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Advent: A Time to Prepare for the Lord’s Coming

Nov 28 12 • Maurice Blumberg • 0 comments

He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, but the world did not know him. He came to what was his own, but his own people did not accept him. But to those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in […]

German Fed Court: No Patenting Stem Cells Obtained Through Destruction of Human Embryos

Nov 28 12 • J.C. von Krempach, J.D. • 0 comments

The German Federal Court (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH = the supreme judicial instance in Germany in all matters pertaining to civil law) has yesterday issued the final decision in the case Brüstle vs. Greenpeace. Mr. Brüstle is a German researcher who has submitted a patent claim with regard to embryonic stemcells. Greenpeace is an environmentalist NGO that […]

“Two and a Half Men” Teen is the Real Grown-Up

Nov 28 12 • Marybeth Hicks • 1 comment

Another of the stars of the hit CBS comedy “Two and a Half Men” has imploded, metaphorically speaking, but this time I’m betting the damage to the actor’s career is beyond repair. Recall that in March 2011, Charlie Sheen’s erratic behavior on the set and off finally resulted in his being canned by the producers […]

A Spoonful of Grace

Nov 27 12 • Mary Kochan • 1 comment

The little boy is playing happily on the kitchen floor. Mommy is busy above, at the counter, far over his head. Things are being retrieved from the cupboards and fridge, but the little boy pays scant attention for he has lately become fascinated with tracing the design on the vinyl floor with his toy car. […]

UNFPA Promotes Social Engineering Through Family Planning

Nov 27 12 • Rebecca Oas Ph.D. • 0 comments

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) drew international headlines this past week for claiming a new human right to contraception. Contraception as a human right is a centerpiece of UNFPA’s annual state of world population report “By Choice, Not By Chance: Family Planning, Human Rights, and Development”. Borrowing from the language of natural law, the executive summary […]

<em>Unnatural Law?</em> An Interview with Fr. John Hollowell

Unnatural Law? An Interview with Fr. John Hollowell

Nov 27 12 • Catholic Lane Editor • 5 comments

A particular “hot-button” issue facing contemporary American culture concerns homosexuality and the Catholic Church. The general position of the Catholic Church on homosexuality is fairly well-known: homosexual acts are a sin and the inclination to these acts is intrinsically disordered. Despite the above formulation, many people do not understand why the Church has taken the […]

Blasted Twinkie Killers!

Nov 27 12 • Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson • 0 comments

Drat! I’m bummed—saddened by the news that the Hostess company, home of the Twinkie and other venerable sugary snacks, is shutting down. I’ll bet I haven’t eaten more than three or four Twinkies in the last 30 years, so the demise of Hostess doesn’t adversely impact my lifestyle. It’s just that, for baby boomers like […]

Comforting the Emotionally Challenged Child

Nov 27 12 • Heidi Hess Saxton • 1 comment

From the time they were very young, my kids have been drawn to soft fabrics. Christopher wears his footie pajamas on the hottest summer nights. Sarah’s retinue of stuffed animals requires so much space I often find her hanging off the bed at night. (Getting her to sleep under the covers is a chore because, […]

Poem: “Cutthroat: A Friendly Game of Words with Friends”

Nov 27 12 • María Morera Johnson • 0 comments

Cutthroat: A Friendly Game of Words with Friends The letters mock me As they line up In alphabetical order And challenge me to rearrange them In some semblance Of brilliance To disarm my opponent — Or at least Block that triple Dangling its Promise of a high Score — If I can’t have it She […]

Witnessing in the Here and Now

Nov 26 12 • Genevieve Kineke • 2 comments

Having offered my initial response to the election of 2012, I promised a more positive column, and that promise is easy to fulfill—Christ is risen, and faith in him is stronger than death. Although I missed living in the 1950’s by a hair’s breadth, that decades’s culture was long celebrated in movies, books, and music. […]

Natural Family Planning and Communication

Nov 26 12 • Ellen Gable Hrkach • 4 comments

Lack of communication is one of the leading causes of marital breakdown. For the NFP-using couple, communication is essential. Procrastination isn’t an option. The NFP couple discusses whether or not they will be avoiding or planning pregnancy. In order to be successful at this, it’s necessary to discuss the woman’s signs of fertility and infertility. […]

Onward Catholic Bloggers

Nov 26 12 • Terry McDermott • 1 comment

There are literally millions of blogs floating around in cyberspace, all competing for followers, likes, maybe even ad space. Why do we blog? Why do I blog? Why do we bother? I started blogging on New Year’s Eve, 2011, but not at 8kidsandabusiness. I set up a business website on the advice of my business […]

