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All I Could Do Was Pray

The air was cold, the moon full, the wind biting as I stood in the backyard waiting for the dogs to do their nightly business. First the smaller, brown one; she likes to sniff and explore. Then the taller, younger one — the energetic Australian shepherd who likes to run quickly to the end of […]

St. Michael, Defend Us in Battle

Mar 13 14 • Fr. Shenan J. Boquet • 1 comment

On September 29, 2008, the Feast of the Archangels, Human Life International launched its Saint Michael the Archangel Prayer Campaign for the Conversion of Abortionists. Recognizing that the fight against the culture of death is primarily a spiritual battle, the prayer campaign was designed to encourage the faithful after every Mass to seek Saint Michael’s […]

All You Have to Do is Ask

Mar 13 14 • Elizabeth Tichvon • 0 comments

“Ask and you shall receive. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and the door will be opened for you” (Matthew 7:7). If you’ve ever experienced the power of a novena, you can truly understand these words of Jesus told by St. Matthew in today’s Gospel. Novenas are often discovered out of despair, when your own […]

I’d Do It For God, but Not For You?

Mar 12 14 • Michele Marie • 0 comments

In Emilie Barnes book More Hours in My Day I read the story of a woman who was upset because her husband wanted her to pack his lunch everyday. She didn’t want to do it. Then Emilie asked her, “If the Lord were to ask you to pack Him a lunch, would you do it?” Her […]

Book Review: The Romance of Religion by Dwight Longenecker

Mar 12 14 • Mary Kochan • 0 comments

Ever “evolving”, “progressing” — or so he believes — the modern intellectual mentality slithers out of the sea of mystery, clambering from arrogant skepticism to jaded cynicism, until exhausted of wit and verve, it reaches the hard shore of “reason”. And there on the flat landscape it flutters, just out of reach of the lapping […]

Blessings

Mar 12 14 • Fathers for Good • 0 comments

Last month, in a Letter to Families, Pope Francis asked families to pray for the success of October’s Synod on the Family, when bishops, priests, religious and lay experts assemble to consider the “pastoral challenges of the family in the context of evangelization.” So that the synod may have a better picture of the problems […]

Social Media’s Double-Edged Sword — A Lenten Reflection

Mar 12 14 • Erica Wanis • 0 comments

The Lenten season is upon us once more, and like many Christians, in an attempt to honor God’s faithfulness to his Church and in the hopes of deepening my own faith I have decided to engage in a fast of sorts. Inspired by a good friend of mine, I will for the duration of Lent […]

Dancing with the Saints

Mar 12 14 • Carolyn Moebest • 0 comments

Epistle Reading: Jonah 3:1-10 Gospel Luke 11:29 There are a lot of people in the world like Jonah, full of zeal and devotion to their cause. Many dismiss them as crazy. Priests are inundated and end up spending copious amounts of time listening to bizarre stories of people who tell stories almost as outlandish as the reading we […]

This is How You Are to Pray

Mar 11 14 • Allison Gingras • 0 comments

Jesus says, “This is how you are to pray.” We are, then, blessed with the most beautiful prayer, shared with us by Jesus: The Lord’s Prayer, also known as the Our Father. Today, we are still in the early days of our 2014 Lenten journey. How many of us are asking Jesus to teach us […]

Justice Denied in Peru’s Sterilization Campaign

Mar 11 14 • Steven W. Mosher • 0 comments

Anne Roback Morse also contributed to this article. Fifteen years ago, Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, with the strong encouragement of the Clinton administration, ordered a nationwide sterilization campaign. At least 300,000 women were sterilized by “mobile sterilization teams” on a Chinese model, many under duress. Some died. PRI sent a team of investigators into the […]

Become Holy This Lent by Being Yourself

Mar 11 14 • Kevin M. Tierney • 8 comments

When Catholics talk about Lent, we usually talk about what we are going to change in our lives. We view our lives as deficient, and in order to improve them, we must either subtract (give something up) or add (take on extra prayers, devotions, etc) to our lives to grow in holiness. This has been […]

Kidnapped Nuns Set Free in Syria

Mar 10 14 • ACN-USA News • 0 comments

Twelve nuns kidnapped by jihadists in Syria last December were set free yesterday (Sunday, March 9th). Patriarch Gregorios III, head of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, broke the news to a team from Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), who had just arrived in Lebanon to visit projects supporting refugees from Syria. The Damascus-based […]

