I will sheepishly admit the first few times I was called an \”angel\” in the course of my work, I probably internally basked in whatever
I wrote about the small town of Ave Maria, Florida last month here at CatholicStand, but I was still curious about a lot of things
In this modern era, all faithfully Christian people run up against a concept that is often hard to overcome and not always a conscious part
Why do Faithful American Catholics Label Pope Francis: A Modernist Heretic? Every time Pope Francis speaks, the papers are filled with sensational headlines; he does not
Two people can look at the same thing and see two very different things. For instance, what do you think of when you see the
Taken from: OrderofMercy.org (with permission) (Sep 16, 2013) With surprising candor, the man who was to become Pope Francis warned his fellow Christians of the
Last year I re-read the popular novel Into the Wild for one of my graduate classes. The book confronts adventure, solitude and the search for
One of my favorite clichés to refer to when talking about atheism has been that human cliché Richard Dawkins. Nobody just reads his books, we
Editor\’s Note: This is a guest contribution from reader Philip A. Dzialo, and it accompanies Tammy Ruiz\’s article, Be Not Afraid, Be Not Mean. It
What if you could create the ideal town, based on your Catholic beliefs? What if you could build a town centered upon prayer, open to
Pope Francis has been handing out the concluding document from the 5th General Conference of Latin American Bishops, a.k.a. \”Aparecida\” to many diplomats and leaders
…or so you’d think if you got all your information about Catholicism from blog comboxes. Not surprisingly, Pope Francis has been in the news lately.
On December 8,1992, an article appeared in the science section of the New York Times under the headline \”A Rising Cost of Modernity: Depression.\” The
Being a woman and being Catholic in the modern world is seen as somewhat of a paradox. What a contradiction it can seem in today
\”Be a man.\” Men are hardly given any credit these days. Hell, we cannot even get bad credit. Look at the Robin Thicke guy who
Excerpt from It\’s the Devil, Stupid I don’t know if it’s the rosary beads on my rear view mirror or my (tasteful) “Pray to End
Yesterday I forgot to tweet. Yep, not a single message sent out on the grid. I didn’t post anything on Facebook. Even my hyperactive Instagram
Now that I\’m getting to a more-healed place in my grief journey, I can look back on this year (the anniversary of my husband’s death
When you have a child, one of the popular phrases is “skin to skin contact.” Basically, as much as possible you’re supposed to hold your
Upon completing Joseph Bottum\’s now notorious essay in Commonweal, several dozen snarky thoughts crossed my mind, some of which I shared elsewhere. But honestly I
I do have to admit that I am extremely jealous of Joseph Bottum. He was actually paid by the Luce Foundation to write a very
My blog title, Little Catholic Bubble, is a bit tongue-in-cheek. I love my faithful Catholic friends, but I also enjoy engaging the left, mostly secular
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
Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong; right is right, even if nobody is right.
