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<em>Grace Uplugged,</em> The Story of the Ages

Grace Uplugged, The Story of the Ages

Jan 31 14 • Patti Maguire Armstrong • 0 comments

Good versus good hardly seems like a movie plot, but in Grace Unplugged Divine good versus worldly goods is pitted against one another. At the heart of the conflict is the pull of a Father’s love and concern for his 18-year-old daughter and her push to get out from under his shadow and make it […]

One Third of Evangelicals Believe Suicide is Moral for the Incurably Ill?

Jan 31 14 • Mark Davis Pickup • 3 comments

In the January/February edition of Christianity Today (they called themselves CT now) a small article caught my eye. It was entitled “More evangelicals see suicide as moral.” Really? According to the Pew Research Center, 1 in 3 evangelicals who worship weekly think that “a person has a “moral right” to suicide if, they are “in […]

St. Pius X and the Church of Nice

Jan 31 14 • Kevin M. Tierney • 13 comments

In today’s polarized Church, we like to label that which we don’t like. We need to tell people we are the pure, and they are the impure. A lot of Catholics do this by labeling those they disagreed with “radical traditionalists” or “radtrad”, even though more often than not these Catholics were faithful Catholics in […]

Poem: “I Had a Dream Last Night”

Jan 30 14 • John Clay Bangs • 0 comments

I Had a Dream Last Night I had a dream last night. It was a simple dream. Really all I remember is the call from God, or an angel: “If you want to be great in God’s Kingdom, learn to be the servant of all.” Simple words. A child’s words. But they weren’t simple in […]

Income Inequality: A Third Option

Jan 30 14 • Zachary Gappa • 13 comments

The fiftieth anniversary of The War on Poverty has reignited a flurry of discussion over what to do about the poor in America and around the world. This coincides with some interesting recent statistics on an increasing gulf between what the poor and rich are earning each year. Unfortunately, these disparities are nearly always approached from the […]

Womb Transplants: Unethical Experimentation on Children

Jan 30 14 • Chelsea Zimmerman • 1 comment

Womb transplants are in the news again and I have seen a few posts around the Catholic blogosphere questioning what such a transplant might mean, ethically. First, some background: A womb transplant is exactly what it sounds like. Women who were either born without a uterus or have had their uterus removed after suffering cervical […]

The Nuns and the Priests

Jan 30 14 • Fr. Frank Pavone • 8 comments

A lot of attention was given recently to the Little Sisters of the Poor, and the way that the Obama Administration wants to force them to cooperate in its plan to expand access to contraceptives, abortion-inducing drugs, and sterilization. They are rightly saying “No,” and, like us at Priests for Life, have said it through […]

<em>Gimme Shelter</em>, Why America Can't Be Bothered

Gimme Shelter, Why America Can’t Be Bothered

Jan 30 14 • Barb Lishko • 1 comment

I got a chance tonight to grab a few friends and go see Gimme Shelter staring Vanessa Hudgens. I was looking forward to supporting a movie that would tell the story of a young woman’s struggle through a harrowing life and teen pregnancy. It would be a movie that would not insult my ears with […]

The Imperative of Snow Days

Jan 30 14 • Matthew Chominski • 0 comments

Writing now in the midst of winter, I’d like to address a certain sort of winter day that flits about the calendar and weather reports in an almost fantastical and mythical fashion, that is, the Snow Day. What I’d like to suggest is that there are benefits stemming from the Snow Day that go beyond […]

The Book Whisperer: <em>Mothering Without a Map</em>

The Book Whisperer: Mothering Without a Map

Jan 29 14 • Heidi Hess Saxton • 0 comments

Even those who have a great relationship with their own mothers can appreciate how the mother-daughter bond colors the way they parent their own children. Suddenly and without warning, we begin channeling our own childhood soundtrack in recipes, songs, and other traditions — for better or worse (“Because I SAID so…”). In Mothering Without a Map: […]

Ukraine: Bishop Denounces Violence Against Protestors

Jan 29 14 • ACN-USA News • 1 comment

According to a local bishop, the “brutal” crackdown on demonstrators in Ukraine is acting as a recruitment agent for the protest movement. “It is hard to imagine a more prayerful [protest] in 21st century Europe,” says Bishop Gudziak,describing the country as being engaged “in a battle for dignity.” Bishop Borys Gudziak, Eparch of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic […]

Are Children a Burden or a Blessing?

