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Five Practical Ways to Pray with Mary

During Pope Benedict XVI’s General Audience on March 14 about praying with Mary, he pointed out times in Mary’s life that were pivotal to salvation history and in which she demonstrated particular aspects of prayer. When I read the Pope’s words, I was inspired to take them a step further and to explore ways in […]

October Baby Opens Today

Mar 23 12 • Fr. Frank Pavone • 1 comment

I don’t recommend many movies, but today one that you really should see is coming into theaters nationwide. It’s called October Baby, and it deals in a masterful way with a difficult topic — abortion. Abortion is not and should not be an abstract debate. When I’m asked how the pro-life battle has evolved over […]

Poem: “God’s Grandeur”

Mar 23 12 • Gerard Manley Hopkins • 0 comments

God’s Grandeur The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared […]

Should We Engineer Our Children to Save the Planet?

Mar 22 12 • Rebecca Taylor • 1 comment

Radical environmentalism and transhumanism are the two movements that I think are very pernicious. Radical environmentalism wants the plague of humanity to be reduced (or disappear all together) so the Earth can be “healthy” again. Transhumanism wants to radically engineer man to be “posthuman” which includes, but is not limited to, living forever through enhancements. […]

Muslim Persecution of Christians: February, 2012

Mar 22 12 • Raymond Ibrahim • 0 comments

Half of Iraq’s indigenous Christians are gone due to the unleashed forces of jihad, many of them fleeing to nearby Syria; yet, as the Assad regime comes under attack by al-Qaeda and others, the jihad now seeps into Syria, where Christians are experiencing a level of persecution unprecedented in the nation’s modern history. Likewise, some […]

Newman, the Supreme Court, and Broadcast Pornography

Mar 22 12 • Russell Shaw • 1 comment

Reading about two free speech cases now before the Supreme Court, I found myself thinking of Cardinal Newman. I’ll get to Cardinal Newman in a minute, but first let me say a word about those cases pending in the court. The basic issue in FCC v. Fox Television Stations and FCC v. ABC is the […]

Lent: A Time to Ask, Seek, and Knock

Mar 22 12 • Maurice Blumberg • 0 comments

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? […]

What is “Normal”?

Mar 21 12 • Chelsea Zimmerman • 0 comments

Today is World Down Syndrome Day, a day to celebrate the lives of those who have an extra 21st chromosome. It’s also a reminder that we should love and value all people with disabilities. Speaking of which, a couple of my fellow contributors over at the Ignitum Today blog have been asking for lots of prayers […]

Outlawing the Natural Law

Mar 21 12 • Trent Beattie • 0 comments

Dr. Vincent Fortanasce knows the field of medicine as well as anyone. He has studied psychiatry at Yale, neurology at the University of Southern California and orthopedic rehabilitation at Rancho Los Amigos Hospital, one of the top rehab centers in the country. He has spent decades treating thousands of patients, including world-class athletes and celebrities. Many […]

The American Left’s European Nightmare

Mar 21 12 • Samuel Gregg • 1 comment

In recent years, American liberals’ love-affair with all things contemporary Western European (sans Margaret Thatcher and Benedict XVI) has acquired an increasingly desperate edge. As evidence for the European social model’s severe dysfunctionality continues to mount before our eyes, the American left is acutely aware how much it discredits its decades-old effort to take America down […]

“Sorry” Seems to be the Hardest Word

Mar 21 12 • Anthony Buono • 0 comments

The association of being a Christian and a Catholic comes with a great personal responsibility. It is no doubt an expectation of those who know us to be a Christian that we act like one. This is a natural expectation. People seem to lose the focus about what they expect from a Christian when it […]

Poem: “Flowers in My Garden”

Mar 21 12 • Catholic Lane Editor • 1 comment

Flowers in My Garden (by A Mother) Am I allowed to mourn my child who was never born? The one upon whom my eyes will never gaze, probably because of my advanced maternal age. Can I cry for you? You are a part of me. But you, you were to be Number Thirteen. The world […]

The Numbers Planned Parenthood Doesn’t Want You to Know

Mar 20 12 • Jennie Stone • 1 comment

We’ve all heard Planned Parenthood’s trite mantra that “only 3%” of their services are abortion procedures in order to downplay the pivotal role that “service” has to their financial stability. Their supporters (and sadly, many pro-lifers) have succumbed to believing that abortion is merely a small part of what Planned Parenthood is all about. Here […]

