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Dear God, It's Foggy!

Dear God, It’s Foggy!

May 14 12 • 2 comments

Did you know that Zelie Martin yelled at her daughter, Marie, at least once? The mother of St. Therese of Lisieux tells the story in a letter to her sister, a Visitation nun. Zelie was in great pain from her breast cancer and Marie told her, “Mama! Don’t make that face, it’s worrying auntie!” Zelie […]

Divided Motherhood in the Age of Discovery

Divided Motherhood in the Age of Discovery

May 14 12 • 0 comments

The twentieth century saw the greatest advances made in science, technology, and medicine that the world has ever known. Building on the conceptual discoveries of the previous three centuries, we have wrought wonders unimagined in every decade of that century, and continue on unabated in this new century and new millennium. If there has been […]

The Most Real Love Story of All

The Most Real Love Story of All

May 13 12 • 1 comment

In the novel Love Story, Oliver and Jenny want to marry.  But their families don’t want them to marry.  They are from “opposite sides of the tracks.”  Oliver is rich.  Jenny is poor.  Both are well educated (he from Harvard; she from Radcliff) but aren’t interested in social status.  They only want to start a […]

Motherhood: Learning from the Mary’s Among Us

Motherhood: Learning from the Mary’s Among Us

May 13 12 • 1 comment

Growing up with a chronically ill mother, I found it very difficult to embrace Marian devotions as an adult.  A true and present (and perfect!) mother did not seem real to me.  Just as a faithful father reflects the love of God the Father to his children, a faithful mother reflects the love of the […]

Poem: "Clouds in Heaven"

Poem: “Clouds in Heaven”

May 13 12 • 0 comments

Clouds in Heaven I was just a young thing Couldn’t been more than three When I asked Grandma questions As I perched upon her knee. Are there clouds in heaven? Do angels play in the rain? Do they splash in puddles Playing angel games? “You’ve got imagination!” She said as she squeezed me tight. “Yes, […]

Teddy Roosevelt for President in 2012?

Teddy Roosevelt for President in 2012?

May 12 12 • 4 comments

The 2012 presidential election is shaping up to be one of the most significant elections in American history. The outcome of major political issues such as Obamacare, carbon regulations, and our looming fiscal calamity hang in the balance.  In a larger sense, however, this year’s election sits in the shadow of a presidential election that […]

God's Timing: Mothers Know How, but God Knows When

God’s Timing: Mothers Know How, but God Knows When

May 12 12 • 0 comments

After breakfast in bed or brunch out on the town on Sunday, many families will celebrate Mother’s Day by planting flowers together. While I can’t speak for the rest of the country, here in Colorado there’s a rule of thumb that flowers simply *should not* be planted any sooner. Up until that time, the chance […]

Money Changes Everything

Money Changes Everything

May 11 12 • 2 comments

When the news broke that Mitt and Ann Romney welcomed grandchildren numbers 17 and 18 this past Friday via “gestational surrogacy,” those of us here at CBC central—who oppose commercialized conception—wondered where the bottom is in these murky waters of assisted reproduction. Tagg Romney posted this on his facebook page after the twins were born: […]

The Catholic Identity of Educational Institutions

The Catholic Identity of Educational Institutions

The question of religious education and the formation in the faith of the next generation of Catholics in the United States was the theme of the Holy Father’s remarks to prelates from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (Regions X-XIII), who have just completed their five-yearly “ad limina” visit: Speaking to the group in […]

UK Government Funds Forced Sterilizations in India

UK Government Funds Forced Sterilizations in India

May 11 12 • 0 comments

The British government gave $268 million to the government of India for a program that forcibly sterilizes poor women and men, according to the Guardian newspaper. This news comes as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation prepares to co-host a family planning summit with the British government in London this July. Melinda Gates recently dismissed […]

Obama vs. North Carolina: President Supports "Same-Sex Marriage"

Obama vs. North Carolina: President Supports “Same-Sex Marriage”

May 11 12 • 5 comments

President Obama’s timing suggests an effort to turn the attention away from the fact that voters in North Carolina voted 61 to 39 percent to define marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman.  On the very next day, May 10th, Obama publicly indicated his support for same-sex “marriage.” The President’s decision wasn’t […]

The BBC Broadcasts Its Own Dhimmitude

The BBC Broadcasts Its Own Dhimmitude

May 11 12 • 0 comments

Media outlets tiptoeing around Islam are a dime a dozen, but the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) stands apart for the egregiousness of its self-censorship and bias. Even more striking than the number of controversies involving suppression of Islam-critical speech on its channels are the frank acknowledgements that BBC policy is shaped by fear. During a […]

