How do we perceive the Divine and communicate with God as beings who possess both physical and spiritual senses? Some ascetics might try to starve
This last Sunday was celebrated as “Media Prayer Day” here in New Zealand. It was an initiative of a group of Christian Churches of various
Sacrifices can create various levels of personal inconvenience or pain. Typically, this pain (which can probably be more accurately described as a discomfort or dislike)
The Old Testament reading from this past Sunday comes from one of my favorite passages in the Bible. At the mountain of God, Horeb, Elijah
Over the weekend, I came across an article that stopped me in my tracks. The CNN Belief blog lists the residences of many of America’s prominent Catholic
The year is only a little more than half over, but already it is turning out to be a very bad year for Planned Parenthood,
It’s not uncommon for women to be swept away with the freedom and flexibility the mompreneur lifestyle offers. However, they overlook the financial realities of being
One of the titans of the Catholic Church of the Nineteenth Century in the United States was Archbishop John Ireland, the first Archbishop of Saint
Part of the strategy of abortion advocates is to cloud the starting point of life so that the act of abortion is seen as inconsequential
My car needed a new set of four tires … badly! I bought a used car that was in pretty good shape and knew it
It is nauseating to hear the pathetic mantra that opposing abortion is opposing women and, in fact, that being pro-life is somehow waging a war
The Desire and the Fear It is so easy to want to start doing better. You read an inspiring article, come across a motivational image,
A Health Care Thought-Experiment Just imagine if there were a morning after pill to rid ourselves of the eating and drinking we consumed the night
“I could never stay home barefoot and pregnant with kids all day,” my twenty-four-year-old law student self thought. “I’d be so bored; I’d go crazy!
Pretty soon, many students will make the return to college to continue their four year academic odyssey. This group will also include recent high school
As if identity politics weren’t bad enough, it’s taken a turn for the bizarre. In New Yorker magazine, Michelle Goldberg tells us of an ongoing
I sat quietly in a small room at the hospital waiting to pick up x-rays to take to my doctor. I had discovered a lump
Our little city has been reeling. In a very short time, there were two deaths so compelling that they each independently made international news: here and
He walked into the church in the early morning hours with only socks on his feet, no shoes, and a torn shirt. He walked to
“Music has power to soothe the savage breast.” William Congreve, The Mourning Bride “This so-called ‘music,’ they would have to concede, is in some way
In case you missed it, I used my debut post on Catholic Stand to suggest that contraception may not be the great and mighty liberator
This installment of Conspiracies & Catholicism seems kind of redundant after last week’s article on magic, but I’m looking more at the “everyone knows” about
