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Five Christian Ways to Celebrate Valentine’s Day

Feb 14 14 • Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble • 2 comments

I am not a fan of Valentine’s Day. I’m not the most sentimental person around so I have always found the day to be not much more than a trite, commercialized excuse to sell greeting cards. But like most things in life, there are always deeper Gospel connections than what we see on the surface. […]

An American Antidote for Belgium Euthanizing Children

Feb 14 14 • Dr. Gerard Nadal • 0 comments

News today that Belgium has approved euthanasia for any age. From BBC: Parliament in Belgium has passed a bill allowing euthanasia for terminally ill children without any age limit, by 86 votes to 44, with 12 abstentions. When, as expected, the bill is signed by the king, Belgium will become the first country in the […]

Shirley Temple’s America

Feb 13 14 • Dr. Paul Kengor • 3 comments

Her movies reflected what was good and decent in this country.

Why We Long For Love and How to Glorify God in Your Singleness, Part I

Feb 13 14 • Mary Pearson • 0 comments

Question: A question that has been bugging me lately: Why are we women so in a rush to get married? I’m a 26 year old medical student and I’ll be graduating at age 30. I was dating this guy…but sadly we had to separate. The event devastated me and I started to seek God more, and trust […]

Prelude to a Persecution?

Feb 13 14 • Fr. Shenan J. Boquet • 0 comments

Last Wednesday morning the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child published its Concluding Observations concerning the Catholic Church’s treatment of children. In this widely-denounced document (see HLI’s statement here), the Committee chastises the Church for supposedly ignoring or refusing the rights of children. It called for the Church to amend Canon Law, […]

How’s That New Year’s Resolution Working Out?

Feb 13 14 • Deanne Miller • 0 comments

Colleen Scariano also contributed to this article. January is the month of new year’s resolutions. It’s a month that sees new gym memberships surge and bad habits wane (hopefully)! What’s really interesting, however, is how ‘resolved’ folks are come next month. Will your life remain changed next month? Will you still be a new person? […]

Coming Out of Our Caves

Feb 13 14 • Melanie Jean Juneau • 0 comments

When I speak with someone who is curious about the faith, I realize my revelations about the spiritual life in the Mystical Body of Christ are completely foreign. I might as well be a fantasy character explaining life in an alternate reality outside of their own personal cave. The worst possible fate for me would […]

The Right to Own Property is Important, but Not Absolute

Feb 12 14 • Jason Hall • 10 comments

Our political discourse often consists of a back-and-forth discussion between two seemingly irreconcilable extremes. Many on the Left attack those on the Right as radical individualists who care nothing for the common good or for those who are less fortunate and in need of assistance. Many on the Right attack those on the Left as […]

Her: A Cautionary Tale

Feb 12 14 • Christopher White • 0 comments

Spike Jonze’s film Her, currently out in theaters and an Academy Award nominee for Best Picture, is a cautionary tale of the future that awaits us if we continue to hail technology as our savior. Set in the not too distant Los Angeles, Tom Twombly (masterfully portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix) is reeling from a failed […]

Winter Games in a Wintering Nation

Feb 12 14 • Anne Morse • 1 comment

Reports of terrorist threats, human rights abuses, and general economic incompetency have already marred the opening of the 2014 winter Olympics. These failings in Russia represent the face of the greatest myth propagated this past half-century: that low-fertility creates a successful society. Population controllers lure countries into population control programs with the promise of nice […]

Abraham Lincoln on the Bible

Feb 12 14 • E. L. Core • 0 comments

Not an atheist, he.