Poem: "Pied Beauty"

Poem: “Pied Beauty”

Pied Beauty Glory be to God for dappled things— For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough; And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, […]

Romantic Fiction: Anna's Song

Romantic Fiction: Anna’s Song

May 11 12 • 1 comment

Anna’s Song Amy Lemoine Stout “Anna! Stay with your mother! Stay with your mother!” The panicked shrill of a woman’s voice outside her window awoke Ms. Anna Braun of 37 Pine Street as if God himself had spoken into her ear. Heart beating wildly, she leaned up against the window. At the corner Anna could see […]

Julia’s Carefree Life Offers No Real Appeal

Julia’s Carefree Life Offers No Real Appeal

May 10 12 • 2 comments

Last week, in an advertorial slideshow on ObamaForAmerica.com, the president’s re-election campaign introduced “The Life of Julia” about a fictional “everywoman” whose government-subsidized existence is intended to reassure women voters about President Obama’s ability to provide for them in an uncertain future. This “composite” female — not to be confused with the one who portrayed […]

The Book Browser: New Childrens Books

The Book Browser: New Childrens Books

May 10 12 • 0 comments

Dastardly Dames in History, Ages 9-12 Cixi: Dragon Empress Author: Natsha Yim Illustrator: Peter Malone Reading level: Ages 9 and up Hardcover: 32 pages Publisher: Goosebottom Books ISBN-10: 0983425655 ISBN-13: 978-0983425656 This series of historical accounts profiles strong women who took extraordinary measures to achieve and maintain power—including murder, deception, and black magic—examining the women’s reputations in the […]

Obama, Same-Sex Marriage, and Bioethical Fallout

Obama, Same-Sex Marriage, and Bioethical Fallout

May 10 12 • 9 comments

Yesterday President Obama threw his support behind same-sex marriage. Thank God! The mask is off, six months before the election and about a year since he announced that he was willfully violating his Oath of Office by ordering the Justice Department to cease defending the law in court. Specifically, he ordered an end to defending The […]

He Has Risen, Alleluia! We Have Risen With Him, Alleluia! Part 2

He Has Risen, Alleluia! We Have Risen With Him, Alleluia! Part 2

May 9 12 • 0 comments

This is the second article on the theme, “He Has Risen, Alleluia! We Have Risen With Him, Alleluia!”  Isn’t this what this grace-filled Easter Season is all about? For this second article, I am using the opening words of the book, The Binding of The Strong Man, The Teachings of St. Leo the Great by […]

Chen, the Conscience of China

Chen, the Conscience of China

May 9 12 • 0 comments

I was going to devote this article to my recent trip to New Zealand, where I gave seven talks to a total of over 3,000 people. But then a blind Chinese human rights activist named Chen Guangcheng escaped from house arrest, and my phone began to ring off the hook. The media wanted to know […]

Poem: "In Company with Angels"

Poem: “In Company with Angels”

May 9 12 • 0 comments

In Company with Angels Hope in a small bee The immortal leaves of the holly The abdomen, gold and black Tapered and oval Shine in the April sun And the deep green unchanging leaves Stiffened, smooth Unfold and spread to the stream of light Everywhere around and in Death and immortality Dread in us and […]

Catholic Business Leaders File Federal Lawsuit Challenging HHS Mandate

Catholic Business Leaders File Federal Lawsuit Challenging HHS Mandate

The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, today announced it has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the HHS mandate, on behalf of Legatus, the Nation’s largest organization of top Catholic business CEOs and professional leaders. Also joining in the lawsuit as Plaintiffs are the Weingartz Supply […]

humor

Where Did That Thing Come From?

My two-year-old was beyond ready to get down from her high chair. As she was  kicking her legs in protest of her confinement, she noticed one foot pop momentarily into view above her tray. Her yelling stopped. Slowly, she lifted her foot into view once more and said, “I seeeee youuuu!” View the original post […]

Did Jesus Really Sin?

Did Jesus Really Sin?

Did Jesus really sin? Apparently nearly 60% of all practicing Catholic within the Diocese of Camden, NJ believe so. This was the findings of a religious survey  commissioned by the Diocese of Camden, with the intent and purpose of finding out what people know and understand about their Catholic faith. These results should put all […]

Movie Review: <em>Love’s Everlasting Courage</em>

Movie Review: Love’s Everlasting Courage

May 8 12 • 0 comments

Popular Christian author Janette Oke’s first book was Love Comes Softly. Janette was born during the depression years on a Canadian prairie farm and she remembers her childhood as full of love, laughter, family life and faith. Janette drew upon these themes for her debut novel and her many other popular books that followed. I […]