You are here: Home » Site Map

Site Map

Site Feeds

Monthly Archives

All Articles

God’s Definition of Tolerance: The Woman Caught in Adultery

The Story and Its Reminders We have all heard the story of the woman caught in adultery who fell before Jesus at the point of being stoned under Mosaic law ( John 8:1-11). First, we know that those who brought this woman before Jesus were not really interested in the law, compassion, forgiveness or, for […]

Poem: “My God, my God, why have You forsaken”

May 7 16 • Mary Harwell Sayler • 0 comments

My God, my God, why have You forsaken Your life for mine? Why are You so far from helping Your own holiness by taking on my sins? You magnetized crowds with Your love and prayers and healing touch, only to draw sin from us – like a magnet cast in iron nails that tear away […]

Mary: Woman. Why not “Mom?”

May 6 16 • Guy McClung, J.D., Ph.D. • 0 comments

Mama, Mammy, Mom, Mommy. Sweet, Beloved, Dear. Think of all the terms of endearment we use for our mothers. Think of all the terms of love and care our mothers use for us. Of all our titles and names for Mary – The Litany Of Loreto, also called the Litany Of The Blessed Virgin Mary, […]

The Momentum of Mercy

May 6 16 • Patrice E. Athanasidy • 0 comments

When I was child, I thought of mercy as something that was granted only to a person who really needed it, such as a big sinner, or when I did something really bad. I never thought about how mercy can be a part of everyday life. If we are open to the expansive nature of […]

New Civil Society Coalition Formed to Protect the Family

May 5 16 • Stefano Gennarini, J.D. • 0 comments

A new coalition to confront the growing international threat against the family is launching a pro-family platform to unite organizations against overreach by international institutions. “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and binding international instruments reserve singular protections for the family in recognition of the family’s irreplaceable role as the natural environment for the growth […]

On the Beautiful Prayer of Crying

May 4 16 • Mike Eisenbath • 0 comments

A boy falls and skins his knees. A boy wrestles in the living room and bonks his head on the coffee table. A boy tries to field a ground ball at shortstop, only to take a bad hop that bloodies his nose, or gets plowed by a much bigger boy on the football field. “Boys […]

Fruitful Love Symbolizes God's Inner Life, says Pope Francis' <em>Amoris Laetitia</em>

Fruitful Love Symbolizes God’s Inner Life, says Pope Francis’ Amoris Laetitia

May 4 16 • Karee Santos • 0 comments

The night before Pope Francis officially released Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love), I was chatting about it with Fr. Dave Dwyer on the Busted Halo radio show. Revealing that he had been able to get his hands on an advance copy, Fr. Dave told me, “You’re going to love it. He says a lot […]

Talking to God: Prayers for Catholic Women

May 4 16 • Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur • 0 comments

Sometimes it can be hard to find the words to pray, both in times of celebration and when we are hurting. Maybe we haven’t prayed in so long, we aren’t sure where to begin. As Grace Mazza Urbanski writes in the introduction to Talking to God: Prayers for Catholic Women (Franciscan Media, 2016), “We encounter […]

What Did Jesus Write?

May 3 16 • Randal Agostini • 3 comments

It’s a well-known story of forgiveness in John 8, but it remains mysterious. “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery.” Upon hearing this, Jesus kneels and begins to write in the sand. What was Jesus writing? Scripture doesn’t tell us, but the reactions of those in the crowd give us […]

Always Choose Life!

May 2 16 • Mark Davis Pickup • 0 comments

A number of years ago, my wife and I were contacted by the mother of a sixteen year old girl who had a positive pregnancy test. I will call the teenager Katie (not her real name) and her mother Joanne (not her real name). Katie was obviously in a crisis pregnancy: It was a crisis […]

Poem: “The Sacrifice of the Sun”

May 1 16 • Avellina Balestri • 0 comments

(I was inspired to write this after reading an ancient legend about the sun dying every night so that the moon might draw breath. As it was Holy Week for Christians, this inspired me to try my hand on a comparative allusion about how Christ died so that humanity might draw new life) “The Sun […]

Witnesses Tell UN of Genocide of Christians in Middle East

Apr 29 16 • Rebecca Oas Ph.D. • 0 comments

Held by terrorist captors, an Iraqi woman named Khalia resisted their demands that she abandon her Christian faith. Her story was told at the UN this week, along with other accounts of atrocities suffered by Christians and religious minorities in the Middle East at the hands of the Islamic State, or ISIS. According to experts, […]

Western Civ in the Crosshairs

Apr 29 16 • Dr. Paul Kengor • 1 comment

Students are enmeshed with a secular worldview.

