the shortest day of the year. […]

Tabb’s Poetry XI

Mar 20 13 • John B. Tabb • 0 comments

Seven poems by John B. Tabb.

Spiritual Growth: The Healing Process

Mar 20 13 • Lori Hadorn-Disselkamp • 1 comment

This is a reflection I wrote after viewing Spiritual Growth in Tough Times which centers around the healing process. Sister Joyce Rupp discusses the process of healing with the analogy of the seasons. We all want to live in the spring and summers of our lives but we have to live through the difficulties of […]

Sisters of Mary Compete on The American Bible Challenge

Mar 20 13 • Patti Maguire Armstrong • 1 comment

Television is discovering the Bible makes for good viewing. In addition to The History Channel’s airing an epic 5-part Bible series, the second season of The American Bible Challenge game show begins this Thursday, March 21 at 9 pm EST on GNS. Hosted by Jeff Foxworthy, this fast-paced, one-hour game show pits Bible loving groups […]

Idol Hearts

Mar 19 13 • Stephanie Gulya • 0 comments

“You have put into my heart more joy than they have in abundance of corn and new wine.” –Psalm 4:7 I pray this psalm once a week for night prayer and each time it strikes my heart in a profound way. I am not quite sure I identify with the joy that come from new wine […]

Murder Trial Begins into ‘House of Horrors’ Abortionist

Mar 19 13 • Kirsten Anderson • 8 comments

Abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who ran the “House of Horrors” abortion clinic in West Philadelphia that was shut down after an FBI raid in 2010, faced the jury for the first time Monday in a case with high stakes: Gosnell faces the possibility of the death sentence if found guilty. Gosnell, 72, is facing capital murder […]