The Triumph of Greed

Mar 20 12 • Ken Connor • 0 comments

Goldman Sachs executive Greg Smith made headlines last week with a public letter of resignation from the legendary firm. Smith’s letter chronicled the ethical decline that led to his departure, and has sparked renewed interest in the culture of unmitigated greed that animates the world of high finance. In his letter, Smith refers to a […]

Book Review: <em>Letters to Gabriel</em>

Book Review: Letters to Gabriel

Mar 20 12 • Leticia Velasquez • 1 comment

I was mourning my third miscarriage and seeking a book that would offer me comforting words from a Catholic mother who had also lost a child. I found Letters to Gabriel by Karen Garver Santorum. In the pages of this book I got to know Karen as she spoke to her son Gabriel, who is […]

A Short Meditation on Living Water

Mar 20 12 • Philip Primeau • 0 comments

Ezekiel, caught up in the Spirit of God, has a vision of the Temple. Water pours from beneath the Temple threshold. This water is clean and live-giving, restoring everything it touches. It flows east, east toward Eden, so that the garden may be purified and man redeemed. Ezekiel does not realize that this Temple is […]

When Women Need the Pill

Mar 20 12 • Amy Bonaccorso • 1 comment

I remember falling to the floor when I felt a sharp, jabbing pain in my lower abdomen. I curled up into a ball and could hardly move. All I could think was “Oh my God!” and then my mind went blank as I tried to remain conscious. I was only about 16 and didn’t know […]

Poem: “A Child My Choice”

Mar 20 12 • St. Robert Southwell • 0 comments

A Child My Choice Let folly praise that fancy loves, I praise and love that Child Whose heart no thought, whose tongue no word, whose hand no deed defiled. I praise Him most, I love Him best, all praise and love is His; While Him I love, in Him I live, and cannot live amiss. […]

499

Mar 19 12 • Enrique García Máiquez translated by Dr. David Alexander • 0 comments

To the 498 Spanish martyrs of the 1930s and all those who suffered religious persecution during the 20th century. The militia men shoved him out of his house, ready to make him the 499th martyr for some future beatification. Don Bartolomé let himself be pushed along, knowing that he had few hopes. Just the same […]

Deception for our Times? Questioning Anne a Lay Apostle

Mar 19 12 • Kevin Symonds • 124 comments

Scandal is developing around an American woman living in Ireland who claims to be a Catholic mystic but hides her true identity, misleads people, takes in millions of dollars and is protected by influential people. For the past several years, Kathryn Ann Clarke, going under the name of “Anne a lay apostle” has been travelling […]

The New Face of Natural Family Planning

Mar 19 12 • Jennifer Brinker • 2 comments

It was a month before she had to decide her specialty in medical school, and Brooke Jemelka found herself at a crossroads. She had been concentrating on pediatrics during her studies at Texas A&M University, but by the end of her third year, she was starting to question what she wanted to do with her […]

Thinking Feminine

Mar 19 12 • Erika Ahern • 0 comments

The masculine and feminine. A two-hour survey of evening activities: 1. The newscasts (“HHS Saves Women’s Health!” “Same-Sex Marriage Approved in ______!“), 2. Channel-surfing (have you seen “How I Met Your Mother”? “The Bachelor”? even “The Voice”), 3. And even giving up and going for a walk (bumper sticker: “Abortion is Healthcare. Healthcare is Good.“). […]

UN Delegates Walk Out on Sexual Orientation Panel at Human Rights Council

Mar 19 12 • Stefano Gennarini, J.D. • 1 comment

UN delegates decided they had enough of “sexual orientation and gender identity” and staged a walk-out at UN headquarters in Geneva last week. It was to protest a panel discussion on the topic that delegates fear will lead to special human rights for homosexuals. Last summer the Human Rights Commission in Geneva agreed to prepare […]

<em>October Baby</em> and the Battle of Lepanto

October Baby and the Battle of Lepanto

Mar 19 12 • Kay Anne Kelly • 0 comments

It is the topic no Hollywood film maker would touch with a ten foot pole. It is the topic no abortion advocate will discuss let alone admit. It is the topic many pro-lifers do not even know exists: survivors of failed abortions. It is the topic that Jon and Andy Erwin chose for their first […]