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The Unborn Baby: Watched by the White House, Blessed by the Church

ASTONISHING: The Washington Free Beacon has broken the news that although a baby can be aborted up until the ninth month in Washington DC, the White House Visitors Office requires that an unborn child must be counted as a full human being when its parents register for a White House tour. HEARTENING: The U.S. Conference […]

Why You Don’t Have to Use NFP

May 15 12 • Colleen • 5 comments

{disclaimer: I realize that NFP is not always used to avoid pregnancy, but can also be used for medical awareness and to help achieve pregnancy. For purposes of this article I am referring to NFP used as “periodic continence”, that is, to avoid pregnancy.} There is a faction of Catholics who, in their desire to […]

Poem: “Sunflower”

May 15 12 • Jeryl Struble • 0 comments

Sunflower How can you be standing after a storm when others have been trampled, wounded and torn But there you are so bold and bright Still reaching for the sun Sunflower beautiful and bold loyal and trusting a treasure untold So much power is there in your heart Facing the rain without falling apart You’ve […]

Catholic Bishops Question Girl Scouts Programs

May 14 12 • Wendy Wright • 0 comments

The Girl Scouts have been criticized for years for its leadership pulling the wholesome organization into the trendy world of sexual and gender activism. The piecemeal flare-ups accumulated until, in 2010, revelation of one incident at the UN (in this Friday Fax, and this one) exposed the whole stinking mess. Now the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is […]

Book Review: <i>Style, Sex, & Substance</i>

Book Review: Style, Sex, & Substance

May 14 12 • Jann FritzHuspen • 0 comments

Style, Sex, & Substance: 10 Catholic Women Consider the Things that Really Matter, edited buy Hallie Lord, is full of spiritual truths and spunk! The ten women who each tackle a different current issue seem to hit most of the hot topics usually found splashed across the covers of women’s tabloids, but from a Catholic […]

Dear God, It’s Foggy!

May 14 12 • Erika Ahern • 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

May 14 12 • Dr. Gerard Nadal • 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

May 13 12 • Rev. Tucker Cordani • 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

May 13 12 • Kay Anne Kelly • 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”

May 13 12 • Brenda Kay Farber • 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?

May 12 12 • Dr. Joseph Postell • 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

May 12 12 • Julie Filby • 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

May 11 12 • Jennifer Lahl • 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

May 11 12 • Vatican Information Service • 2 comments

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

May 11 12 • Wendy Wright • 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”

May 11 12 • Joseph Backholm • 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

May 11 12 • David J. Rusin • 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”

May 11 12 • Gerard Manley Hopkins • 1 comment

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

May 11 12 • Amy Lemoine Stout • 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

May 10 12 • Marybeth Hicks • 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

May 10 12 • Jann FritzHuspen • 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

May 10 12 • Dr. Gerard Nadal • 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

May 9 12 • Maurice Blumberg • 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

May 9 12 • Steven W. Mosher • 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 […]