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Book Review <em>Consoling the Heart of Jesus</em>

Book Review Consoling the Heart of Jesus

The first time I saw the book, Consoling the Heart of Jesus — A Do-It-Yourself Retreat, I thought, “How could I, a mere mortal console the heart of God?” I wasn’t sure how anyone could console our Lord and Savior’s heart at the cross. It didn’t make sense to me, so I deemed the book unbelievable; that was […]

The Forty-Day Challenge: From Ashes to Resurrected Love

Mar 17 11 • Heidi Hess Saxton • 1 comment

Last Wednesday was “Ash Wednesday,” when Catholics and other Christians receive ashes on their foreheads as a sign of penitence (Ash Wednesday marks the first day of Lent). I’d had over 700 hits on the 40-Day Challenge. It seems there are many women who think their marriage needs a “faith lift”! Several women left comments […]

Who is Baby Joseph and Why Should I Care?

Mar 17 11 • Fr. Frank Pavone • 0 comments

The world has taken notice of a 14-month old baby from Canada whose family has been fighting the medical establishment since October to help their child breathe. Moe and Sana Maraachli were refused a tracheotomy for their son because the apparently fatal neurological disease that the child has renders further intervention “futile.” Working with many […]

Letter from a Friend: How Christ Experienced All Our Suffering

Mar 17 11 • Louie Verrecchio • 1 comment

It is the Lenten season; a time of fasting and penance in an effort to draw nearer to the Lord who suffered all things for love of His people. And though the time to consciously strive to join one’s sufferings to the Cross of Christ is always in season, during Lent it is especially so. […]

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Mar 17 11 • Patti Maguire Armstrong • 2 comments

It’s St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, and everyone is Irish today — if not in fact, at least in spirit. Come on now, don’t be an old Druid! Regardless of your nationality, St. Patrick is a saint for everyone. It’s not just because I’m half Irish or that my parents named me after St. Patrick, […]

How Does One Judge the Morality of Human Acts?

Mar 17 11 • Fr. Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, O.P. • 0 comments

Created by God as rational and free creatures, human beings determine themselves and establish their identities as moral creatures through their free choices. We make ourselves the kinds of persons who we are in and through the actions we freely choose to do. As Pope John Paul II put it in his moral encyclical Veritatis […]

San Lorenzo in Panisperna

Mar 17 11 • Mountain Butorac • 0 comments

We continue our Lenten pilgrimage through the station churches of Rome with a visit to the church of San Lorenzo in Panisperna. The church is located over the site of Saint Lawrence’s martyrdom, just a few blocks from yesterday’s church, Saint Mary Major. Originally built during the time of Constantine, today’s structure only dates back […]

Murders and Moral Bankruptcy: Where Have You Gone, Eyre Crowe?

Mar 16 11 • Dr. Marvin Folkertsma • 0 comments

In January 1907, a German-born official in the British Foreign Office wrote a memorandum that since has been indelibly linked to his name for its incisive analysis and uncanny prescience. Eyre Crowe had good reason to scrutinize Germany’s foreign-policy initiatives. The Kaiser’s imperialist impulses had managed to alienate Russia, terrify France, antagonize Great Britain, and […]

40 Days for Life Impacting Local Media

Mar 16 11 • 40 Days for Life • 0 comments

Shawn Carney, Campaign Director, 40 Days for Life Local media outlets have been all over 40 Days for Life campaigns since we kicked off in 247 cities just last Wednesday … … and we’ve seen great — and positive — coverage of YOUR campaigns! Here are just a few examples: Lansing, Michigan Chris Veneklase of […]

Valley of the Mismatched

Mar 16 11 • Jake Frost • 0 comments

Ralph Waldo Emerson said: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” I can only add: “Especially when it comes to pairing socks.” Oh, how the mighty fall. I thought I had everything ready. All the details were attended to and I thought I knew exactly how the next several hours would unfold: exactly […]

Libya: What to do?

Mar 16 11 • Raymond Ibrahim • 0 comments

As with Egypt, American sympathies instinctively side with Libya’s oppositional forces as they seek to overthrow the tyrant Qaddafi—and rightfully so. But where U.S. foreign policy is concerned, prudence is in order. This is especially the case considering that the Obama administration has evinced inconsistency, if not incoherence, regarding the Middle East: vowing not to […]

Back to the Shores of Tripoli?