Bishop Urges Prayer Before Final Vote on Quebec’s Euthanasia Bill

Feb 11 14 • Peter Baklinski • 1 comment

“Causing the death of an innocent human being is causing the death of our own self,” said Montreal Archbishop Christian Lépine in a strongly worded statement yesterday against Bill 52, legislation aiming to legalize euthanasia that is expected to face a final vote this week. Lépine, known for his uncompromising support for life and family […]

Loving God When Our Children Suffer

Feb 11 14 • Allison Howell • 2 comments

When we mothers see our children suffering, the slip off the cliffs of despair can be easy. When Pope Francis tells us, “Let us never lose trust in the patience and mercy of God” (April 7, 2013), the trust doesn’t exactly overflow. Mercy would be nice, Lord; how about a cure please. But we are commanded […]

Skewed Numbers Equal More Dead Babies

Feb 11 14 • Judie Brown • 0 comments

Studies show that, in recent times, there has allegedly been a decrease in the number of abortions. Last week theGuttmacher Institute—the research arm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America—reported that “the national abortion rate declined to 16.9 abortions per 1,000 women ages 15-44 in 2011. Between 2008-2011, the abortion rate fell 13 percent, resuming a long-term downward […]

The Love Songs of The Beatles

Feb 11 14 • Anthony Buono • 0 comments

It’s been 50 years since the Beatles first landed in America and appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. I’m a pretty avid Beatles fan, and like following the continued legacy of the band. My favorite aspect of the Beatles is the songwriting team of Paul McCartney and John Lennon. The Beatles were a phenomenon many […]

Critiquing Moderation: Does Centrism Befit Our Times?

Feb 11 14 • Robert Struble, Jr. • 6 comments

The postmodern revolution has been transmutating America since JFK’s assassination, with cultural precursors dating back to the Korean War or earlier. Our responsibilities as Americans oblige us to respond. As stewards invested with some power of citizenship, a civic response to the Gospel is among our religious duties as Christians. In the process of responding […]

Tech Kids

Feb 10 14 • Fathers for Good • 0 comments

If we want our children to become saints, they will need to hear the call of God — a vocation to holiness that applies to all of us. But how will they be able to hear that call if their lives are full of noise? In our digital age, young people have more noise and […]

How Shepherds Smell Like Their Sheep

Feb 10 14 • Kevin M. Tierney • 0 comments

One of the phrases people quote about Pope Francis is his exhortation that “shepherds must smell like their sheep.” If you ask ten people what this means, you will likely get ten different answers. Nobody can agree upon what it means, but everyone can agree it is something important. I believe that as always, the […]

Politics and Pulpit: “Uninhibited, Robust and Wide-Open!” Part One

Feb 10 14 • Fr. Frank Pavone • 1 comment

It’s an election year, and it’s time to open our mouths, in the Church, about politics, candidates, and the right to life. Our fight for our unborn brothers and sisters is a fight for freedom and against tyranny; for people and against oppressive governments. Our Founding Fathers fought this fight, and so must we, with […]

Poem: “Fame is a Fickle Food”

Feb 8 14 • Emily Dickinson • 0 comments

Fame is a Fickle Food (Part 5: The Single Hound IV) Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, 5 And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer’s corn; Men eat of it and die. […]

Patron of Compulsive Shopping Disorders

Feb 8 14 • Anabelle Hazard, Esq. • 0 comments

As a cradle Catholic, I’ve had the privilege of learning about and praying for the intercession of many saints for all my life. Lose my keys again? Calling on Saint Anthony. Test coming up? St. Joseph of Cupertino to the rescue. Pregnancy issues? Alternate between St. Gerard Magella and St. Raymond Nonatus. Husband unemployed? […]

The Great Family of the Heavy-Hearted

Feb 7 14 • Mark Davis Pickup • 0 comments

I read about a young man paralyzed in a freak accident. The story gave a glimpse of his grief and sorrow. It’s been just a year since his accident. The terrible prospect of permanent disability is beginning to sink in and it’s breaking his heart. He told the reporter, “It’s really, really hard.” And so […]

Fathers Needed

Feb 7 14 • Fathers for Good • 0 comments

Fatherhood is likely to be a central part of the discussion when the world’s bishops gather at the Vatican this October. Pope Francis has called an extraordinary assembly of the Synod of Bishops to consider the “Pastoral challenges for the family in the context of evangelization.” He also has asked bishops to meet in 2015 […]

I’m In The Olympics

Feb 7 14 • Nicole DeMille • 1 comment

Of course I’m not, really. I’m probably one of the least athletic people I know. But I love the Olympics, in a love-hate kind of way. The hate part isn’t really “hate,” but I do end up feeling like there is a risk of an over-emphasis on one’s body, and that the soul can be […]