The Unhappy Shotgun Marriage of Abortion and Maternal Health Advocates

Mar 10 14 • Rebecca Oas Ph.D. • 1 comment

Global health advocates agree the rate of women dying in childbirth worldwide is unacceptably high. Usually, getting help from experienced advocates with political clout would be a boon to any campaign. But a new study finds family planning and abortion advocates have diverted resources and hindered progress in helping women from dying in childbirth. A […]

Why Lent

Mar 10 14 • Denise Smith • 0 comments

A few thoughts on Lent for 2014…. I need a good Lent…. Because I have an awareness of how undisciplined my life can sometimes be. I’d like to blame my distractability on my ADD, but in truth it is mostly due to the honed chaos I’ve developed in my life. I dread nothing more than […]

Book Review: Tiny Blue Lines

Mar 10 14 • Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur • 0 comments

When Chaunie Marie Brusie faced an unplanned pregnancy in her senior year of college, she didn’t know where to turn for help. Now an obstetric nurse, married mother of three, and founder of TinyBlueLines.com, she is working hard to make sure that other young women have resources to help them cope with this unexpected and […]

Change is in Us

Mar 10 14 • Benjamin Baxter • 0 comments

In a way, the whole message of the Gospel is summarized by the Triduum. Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil are themselves paralleled, too, by long swaths of human history. Humanity was in communion with God, and then fell into sin and denial of God, only to have God go very far to […]

Poem: “Utopia”

Mar 9 14 • Wislawa Szymborska • 3 comments

Utopia Island where all becomes clear. Solid ground beneath your feet. The only roads are those that offer access. Bushes bend beneath the weight of proofs. The Tree of Valid Supposition grows here with branches disentangled since time immemorial. The Tree of Understanding, dazzlingly straight and simple, sprouts by the spring called Now I Get […]

Paul in Arabia: The Wilderness of Damascus

Mar 9 14 • Rev. Tucker Cordani • 0 comments

At once the Spirit drove him out into the desert, and he remained in the desert for 40 days, tempted by the devil. He was among wild beasts, and the angels ministered to him. —Mk 1:12-13 “A veil of thick darkness hangs over Paul’s visit to the Arabia.” [1] The Reverend George Rawlinson, a 19th-century […]

Follow Him

Mar 8 14 • Megan Therese • 0 comments

Mass Readings for Saturday, March 8: Isaiah 58:9-14; Psalm 86:1-2, 3-4, 5-6; Luke 5:27-32 In today’s first reading from Isaiah he tells us what to do to lead a holy life according to God. “If you bestow your bread on the hungry and satisfy the afflicted; the light shall become for you like midday; then the […]

FIRST Step Toward America’s Future

Mar 7 14 • Tom Purcell • 0 comments

It’s a compelling event — something we all better hope we see more of, if America is to thrive. I speak of the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competitions, which will be taking place at various cities across Canada and the U.S. through the first week in April. Teams of […]

Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, The Joy of the Gospel

Front Row With Francis: The Meaning of Lent

Mar 7 14 • Carlos X • 0 comments

Pope Francis looked up during his General Audience on Ash Wednesday and ditched the script, putting aside his prepared remarks to question the spectators gathered for the weekly encounter, “I want to ask: Your children, your kids—do they know how to make the sign of the cross? Do your grandchildren know how to make the […]

Five Tips for Helping Children Carry Their Crosses

Mar 7 14 • M. R. Zapp • 0 comments

As Catholic parents we all want to see our children grow in the Faith, overcome their temptations, and ever approach sanctity, but when John and Jane are screaming at each other over who is going to get the stuffed monkey, we might wonder how they are going get there. Rather than telling them to share, […]

Baby Farms

Mar 7 14 • Christopher White • 1 comment

Today’s Daily Mail features an article titled “Wombs for Rent” and praises the surrogacy enterprise as a means of “transforming the lives of poverty-stricken women” in India. India has been a hotspot for commercial surrogacy since the early 2000s, particularly for couples from the UK, Australia, and the United States looking to avoid the costly fees associated with surrogates […]

The Nature of Fasting

Mar 7 14 • Melanie Jean Juneau • 0 comments

Reading: Is 58:1-9; PS 51:3-4, 5-6AB, 18-19 The words of the first reading from Isaiah 58:1-9 are like brilliant beams of light, cutting through any false notions we might have about this season of repentance that we call Lent. Often we tend to think of Lent as a time to share in the suffering of Christ yet when we […]