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Using the Gifts God Has Given You, Part 3

Jul 12 12 • Maurice Blumberg • 0 comments

Please read Using the Gifts God Has Given You, Part 1 and Using the Gifts God Has Given You, Part 2. I remind you to stir [fan] into flame the gift of God that you have through the imposition of my hands. (2 Timothy 1:6) Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophetic utterances. […]

Fiction by Children: A Rose for Forgiveness

Jul 12 12 • Clare Kearns • 0 comments

“I never, ever EVER want to go to school again!” declared Rose Parker dramatically, flopping on to a couch. She had just returned home after an unfortunate day at school. “Oh Rose, it’s not all that bad!” her friend Sarah Rae said, trying to comfort her. Everyone is sure to forget what happened, eventually.” “Eventually?” […]

Feng Jianmei: The Unanticipated Impact of One Forced-Abortion

Jul 11 12 • Dave Andrusko • 0 comments

One of the general sessions at this summer’s 2012 NRLC national convention was aglow with energy and alight with enthusiasm. You could feel a powerful swelling of emotions as pro-life champion Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Reggie Littlejohn, president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, roused their audience at a session titled, “Where Are All the […]

How to Kill a Billion People — Part 2: Indirect Effect of Greenhouse Gas Suppression

Jul 11 12 • William Schuh • 0 comments

Part I demonstrated that the production and use of synthetic nitrogen is a substantial contributor of atmospheric greenhouse gases. It was also shown that almost half of the world’s population is dependent on synthetic nitrogen, produced by the Haber-Bosch process, for survival. It was concluded that greenhouse gas suppression policy and the Green Revolution, which […]

Finding a Good, Catholic Restaurant

Jul 11 12 • Anthony Buono • 7 comments

“I know a great little place where we can get some good, authentic Catholic cuisine.” How would you react if your date made that statement? If you’re being honest, wouldn’t you silently stare at that person with a blank look on your face, and think to yourself “Um…I think I’ll go home now”? I have […]

Architect of Reproductive Rights Dies as Her Legacy Unravels

Jul 10 12 • Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. • 1 comment

Feminist Activist Joan Dunlop died last week at 78, just a week after her legacy of recasting international population control efforts as “reproductive rights” began to unravel. Dunlop was a protégé of John D. Rockefeller, III, who led the charge for international population control. His vision and large fortune established and set the agenda for institutions […]

An Excerpt from <i>The Summer of 43: R.A. Dickey’s Knuckleball and the Redemption of America’s Game</i>

An Excerpt from The Summer of 43: R.A. Dickey’s Knuckleball and the Redemption of America’s Game

Jul 10 12 • Joseph Bottum • 0 comments

A fastball is a young man’s pitch. Arrogant and overpowering. An exercise in green strength and the flexibility of young bones and tendons. Oh, older pitchers can sometimes throw the high-velocity things, barreling toward the plate at more than 90 miles an hour. Even in his last seasons, a forty-year-old man playing in the early […]

Your Screaming Kids Are Distracting Me

Jul 10 12 • Meg Hunter-Kilmer • 7 comments

I was at a holy hour the other night, totally focused and immersed in my thoughts, when from the back of the church came the sound of a wailing toddler. Just like that, I lost it. I was completely distracted by some kid who was far too young to be stuck sitting in a church. […]

Helping Jehovah’s Witnesses Get the Picture

Jul 10 12 • Mary Kochan • 15 comments

Jehovah’s Witnesses want you to live forever with them in paradise on earth. To entice you into accepting their offer of a “free home Bible study”, they will show you brightly colored pictures of idyllic garden scenes, beautiful lakeside homes and children romping with lions. The Jehovah’s Witness will ask: “Wouldn’t you like to live […]

NFP or Condoms: What’s the difference?

Jul 10 12 • Erika Ahern • 1 comment

I wrote my senior thesis for the Catholic University honors program nearly 10 years ago. In my youthful zeal and eager for my own upcoming marriage, I tackled the prompt of “Nature and Technology” with a 35 page analysis of Humanae Vitae, Paul VI’s vision of human nature, nature and morality, and contraception as “technology.” […]

Poem: “The Night Shift”

Jul 10 12 • Brenda Kay Farber • 0 comments

The Night Shift True account of actual events The night nurse quietly stood Observing the man in her care As he stared up at the ceiling. She wondered what he saw there. “What are you looking at, Larry?” Her penlight lit up the space. “It’s beautiful!” he exclaimed, A smile on his weathered face. Then […]

