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Testimonies of Heaven

Dec 20 12 • Dr. Gary Scott Smith • 2 comments

Earlier this year I went to the WPXI television studio in Pittsburgh to tape an interview. The technician who escorted me inquired, “What are you here to discuss today?” When I replied, “heaven,” he asked, “Have they found it?” As he correctly reasoned, the discovery of heaven would indeed be newsworthy. Thoughts of heaven are […]

The Empty Manger

Dec 20 12 • Fr. Frank Pavone • 0 comments

During Advent, Christians gather around the Manger, as yet empty. “Come, Lord Jesus, do not delay,” the Church’s liturgy prays. Just as the Baby in the Manger represents for us the greatest Gift God brings, so the emptiness of the Manger represents the deep needs of the human heart — needs that not only we […]

The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker

Dec 20 12 • Thomas Storck • 0 comments

There is a well-known passage in Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (book I, chapter 2) that runs thus: It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and […]

An Advent Tale: What’s On Fire?

Dec 20 12 • Barb Lishko • 0 comments

Dutifully, Catholics go on the hunt each year for the highly coveted, purple and pink candle ensemble vital to any serious Advent Wreath. I’m eighty-seven percent sure that I buy a replacement set after Christmas in anticipation of the following liturgical season, proudly lauding myself for thinking ahead, taking advantage of the sale price, and […]

The Gift of Celibacy – Its Meaning Today

Dec 20 12 • John Morgan III • 0 comments

If you mention the word “celibacy” on your local street corner today, you will probably not get a favorable response. It will more than likely spark a conversation about recent tabloid news involving sex scandals, homosexuality, or other negative publicity. Or, it may conjure up images of monasteries, cobblestone streets, and oil filled lamps. And […]

War on the Meaning of Christmas

Dec 19 12 • Rebecca Taylor • 2 comments

I recently saw a Jon Stewart monologue that really got me thinking. Stewart was making fun of Fox News’ “War on Christmas.” Stewart asks how could there possibly be a “War on Christmas” when Christmas, as a holiday, has become so bloated that this year it finally took over Thanksgiving. In 2012, before the turkey […]

Will Russia Come Back to Life?

Dec 19 12 • Steven W. Mosher • 1 comment

Putin Calls for Three-Child Family to Become the Norm Elizabeth Crnkovich also contributed to this article. What do you do when your country is dying, one coffin at a time? Well, if you are Russian President Vladimir Putin, you call upon Russian couples to be fruitful and multiply, and have at least three children. It […]

What Are We Missing?

Dec 19 12 • Ron Quinlan • 0 comments

We belong to a faith that over the course of the past two millennia hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people have given their lives for. These martyrs believed that their faith was worth dying for yet this generation of Catholics seems to have abandoned their faith. With the exceptions of Christmas, Ash Wednesday, […]

Jindal’s Witches’ Brew: Deconstructing Catholic Teaching

Dec 19 12 • Judie Brown • 1 comment

It is reported that Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal is a Catholic. Further, it has been said that he is a conservative Republican. But recently we learned that Jindal is actually a counterfeit Catholic with progressive leanings on the subjects of contraception, women’s rights, and common sense. In fact, in his latest Wall Street Journal op-ed, […]

Free to Choose?

Dec 19 12 • Ken Connor • 0 comments

Americans’ affirmation of the “right to choose” is a feature of our national identity. No matter where you go or what you’re doing, chances are you are confronted with a plethora of choices. Go to the supermarket and you are confronted with a dizzying array of options for each and every product you wish to […]

Love is a Person

Dec 19 12 • Jason Liske • 0 comments

Love is a Person. St. Augustine profoundly realized this when he spoke of the restlessness of the human heart until it rests in God. In reading John Donne’s poetry over the past few months, one witnesses Donne’s search for love, a journey full of distortion and dead-ends. In some writings, he almost treats the concept […]

If Aristotle’s Kid Had an iPod

Dec 19 12 • Patti Maguire Armstrong • 0 comments

What is the difference between a child born in the Twenty-first century and one born in 300 BC? Nothing, since human nature is unchanging, but everything, if modern child-rearing techniques are applied. Human nature never changes, be it during ancient times or in the modern world. Thus, Aristotle’s philosophy was as brilliant in 350 BC […]

Advent: A Time to Prepare Our Hearts to Receive Jesus More Deeply

Dec 19 12 • Maurice Blumberg • 0 comments

But to those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name, who were born not by natural generation nor by human choice nor by a man’s decision but of God. (John 1:12,13) All good giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down […]