Jesus Christ, King of the Universe

Nov 24 12 • Rev. Tucker Cordani • 0 comments

“Absolute power,” Lord Acton wrote, “corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” Good and bad can be a matter of degree, something that can be adjusted like the volume dial on a radio. If power is relative then that it means different things to different people, and its abuse becomes a matter […]

Movie Review: <em>The Miracle of Marcelino</em>

Movie Review: The Miracle of Marcelino

Nov 24 12 • Sarah Kozak • 1 comment

“Whoever humbles himself like this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven,” Matthew 18:3-4. These words of Jesus resonate in the movie The Miracle of Marcelino. Set in the time of the Mexican Revolution, The Miracle of Marcelino tells the story of a young Mexican boy named Marcelino (Mark Hernandez Mosqueda) who […]

Irreplaceable Dad

Nov 24 12 • Catherine Palmer • 0 comments

He’s a business owner, a basketball player, a biography reader, and a nap lover. He grew up playing on his grandparents’ farm and climbing fences in the backyards of Bexley, Ohio. As a young man, he worked his way through Harvard, eating 11-cent boxes of macaroni and cheese and mooching off tea sandwiches at business […]

Poem: “Little Boys and Leaves as Toys”

Nov 24 12 • Stacy Peterson • 0 comments

Little Boys and Leaves as Toys (For Luke and Tate) Shrinking Jack o’ Lanterns smile their sunken, crooked smiles At little boys chasing leaves under a cloudy sky. Barefoot, the boys collapse over each other, laughing, As leaves swirl in their tantalizing ritual dance. Across the road and down two houses, Mr Ed rides his […]

Want To Enhance This “Year of Faith” With A Free Kindle Book Companion?

Nov 23 12 • Michael Seagriff • 1 comment

Everyone agrees that too many of us professing to be Catholic do not know, live, or share our Faith as we should. In this “Year of Faith” we are being challenged to do something about this tragic situation – to learn or relearn the fundamental Truths of our Faith, and to share those Truths with […]

Why Dads Don’t Talk. And Sons Won’t Listen.

Nov 23 12 • Roy Sheppard • 6 comments

When you were a teen, did your dad ever talk to you about what it is to be a man? Probably not. And if he did, did you listen? Probably not. When I was growing up I found that my dad was hardly ever there for me. He was a ‘good father’ by being at […]

A Feast for Royalty: Thankful All Year Long

Nov 22 12 • Heidi Hess Saxton • 0 comments

Determined to have a real Thanksgiving this year (the thought of cooking a full turkey dinner for three people depressed me), I invited a couple of families to join us. Eagerly I began planning the menu and polishing the silver, and began looking around the home with a critical eye, making mental note of all […]

Beyond Thanksgrieving

Nov 21 12 • Mary Biever • 2 comments

No family really lives a Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving. Life is easier once you accept that. Then the unbearable happens. We lose someone in our family’s holiday portrait. The first year is the hardest. The bigger the presence, the bigger the gap. Sometimes at that first holiday we feel as though we will never laugh again. Joy […]

The Death-Haunted Art of Friendship: Part IV

Nov 21 12 • Eve Tushnet • 0 comments

For Part I of this series, go here; for Part II, here; for Part III, here. This is the final installment. “And nothing you can say or do will stop me, And a thousand dead friends can’t stop me…” –Mountain Goats, “All Up the Seething Coast” Dan Barden, author of the excellent noir tragicomedy The Next Right […]

Texas Surgeon Gives Hope to Sterilized Men Seeking Wholeness

Nov 21 12 • Peter Baklinski • 0 comments

Dr. Mark Hickman would try to talk any man out of having a vasectomy any day. He would begin by telling them all the horror stories that he has heard from the many men who have undergone the invasive procedure that unnaturally blocks tubes that are designed to carry sperm out of a man’s body. […]

The Mirena IUD is Becoming More Popular – and the Lawsuits are Piling Up

Nov 20 12 • Steven W. Mosher • 0 comments

You know a contraceptive drug or device is in trouble when the lawsuits begin to multiply. A growing number of American women are turning to intrauterine devices (IUDs), reports Lawrence Finer of the Guttmacher Institute. Of all American women using birth control, some 7.5 percent had IUDs implanted by 2009. These numbers were double what […]

The Strange Case of Savita Halappanavar

Nov 20 12 • JC Sanders • 1 comment

At this point, the tragic death of Savita Halappanavar is “old” news, in that most people have been at least somewhat aware of of it. Most people in the Catholic and pro-life blogsopheres—to say nothing of the ideologues who oppose us—who will comment on it have already posted their preliminary thoughts. The forces at work […]