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Working Mom’s Survival Kit

Nov 15 13 • Heidi Hess Saxton • 0 comments

Today is my first “normal” day back at work (from my home office) since Chris came home. Now, under ideal circumstances (everyone but me — including the dog — out of the house for an eight-hour stretch, the house clean and crock pot simmering), I enjoy working from home. However, since “ideal circumstances” seldom present themselves […]

Why You Should Receive Communion Kneeling and on the Tongue

Nov 15 13 • Kevin M. Tierney • 49 comments

In the 13 years I have been a practicing Catholic, I have been a traditionalist all but two of them. As a result, I have received communion on the tongue and kneeling for eleven years. I’ve also found that the way we traditionalists receive communion is something that many Catholics outside of the Extraordinary Form […]

Appeals Court Blocks HHS Mandate for Catholic Business Owners

Nov 14 13 • Kirsten Anderson • 1 comment

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked enforcement of ObamaCare’s controversial contraception mandate in the case of two Catholic business owners. Cyril and Jane Korte, who own and operate Korte & Luitjohanm Contractors, Inc., and the Grote Family, which owns and manages Grote Industries, Inc., argued that the law forces them to violate their […]

Why We Can’t Save Marriage in Five Easy Steps

Nov 14 13 • Karee Santos • 0 comments

The way to save marriage isn’t by new laws, but new hearts.

Force the Vote!

Nov 14 13 • Fr. Frank Pavone • 0 comments

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), along with a third of his colleagues as co-sponsors, has introduced in the US Senate a bill to protect children from abortion starting at 20-weeks of fetal age (“22 weeks LMP”). The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act has already been passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, has been enacted in […]

Faith Comes Down to This

Nov 14 13 • Thomas Colyandro, MA, MDiv • 0 comments

Living the Christian faith comes down to these three ways of life: prayer, humility, and obedience. No matter who you are or where you come from, if you truly want to be a committed and faithful Christian: (1) you must spend some serious time engaged in vocal prayer (both privately and with the community in […]

Book Review: <i>Pope Francis: I Believe in Mercy</i>

Book Review: Pope Francis: I Believe in Mercy

Nov 14 13 • Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur • 0 comments

Known for their work on the Manga Hero edition of Habemus Papem which told of Pope Benedict XVI, the creative team of Regina Doman as writer and Sean Lam as artist has once again joined to tell a pope’s life story. This time the attention is on Pope Francis. Intended for teens and young adults, […]

Miracle of Faith

Nov 13 13 • Elizabeth Tichvon • 0 comments

A reflection on today’s Sacred Scripture: “One of them, realizing he had been healed, returned, glorifying God in a loud voice” (Luke 17:15). Jesus always responds to prayers made in faith. The faith of the ten lepers brought them a miraculous cure, but the faith of one brought him back to the feet of Jesus, where […]

ObamaCare’s Marriage Penalty

Nov 13 13 • Kirsten Anderson • 1 comment

Would you pay $10,000 a year to stay married to your spouse? Some American couples are being faced with exactly that decision as they consider their health insurance options under ObamaCare. One of the most controversial provisions of ObamaCare is that it requires all Americans to purchase health insurance, whether they want it or not, […]

Did You Run Out of Sins?

Nov 13 13 • Marlon De La Torre • 0 comments

Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman once said: “Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.” If the will is the source of action and faith is illuminative because it comes from God, then […]

Movie Review: Gravity

Nov 13 13 • Sr. Helena Burns, fsp • 0 comments

“Just when you thought it was safe to go back in space…,” a terrifying movie like “Gravity” hits you in the face. “Gravity” is one of those films that’s truly an experience that one undergoes: one of the tensest time periods ever spent in a cinema. This is an extremely uncomfortable film. Space is the […]

African Women Beware – Harmful Contraceptive Due in Bulk

Nov 13 13 • Lisa Correnti • 0 comments

This week family planning and abortion advocates are coming out in force for an International Family Planning conference co-hosted by Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health and Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population. The 3-day conference opened in Addis Ababa with the theme “Full Access—Full Choice.” Stakeholders will present on greater access to abortion and how […]

The Unseen Scars Are Often As Painful As The Ones Seen

Nov 13 13 • Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson • 0 comments

Actions produce some effects that are readily apparent and others that are not.

Tabb’s Poetry XLII

Nov 13 13 • John B. Tabb • 0 comments

Five poems by John B. Tabb.

We Must Evangelize

Nov 12 13 • Denise Bossert • 19 comments

It’s the great dilemma for Catholics. We know that we are to share Christ. We are to go into the highways and byways and even into the Internet superhighway and tell the world about Jesus Christ and His Church. But we don’t know what to do about that troublesome word: proselytizing. Evangelism is good. Proselytizing is bad. […]

Abortion Advocates Vocally Frustrated at the UN

Nov 12 13 • Austin Ruse • 0 comments

Advocates for abortion at the UN are vocally frustrated with their lack of advancement since the Cairo conference on population twenty years ago. This becomes increasing evident as they gear up for two big events in the coming year. Next year will see not only the twentieth anniversary of Cairo but the negotiation of a […]

Lilypad Ecopolis, 2008, Vincent Callebaut Architectures

Apologies from Utopia

Nov 12 13 • Daniel Greenfield • 0 comments

What was once character has become branding.

We Were Warned

Nov 11 13 • E. L. Core • 1 comment

Obama vs. Reagan

Thousands of Lives to Give: The Philippines

Nov 11 13 • Rachana Chhin • 3 comments

By now you probably have heard that a massive typhoon hit the Philippines last Friday. Named Haiyan (or Yolanda), the typhoon is reportedly the strongest ever recorded in history, with winds of 195 miles per hour and gusts up to 235 mph. Early reports coming out of the country say that as many as 10,000 people lost […]

Defeating Autism: Joseph at Year Three in Boy Scouting

Nov 11 13 • Dr. Gerard Nadal • 0 comments

This is a story about defeating autism, the practical attainment of hope for devastated parents, and a whole new way of approaching a scourge upon our beloved children. Our son, Joseph, happens to be its protagonist; but the joyful hope in this story resides in the certainty that it is a template into which parents […]

Sinner’s Guide to Natural Family Planning: Interviewing Simcha Fisher

Nov 11 13 • Bonnie Engstrom • 0 comments

Simcha Fisher’s book, The Sinner’s Guide to Natural Family Planning, is still sitting pretty in the Top 10 on Amazon’s list of Catholic books. The incredible interest in the book isn’t surprising since frank, balanced conversations about natural family planning –- the only method of spacing children approved by the Catholic Church –- are desperately […]

Theodore Roosevelt and Veterans Day

Nov 11 13 • Dr. Gary Scott Smith • 2 comments

Roosevelt strove to promote peace by strengthening the United States.

Poem: “Is it Firmament? Or Quicksand?”

Nov 10 13 • L. Lapiz • 0 comments

Is it Firmament? Or Quicksand? Does the kingdom of the world know Of the Kingdom of God? Most assuredly so. But the reigning prince blinds The eyes of his subjects. For were they to know their fortune, They would abandon him. His trickery is beguiling, His promises deceiving, Their fortune is terror. Not so the […]

Tomb of the Unknowns, Arlington Cemetery, May 1943

Cultural Alert! The Disappearance of Heroes – Perception or Reality?

Nov 10 13 • Luke Hamilton • 0 comments

It is important to hold tight to our heroes.

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