Poem: “Of Prophecy and Pregnancy”

Dec 19 12 • Erin Corry • 0 comments

Of Prophecy and Pregnancy The whole earth groans Like a swollen mother month [after] month [after] month Calendar pages turning a community of hearts yearning Like a young father Paces in a room, aptly called “Waiting” Our hearts flutter, Anticipating. For this, this is the season where prophecy meets pregnancy meets you meets me. Our […]

The Character of Our Culture Defines Our Children

Dec 18 12 • Marybeth Hicks • 4 comments

If you have access to the Internet, you likely have read a viral blog post by single mother of four Liza Long titled “I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother.” The piece has had millions of hits on the various sites on which it has been published. If you haven’t seen it, check your email. Someone has […]

The One Pertinent Question We Truly Must Ask

Dec 18 12 • Mary Kochan • 25 comments

In the wake of the horrifying deaths of 20 young school children in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting at Newtown, Connecticut, there is one question that we must ask. We must ask it while the horror is fresh and we must ask it when the process of grief has eased our shock and pain […]

Is it Appropriate to Link Sandy Hook and Abortion?

Dec 18 12 • Dr. Gerard Nadal • 1 comment

Within hours of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School pro-lifers began assigning causal rootedness in the culture of abortion. I’ve heard several people, some of whom are pro-lifers, object to making a connection. So the question needs to be addressed. Given the highly charged political and moral dimensions of the abortion debate, those most […]

Review of CD by Cloistered Nuns: <em>Advent at Ephesus</em>

Review of CD by Cloistered Nuns: Advent at Ephesus

Dec 18 12 • Claire Halbur • 0 comments

A few years ago, I was delighted when friends gifted me with a CD of sacred music by a religious community that I’d never heard of before, The Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles. It was their first album, privately recorded, and self-released, yet I was quickly taken by these gentle, prayerful voices and soothing […]

Let’s Get On With Being Catholic

Dec 18 12 • Robert J. Gieb • 1 comment

The 2012 national election is over, and the winners are those who support the legalized killing of innocent human beings, the destruction of traditional marriage, and the gross limitation of religious freedom. The victors include atheists and believers, and sadly among those believers are many who claim to be Catholics. It is not even possible […]

New Sci-Fi Thriller, <em>The Christus Experiment</em>, is “<em>Da Vinci Code</em> in Reverse”

New Sci-Fi Thriller, The Christus Experiment, is “Da Vinci Code in Reverse”

Dec 18 12 • Mary Kochan • 1 comment

An interview with author Rod Bennett A fascinating new novel is out in paperback today which ought to be of great interest to Catholic Lane readers with a taste for fantasy or science fiction. It’s called The Christus Experiment and it’s the first major work of fiction by Rod Bennett, author of the popular Catholic apologetic Four […]

Russia Rejects UN Committee Edict on Homosexual Propaganda

Dec 18 12 • Stefano Gennarini, J.D. • 3 comments

A UN committee of legal experts reprimanded the Russian Federation last month for allowing the Ryazan province of Russia to enforce a law that bans the promotion of homosexuality among minors as part of a national effort to protect children from early sexualization, and related adverse health consequences. In 2009 Irina Fedotova, a lesbian activist, […]

Cardinals Vote Unanimously in Favor of Paul VI’s Canonization

Dec 18 12 • Dr. Robert Moynihan • 0 comments

The cardinals and bishops of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints gave the “go ahead” on December 10 for Paul VI’s beatification, Italian Vatican journalist Andrea Tornielli reported on his Vatican Insider website on December 14. “The late Pope’s Positio – the collection of documents used in the process by which a person is […]

The War on Jesus Christ

Dec 18 12 • Kurt Kondrich • 0 comments

During this season of Miracles we often hear and read about the “War on Christmas” and efforts to remove and erase all references of Jesus Christ from our culture. This determination seems to increase each year, and in the near future children may lose all knowledge of the True Meaning of Christmas. As a professional […]

Farewell to Apostate America, Part 2

Dec 18 12 • Robert Struble, Jr. • 1 comment

Go to Part 1. Tentative Exit Plan What an exceptional nation America was! In 1945 Germany’s foremost rocket scientist, 34 year old Wernher von Braun, led his team of scientists and engineers along a war ravaged route from Peenemunde to Bavaria, where they surrendered to U.S. forces. His team of rocket scientists (developers of the […]