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A Special, Worldwide Church Focus on Family and Life

Aug 4 14 • Fr. Frank Pavone • 0 comments

One of the greatest privileges of my life was to work under Pope St. John Paul II at the Vatican during the late 1990’s at the Pontifical Council for the Family, which fosters the pastoral activities of the Catholic Church on behalf of the family and the right to life. Both in public and private conversation at […]

Unbearable Loss

Aug 4 14 • Barb Lishko • 12 comments

My earliest recollection of Caitlin was in her mother’s womb. Her mom and I were both pregnant with daughters. Information we did not know at the time, but would later bring great delight. This “wasn’t our first rodeo” as they say, I was on child number four and Caitlin made six. The girls were born […]

<em>Theology of the Body, Extended</em>: A Review

Theology of the Body, Extended: A Review

Aug 4 14 • Bethanie Ryan • 1 comment

When John Paul II used his first years as pope forming the Theology of the Body, he meant it as a springboard for further reflection by theologians. In Theology of the Body, Extended: the Spiritual Signs of Birth, Impairment, and Dying, Susan Windley-Daoust takes that invitation and runs with it. John Paul II focused on […]

The Great War at 100

Aug 3 14 • Dr. Marvin Folkertsma • 1 comment

The lamps are lit again and Europe is at peace; but it is the peace of senescence.

Poem: “The Judgment Seat”

Aug 1 14 • Jacob Ferman • 0 comments

The Judgment Seat The Judgment Seat oh the Judgment Seat What hope is there? When one look by the Just Judge Can bring out despondency or despair. The Judgment Seat oh the Judgment Seat Who can withstand? When he examines your affects of countless lives And accepts no ifs, buts or bribes. The Judgment Seat […]

Countercultural Revolutionaries

Aug 1 14 • Fathers for Good • 0 comments

Natural Family Planning (NFP) Awareness Week was July 20-26, with the theme “Natural Family Planning: It’s Worth It. Join the Revolution!” – taken from an address of Pope Francis at World Youth Day 2013. The Holy Father asked the assembled youth to see marriage and family life in a new light and “to be revolutionaries” […]

Why Population Control is Bad Foreign Policy

Jul 31 14 • Steven W. Mosher • 0 comments

Anne Roback Morse also contributed to this article. The language of the e-mails is hyperbolic and hate-filled. They come from population control groups that are indignant about the House of Representatives Billwhich would re-institute the Mexico City Policy. They call it a “Mean-spirited, anti-women agenda.” And they say it’s “Playing ping-pong politics with women’s lives,” “Out of […]

Kanye West, ISIS and Confronting Poverty

Jul 31 14 • Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble • 7 comments

When I left my corporate job in California to enter the convent I had to tell my boss I was planning on leaving at the same time he was handing me an offer for a substantial raise. It was a difficult moment. I felt bad for my boss but I was also keenly aware that I looked […]

God is Not Welcome Here

Jul 31 14 • Judie Brown • 0 comments

“A small error in the beginning leads to a multitude of errors in the end” – Aristotle, De Coelo The small error in this case is the assumption made long ago by the members of the United States Supreme Court that they had the power to play God. First, the court ignored the science on […]

To Be Led Out of Egypt

Jul 31 14 • Alex Taylor • 0 comments

This past year, I was privileged to celebrate a Passover seder with some close friends during Holy Week. It was both a reminder of the persistence of the faith of Judaism in its own right and of the roots for the new Passover that Jesus established, through his institution of the Eucharist, and through his […]

Ode to Feminine Genius: A Frugal Woman

Jul 30 14 • Mary S • 2 comments

A Frugal woman. Sounds kinda boring, doesn’t it? Like that woman wearing an ill-fitting jeans jumper that looks like it’s from 30 years ago, buying only day-old bread, never getting anything nice or new, and spouting off about how everyone should grow and grind their own flour, like her. Um yeah, I really don’t want to […]

Movie Review: Boyhood

Jul 29 14 • Sr. Helena Burns, fsp • 0 comments

Boyhood, the new movie written and directed by Richard Linklater (Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly, The Before… Trilogy with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy) is a one-of-a-kind, “big idea” film. The lives of screen Mom, Dad, son and daughter are followed for twelve years. Literally twelve years, having been filmed for about a week each […]

Are Protestant Communities “Churches”?