Thérèse, Faustina, and Alphonsus: Heaven’s Trust Triangle

Apr 28 16 • Gabriel Garnica • 0 comments

One of the most perplexing puzzles in human salvation is the confrontation between taking salvation and sin seriously on one hand and, yet, feeling an almost insurmountable uselessness in one’s daily effort to save one’s soul on the other. The paradox is clear: we have to take salvation seriously, but the more seriously we take […]

In an Industry that Makes People, What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Apr 28 16 • Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse • 0 comments

Sperm donation, egg donation and surrogacy: Third party reproduction seems to be a “done deal” in Western society. Even ardently pro-life people do not seem to see the problems. Hey, these techniques are making babies, not killing them. So what could possibly go wrong? A lot of things can go very wrong. Let me describe […]

Poem: “Microcosmos”

Apr 27 16 • Wislawa Szymborska • 0 comments

Microcosmos When we first started looking through microscopes a cold fear blew and it’s still blowing. Life hitherto had been frantic enough in all its shapes and dimensions. Which is why it created small-scale creatures, assorted tiny worms and flies, but at least the naked human eye could see them. But then suddenly beneath the […]

The Big Deal With Bathroom Laws

Apr 27 16 • Dr. Gerard Nadal • 4 comments

About ten years ago Regina and I were going through a stretch of pretty rough road together, and all the hidden fault lines in our marriage were exposed. My best friend who had been one of the priests on the altar at our wedding heard my confession one day and said, “Gerry, for your penance, […]

Pope Francis Praises Personal Freedom in Family Life

Apr 27 16 • Karee Santos • 0 comments

The four keys to a lasting marriage are faithful, free, fruitful, and total love, as we explain in our newly released book on Catholic marriage. Pope Francis stresses these same four themes in his recent exhortation Amoris Laetitia (Joy of Love). Our last article looked at what the pope had to say about the first key, […]

Truth, Treason, and Marriage

Apr 26 16 • Robert J. Gieb • 0 comments

The early part of the first century A.D.: Herod was the one who had John arrested and bound in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, whom he had married. John had said to Herod, ‘It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.’ Herodias harbored a grudge against […]

Congress Investigates Heinous Crimes

Apr 26 16 • Judie Brown • 0 comments

The Committee on Energy and Commerce in the US House of Representatives has convened a Select Investigative Panel to probe the marketing and sale of aborted baby body parts. The website tells us that the Committee has been established to “gather information and get the facts about medical practices of abortion service providers and the […]

Never Sacrifice the Eternal for the Temporal

Apr 26 16 • Mark Davis Pickup • 0 comments

Every city has its hip area with trendy shops offering locally made trinkets, markets for vendors of organically grown produce, and faux-French cafes. Accountants and stockbrokers who wear power suits Monday to Friday may transform on Saturday into hipsters in faded jeans, t-shirts, bandannas around their heads or floppy straw hats to saunter around trendy […]

State Department Human Rights Report Condemns Forced Abortions in China

Apr 25 16 • Steven W. Mosher • 0 comments

In the mid-eighties I met with Elliot Abrams, who was then serving as Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, to call his attention to the victims of China’s one-child policy. I told him that massive numbers of forced abortions and forced sterilizations had occurred in China over the past few years as the Communist […]

The Fallacy of Focusing on Islamic Radicalization

Apr 25 16 • Daniel Greenfield • 1 comment

Islam is the unique cause of Islamic terrorism.

Poem: “With the Sun on Our Backs”

Apr 23 16 • L. Lapiz • 0 comments

With the Sun on Our Backs My hand is upon you, As you well know. I walk with you daily In the sand and the snow. Together we are bound, For the journey we take. To serve My Father in this place. Days will come, When life will be hard. And others shall be, As […]