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40 Days for Life Through the Eyes of a Child

Mar 23 11 • 40 Days for Life • 0 comments

Shawn Carney, Campaign Director, 40 Days for Life There is NEVER a dull moment during a 40 Days for Life campaign. I am writing this message from an airport. I looked up a few moments ago and I saw someone wearing a 40 Days for Life shirt. As he got closer, I noticed he looked […]

Prayer in Action

Mar 23 11 • Msgr. Richard Soseman • 0 comments

Bishop Sheen was well acquainted with the media, through long years of experience. After beginning work as a priest in the 1920s, Bishop Sheen became a famous preacher. An elderly woman who had been a young lady in St. Patrick’s Parish in Peoria said that many of them would attend the Low Mass, early on […]

S. Cecilia in Trastevere

Mar 23 11 • Mountain Butorac • 0 comments

Today we travel across the Tiber into the Trastevere neighborhood to visit the church of Santa Cecilia. At sixteen, Cecilia, a Christian, vowed to remain forever a virgin. Her father, however, had different plans and arranged for her to wed Valerian, a pagan nobleman. She broke the news to her groom on the wedding night. […]

Reflections on Latin and the Catholic Church’s Memory and Identity, Part Three

Mar 22 11 • Kevin Symonds • 8 comments

Part Three, Re-orientating Ourselves to Tradition — an Example: In the second article in this series, I discussed how the Church’s memory and identity were under siege after the Second Vatican Council vis-à-vis a “para-Council.” In this article, I use private revelation as an example to expand upon how Catholics were misled after the Second […]

Atheist Throws in Towel: 6-year Campaign vs. Pledge of Allegiance “Over”

Mar 22 11 • The Becket Fund • 0 comments

Atheist activist Dr. Michael Newdow announced on his website that after 6 years of litigation in federal courts, his constitutional challenge to the Pledge of Allegiance in California public schools is “over.” Newdow indicated for “reasons that are best not divulged” that he would not appeal the case to the Supreme Court. That leaves intact […]

UnInvolved

Mar 22 11 • Mary Biever • 0 comments

Tempus fugit. Time flies. “Mary, I don’t want you to get involved in anything at church for a year,” Richard asked nearly two years ago when we changed church parishes. We had moved because gas prices were high and our new parish was much closer – and our children loved the youth group at our new […]

Why The Sign of Peace is Important

Mar 22 11 • Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur • 8 comments

Have you ever attended Mass angry at a member of your immediate family? And then you have to offer them peace! Thankfully, the sign of peace comes toward the end of the liturgy and I have usually calmed down somewhat by that point. Still, extending a greeting and saying those words “Peace be with you” […]

Lent, A Time to Repent in Words and Actions

Mar 22 11 • Maurice Blumberg • 0 comments

Editors Note: The two previous articles spoke of Lent as a time to “open wide our hearts to Christ” and “a time to listen to God’s voice.” This article will look at Lent as a time of true repentance and penance, but not just in words but also in our actions as well. The word […]

Clean Water Should Not Be a Day’s Walk Away

Mar 22 11 • Kenneth F. Hackett • 0 comments

Today is World Water Day. So, while you and I may mark this date on our calendar just once a year, Catholic Relief Services is devoted to ensuring that our poor neighbors around the world have clean water every single day. Safe drinking water should not be a pipe dream. That’s why we make access […]

Ensuring Women’s Safety and Dignity Where Bathrooms Are Scarce

Mar 22 11 • Catholic Relief Services • 0 comments

“During the floods, we saw funerals for women who’d died of snakebites,” says Jaya Menon, a Catholic Relief Services staffer working in India during severe floods of autumn 2010. “The women had to wait till evening to go to the bathroom outside, and in the dark, they couldn’t see the snakes.” CRS projects that build […]

The Ted Kennedy Chronicles: A Look at the Latest Declassified FBI Files

Mar 21 11 • Dr. Paul Kengor • 1 comment

Another round of declassified FBI files on Senator Ted Kennedy has been released (click here and here). Fittingly, in Kennedy’s case, they once again raise all sorts of questions, from the moral to the political to issues of national security. First, however, allow me to pause with a sympathetic note. Among the documents within Kennedy’s […]

Ryan Takes the Battle to Obama

Mar 21 11 • G. Tracy Mehan, III • 4 comments

The Democrats in the Senate have been fighting a rear guard action, trying to obstruct the House Republicans in their drive for budget reform through a series of continuing resolutions (CRs) which are necessary to keep the federal government in operation during the current fiscal year. Some $10 billion has been cut from that budget […]