Book Review: The Life I Dreamed

Jul 9 12 • Shane Kapler • 0 comments

Truth told, I rarely read fiction. My coffee table is covered by theology books, and when I do need a good “story” I get it the way God intended – the SyFy Channel. When I heard “pro-life novel” however, my interest was piqued. I am thrilled to report that Kari Burke’s The Life I Dreamed […]

Movie Review: Brave

Jul 9 12 • Sr. Helena Burns, fsp • 3 comments

WARNING! This is more of an analysis than a review, so there are LOTS of SPOILERS! I find Brave to be a subversive and kind of shocking movie. First, what I LIKE about the film: the artistry/special effects are, of course, amazing. I laughed my head off at ALL the Scotsmen fighting scenes (with mandatory […]

Making Peace with the 24-Hour Day

Jul 9 12 • Patti Maguire Armstrong • 0 comments

Do you have more things to do than time to do them? Really? No, not really. Would God give you more to do than time to do it? Of course not. So if you feel that you can’t get it all done, then maybe it’s not all yours to do. Or, you aren’t organizing yourself. […]

A Primer on Search Engine Optimization

Jul 8 12 • Katherine Andes • 0 comments

Okay, I can’t tell you everything you need to know about search engine optimization (SEO) in700 words. But I can tell you what you, as a small business owner, need to know when looking for help in this area. First some definitions … SEO is the process of making your website easy to find by […]

Poem: “I’m Nobody! Who are you?”

Jul 8 12 • Emily Dickinson • 0 comments

I’m Nobody! Who are you? I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there’s a pair of us! Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one’s name – the livelong June – To an admiring […]

The Princess Culture May Not Be Harmless

Jul 7 12 • Colleen Carroll Campbell • 1 comment

I felt a pang of guilt as soon as I pulled it off the shelf, but I knew I had no choice. It was 103 degrees outside. I had three children under age 3 to keep busy, and I did not want to spend the next four hours maniacally slathering them with 60-proof sunscreen as […]

Freezers are for Food

Jul 6 12 • Jennifer Lahl • 0 comments

In the world of commercialized conception, it seems we’ve decided the freezer is a great place to keep eggs, sperm, and “spare” embryos until we need them. We think they do pretty well in the freezer, but the verdict is still out on what happens over the long haul when you freeze and store human […]

The God Box

Jul 6 12 • Lori Hadorn-Disselkamp • 1 comment

Do you take God with you into all aspects of your life? Or does God stay in the “God – Box” of your life? As adults we have categorized much of our lives. We have “boxes” to keep things neat and clear. There is the “career box” how we feel about our career, our hopes […]

I Cursed God: Healing in the Fire, Part 3

Jul 5 12 • Mark Davis Pickup • 0 comments

Click for: Part One, Part Two Dad began to slowly recover. We were ecstatic the day he was moved from the ICU to a regular ward. He had slipped out of the clutches of death. The day he was transferred to a rehabilitation hospital, it was like we had turned a corner into sunlight. In […]

Melinda Gates and the New Population Control Movement

Jul 5 12 • Timothy Herrmann • 6 comments

Love him or hate him, Stephen Colbert doesn’t waste time getting to the point. In last Thursday’s interview with Melinda Gates on the Colbert Report, he asked Melinda about her newest initiative and cut straight to the chase: the new population control movement exists to save lives by erasing lives. Colbert: “But now you’ve got […]

California Law Would Not be in Kids’ “Best Interests”

Jul 5 12 • Marybeth Hicks • 0 comments

When she was a precocious preschooler, the daughter of my cousin was famous for begging to sit in the front seat of the family car. As the youngest of four children, she was unlikely to have that privilege, even if she was large enough to safely sit up front. She begged anyway. The story goes […]

Concluding the Fortnight: Now What?

Jul 5 12 • Dr. Gerard Nadal • 0 comments

The Holy Hours and prayers have all been said, the letters written to legislators, the blogs have been written, the teach-ins have played themselves out, and the church bells have all been rung. Now What? Where do we go from here, and will our bishops continue to lead us along the way? These are the […]

Interview with Woodeene Koenig-Bricker on <i>Facing Adversity with Grace: Lessons from the Saints</i>

Interview with Woodeene Koenig-Bricker on Facing Adversity with Grace: Lessons from the Saints

Jul 5 12 • Lisa Hendey • 0 comments

When I reflect back on my days a younger Catholic mom, one of my fondest memories is the role that the magazine Catholic Parent played in our Domestic Church. I remember reading Editor Woodeene Koenig-Bricker’s reflections each month and feeling not only inspired, but also completely supported in my vocation. And I needed a lot […]