Jul 29 14 • Wade St. Onge • 74 comments

In our last article, we demonstrated how Dr. Alan Schreck, as many orthodox Catholics do, erroneously applies the hermeneutic of discontinuity to the use of the terms “heresy” and “heretic” before Vatican II and the non-use of those terms in the Council. We will now do likewise with the term “church” as it was used […]

Humanity of the Comatose Denied by Inhumanity of Euthanasia

Jul 29 14 • Mark Davis Pickup • 0 comments

On March 20, 2004, Pope John Paul II delivered an address to an international congress on “Life-sustaining treatments and vegetative state: Scientific advances and Ethical Dilemmas.” The pope dealt directly with the issue of doctors withholding medical treatments and nutrition and hydration (food and water) from comatose patients. I was happy to see the pontiff […]

Thinking Liturgically: The Saints and God’s Mercy

Jul 28 14 • Kevin M. Tierney • 0 comments

When calling for the reform of the Sacred Liturgy, the Second Vatican Council said the following: The rites should be distinguished by a noble simplicity; they should be short, clear, and unencumbered by useless repetitions; they should be within the people’s powers of comprehension, and normally should not require much explanation. (Sacrosanctum Concillium 34) When […]

Mr. Blue – The Anti-Gatsby

Jul 28 14 • Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur • 0 comments

In the June 2014 issue of Columbia Magazine, published by the Knights of Columbus, Alton J. Pelowski offered a profile of Myles Connolly (1897 – 1964), a former editor of that publication. A graduate of Boston College, he would serve in the Navy during the end of World War I, work as a reporter for […]

Solomon’s Wisdom: On the Necessity of Reading the Old Testament

Jul 27 14 • Rev. Tucker Cordani • 1 comment

Once I had dinner with another priest. As we were eating we talked about the Bible. “I preach the same homily every weekend,” he said. “Really?” I asked. “And how are your collections?” While we were at it, he justified himself by declaring that it was no longer necessary to preach on the Old Testament. […]

Old vs. New in the Kingdom of God

Jul 26 14 • Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. • 0 comments

“Liberal” and “conservative.” The definitions of these terms are seldom stated. Usually they are just presumed. Often people call “conservative” those who like old-fashioned things and “liberal” those who favor the latest ideas, trends, and values. But for the Christian, the ultimate question is not personal preferences of style, or whether something is old or […]

Eyes Off The Road

Jul 25 14 • Nicole DeMille • 0 comments

I came upon my old Bible the other day, the one I read through from cover to cover twice, a TEV Protestant Bible, now incomplete to me, but still generating a holiness from within even when I touch its cover. I looked at the many scotch tape fixes, the numerous margin notes, the multiple dog […]

European Court: Gay Marriage is not a Human Right

Jul 25 14 • Stefano Gennarini, J.D. • 0 comments

The highest human rights court in Europe shattered hopes that it would judicially impose same-sex marriage when it told a male to female transsexual and his wife that a civil union should be good enough for them. European human rights law does not require countries to “grant access to marriage to same-sex couples,” according to […]

NCR Blogger’s Memoir Breaks Mold

Jul 24 14 • Amy Bonaccorso • 0 comments

National Catholic Register blogger Jennifer Fulwiler just published her long awaited memoir, Something Other Than God. The book is enjoying exposure and praise typically reserved for secular tales. When I saw the book profiled on Forbes.com, a real feat for a Catholic conversion story, I braced myself for something compelling. The memoir is written with […]

African Women Turning to NFP; Turning Down Contraceptives

Jul 24 14 • Steven W. Mosher • 0 comments

Anne Morse also contributed to this article. It seemed like your typical family planning conference: it was sponsored by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the World Health Organization’s Department of Reproductive Health and Research. It had the typical title: “Is access enough? Understanding and addressing unmet need for Family Planning.” It even […]

Poem: “The Wisdom of the Clock”

Jul 24 14 • Michele Marie • 0 comments

The Wisdom of the Clock You can’t escape its silent roar Its race is cast from shore to shore Time dashes off and then is gone “A good deed done, just one more day In good deeds you cannot delay Duty first, then right again” No stress in time or things without The soldier’s stance […]

The Call to Humility

Jul 23 14 • Mike Eisenbath • 0 comments

I like to play this little game now and then: I’ll pick a word – or as is the case more often, a certain word seems to choose me by rolling around unexpectedly in my mind for several days. At a certain point, feeling unable to ignore it any longer, I will sit down and answer […]