Jan 29 14 • Karee Santos • 2 comments

Modernity isn’t sure whether children are a burden or a blessing. The percentage of childless couples in the U.S. has nearly doubled since 1980. The cover of Time magazine recently bragged that increasing numbers of couples are remaining childless by choice, because they subscribe to the philosophy that having it all means not having children. Let’s face […]

SOTU SUBTEXTS

Jan 28 14 • E. L. Core • 4 comments

It’s always the same speech, really.

Close to Home

Jan 28 14 • Fathers for Good • 0 comments

The Church considers the family so important that it will be devoting the next two years to intensive discussions about the challenges the basic unit of society is facing today. Pope Francis has called an Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in October 2014 on “pastoral challenges for the family in the context […]

Why Have Girls Gone Missing in China?

Jan 28 14 • Steven W. Mosher • 0 comments

It is no secret that China is suffering from a shortage of girls. The Population Research Institute (PRI) has long publicized the dearth of baby girls in China, which is leading to increases in child marriage and sex trafficking. Even the United Nations (UN) and World Health Organization (WHO) have taken note; just two years […]

Movie Review: Her

Jan 28 14 • Sr. Helena Burns, fsp • 1 comment

From writer/director Spike Jonez’, Her is a rather extraordinary film. It’s really a science fiction/love story about A.I. (artificial intelligence). Set in what looks like the near future, Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix doing his best work to date and visually carrying the entire film) works for a company called “Beautiful Handwritten Letters” that composes letters for people. Not business letters or […]

Unequal Distribution of Economic Freedom

Jan 27 14 • Alejandro A. Chafuen • 0 comments

The rich get richer when they use government to marginalize the poor.

Europe Under Pressure from Homosexual Activists

Jan 27 14 • Hilary White • 0 comments

The homosexualist lobby, one of the most powerful at the European Union and Council of Europe, has been busy over the last month, particularly with preparations for opposing Russia’s “gay propaganda ban” in the lead up to the Sochi Winter Olympics. The main player in Europe’s branch of the movement is ILGA Europe, (International Lesbian, Gay, […]

Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, January 16, 2010

Presidential Bifurcation Underway!

Jan 27 14 • E. L. Core • 0 comments

It looks as if my prediction is coming true.

Socially Polite Child Abuse

Jan 27 14 • Judie Brown • 1 comment

Most Americans do not think of abortion as child abuse. But as Mother Teresa once said, “Any country that accepts abortion is…teaching its people…to use any violence to get what they want.” I would add that not only does abortion teach people the palatability of violence, it persuades people to lie to themselves. Self-deception has been gripping […]

Thriving by Surrendering

Jan 27 14 • Melanie Jean Juneau • 0 comments

As every mother knows, a newborn takes at least eight hours a day to nurse, burp, rock and comfort, bathe and change. Then a mother must wash loads of clothes which tend to get covered in vomit, and other nasty surprises. The lack of sleep leads to a rather narrow existence where the best days […]

Court Gives Little Sisters Temporary Protection from HHS Mandate

Jan 24 14 • John-Henry Westen • 1 comment

Despite the best efforts of the Obama Administration, the Supreme Court of the United States decided on Friday afternoon to temporarily block enforcement of the Affordable Care Act on behalf of the Little Sisters of the Poor. The new ruling allows the religious order to avoid the crushing penalties of failing to adhere to the […]

Some Dreams are Nightmares

Jan 24 14 • Genevieve Kineke • 0 comments

Today, as we reflect on the 41st anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, we recommit ourselves to the decision’s guiding principle: that every woman should be able to make her own choices about her body and her health … [because] this is a country where everyone deserves the same freedom and […]

A New Constitution Spells Bright Future for Egypt’s Christians

Jan 24 14 • ACN-USA News • 1 comment

Coptic Catholic Bishops in Egypt have hailed the result of the referendum on the country’s new constitution, saying the document amounts to a crucial step towards religious freedom and other civil liberties for people of all faiths, including the country’s Christian minority. In interviews with Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need, Bishops Kyrillos […]