Mar 16 11 • Daniel Pipes • 0 comments

The official hymn of the U.S. Marine Corps famously begins with “From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, we fight our country’s battles on the land as on the sea.” The reference to Tripoli alludes to the Battle of Derna of 1805, the first overseas land combat fought by U.S. troops and […]

S. Maria Maggiore

Mar 16 11 • Mountain Butorac • 0 comments

sToday we visit Santa Maria Maggiore, Saint Mary Major. This is our first of three visits to this church throughout Lent. Today we’ll discuss the story of how this basilica, also known as Our Lady of the Snows, came to be. To truly appreciate the story, you must realize that Rome can be ridiculously hot […]

The Practice Baby

Mar 16 11 • Sally Edwards • 0 comments

Do you remember your first baby? The very first baby that you adopted shortly after taking your marriage vows — the practice baby? Not everyone runs out to get their practice baby — sometimes things come up like, “My husband is allergic.” Practice babies come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors. Ours was […]

Hope Springs Eternal

Mar 16 11 • Fr. Kyle Schnippel • 1 comment

As a long, hard winter comes to a close, four words can always elevate my spirits: ‘Pitchers and Catchers Report!’ This simple phrase indicates the boys of summer are heading to the sunny paradise of either Florida or Arizona to work out the kinks that settled in during the long winter months. Pitchers are stretching […]

Gregorian Chant: “Pride of Place”

Mar 16 11 • Mary Anne Moresco • 15 comments

Look up “Gregorian chant” in just about any current dictionary or encyclopedia and you will see a description that says it “is the liturgical chant of the Roman Catholic Church.” Notice that the tense of the verb “to be” is in its present form of “is.” What Should Customarily Be? The definition doesn’t place Gregorian […]

Lent — Sharing in the Obedience of Jesus

Mar 16 11 • Shane Kapler • 1 comment

“Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice” (1 Samuel 15:22). That’s a truth to keep central as we enter this season of Lent. It’s possible to make a grandiose resolution and miss the reality at the […]

On Folding Underwear, Running a Marathon and Developing Discipline in Prayer

Mar 15 11 • Wayne Topp • 3 comments

I fold my underwear. That is probably an overshare, so please forgive me. I also fold my socks, but I doubt that makes me unique, because folding socks makes sense, but underwear? What’s the point?! I have often had that discussion in my head and with my wife (especially when we were first married and […]

Lent, A Time to Listen to God’s Voice

Mar 15 11 • Maurice Blumberg • 0 comments

Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. (Genesis 1:3) Then God said, “Let there be a dome in the middle of the waters, to separate one body of water from the other.” And so it happened. (Genesis 1:6) Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. (Hebrews 13:8) While he […]

God Outside the Box

Mar 15 11 • Pat Gohn • 1 comment

Her conversation went something like this… “So-and-so is writing a book about her search for the meaning of life. Her story line is, that having left her Catholic faith as a teen, she took the ‘best of’ from all the various religious practices she could find. Then she designed her own spirituality.” And so it […]

Baby-phobia Has Reached Epidemic Proportions

Mar 15 11 • Mary Kochan • 11 comments

Imagine the crushing judicial power of a modern nation coming down upon you, trying you, sentencing you, and then planning your execution – all while the charges against you remain secret. You might recall that as the plot of Franz Kafka’s paranoiac novel, The Trial, the protagonist of which is a 30-year-old bank clerk. Under […]

Music First!

Mar 15 11 • Kate Daneluk • 0 comments

My husband and I homeschool our children. This has changed in the last several years from Mom doing all the schooling with Dad’s support, to a true collaborative family effort. At this point, both Mom and Dad are working, so the structure of “school” has changed. Mom manages our middleschooler, who now does most of […]

Girl Cured of Brain Cancer Using Umbilical Cord Stem Cells

Mar 15 11 • Matthew Cullinan Hoffman • 0 comments

In the first transplant of umbilical cord stem cells in Spanish history, a four year old girl has been cured of a brain tumor, according to Spanish media sources. Alba Martinez was born in the province of Cádiz in 2007 and despite her good health, her parents say they decided to provide her with “life […]

The Federal Government’s “Gay” Love Affair

Mar 15 11 • Laurie Higgins • 1 comment

Some may remember the scene from the film Moonstruck in which Cher slaps Nicholas Cage upside the head and yells “Snap out of it.” Somebody better slap the conservative community upside its collective head before the federal government spends all its time cooing at homosexuality. Recently, the lovestruck Department of Justice, White House, and Congress […]