Growing in Faith

Mar 21 11 • Msgr. Richard Soseman • 0 comments

The Feast of the Annunciation (March 25th, nine short shopping months until Christmas!) reminds me of the response we might make to questions of faith. When confronted with these profound questions, we can dismiss them, we can scoff at them, or, even while not understanding, we can seek to know more. We can understand this […]

San Clemente

Mar 21 11 • Mountain Butorac • 0 comments

San Clemente, today’s station church, is one of the greatest places to experience Rome’s many layers. Here, a twelfth century basilica sits on top of a fourth century basilica which was built over a, possibly, first century house with a temple next door. In ancient times, it was often easier to build over previous structures, […]

S. Maria in Domnica

Mar 20 11 • Mountain Butorac • 0 comments

Perhaps better known by it’s nickname, Santa Maria della Navicella, today’s station church is Santa Maria in Domnica. In the ninth century, a church was built here over the site of a third century house. The home, owned by a noblewoman named Cyriaca, was a meeting place for early Christians and a refuge for the poor. A […]

Lenten Transfiguration

Mar 19 11 • Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. • 0 comments

Imagine: you are ten years past customary retirement age. It’s time finally to kick back and relax. You live in a great city where everything is at your fingertips – shopping opportunities, cultural events, all your relatives and lifelong friends. Suddenly God appears and tells you to pack up, uproot your life, and march into […]

S. Pietro in Vaticano

Mar 19 11 • Mountain Butorac • 0 comments

Yesterday we visited the church of Santi Apostoli. This is the church where candidates for the priesthood would go on Ember Friday to pray for guidance from the Holy Apostles. Today’s station church is Saint Peter’s Basilica, the place they came to be ordained on the following evening. We’ll visit this massive basilica again in a […]

Poem: “An Ancient Kingdom”

Mar 18 11 • Pavel Chichikov • 1 comment

An Ancient Kingdom Along the shore of Honshu I saw six mounds Where ancient kings were buried They are taboo And long established custom has it No one may delve or enter Centuries ago A wave rose from the sea And drowned their kingdom Now, on autumn nights The lights of their processions Flicker on […]

Ugly Girls

Mar 18 11 • Theresa A. Thomas • 25 comments

For the second time in a week I have run into the ugliest girls I ever met. I’m not being mean. It’s simply true — they’re hideous. Dubbed “Monster High Girls”, they are 10 inch or so fashion dolls and marketed to little children ages 6 to 12. They have been around since last summer, […]

European Court Upholds Crucifixes in Government Schools

Mar 18 11 • The Becket Fund • 0 comments

[Friday] the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, ruled that Italy has not violated human rights by requiring crucifixes to be displayed in Italian state-school classrooms. Voting 15-2, the Grand Chamber reversed the earlier decision of a lower chamber of the Court finding the crucifix displays to violate European […]

Failing to Protect Our Own in America’s Nursing Homes

Mar 18 11 • Ken Connor • 1 comment

“Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members” Pearl S. Buck, My Several Worlds. In an economy that is increasingly calibrated for a two-person income, millions […]

The JP2 Generation Tells Its Story: Part Two, Stephanie Muhs

Mar 18 11 • Greg Schlueter • 2 comments

Presented in cooperation with Greg Schlueter and JP2Journey.com: The JP2 Generation Tells Its Story, remembering World Youth Day 2002 and the impact of Pope John II. Part Two, Stephanie Muhs The second day of our World Youth Day pilgrimage was one filled with great hope and anticipation. As we boarded the buses that beautiful, sunny […]

Ss. Dodici Apostoli

Mar 18 11 • Mountain Butorac • 0 comments

Today we travel to Santi Apostoli, the church of the Holy Apostles, to visit the tomb of apostles, Saint Philip and Saint James the Less. That we visit the church today on Friday of the Quattro Tempora di Primavera, is not by chance. This was traditionally a day when the public would approve candidates for the priesthood […]

Reflections on Latin and the Catholic Church’s Memory and Identity, Part Two

Mar 18 11 • Kevin Symonds • 24 comments

Part Two, The Church’s Memory & Identity Under Siege: In my previous article, I talked about the Catholic Church and the Latin language. I left off with a note on various theologians and laymen substituting their makeshift theology for the Tradition of the Church. I would like to expand upon that point. Still smarting from […]